Past WFAP Reading Schedules

If you are interested in our readings/programmes from previous years, you can find them below.

Summer Semester 2025

Friday, 07.03.25 #6 Novaes, Catarina Dutilh & de Ridder, Jeroen (2021). Is Fake News Old News? In Sven Bernecker, Amy K. Flowerree & Thomas Grundmann (eds.), The Epistemology of Fake News. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198863977.003.0008 [24pp]

Friday, 14.03.25 #7  Wikforss, Åsa (2023). The Dangers of Disinformation. In Hana Samaržija & Quassim Cassam (eds.), The Epistemology of Democracy. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003311003-7 [23pp] 

Friday, 21.03.25 #8  O’Connor, Cailin & Weatherall, James Owen (2021) Modeling How False Beliefs Spread. In Michael Hannon & Jeroen de Ridder (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429326769-25 [11pp],
AND
#9  Singer et al. (2021) Epistemic Networks and Polarization. In Michael Hannon & Jeroen de Ridder (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429326769-17 [12pp]

Friday, 28.03.25 #10  Sullivan, Emily and Alfano, Mark (2020). Vectors of epistemic insecurity. In Ian James Kidd, Heather Battaly & Quassim Cassam (eds.), Vice Epistemology. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2020.1782562 [15pp]

Friday, 04.04.25 ABSTRACT SELECTION

Friday, 11.04.25 #11 Somin, Ilya (2023) Top-Down and Bottom-Up Solutions to the Problem of Political Ignorance. In Hana Samaržija & Quassim Cassam (eds.), The Epistemology of Democracy. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003311003-19 [29pp]

Friday, 18.04.25 Easter break

Friday, 25.04.25 Easter break

Friday, 02.05.25 #12  Grundmann, Thomas (2021). Facing Epistemic Authorities: Where Democratic Ideals and Critical Thinking Mislead Cognition. In Sven Bernecker, Amy K. Flowerree & Thomas Grundmann (eds.), The Epistemology of Fake News. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198863977.003.0007 [22pp]

Friday, 09.05.25 #13 Harris, R. Keith (2022). Conspiracy Theories, Populism, and Epistemic Autonomy. In:  Journal of the American Philosophical Association 9(1), 21-36. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2021.44 
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#14 Harris, R. Keith (2022). Epistemic Domination. In: Thought 11(3), 134-141. https://doi.org/10.5840/tht202341317 

Friday, 16.05.25 Preparatory reading for talk by Quassim Cassam
#15 Kusch, M. (1995). Psychologism: The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge. Routledge. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203983898 [read chapter 2]
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#16 al-Gharbi, M. (2024). We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite. Princeton University Press. [read introduction and chapter 1]

Wednesday, 21.05.25 Talk by Quassim Cassam (1pm – 2:30pm, room 3A, NIG) on “How To Be A Political Epistemologist”

Friday, 23.05.25 #15 Samaržija, Hana (2022). The Epistemology of Fanaticism. Echo Chambers and Fanaticism. In Leo Townsend et al. (eds.), The Philosophy of Fanaticism: Epistemic, Affective, and Political Dimensions. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY:Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003119371-6 [19pp]

Friday, 30.05.25 #16 Anderson, Elizabeth (2021). Epistemic Bubbles and Authoritarian Politics. In Elizabeth Edenberg, and Michael Hannon (eds.), Political Epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi-org./10.1093/oso/9780192893338.003.0002 [19pp]

Friday, 06.06.25 “Varieties of Disjunctivism” Workshop with James Conant and Matthias Haase

Friday, 13.06.25 #18 Fritts, Megan & Cabrera, Frank (2022). Fake News and Epistemic Vice: Combating a Uniquely Noxious Market. Journal of the American Philosophical Association (3):1-22. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2021.11 [22pp]

Friday, 20.06.25 #19 Napolitano, M. Giulia (2021). Conspiracy Theories and Evidential Self-Insulation. In Sven Bernecker, Amy K. Flowerree & Thomas Grundmann (eds.), The Epistemology of Fake News. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 82-105. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198863977.003.0005 [17pp]

Friday, 27.06.25 #20 Harris, R. Keith (2021). Video on demand: what deepfakes do and how they harm. Synthese (199):13373–13391. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03379-y [19pp]

Winter Semester 2024

Friday, 11.10.24 Friendly get-together! Come join us for a chat
Friday, 18.10.24 Topic Presentation: Navigating Openness. The Philosophy of Open Science
Friday, 25.10.24 Topic Presentation: The Liars Paradox: Problems of Circularity in Truth and Meaning
Friday, 01.11.24 Public Holiday – No Session
Friday, 08.11.24 Topic Presentation: Filtering Truth. Epistemic Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and the Spread of Misinformation
Friday, 15.11.24 Topic Presentation: Sex! Let’s talk about it… the Philosophy of Sexuality
Friday, 22.11.24 #1 Benjamin Elzinga: “Echo Chambers and Audio Signal Processing”
Friday, 29.11.24 (Lecture) The Philosophy of Twins
Friday, 6. 12.24 No session
Friday, 13.12.24 # 2 Lackey “Echo Chambers, Fake News and Social Epistemology”
Friday, 27.12.24 Christmas Break
Friday, 03.01.24 Christmas Break 
Friday, 10.01.24 #4 Santos, B. R. G. (2020). »Echo Chambers, Ignorance and Domination«. In: Social Epistemology, 1-11. [10p]
Friday, 17.01.24 #5 Sheeks (2022), The Myth of the Good Epistemic Bubble
Friday, 24.01.24 Talk: Phyllis Pearson
Friday, 31.01.24 Talk: Camillo Martinez

Winter/Summer Term 2023/24

Friday, 06.10.23 Friendly get-together! Come join us for a chat
Friday, 13.10.23 General Assembly: Vote on Topic and New Board
Friday, 20.10.23 #1 Cora Diamond: “What Nonsense Might Be”
Friday, 27.10.23 #2 James Conant: “Elucidation and Nonsense in Frege and Early Wittgenstein”
Friday, 03.11.23 #3 Sofia Miguens: “Could there be a Logical Alien?”
Friday, 10.11.23 Open Session
Friday, 17.11.23 #4 Silver Bronzo: “Context, Compositionality, and Nonsense in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
Friday, 24.11.23 #5 Krystian Bogucki: “A Dence of the Austere View of Nonsense”
Friday, 01.12.23 #6 Peter Hacker & Maxwell Bennett: “Introduction + Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience”
Friday, 08.12.23 Holiday
Friday, 15.12.23 Open Session
Friday, 22.12.23 Winter Break
Friday, 29.12.23 Winter Break
Friday, 05.01.24 Winter Break
Friday, 12.01.24 #7 Daniel Dennett: “Reply to Hacker and Bennett”
Friday, 19.01.24 #8 Peter Hacker & Maxwell Bennett: “Reply to critics”
Friday, 26.01.24 TALK by Hanoch Ben-Yami (CEU): “The Nonsensical Nonsense Talk”
Friday, 02.02.24 Semester Break
Friday, 09.02.24 Semester Break
Friday, 16.02.24 Semester Break
Friday, 23.02.24 Internal Workshop
Friday, 01.03.24 #9 Manish Oza: “Nonsense: A User’s Guide”
Friday, 08.03.24 #10 Clare Mac Cumhaill: “Nonsense and Visual Evanescence”
Friday, 15.03.24 TALK by George Stiny (MIT): “Shapes of Imagination: Creativity and the Mathematics of Design”
Friday, 22.03.24 #11 Herman Cappelen: “Nonsense and Illusions of Thought”
Friday, 29.03.24 Easter Break
Friday, 05.04.24 Easter Break
Friday, 12.04.24 #12 Lorraine Juliano Keller: “Saying nothing and thinking nothing”
Friday, 19.04.24 #13 Ofra Magidor: “Category Mistakes and Figurative Language”
Friday, 26.04.24 #14 Hanjo Glock: “Nonsense made intelligible”
Friday, 03.05.24 #15 Roy Sorensen: “Meaningless Beliefs and Mate’s Problem”
Friday, 10.05.24 #16 Gurpreet Rattan: “Attribution and Explanation in Relativism”
Friday, 17.05.24 #17 Graham Priest: “What’s so bad about contradictions?”
Friday, 24.05.24 #18 Gillian Russell: “Logical Nihilism: could there be no logic?”
Friday, 31.05.24 #19 Elisabeth Camp: “The Generality Requirement and Categorical Constraints”
Friday, 07.06.24 #19 Elisabeth Camp: “The Generality Requirement and Categorical Constraints”
Friday, 14.06.24 #20 Adrian Moore: “Ineffability and Nonsense”
Friday, 21.06.24 #21 Krystian Bogucki: “The Riddle of Understanding Nonsense”
Friday, 28.06.24 Forum Board Vote ––> 15:00 – 16:30 at 3D (NIG)

Winter/Summer Term 2022/2023

Friday, 07.10.22 Friendly get-together — everyone, newcomers included, is welcome!
Friday, 14.10.22 General Assembly — Vote for Forum board and this year’s topic! 
Friday, 21.10.22 #1 Sebastian Watzl: “The Nature of Attention”
Friday, 28.10.22 #2 Madeleine Random, Sina Fazelpur, Christopher Mole: “Attention in the predictive mind”
Friday, 04.11.22 #3 Denis Buehler: “Flexible occurrent control”
Friday, 11.11.22 #4 Sophie Grace Chappell: “Salience, choice, and vulnerability”
Friday, 18.11.22 #5 Wayne Wu: “Attention as Selection for Action”
Friday, 25.11.22 Open Session: “What’s it like to do a PhD?” with Sonja Riegler and Manu Sharma
Friday, 02.12.22 #6 Jessie Munton: “Prejudice as the Misattribution of Salience”
Friday, 09.12.22 #7 Mary Kate McGowan: “On Salience and Sneakiness”
Friday, 16.12.22 A Graduate Workshop on Action and Agency with Anton Ford
Friday, 23.12.22 Winter break
Friday, 30.12.22 Winter break
Friday, 06.01.23 Winter break
Friday, 13.01.23 Open Session: Bailey Fernandez – “Alois Riegl’s ‘Artistic Will’ Reconsidered: An Action-Theoretic Account for the Constitutive Basis of Art Historical Inquiry” and Julia Schäfer – “Hypocritical Group Agency (work-in-progress discussion)”
Friday, 20.01.23 #8 Sophie Archer: “Salience and what matters”
Friday, 27.01.23 #9 Miguel Segundo-Ortin & Annemarie Kalis: “Intentions in Ecological Psychology: An Anscombean Approach”
Friday, 03.02.23 Semester break
Friday, 10.02.23 Semester break
Friday, 17.02.23 Semester break
Friday, 24.02.23 Semester break
Friday, 03.03.23 #10 Susanna Siegel: “Salience Principles for Democracy”
Friday, 10.03.23 #11 Ella Whiteley: “Harmful Salience Perspectives”
Friday, 17.03.23 #12 Cathy Mason: “Iris Murdoch and the Epistemic Significance of Love”
Friday, 24.03.23 Workshop on Applications for Master’s Programs in Philosophy
Friday, 31.03.23 #13 Sebastian Watzl: “What Attention Is: The Priority Structure Account”
Friday, 07.04.23 Easter Break
Friday, 14.04.23 Easter Break
Friday, 21.04.23 Open Session: Eva Hijlkema
Friday, 28.04.23 Conference Session: Voting on submitted abstracts
Friday, 05.05.23 #14 Susanna Siegel & Nicholas Silins: “Attention and Perceptual Justification”
Friday, 12.05.23 #15 Cathy Mason: “The Epistemic Demands of Friendship”
Friday, 19.05.23 #16 Ella Whiteley: “A Woman First and a Philosopher Second: Relative Attentional Surplus on the Wrong Property”
Friday, 26.05.23 #17 Christopher Mole & Aaron Henry: “What is Attention? Adverbialist Theories”
Friday, 02.06.23 Open Session: Daria Rubisch, Veronika Lassl
Friday, 09.06.23 #18 Declan Smithies: “Attention is Rational-Access Consciousness”
Friday, 16.06.23 #19 Wayne Wu: “Confronting Many-Many Problems”
Friday, 23.06.23 INVITED TALK: Michael Rescorla (UCLA): “Psychological Explanation and Proportionality”
Friday, 30.06.23 Open Session: Kristina Bogdan, Lena Golker (DIFFERENT TIME: 16.00 – 17:30)

Winter/ Summer Term 2021/2022

Friday, 08.10.21 Deadline for topic suggestions for the year
Friday, 15.10.21 General Assembly – Vote for topic and Forum board (Topic suggestions can be found >>>here<<<)
Friday, 22.10.21 #1 Carl Ginet: “The Epistemic Requirements for Moral Responsibility”
Friday, 29.10.21 #2 Michael J. Zimmerman: “Moral Responsibility and Ignorance” (Zoom-only session!)
Friday, 05.11.21 #3 Elizabeth Harman: “Does Moral Ignorance Exculpate?” 
Friday, 12.11.21 #4 Open Session [Student Talks] Martin Niederl: “Practical Animal Reasoning” and Gabriel Levc: “Arriving at a Politically Useful Definition of Plausible Deniablity”
Friday, 19.11.21 #5 Nicole Vincent: “A Structured Taxonomy of Responsibility Concepts”
Friday, 26.11.21 #6 Carolina Sartorio: “Ignorance, Alternative Possibilities, and the Epistemic Conditions for Responsibility”
Friday, 03.12.21 #7 Open Session [Student Talks] Ria Edlinger: “Draft of Moral Ties between the Individual and the Political Community in Virtue and Existential Ethics – A Response to the Voter’s Paradox” and Sebastian Kraus: “Who am I talking to, when talking to myself?”
Friday, 10.12.21 #8 Matthew Talbert: “Moral Competence, Moral Blame, and Protest”
Friday, 17.12.21 #9 Miranda Fricker: “Fault and No-Fault Responsibility for Implicit Prejudice”
Friday, 24.12.21 Winter break
Friday, 31.12.21 Winter break
Friday, 07.01.22 Winter break
Friday, 14.01.22 #10 Tracy Isaacs: “Cultural Context and Moral Responsibility”
Friday, 21.01.22 #11 Gunnar Björnsson: “Explaining away the Epistemic Scepticism about Culpability”
Friday, 28.01.22 #12 [Talk] Santiago Amaya: On Negligence – Its Moral Significance
Friday, 09.03.22 Casual get-together for the semester start 🙂
Friday, 18.03.22 #13 Kevin Lynch: “Willful Ignorance and Self-deception” 
Friday, 25.03.22 #14 Jan Willem Wieland: “Willful Ignorance”
Friday, 01.04.22 #15 Elinor Mason & Alan T. Wilson: “Vice, Blameworthiness, and Cultural Ignorance”
Friday, 08.04.22 #16 [Talk+Reading] Paulina Sliwa: “Excuse Without Exculpation”
Friday, 15.04.22 Easter break
Friday, 22.04.22 Internal Workshop
Friday, 29.04.22 #17 Lubomira Radoilska: “Circumstance, Answerability, and Luck”
Friday, 06.05.22 #18 Abstracts Review for our conference
Friday, 13.05.22 #19 Philip Robichaud & Jan Willem Wieland: “A Puzzle Concerning Blame Transfer”
Friday, 20.05.22 #20 Gunnar Björnsson: “Blame, deserved guilt, and harms to standing”
Friday, 27.05.22 No Forum session
Friday, 03.06.22 #21 Peter F. Strawson: “Freedom and Resentment”
Friday, 10.06.22 #22 [Talk] Veli Mitova:  “White ignorance undermines internalism about epistemic blame“
Friday, 16.06.22 #23 Open Session [Student Talk] Gabriel Levc: “How liberally should activist movements use their terms?”
Friday, 23.06.22 #24 Emanuela Ceva & Lubomira Radoilska: “Responsibility for Reason-Giving: The Case of Individual Tainted Reasoning in Systemic Corruption”

Winter/Summer Term 2020/2021

Friday, 09.10.20 General Assembly
Friday, 16.10.20 #1 Miranda Fricker: “Epistemic Equality” (Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8zoN6GghXk )
Friday, 23.10.20 #2 Sally Haslanger: “Gender and race: (What) are they? (What) do we want them to be?”
Friday, 30.10.20 #3 Open Session: [Talk] Delia Belleri: “Conceptual Engineering and the Problem of Subject Change”
Friday, 06.11.20 #4 Michael Baur: “What Is Distinctive about Terrorism, and What Are the Philosophical Implications?”
Friday, 13.11.20 #5 Adèle Mercier: “A Perverse Case of the Contingent A Priori: On the Logic of Emasculating Language”
Friday, 20.11.20 #6 Open Session: [Student Talks] Martin Niederl: “On the Importance of Concept Possession Conditions” and Michael Eigner: “Institutional morality, collective obligations and the responsibility to protect. Why WE fail as a moral agent”
Friday, 27.11.20 #7 Arif Ahmed: Chapter 2 (up to 2.3, pp. 5-29) of “Saul Kripke”
Friday, 04.12.20 #8 Arif Ahmed: Chapter 2 (pp. 30-49) of “Saul Kripke”
Friday, 11.12.20 #9 Open Session: [Student Talks] Eva Rosina: “Two modal bases for modal good” and Gabriel Levc: „A Gricean Approach towards Implicitly Discriminatory Compliments“ 
Friday, 18.12.20 #10 Sally Haslanger: “Ideology, Generics, and Common Ground”
(Holiday break)
Friday, 08.01.21 #11 Christopher Hom: “Pejoratives”
Friday, 15.01.21 #12 Open Session: Writing Workshop! (No registration needed)
Friday, 22.01.21 #13 Teresa Marques: “Beasts in Human Form: How Dangerous Speech Harms”
Friday, 29.01.21 #14 Luvell Anderson: “Racist Humor”
(Semester break)
Friday, 05.03.21 #15 Luvell Anderson and Ernie Lepore: “Slurring Words”
Friday, 12.03.21 #16 Open Session: [Talk] Dirk Kindermann: “Against ‘Hate Speech’”
Friday, 19.03.21 #17 Rae Langton: “Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts” (pp.293-314, until “II. Pornography Silences”)
Friday, 26.03.21 #18 Rae Langton: “Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts” (starting on p.314 “II. Pornography Silences” to the end)
(Easter break)
Friday, 16.04.21 #19 Open Session: [Talk] Amalia Haro Marchal: “The speech act of naming in fictional discourse”
Friday, 23.04.21 #20 Alex Davies: “Identity display: another motive for metalinguistic disagreement”
Friday, 30.04.21 #21 Abstract Evaluation – deciding on presenters for our conference
Friday, 07.05.21 #22 Open Session [Talk] Indrek Reiland: “Use-Conditional Semantics”
Friday, 14.05.21 #23 Jennifer Saul: “What is happening to Our Norms Against Racist Speech?”
Friday, 21.05.21 #24 Alex Davies: “How to Silence Content with Porn, Context and Loaded Questions”
Friday, 28.05.21 #25 Open Session [Read] David and Stephanie Lewis: “Holes”
Friday, 04.06.21 #26 Quill Kukla: “Performative Force, Convention, and Discursive Injustice”
Friday, 11.06.21 #27 Luvell Anderson: “Hermeneutical Impasses”
Friday, 18.06.21 #28 Stefano Predelli: “Taboo: The Case of Slurs”
Friday, 25.06.21 #29 Open Session: Get feedback on your ideas for your (pro-)seminar papers/BA theses/etc.!

Winter Term 2019

Friday, 11.10.19 First General Assembly and choice of this years topic
Friday, 18.10.19 Lewis: Counterfactual Dependence and Time’s Arrow
Friday, 25.10.19 Melia: Quinian Scepticism
Friday, 01.11.19 All Saint’s Day
Friday, 08.11.19 Van Inwagen: Modal Epistemology
Friday, 15.11.19 Yablo: Is Conceivability a Guide to Possibility?
Friday, 22.11.19 Williamson #1: Knowledge of Metaphysical Modality
Friday, 29.11.19 Rami Koskinen on “Multiple Realizability and Biological Modality” and Sophie Veigl on “An Empirical Challenge for Scientific Pluralism – Alternatives or Integration?”
Theory: a Gentle Introduction” by David Corfield
Friday, 06.12.19 Attendance at Logik Café: “Modal Homotopy Type
Friday, 13.12.19 Williamson #2
20.12.19 – 03.01.20 Christmas holidays 
Friday, 10.01.20 Cameron: The Grounds of Necessity
Friday, 17.01.20 Simon Blackburn: Modals and Morals
Monday, 24.02.20 Internal Workshop

Winter/Summer Term 2018/2019

Friday, 12.10.18 General Assembly
Friday, 19.10.18 General Assembly
Friday, 26.10.18 Austrian National Holiday
Friday, 02.11.18 All Souls’ Day
Friday, 09.11.18 Steinberger: The Normative Status of Logic (SEP)
Friday, 16.11.18 Kolodny 2007: How Does Coherence Matter?
Friday, 23.11.18 Dutilh Novaes 2015: A Dialogical, Multi-Agent Account of the Normativity of Logic
Friday, 30.11.18 Russell 2017: Logic isn’t Normative
Friday, 07.12.18 Beall & Restall 2000: Logical Pluralism
Friday, 14.12.18 Keefe 2013: What logical pluralism cannot be
21.12.18 – 04.01.19 Christmas holidays 
Friday, 11.01.19 Florian Steinberger: Frege and Carnap on the Normativity of Logic
Friday, 18.01.19 Mezzadri: Frege on the Normativity and Constitutivity of Logic for Thought I & II
Friday, 25.01.19 MacFarlane: Is Logic a Normative Discipline?
Friday, 01.02.19 Max Kölbel on “Concepts and Conceptual Analysis”
Friday, 08.02.19 Harman: Logic and Reasoning
Friday, 15.02.19 Field #1: What is the Normative Role of Logic? and Harman: Field on the Normative Role of Logics
Friday, 22.02.19 Milne: What is the Normative Role of Logic?
Friday, 01.03.19 Putnam #1: Formalization of the Concept About and Ryle: About
Friday, 08.03.19 Putnam #2 and Goodman: About
Friday, 15.03.19 Lewis #1: Statements Partly About Observation
Friday, 22.03.19 Barbara Haas on “Pronoun Indexicals in Mixed Quotation: Evidence for a Kaplanian Monster Operator?” and Lewis #2
Friday, 29.03.19 Yablo: Aboutness, Introduction and Chapter 1
Friday, 05.04.19 Abstracts Review for Conference “Logic Rulez?!”
Friday, 12.04.19 Yablo: Aboutness, Chapters 2 and 3
19.04.19 – 26.04.19 Easter Break 
Friday, 03.05.19 Yablo: Aboutness, Chapter 4
Friday, 17.05.19 Fine: A Theory of Truthmaker Content I — Conjunction, Disjunction, Negation; A Theory of Truthmaker Content II — Subject-matter, Common Content, Remainder, Ground;  Truthmaker Semantics
Friday, 24.05.19 Hattiangadi: Logical Disagreement
Friday, 31.05.19 Kolodny #2 and Russell #2
Friday, 07.06.19 Priest: Revising Logic
Friday, 14.06.19 Cohnitz & Estrada-González: Logic, Reasoning and Rationality and Field #2
Friday, 21.06.19 Lewis Carroll: What the Tortoise Said to Archilles and Final Preparation for Conference “Logic Rulez?!”
June 24-26, 2019 Logic Rulez!? 8th WFAP Graduate Conference on the Normativity of Logic
August 2, 2019 What is philosophy about? Workshop about philosophical Methodology with Stephen Yablo (MIT)

Winter/Summer Term 2017/2018

Friday, 29.09.17 Papers for Workshop I
Friday, 06.10.17 Papers for Workshop II
Friday, 13.10.17 Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum on “Aboutness in Logic and Language”
Friday, 20.10.17 Dejan Makovec on “Discerning Integration. Populations and the Philosophy of Race”
Friday, 27.10.17 Paul Tucek & Christoph Lernpaß on Knowledge Norms in Practical Rationality
Friday, 03.11.17 General Assembly
Friday, 10.11.17 General Assembly II
Friday, 17.11.17 Rationality and Democracy #1
Friday, 22.11.17 Guest Talk: Àkos Gyarmathy (Budapest) on “Fallibilism and Conciliationism: A Bayesian Solution for the Paradoxes of Higher-Order Peer Disagreement”
Friday, 01.12.17 Sophia Arbeiter on “Ontology as Metalinguistic Negotiation”
Friday, 14.12.17 Attendance of Conference: “Deflationism in Metaphysics”
Friday, 05.01.18 Victoria Lavorerio on “Should we trust the (alt) news?” 
Friday, 12.01.18 Rationality and Democracy #2
Friday, 19.01.18 Rationality and Democracy #3
Friday, 26.01.18 Guest Talk by Dan Zeman (Vienna) on Semantics of Gender terms
Friday, 02.02.18 The Analytic-Synthetic Distinction
Friday, 02.03.18 Eva Bobst on Robert Audi
Wednesday, 07.03.18 Guest Talk by Zynep Soysal (Harvard) on “Relative Analyticity”, Comments by Juliet Floyd (Boston)
Friday, 09.03.18 Eva Bobst on Robert Audi
Friday, 16.03.18 Rationality and Democracy #4
Friday, 23.03.18 Abstracts Review for Conference “Rationality & Democracy”
Friday, 13.04.18 Rationality and Democracy #5
Friday, 20.04.18 Chalmers #1
Friday, 27.04.18 Chalmers #2
Friday, 04.05.18 Chalmers #3
Friday, 11.05.18 Rationality and Democracy #6
Friday, 18.05.18 Chalmers #4
Friday, 25.05.18 Rationality and Democracy #7
Friday, 01.06.18 Rationality and Democracy #8
Friday, 15.06.18 Chalmers #5
Friday, 22.06.18 Guest Talk by Andrea Onofri (Graz) on Communication and Similarity
Friday, 29.06.18 Guest Talk by Laurenz Hudetz (LSE/Salzburg) on Reduction and Equivalence of Scientific Theories; General Assembly

Winter/Summer Term 2016/2017 & Winter/Summer Term 2015/2016

N/A

Winter/Summer Term 2014/2015

Freitag, 10.10.14, 17:15-18:45 Generalversammlung
Freitag, 17.10.14, 17:15-18:45 entfällt
Freitag, 24.10.14, 17:15-18:45 Bayesianism 0.1 (Introduction): “Bayesian Epistemology” (SEP) (Leitung: Patrick J. Klug)
Freitag, 31.10.14, 17:15-18:45 Bayesianism 0.2 (Introduction): “Bayesian Epistemology” (Hartmann/Sprenger) (Leitung: PJK)
Freitag, 07.11.14, 17:15-18:45 Bayesianism 0.3 (Introduction): “Bayesian Epistemology” (Hartmann/Sprenger) und “An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic”, Ch.3-4 (Ian Hacking) (Leitung: PJK)
Freitag, 14.11.14, 17:15-18:45 Bayesianism 0.4 (Introduction): “An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic”, Ch.5-6 (Ian Hacking) (Leitung: PJK)
Freitag, 21.11.14, 17:15-18:45 Bayesianism 0.5 (Introduction): “An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic”, Ch.7 (Ian Hacking) (Leitung: PJK)
Freitag, 28.11.14, 17:15-18:45 Bayesianism 0.6 (Introduction): “An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic”, Ch.13-15 (Ian Hacking) (Leitung: PJK)
Freitag, 05.12.14, 17:15-18:45 Bayesianism 0.7 (Introduction): “Bayesian Epistemology” (Hartmann/Hájek) (Leitung: PJK)
Freitag, 12.12.14, 17:15-18:45 Besuch des Vortrags des IVC von Michael Beaney (University of York): “Susan Stebbing and the early reception of logical empiricism in Britain”
Freitag, 19.12.14 Weihnachtsfeier
Freitag, 09.01.15, 17:15-18:45 Vortrag von Lukas Schwengerer
Freitag, 16.01.15, 17:15-18:45 Bayesianism 1.0 (Justification) “Arguments For–Or Against–Probabilism?” (Hájek) (Leitung: PJK)
Freitag, 23.01.15, 17:15-18:45 Bayesianism 1.1 (Justification) Nonpragmatic Justification: The Accuracy Argument (Leitung: PJK)
Freitag, 30.01.15, 17:15-18:45 Aboutness: “Mathematics is Megethology” (David Lewis) (Leitung: Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum)
Freitag, 06.03.15, 17:15-18:45 Bayesianism 2.0 (Weisberg) Indifference & Objectivity
Freitag, 13.03.15, 17:15-18:45 Bayesianism 2.1 Foundationalism & Coherentism
Freitag, 20.03.15, 17:15-18:45 Bayesianism 2.2 Bayesian Foundationalism & Coherentism
Freitag, 27.03.15, 17:15-18:45 Bayesiansim 3.0 (Mahtani) Decision Rules
Freitag, 17.04.15, 17:15-18:45 Bayesianism 3.1 Kinds of Probability
Freitag, 24.04.15, 17:15-18:45 Bayesianism 3.2 Wie scharf müssen subjective probabilities sein?
Freitag, 08.05.15, 17:15-18:45 Besuch der Konferenz The factive turn in epistemology
Freitag, 15.05.15, 17:00-20:30 Bayesianism 4.0-4.1 (Williamson) Objective Bayesianism – Eine Einführung
Freitag, 22.05.15, 17:15-18:45 Bayesianism 4.2 MAXENT vs. Conditionalization
—(4th WFAP Graduate Conference: May 28-30)—
Freitag, 05.06.15, 17:15-18:45 tba
Freitag, 12.06.15, 17:15-18:45 Dejan Makovec
Freitag, 19.06.15, 17:15-18:45 Katharina Bernhard
Freitag, 26.06.15, 17:15-18:45 Sebastian Kletzl, Christoph Lernpaß & Paul Tucek

Winter/Summer Term 2013/2014

Freitag, 04.10.13, 17-19:00 Generalversammlung
Freitag, 11.10.13, 17-19:00 —
Freitag, 18.10.13, 17-19:00 Diskussion des Videos: Timothy Williamson and Paul Horwich about Wittgensteins metaphilosophy (on Youtube)
Freitag, 25.10.13, 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Dejan Makovec: Jason Stanley, “Context and Logical Form”, in: Idem, Language in Context. pp. 30–68.
Freitag, 01.11.13, 17-19:00 —
Freitag, 08.11.13, 17-19:00 Diskussion: Jason Stanley, “Context and Logical Form”, in: Idem, Language in Context. pp. 30–68.
Freitag, 15.11.13, 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Maximilian Wieländer: Vorstellung der Master Thesis “Mathematics as modifying concepts – Wittgensteins picture of a mathematics without propositions”
Freitag, 22.11.13, 17-19:00 Diskussion: Jason Stanley, “Context and Logical Form”, in: Idem, Language in Context. pp. 30–68.
Freitag, 29.11.13, 17-19:00 Diskussion: Jason Stanley, “Making it Articulated”, in: Idem, Language in Context. pp. 182–200.
Freitag, 06.12.13, 17-19:00 Vorbereitung auf Workshop mit Sofia Miguens und Charles Travis: Sofia Miguens, “Could There Be a Logical Alien? The austere reading of Wittgenstein and the nature of logical truths” and Charles Travis, “Where Words Fail”.
Freitag, 13.12.13, 17-19:00 —
Freitag, 10.01.14, 17-19:00 Diskussion: Roby Carston, “Linguistic Communication and the Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction”.
Freitag, 17.01.14, 17-19:00 Besuch des Festkoloquiums “richard heinrich zu ehren” (http://philosophie.univie.ac.at/uploads/media/richard_heinrich_zu_ehren-…)
Freitag, 24.01.14, 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Katharina Bernhard:Vorstellung der Master Thesis “How Can We Know? The Possibility of Group Knowledge”
Freitag, 31.01.14, 17-19:00 Diskussion: Jason Stanley, “Making it Articulated”, in: Idem, Language in Context. pp. 182–200.
Freitag, 07.03.14, 16:45-18:15 Besprechung der Abstracts für die 3rd WFAP Graduate Conference: “We need to talk.” – Language and Philosophical Method
Freitag, 14.03.14, 16:45-18:15 Diskussion: John Bengson, “Experimental Attacks on Intuitions and Answers”, in: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 86(2).
Freitag, 21.03.14, 16:45-18:15 Besuch des Vortrags in der Reihe Wittgen=steine: Wittgenstein and Continental Philosophy (Stephen Mulhall, Oxford)
Freitag, 28.03.14, 17:15-18:45 (!) Besuch des Vortrags des IVC (Campus, Hof 1, Eingang 1.2.): The role of hypothetico-deductive reasoning in discovering mechanisms (Erik Weber, Ghent)
Freitag, 04.04.14, 17:15-18:45 (!) Besuch des Vortrags des IVC (Campus, Hof 1, Eingang 1.2.): A Principled Analysis of Consistency of the Principal Principle (Miklos Redei, LSE)
Freitag, 11.04.14, 16:45-18:15 Diskussion: Jessica Brown, “Infallibilism, Evidence and Pragmatics”
Freitag, 02.05.14, 16:45-18:15 tba
Freitag, 09.05.14, 16:45-18:15 Diskussion: Timothy Williamson (2000), “Knowledge and its Limits” (9.1-9.4)
Freitag, 16.05.14, 16:45-18:15 Diskussion: Chandra Sekhar Sripada and Jason Stanley (2012), “Empirical tests of interest-relative invariantism”
Freitag, 30.05.14, 17:15-18:45 (!) Casey McCoy (Vienna): “Probability, Theory Interpretation and Conceptual Analysis”
Freitag, 06.06.14, 16:45-18:15 tba
Freitag, 13.06.14, 16:45-18:15 tba
Freitag, 20.06.14, 16:45-18:15 Planung WS14/15
Freitag, 27.06.14, 16:45-18:15 Referat und Diskussion: Katharina Bernhard “How can we know?” (Master Thesis)

Winter/Summer Semester 2012/2013

Freitag, 12.10.12, 17-19:00 Vortrag und Diskussion: Lukas Schwengerer, Goff – Does Mary know I experience plus rather than quus?
Freitag, 19.10.12, 17-19:00 Vortrag und Diskussion: Katharina Sodoma, Davidson – Radical Interpretation
Freitag, 09.11.12, 17-19:00 Vortrag und Diskussion: Martin Strauss, Kim – The Myth of Non-Reductive Physicalism
Freitag, 16.11.12, 17-19:00 Vortrag und Diskussion: Martin Strauss, Physikalismus-Reduktionismus-Supervenienz
Freitag, 23.11.12, 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: What is an Epistemic Instrument?
Freitag, 30.11.12, 17-19:00 Diskussion: Horwich – Wittgensteins Metaphilosophy (Chapter 1)
Freitag, 07.12.12, 17-19:00 Diskussion: Baker – Concepts and Conceptions
Freitag, 14.12.12, 17-19:00 Diskussion: Kripke und das Regelfolgen (Kapitel 2 aus )
Freitag, 11.01.13, 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Patrick Lang: Memory as Epistemic Source
Freitag, 18.01.13, 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Dejan Makovec: Ernest Sosa – Intuitions: Their Nature and Epistemic Efficacy.
Freitag, 25.01.13, 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Martin Strauss: Vorstellung der Masterarbeit.
Freitag, 01.03.13, 17-19:00 Vollversammlung
Freitag, 08.03.13, 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Sebastian Kletzl/Patrick Lang: Gettier Fälle/Reliabilism
Freitag, 15.03.13, 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Sebastian Kletzl: Jennifer Lackey: “Introduction”, in: Idem, Lerning from Words
Freitag, 22.03.13, 17-19:00 Diskussion: Jennifer Nagel: “Epistemic Intuitions”, in: Philosophy Compas 2/6.
Freitag, 12.04.13, 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Dejan Makovec: Jennifer Nagel “Lay Denial of Knowledge for Justified True Beliefs” in Cognition (forthcoming)
Freitag, 19.04.13, 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Sebastian Kletzl: Richard Foley, When is true belief knowledge? pp. 3–31.
Freitag, 26.04.13, 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Sebastian Kletzl: Richard Foley, When is true belief knowledge? pp. 36–56, 78–80.
Freitag, 10.05.13, 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Frederik Gierlinger: Cora Diamond, “Anything but Argument?”
Freitag, 17.05.13, 17-19:00 Diskussion: Judith Jarvis Thomson, “A Defense of Abortion”
Freitag, 24.05.13, 17-19:00 Besuch des Vortrags in der Reihe Wittgen=steine: Is there a willuing subject in the Tractatus? (Michael Potter, Cambridge)
Freitag, 31.05.13, 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Annika Kohles: Die Beziehung von (analytischer Ethik) und Literatur. Textausschnitte aus Dostojewskijs “Schuld und Sühne” (http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/2100/7 und http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/2100/25)
Freitag, 07.06.13, 17-19:00 Diskussion: A.J. Ayer’s Emotivismus: A.J. Ayer, Truth and Logic. pp. 63–77.
Freitag, 14.06.13, 17-19:00 —
Freitag, 21.06.13, 17-19:00 Vortrag von Veli Mitova: “The Value of Epistemic Justification”
Freitag, 28.06.13, 17-19:00 Diskussion: Peter Singer, Practical Ethics. pp. 1–15.

Winter/Summer Semester 2011/2012

Freitag 7.10.11; 16-18:00 Diskussion: Two-Dimensional Semantics (David Chalmers, Scott Soames). Referat von Leo Stadlmüller
Freitag 14.10.11; 16-18:00 Diskussion: Reliabilism (Alvin Goldman). Referat von Sebastian Kletzl.
Freitag 28.10.11; 16-18:00 Diskussion: Indicative conditionals, belief revision and the Ramsey test. Referat von Leo Stadlmüller
Freitag 11.11.11; 16-18:00 Diskussion: Stalnaker: “Assertion”. Referat von Leo Stadlmüller
Montag 14.11.11; 17-19:00, Dekanatsbesprechungszimmer. Vortrag von Naomi Osorio-Kupferblum über “Aboutness”. (In Kooperation mit dem Logik-Café)
Freitag 18.11.11; 16-18:00 Diskussion: Stalnaker: “Assertion”.
Freitag 25.11.11; 16-18:00 Diskussion: Stalnaker: “Assertion revisited” and Chalmers: “Two-Dimensional Semantics”.
Freitag 9.12.11; 16-18:00 Vortrag von Fred Gierlinger über Wittgensteins “Bemerkungen über die Farben”.
Freitag, 27.01.12; 16-18:00 Diskussion: Michael Dummett – “Realism”
Samstag, 11.02.12; 16-18:00 – Café Schottenstift; Diskussion: Paul Horwich – “A Defence of Minimalism”
Freitag, 30.03.12; 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Sebastian Kletzl: Vorstellung des Dissertationsprojekts
Freitag, 13.04.12; 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Dejan Makovec: Sosa on Intuitions, Teil I.
Freitag, 27.04.12; 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Dejan Makovec: Sosa on Intuitions, Teil II.
Freitag, 04.05.12; 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Sebastian Kletzl: Knowledge by Instruments
Freitag, 08.06.12, 17-19:00 Diskussion: Paper von Herman Cappelen “Pluralistic Scepticism”
Freitag, 15.06.12, 17-19:00 Vortrag: Christopher Gauker: Perception without Propositions
Freitag, 22.06.12, 17-19:00 Vortrag: Aidan Lyon: Judgement Swapping Improves Group Performance

Winter/Summer Term 2010/2011

Freitag, 08.10.10; 17-19:00 – Diskussion von:
– Jaakko Hintikka: “On the development of the model-theoretic viewpoint in logical theory”. Synthese, Volume 77, Number 1, 1-36, 1988
– Warren D. Goldfarb. Logic in the Twenties: The Nature of the Quantifier. Journal of Symbolic Logic 44 (3):351-368, 1979
– Jean van Heijenoort: “Logic as calculus and logic as language”. Synthese, Volume 17, Number 1, 324-330, 1967
Freitag, 15.10.10; 17-19:00 – Referat von Günther Eder über IF – Logic + Diskussion von: Jaakko Hintikka: “The Principles of Mathematics Revisited.”
Freitag 22.10.10; 17-19:00 Diskussion: Picardi, Eva: “Davidson and Frege on Predication”.
Freitag, 29.10.10; 17-19:00 Diskussion: Hrachovec: “Ganze Sätze. Davidson über Prädikation”, Pfisterer: “Gedanken beleuchten. Frege und Davidson zum Problem der Prädikation”
Freitag, 05.11.10; 17-19:00 Diskussion: Dummett: “The Reference of Incomplete Expressions.” In: Frege, Philosophy of Language.
Freitag, 12.11.10; 17-19:00 Diskussion: Brandom: “Substitution: What Are Singular terms, and Why Are There Any.” In: Making it Explicit.
Freitag, 19.11.10; 17-19:00 Diskussion: Peregrin: “Inferentialism and the Compositionality of Meaning”; “Inferentialism and Normativity”; “Semantics as based on Inference”
Freigag, 03.12.10; 17-19:00 Diskussion von: Dorit Bar-On and Keith Simmons: “Deflationism” und Hartry Field: “Deflationist Views of Meaning and Content”
Freitag, 10.12.10; 17-19:00 Diskussion von: Stewart Shapiro: “Proof and Truth: Through Thick and Thin” und “The Guru, the Logician, and the Deflationist: Truth and Logical Consequence”
Freitag, 17.12.10; 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Robert Frühstückl und Sebastian Kletzl: “Wer ist hier der Realist? (Kripke, Putnam, Rorty)”
Freitag, 14.01.11; 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Lukas Schwengerer: Die Benennung theoretischer Entitäten”
Freitag, 21.01.11; 17-19:00 Vortrag Dr. Eckehart Köhler: Gödel and Carnap: “Platonism vs. Conventionalism”
Freitag, 28.01.11; 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Sebastian Kletzl: “Beyond Realism and Anti-Realism”
Freitag, 11.03.11; 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Leo Stadlmüller: Formale Wahrheitstheorien (Einführung) I: Was können/sollen formale Wahrheitstheorien leisten?
Freitag, 18.03.11; 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Leo Stadlmüller: Formale Wahrheitstheorien (Einführung) II: Inkonsistente Anforderungen, Fixpunkte, Asymmetrie von innerer und äußerer Logik.
Freitag, 25.03.11; 17-19:00 Referat und Diskussion: Leo Stadlmüller: Deflationismus und Konservativität.
Freitag, 01.04.11; 17-19:00Referat und Diskussion: Sebastian Kletzl: Keith DeRose – Assertion, Knoweldege, and Context.
Freitag, 08.04.11; 17-19:00 Diskussion: Keith DeRose – Assertion, Knoweldege, and Context.
Freitag, 15.04.11; 17-19:00 Diskussion: John Turri – Epistemic Invariantism and Speech Act Contextualism.

Winter/Summer Term 2009/2010

Freitag, 06.11.09; 15-17:00 – Texte von Carnap (Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology) und Quine (Semantic ascent)
Freitag, 27.11.09; 17-19:00 – Text von Martin Kusch (Testimony and the Value of Knowledge).
Freitag, 04.12.09; 16-18:00 – Vortrag von Dr. Martin Kusch: “Testimony and the Value of Knowledge”
Freitag, 18.12.09; 17-19:00 – Text von Davidson (On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme)
Freitag, 08.01.10; 15-17:00 – Texte von Davidson (True to the Facts und A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs)
Freitag, 15.01.10; 15-17:00 – Fortsetzung Davidson (True to the Facts und A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs)
Freitag, 05.02.10; 14-16:00 – Vortrag von Dr. Friedrich Stadler über Leben und Werk von Arne Naess
Freitag, 19.02.10; 17-19:00 – Text von Davidson (Truth and Meaning)
Freitag, 12.03.10; 17-19:00 – Einleitendes Referat von Robert Frühstückl über Kripke mit anschließender Diskussion. Textgrundlage: Saul Kripke: Identity and Necessity; ergänzend: Quine: Reference and Modality.
Freitag, 19.3.10; 17-19:00 – Einleitendes Referat von Robert Frühstückl über Evans mit anschließender Diskussion. Textgrundlage: G. Evans: The Causal Theory of Names.
Freitag, 26.3.10; 17-19:00 – Vortrag von Frederik Gierlinger: “Die formale Definition des Wahrheitsbegriffs bei Alfred Tarski”. Eine Begleitlektüre zum Vortrag findet sich unter “Texte”.
Freitag, 09.4.10; 17-19:00 – Einleitendes Referat von Maximilian Wielaender über Kripke mit anschließender Diskussion. Textgrundlage: Saul Kripke: Outline of a Theory of Truth
Freitag, 16.4.10; 17-19:00 – Vortrag von Dr. Karl Sigmund: “Spieltheorie, öffentliche Güter und formale Ethik”
Freitag, 30.4.10; 17-19:00 – Referat und Diskussion: R. Brandom und “Semantic Inferentialism”
Freitag, 07.5.10; 17-19:00 – Diskussion der Kirchberg Vorträge
Freitag, 14.5.10; 17-19:00 – Vortrag von Dr. Peter Keicher
Freitag, 21.5.10; 17-19:00 – Referat und Diskussion: R. Brandom und “Singular Terms”
Freitag, 28.5.10; 17-19:00 – Vortrag von Dr. Josef Mitterer: “Der philosophische Nordpol”
Freitag, 04.6.10; 17-19:00 – “Stroud I: Hume on Causality”. Diskussion von Kapitel 3 und 4 des Buches: B. Stroud: “Hume”.
Freitag, 11.6.10; 17-19:00 – “Stroud II: Davidson: Laws and Cause”
Freitag, 18.6.10; 17-19:00 – Vortrag von Dr. Stefan Riegelnik: “Indexicals und Kontextualismus”
Freitag, 25.6.10; 17-19:00 – Vortrag von Dr. Richard Dawid: “Miraculous Theory”