Knowledge in Crisis

TODAY! Author Jessica Tizzard Meets her Critics! The event will focus on her book, Kant’s Moral World: Ideas and the Real Use of Pure Practical Reason (Oxford, 2025), in conversation with leading scholars in Kant scholarship. ⏰ 10 - 5:30 PM
 📍 Uni Vienna | Hörlgasse 6/8, 1090 Vienna

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🔥 NEW PUBLICATION! Postdoc researcher Keith Raymond Harris ( @univie.ac.at ) has recently published 'Conspiracy Theories and Belief in Conspiracy Theories' in Philosophy Compass. 👉 Curious? Read more here: buff.ly/qrPGxEy #philsky #research #philosophy #conspiracy

👀 Today at 17:30! Key researcher, Ursula Renz ( @uni-graz.at ) presents, 'Identification troubles and Spinoza’s theory of the imagination' at the Spinoza and Imaginative Ideas Conference at the Humboldt University Berlin. #philsky #philosophy #spinoza #philevent 📷️ Niko Havranek

Last month, Director or research, Tim Crane was at the Vienna Humanities Festival 2026. He spoke to festival co-founder, Dessy Gavrilova about the problems of consciousness. Watch the replay below! #philsky #consciousness #VHF26

👀 TODAY at 1:30pm! Postdoc researcher, Johannes Friedl @uni-graz.at presents 'Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Neurath' at the International Conference: The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism - Research and Historiography. 👉️ Full program here: buff.ly/3i6iiJv #neurath #philsky #viennacircle

🔥 NEW PUBLICATION! Key researcher, Asya Passinsky, has published 'Collective Acceptance and Attitudes' in Stephanie Collins, Brian Epstein, Sally Haslanger & Hans B. Schmid, Oxford Handbook of Social Ontology, Oxford University Press (2026). 👉️ Read it here: buff.ly/hsjU4Nr #philsky #research

KiC seminar today! Postdoc, Beth Reichle presents 'Epistemic Norms for Selective Ignorance'. She considers the possibility that there is some information that we have positive epistemic reason to ignore, or that we sometimes have positive epistemic reason to forgo possible knowledge. #philsky

Today at 13:40! Postdoc Anni Räty ( @univie.ac.at ) presents "Joint action and artificial agency. Or: walking together with your chatbot" at the Modalities, Agency, and Formal Methods Workshop hosted by @ceu-philosophy.bsky.social 👉️ More: buff.ly/tChkSg8 #Philsky #philevent @weareceu.bsky.social

Today at 10:10! Postdoc Andrea Raimondi ( @univie.ac.at ) presents "Believe it or not, the solution was close at hand" at the Modalities, Agency, and Formal Methods Workshop hosted by @ceu-philosophy.bsky.social in Vienna. 👉️ More: buff.ly/tChkSg8 #Philsky #philevent @weareceu.bsky.social

EVENT - Jessica Tizzard Meets Her Critics! 📅 Tue October 27th The event will focus on Jessica Tizzard’s book, 'Kant’s Moral World: Ideas and the Real Use of Pure Practical Reason', and brings together the author with leading scholars in Kant scholarship. 👉️ More: buff.ly/p7AEEzF #philsky #kant

With Asia-Europe Foundation and Pädagogische Hochschule Tirol, we ran #ASEFClassnet19: Future-Ready Teaching: Human Agency in the Age of AI. Educators explored ways to keep critical reasoning in the classroom in the age of AI. Thank you all! 🌟 Take a look at how the week unfolded! #AI #philsky

👀 New Publication! Postdoc researcher, Tuomo Tiisala ( @univie.ac.at ) has published “Foucault’s Philosophy of Language," in The Foucauldian Mind, Daniele Lorenzini (ed.). 👉️ Read it here: buff.ly/yaS3qBX #philsky #research #newpublication #philosophy #foucault

Our Science group meets today in Salzburg! PhD student Benedikt Leitgeb (Salzburg) has organised the event with speakers including: Patricia Palacios Mantas Radzvilas Bettina Bussmann Raimund Pils & Daniele Garacini More about our science group here: buff.ly/XHJJfbu #philsky #science #research

Postdoc Researchers, Andrea Raimondi and Anni Räty are presenting at this workshop! Check it out below. #philsky #philevent

Friend of the project, Rumman Chowdhury, @ruchowdh.bsky.social recently wrote a commentary for @rollingstone.com, "I’ve Worked in AI for a Decade. Here’s Why I’m Not Scared of It" Read it here: buff.ly/I6ZBSfw #AI #doomers #hope

LECTURE! Postdoc researcher Audrey Powers @univie.ac.at presents 'Race and Sex Cause Race and Sex Discrimination' at CEU. Would having a different race or sex protect you from discrimination? Join the lecture! 📅 October 7th ⏰️ 5:30pm 📍CEU @weareceu.bsky.social More: buff.ly/HuLpCSX #viennaevent

🔥 New Publication! Daniel Sharp, with co-author Katharina Anna Sodoma, has published the chapter "Empathic Engagement and Polarization in Multi-Party Democracies: The Case of the Populist Radical Right" in 'The European Face of Political Epistemology.' 🧐Read it here: buff.ly/aDgifvC #philsky

KiC Seminar Series start again today! To get things going we will hear from Keith Raymond Harris (Vienna) @kraymondh.bsky.social with 'What are reputations made of?' #philsky #seminar #reputation @univie.ac.at

Today at 11:30am! Key researcher, Ursula Renz ( @uni-graz.at ) presents "Spinoza on Constitutive Goodness and the Principle of Plenitude" at the Theories of First Principles in Early Modern Metaphysics - Workshop at Oriel College, Oxford. #metaphysics #philsky #spinoza

Director of research, Tim Crane, presents his claims that AI is not conscious and never can be at the CEU Department of Philosophy's colloquium next week. Join Us! #philsky #colloquium #AI #consciousness

🔥 NEW PUBLICATION! Salzburg based key researcher Philip Ebert ( @philipaebert.bsky.social ) last month published "Varieties of Risk Pluralism" in Mind with co-author Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen. Read more 👉️ buff.ly/EHyeXSi #philsky #research #risk

The Second Conference of the European Moral Responsibility Consortium (EMRC) continues today! @unisalzburg.bsky.social The keynote speaker today is Gunnar Björnsson @stockholm-uni.bsky.social with "The structure of basic desert supports compatibilism". More info: buff.ly/akMWzNo #philsky

The Second Conference of the European Moral Responsibility Consortium (EMRC) starts today! @unisalzburg.bsky.social The keynote speaker today is Monika Betzler @lmu.de with "On Feeling Betrayed" followed by smaller speaker sessions. More info: buff.ly/akMWzNo #philsky #moral #responsibility

Heute um 11 Uhr! PhD Studentin Anna Breitwieser ( @unisalzburg.bsky.social ) organisiert das Panel „Philosophische Bildung/Didaktik: Wissen und Wissenschaft reflektieren lernen“ auf der 8. Tagung für Praktische Philosophie in Passau. Mehr dazu buff.ly/FPFqbi1 @philsky

Postdoc Researcher, Jonathan Knutzen (CEU) presents 'How False Beliefs Scaffolded Moral Knowledge' next Tuesday at Central European University Philosophy Colloquium. Join us! 📅 Tuesday 29th September ⏰️ 3:40 – 5:20 pm 📍Central European University Register here: buff.ly/BWJPBjC #philevent #philsky

💥 Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social joins Dessy Gavrilova at the Vienna Humanities Festival in a conversation about "The Problems of Consciousness". ⏱️ 26.09 @ 17:00 📍 Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Sitzungssaal Join us this Saturday! buff.ly/rcmGFKA #VHF26 #philsky @iwm.at #viennaevent

👉 Today we started the first day of the 19th ASEF Classroom Network Conference - Future-Ready Teaching: Human Agency in the Age of AI. This is the final stage of a hybrid program, bringing together a collaborative community of teachers from Asia and Europe. Read more: asef.org/projects/19t... #AI

💬 TODAY! Against the Odds 1st Conference of the FIS Project "Severe Uncertainty: Decisions, Evidence and Probability" Key researcher Philip Ebert ( @philipaebert.bsky.social ) presents - “Fundamentals of ordinal natural hazard danger level forecast verification” at 11:15 am. More info: 👇 #philsky

Heute um 15 Uhr! Bettina Bussmann ( @unisalzburg.bsky.social ) fragt: „Was soll Philosophiedidaktik sein – und was nicht?" — ein kritischer Blick auf die Zukunft der #Philosophiedidaktik. Mehr Infos: buff.ly/Q3upL7x #philsky @fwf-at.bsky.social #philosophie

Um 9 Uhr! Anna Breitwieser ( @unisalzburg.bsky.social ) eröffnet den zweiten Tagungstag mit „Epistemische Kompetenz lehren und lernen" — wie vermitteln wir kritisches Denken? Mehr Infos: buff.ly/Q3upL7x #philsky #Philosophie #Bildung @fwf-at.bsky.social

Online today at 7pm CET. Previously affiliated with the project, Denis Džanić ( @uni-graz.at ) presents a free online seminar "Robust Strength of Will" as part of the BSP Research Seminars 2026 @thebsp.org.uk. Link to join and more info 👇️ buff.ly/GLBDmQ1 #philsky

Today at 5 pm! Keith Raymond Harris (CEU) @kraymondh.bsky.social presents: "The Contracted Mind: Active Externalism, LLMs, and Human Epistemic Capacities" at the "Epistemische und argumentative Kompetenzen im Zeitalter multipler Wissenskrisen" Workshop. Info👇️ #philsky @unisalzburg.bsky.social

Today at 12:30pm! Postdoc researcher Elek Lane ( @univie.ac.at ) presents "Slurs: Words vs. Articulations" at the 2nd Philosophica Conference – Words and Language, hosted by the Institute of Philosophy at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS), Lublin. buff.ly/Ue52E5n #philsky #words #language

Heute ab 15 Uhr! Workshop: „Epistemische und argumentative Kompetenzen im Zeitalter multipler Wissenskrisen" — 3 Tage zu kritischem Denken in Zeiten von Desinformation & Polarisierung. Kostenlos & offen für alle! 🗓️ 17. bis 19. September 📍 Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg Mehr Infos 👇️ #philsky

🔥 Today at 9am! Key International collaborator, Quassim Cassam, presents "Who Needs Intellectual Courage – and why?" at the Radical Scepticism, Intellectual Courage, and Conspiracy Theory Conference at Southhampton University. More info: buff.ly/BjBIjtE #philsky #conspiracy #scepticism

🔥 Bettina Bussmann hat zusammen mit Co-Autor Stefan Pitzer ein neues Buch veröffentlicht: „Methodische Konzepte für den Philosophie- und Ethikunterricht – Eine empirische Analyse zum Theorie-Praxis-Transfer“ Congratulations! Mehr dazu: buff.ly/6mltBOC #philsky #openaccess #theoriepraxis

⏰️ Today at 16.30 Hans Bernhard Schmid ( @univie.ac.at ) presents a keynote "The Meta-Ethics of We-Intention" at the Group Agency and Metaethics Workshop at University Vienna 👉️ More info: buff.ly/79QIldu #philsky #metaethics #intention

⏰️ Today at 9am! Key researcher Asya Passinsky ( @ceu-philosophy.bsky.social ) presents a keynote lecture "A Norm-First Account of Social Objects and their Functions" at the Group Agency and Metaethics Workshop @univie.ac.at 👉️ More info here: buff.ly/79QIldu #philsky #research #metaethics

🔥 3pm TODAY, postdoc Keith Raymond Harris @kraymondh.bsky.social presents, "Evocative Intellectual Virtue and Vice" at the Ethical Uncertainty And Epistemic Injustice In Disorders Of Consciousness conference. 🌐 To join online, scan the QR code on the poster👇️ buff.ly/7yAvKOQ #philsky @univie.ac.at

🤔 Change My Mind! Interactive Workshop at the Central European University, part of Wiener Demokratie-Tag. 👉️September 15 ⏰️17:15-19:00 📍@weareceu.bsky.social Tackle some of today's most pressing issues through open, honest dialogue with a philosopher! More info: buff.ly/WQqqH0n #philsky #philevent

TODAY at 16:45! Associate Researcher Julian Reiss ( @jku.at ) gives a plenary lecture on "Scientific Objectivity: A Virtue-Theoretic Conception" at the at the Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2026. 👀 Find out more about his talk here >> buff.ly/yMmZscT #philsky #SOPhiA2026

👉️ Today at 16:00! Eric Wallace ( @univie.ac.at ) presents "Davidson’s Method of Truth in Metaphysics: The Problem of Exotic Commitments" at the Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2026. 👀 Find out more about his talk here >> buff.ly/QOdSV2U #philsky #SOPhiA2026 #metaphysics

In this blog article "What we train need not be the same as what we assess: AI damage limitation in higher education" key researcher, Anca Gheaus (@ceu-philosophy.bsky.social ), writes about the damaging effects of using AI in higher education. Read it 👇️ and offer your opinion! #philsky #AI #LLM

👉️ Today at 10am! Key Researcher Philip Ebert ( @philipaebert.bsky.social ) gives a plenary lecture on "Varieties of Risk" at the Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2026. 👀 Find out more about his talk here >> buff.ly/9VHxI9X #philsky #SOPhiA2026 #risk @unisalzburg.bsky.social