April 2026 - News - Philosophy bulletin board

Job advertisement: University Assistant Praedoc in the research area of Philosophy of Media and Technology (ID 5539)

by philosophie＠univie.ac.at

Dear Sir or Madam, We would like to inform you about the following current job opening at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna: University Assistant Praedoc, in the research area of Philosophy of Media and Technology (ID 5539) Link to the job posting: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/5539/ We warmly invite all interested individuals to apply for this position. We would also greatly appreciate it if you could share this information with potentially interested individuals in your network. Thank you in advance for your support! Kind regards, Katherina Krobath -- Institutskoordination Dipl.-Ing. Katherina Geneviève Krobath, BEd Andreas Wintersperger, MA <mailto:philosophie@univie.ac.at> philosophie(a)univie.ac.at +43(1)4277 46401 Institut für Philosophie Universitätsstraße 7, Raum A316 1010 Wien <https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/> https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/

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DO. 23.04., KoPhil-Vortragsabend

by Dr. HASHI Hisaki

S.g. Damen udn Herren, liebe Kollegen/innen, Im Folgenden eine Information über den bevorstehende KoPhil-Vortagsabend in Zusammenarbeit mit Herrn Prof. Karamanolis. Vortrag mit Diskussion von Leopold Spindelberger (Dr. med.) zum Thema: Taoismus und Naturwissenschaft Versuch einer Synthese DO. 23. April 2026, 18:30 20:15 Institut für Philosophie der Universität Wien, HS 3D 1010 Wien, Universitätsstr. 7 (NIG) Eintritt frei Näheres im Attachment Interessierte werden herzlich eingeladen Mit freundlichen Grüßen KoPhil-Präsidium www.kophil.at <http://www.kophil.at>

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Gal Ben Porath, "The kinematics of indeterminism" - Physics meets Philosophy

by Sebastian Horvat

Dear all, You are hereby invited to the next "Physics meets Philosophy" talk (organized in cooperation with the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information) by Gal Ben Porath (University of Bonn) Title: The kinematics of indeterminism (see abstract below) Date: April 24th (Friday) Time: 11:00-12:30 Location: IQOQI Seminar room (Boltzmanngasse 3, 2nd floor) Zoom link (for those that cannot join in person): https://univienna.zoom.us/j/61334139090?pwd=OHqUQNmVwbfI9d7b80Z7k2cCXJiXNS.1 Abstract: Discussions of determinism and indeterminism of physical theories usually focus on properties of dynamical laws (e.g., uniqueness of solution). This is perfectly adequate in all the usual cases. However, when considering speculative models that seek to introduce fundamental indeterminism into physics, such discussions are unsatisfying. The unusual ontological roles attributed to indeterministic changes by the authors of such models, require them to have unusual kinematical features. I will examine these desired roles and point to their problematic nature. I will then suggest recognizing the occurrence of jump discontinuities as the distinguishing feature of indeterministic kinematics and explore some consequences of such a recognition. For more information on "Physics meets Philosophy", see https://sites.google.com/view/physphilvienna Best wishes Sebastian

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Ausschreibung: externe Lehre für 2026/27 / call for external teaching for 2026/27

by philosophie＠univie.ac.at

Guten Tag, untenstehend möchten wir Sie über folgende Ausschreibung informieren: --- Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, wir möchten Sie darüber informieren, dass die Ausschreibung für die externe Lehre im Studienjahr 2026/27 ab sofort auf unserer Website verfügbar ist. Alle relevanten Informationen zur Bewerbung, zu den Rahmenbedingungen sowie zu den einzureichenden Unterlagen finden Sie unter folgendem Link: <https://ssc-phil.univie.ac.at/lehre/externe-lehre/> https://ssc-phil.univie.ac.at/lehre/externe-lehre/ Wir laden alle Interessierten herzlich ein, sich zu bewerben, und freuen uns über Ihre Einreichungen. Für Rückfragen stehen wir Ihnen gerne über <mailto:philosophie.spl@univie.ac.at> philosophie.spl(a)univie.ac.at zur Verfügung. Freundliche Grüße Ihr SPL/ SSC Philosophie Team ___ Dear Sir or Madam, We would like to inform you that the call for external teaching for the 2026/27 academic year is now available on our website. All relevant information regarding the application, the general conditions, and the required documents can be found on the external teaching page: https://ssc-phil.univie.ac.at/lehre/externe-lehre/ We warmly invite all interested applicants to apply and look forward to receiving your submissions. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via philosophie.spl(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:philosophie.spl@univie.ac.at> . Kind regards, Your SPL/ SSC Philosophy Team --- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Andreas Wintersperger -- Institutskoordination Dipl.-Ing. Katherina Geneviève Krobath, BEd Andreas Wintersperger, MA <mailto:philosophie@univie.ac.at> philosophie(a)univie.ac.at +43(1)4277 46401 Institut für Philosophie Universitätsstraße 7, Raum A316 1010 Wien <https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/> https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/

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14.04 - Werkstatt Phänomenologie

by Georg Harfensteller

Liebe Kolleg:innen, wir möchten Sie herzlich zur nächsten Veranstaltung der Reihe „Werkstatt Phänomenologie“ einladen: Di., *14.04.26*, um *18:30*, Hörsaal 3D im NIG:Claudia Ploner - Eine Phänomenologie der Beute (Abstract) <https://phaenomenologie.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_phaenomenologi…>Michael Messer - Der Fette und ein Männerbusen - Beiträge zu einer kritischen Phänomenologie der Fettheit. (Abstract) <https://phaenomenologie.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_phaenomenologi…> Weitere Informationen zu Veranstaltungen der Werkstatt Phänomenologie finden Sie auf unserer Website <https://phaenomenologie.univie.ac.at/forschung/werkstatt-phaenomenologie/> sowie auf Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/forschungskreisphaenomenologie/>. Mit besten Grüßen, Team Werkstatt Phänomenologie [image: Werkstatt SS26.png]

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Workshop “Arbitrariness and Vagueness in the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics” – Vienna, April 13-14

by Ludovica Conti

Dear all, we are very glad to announce the workshop “Arbitrariness and Vagueness in the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics” that will take place at the Department of Philosophy – University of Vienna, Lecture Room 3A 3rd floor, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna, from 13th to 14th April. Virtual Venue: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/68366932623?pwd=YMMs9KbxerhR8oFaNQMiKHdmc3vP0e.1 Confirmed speakers: Pablo Dopico (University of Konstanz), Leon Horsten (University of Konstanz), Andrea Iacona (University of Turin), Hannes Leitgeb (LMU Munich), Friederike Moltmann (CNRS), Matteo Plebani (University of Turin), Fabian Pregel (University of Vienna), Lorenzo Rossi (University of Turin), Pedro Teixeira Yago (SNS Pisa), Elia Zardini (Complutense University of Madrid). More information can be found on the event’s web-page, available at this link: https://sites.google.com/view/arbitrarinessandvagueness/home-page . The workshop is jointly organised by Leon Horsten (University of Konstanz) and the AG Horsten research group, as well as Ludovica Conti (University of Vienna), ESPRIT programme "The Logic of Abstraction", Austrian Science Fund (FWF), DOI: 10.55776/ESP210 For further information, please write to ag-horsten(a)uni-konstanz.de <mailto:ag-horsten@uni-konstanz.de> or to ludovica.conti(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:ludovica.conti@univie.ac.at> . Hope to see you there! Leon Horsten and Ludovica Conti

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Workshop Announcement - Philosophy: What and How? (Vienna, May 7-8)

by Mani Rashtipour

Workshop announcement Philosophy: What and How? A workshop on the nature, aims, and methods of philosophy. Views on what philosophy is and how it should be done vary widely. Is philosophy concerned with reality or with our concepts used for grasping aspects of reality? Does philosophy use a priori or empirical methods? What is the role of intuitions? And of the method of cases? What are philosophers trying to find out? Is Philosophy a descriptive or a normative discipline, or both? Key information: Dates: May 7–8, 2026, 09:00–18:00. Venue: Sky Lounge (DG), Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Wien, Austria Here is a list of speakers and titles: Max Kölbel Philosophy as Conceptual Engagement Yaokun Fu The Arrovian Impossibility Theorem in Metaphysical Theory Choice Sophie Veigl Beyond Method? Philosophy of Science Between Analysis and Activities Elijah Chudnoff Intuition and Philosophical Progress Matti Eklund The Parochial, the Universal and the Alien Asya Passinsky Ameliorative Metaphysics Eric Wallace Idealisation and Overfitting Alice van't Hoff Choosing Metalanguages Edouard Machery Arguments won't help Registration and more details: https://philosophywhatandhow.phl.univie.ac.at/ Registration is required but free of charge, and all are welcome. (registration form on the bottom of the page). This workshop is supported by the PACE (pace.phl.univie.ac.at/) and KiC (www.knowledgeincrisis.com/) projects.

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Buchsymposium mit Jan Völker zu Philosophie und Raumfahrt am 21. Mai in NIG 2H

by Miguel de la Riva

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, während Artemis 2 nach der Umkreisung des Mondes zur Erde zurückfliegt möchten Ralf Gisinger und ich Sie herzlich zu einem Buchsymposium zu Philosophie und Raumfahrt am 21. Mai in NIG 2H einladen. In einem fachübergreifenden Workshop möchten wir mit Jan Völker über seinen 2025 bei Matthes & Seitz erschienenen Essay "Ein Weltall des Kapitals: Die Überwindung der terrestrischen Vernunft" diskutieren. Völker ist seit dem Wintersemester Professor an der Abteilung für Philosophie der Universität für angewandte Kunst. Sie finden im Anhang das Plakat zur Veranstaltung, ein detaillierteres Programm werden wir im Mai vor der Veranstaltung aussenden. PHILOSOPHIE UND RAUMFAHRT Symposium zu Jan Völkers Buch "Ein Weltall des Kapitals: Die Überwindung der terrestrischen Vernunft" (2025) Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2026, 14.00 – 18.30, NIG 2H Die Raumfahrt hat das Verständnis der Stellung des Menschen im Kosmos unwiderruflich verändert. Gagarin und Sputnik, Mondlandung und Erdfotografien waren wichtige Themen der Philosophie ihrer Zeit. Heute erlebt der Griff nach Mond und Sternen unter den Vorzeichen von kommerzieller Verwertbarkeit, neuer geopolitischer Rivalitäten und ökologischer Krisen eine Renaissance. In seinem neuen Essay wirft Jan Völker die Frage auf, ob sich damit der Abschied von einer terrestrischen Vernunft und dem Bild der Erde als unersetzlicher Heimstatt des Menschen ankündigt. Wir diskutieren darüber in einem fachübergreifenden Workshop, zu dem alle herzlich eingeladen sind. Vortragende: -- Prof. Dr. Alexandra Ganser, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik -- Ralf Gisinger, Institut für Philosophie -- Assoz. Prof. Dr. Nina Klimburg-Witjes, Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung, ERC-Projekt „FutureSpace“ -- Miguel de la Riva, Institut für Philosophie -- Prof. Dr. Jan Völker, Abteilung für Philosophie, Universität für angewandte Kunst Mit besten Grüßen Miguel de la Riva & Ralf Gisinger -- Miguel de la Riva, M.A. Wissenschaftlicher Projektmitarbeiter Institut für Philosophie Universität Wien https://bsky.app/profile/m-de-la-riva.bsky.social

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Trans*Formations Talk Luana Pesarini, 30.4. 2026

by Flora Löffelmann

Dear All, please save the date for the next Trans*Formations Event at the Philosophy Institute. For those who do not know the series: This talk and workshop series organized by a bunch of people from the Philosophy Department (BA, MA and PhD) provides insights into recent developments in trans* philosophizing. Thanks to the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy (VDP) [1] and queer@hochschulen [2] for their financial support! In the next talk, Luana Pesarini (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) will discuss historical and contemporary theories of the neural basis of transness, and the presuppositions these studies rely on, from a trans/feminist science studies perspective. The next Event will be in English! When & Where: Thursday, 30.4.2026 - 18:00-19:30 at HS 3A, NIG (Universitätsstraße 7) The Trans Brain? History and Current Hypotheses on the Neural Basis of Transness Abstract: Against the background of contemporary debates about the supposed natural basis of sex/gender and the intersection of neurodivergence and transness, the lecture will turn to the history and contemporary theories of the neural basis of transness. Contemporary trans brain hypotheses rest on a whole array of presuppositions: The assumption that brains have a sex/gender; that this brain sex/gender can stand in opposition to the sex assigned at birth; that brain sex/gender develops in response to hormonal changes; that this development has a temporal threshold; and that one can discern transness from a trans-sexed/gendered brain - all of these conveyed through imaging technologies. To fan out the presuppositions that fuel contemporary theories of the neural basis of transness, the lecture will trace its history through the lens of trans/feminist science studies. Starting from theories about the natural bisexuality and plasticity of mammals and their eugenic interpretations at the beginning of the 20th century (Eugen Steinach, Paul Kammerer), the lecture will move through the early hypotheses about the neural basis of transness in the post-Second World War inception of trans medicine in the US (John Money, Robert Stoller, Harry Benjamin), to the first neuroimaging studies on transness in the 1990s and early 2000s, to finish with the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of transness in contemporary neuroscience and a discussion of its impacts on the lives of trans people. Neuronal explanations of transness certainly do not carry the same weight in the debates about the natural basis of sex/gender and transness as chromosomal explanations. Incidents such as the International Chess Federation's ban of trans women from the women's category, the European Society of Endocrinology's considerations about brain scans as "a useful tool for earlier identification of transgenderism in young people," and calls from neuroscientists to intervene in and prevent the development of transness in the brain nevertheless illustrate the current and potentially future power of such explanations over the lives of trans people. Bio: Luana Pesarini is a philosophy-trained sociologist specializing in feminist science and technology studies, theories of materiality, and trans feminism. She is currently working as a doctoral researcher in the German Research Foundation-funded RTG "Fixing Futures. Technologies of Anticipation in Contemporary Societies" at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. There will be a Q&A after the talk, as well as snacks and drinks! Please also save the date for the next Trans*Formations Events: A talk on Law and Gender by UK barrister Jane Russell on 15.5., and a full-day event with a focus on Gender Euphoria on 7.6. with, among others, talks by Quill Kukla (Georgetown University) and Eric A. Stanley (University of California, Berkeley). We are thankful to our previous Trans*Formations speakers: Luce deLire [3], Alyosxa Tudor [4], Eric Llaveria Caselles [5], Emelia Stanley, [6] Emma Heaney [7], Juliana Gleeson, [8] Gen Eickers & Sigmond Richli [9], Jonah I. Garde [10] and Anna Klieber [11]! We are looking forward to seeing you at the event, and happy if you forward this invitation and the attached poster to others who might be interested! With all the best, the Trans*Formations Team Links: ------ [1] https://vd-philosophy.univie.ac.at/ [2] https://queer-at-hochschulen.org/ [3] https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/en/news-events/nachrichten-news-events/det… [4] https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/news-events/nachrichten-news-events/detail… [5] https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/news-events/nachrichten-news-events/detail… [6] https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/news-events/nachrichten-news-events/detail… [7] https://lists.philo.at/hyperkitty/list/news@lists.philo.at/thread/GIUSVC6TO… [8] https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/news-events/nachrichten-news-events/detail… [9] https://urise.univie.ac.at/mod/booking/optionview.php?cmid=293&optionid… [10] https://lists.philo.at/hyperkitty/list/news@lists.philo.at/thread/ZUJBVRNM7… [11] https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/news-events/nachrichten-news-events/detail…

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TEAP - Alice van’t Hoff “Against higher-order unrestrictedness”, 10 April 2026

by Ludovica Conti

Dear all, we are pleased to announce the fourth talk in our TEAP seminar series <https://sites.google.com/view/themeseap>. The talk is scheduled for Friday, April 10, 11:00-13:00 (CEST), at the following link: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/68312177521?pwd=fdYFFrcK1hg3Qw7GH2nCNVTIdV26rs.1 (ID riunione: 683 1217 7521 Codice d’accesso: 722203) Alice van’t Hoff (University of Vienna) – Against higher-order unrestrictedness Generality absolutists argue that it is possible to quantify absolutely unrestrictedly over everything that there is. A challenge to their view arises if we take seriously the possibility of genuinely higher-order quantification. An influential proposal, first put forward by Timothy Williamson, however, suggests that to conclude on this basis against generality absolutism would be premature. Williamson's claim is that higher-order quantification in our object language is only a threat to generality absolutism if we, misleadingly, adopt a first-order metalanguage. I argue, though, that this approach is subject to a counter-example: intuitively, quantification in many-sorted languages need not be absolutely general. Yet both higher-order and many-sorted systems may involve multiple distinct quantifiers and there are, I claim, no differences of the kind relevant to a quantifier's unrestrictedness that distinguish these two versions of quantifier pluralism. This suggests, contra Williamson and others, that higher-order quantification is a threat to generality absolutism, at least insofar as we take quantification of this kind ontologically seriously. Hope to see you online! Michele Contente, Ludovica Conti and Caterina Sisti

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