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.