KiC Seminar Series at @univie.ac.at Today Eve Kitsik presents: Concept-Blaming: The Blame in the Game of the Name She will introduce and discuss "concept-blaming": unfittingly making a linguistic resource, rather than its users, salient as a source of badness. #philsky #knowledgeincrisis

Continuing Today! The short philosophical essay in the newspaper: Journalistic craft for print & online. A three-day workshop by PhilPublica (@philpublica.bsky.social), and us at the University of Vienna @univie.ac.at and Central European University @weareceu.bsky.social. #philevent #philsky

Postdoc researcher, Denis Dzanic @uni-graz.at, is giving a talk today at the prestigious Boole Lectures Series in Philosophy @uccphilosophy.bsky.social He presents: 'How to Husserl a Bayes' at 3pm. For more info see the link below. #philevent #philsky

Ab Heute! Der philosophische Kurz-Essay in der Zeitung: Journalistisches Handwerk für Print & Online. Ein dreitägiger Workshop von PhilPublica ( @philpublica.bsky.social ), und uns an der Universität Wien @univie.ac.at und der Central European University @weareceu.bsky.social. #philevent #philsky

TODAY! Lecture 'Belief, Truth & Faith' @CEU KiC Director of research, Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social looks at some of the relationships between religious belief, truth and faith. From the series - Philosophy in Pre-Modern Eurasia by the Cluster of Excellence Eurasian Transformations #philsky

New Publication 📖 Director of Research Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social & Deputy Director Katalin Farkas have co-authored a chapter in 'The Nature of Belief', edited by Jonathan Lewis-Jong and Eric Schwitzgebel. 'Lack of Attitude' - link below 👇 buff.ly/Evpghm6 #Philsky #MoralPhilosophy

KiC Research Group 'Knowledge' meets today! Today's event, organised by Fabian Pregel (Vienna) and Eric Wallace (Vienna), brings the group together to share their research so far within the Knowledge in Crisis project. #knowledgecrisis #philresearch

🚨 New Episode OUT NOW! The AGI Question (with Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social & Simon Rippon) What does it really mean to create a machine that thinks? Join us as we explore the concept of AGI — what it is, whether it exists, and whether it ever could. 🎧️ buff.ly/8ZQotRN #Philsky #AGI #podcast

📕 New book! Key researcher, Cathy Mason's new book 'Iris Murdoch's Moral Philosophy: Reframing the True, the Real, and the Good' has just been published by Oxford University Press. 👉️ Read more here: buff.ly/sYOLtLQ #newrelease #irismurdoch #moralphilosophy

KiC Seminar Series at @univie.ac.at Today Fabian Pregel will present: Logic before Language? #philsky #knowledgeincrisis

🎭 Today, as part of KiC’s Training Unit, we’re hosting an Improv Comedy Workshop with American Improv Wien for our postdoc and PhD students. Using tools from improv theatre, we'll explore ways to communicate philosophical research clearly and creatively, within academia and beyond. #research

📢 New Publication! Postdoc, Keith Harris @kraymondh.bsky.social ( @univie.ac.at ) recently published 'Epistemic Magnetism' in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association @apa-journal.bsky.social 👉️ Read the paper here: buff.ly/5rA1MyF #research #philpaper #epistemology #philsky

Final talk of the conference at 11:30 am: Shannon Vallor (University of Edinburgh) @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social on 'AI and Epistemic Dispossession'. Exploring how today’s AI revolution — if it stays on its current path — may threaten the democratising promise of Enlightenment ideals. #philsky

Kicking off Day Two of the Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence conference is Raphaël Milliere ( @ox.ac.uk ) with his talk on 'Artificial competence'. #philsky #philevent

Closing out the conference today we have Thomas Haigh (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee) with 'Artificial intelligence as a brand' at 4 pm. He argues that it is revealing to think of artificial intelligence itself as a brand rather than a technology. #philevent #philsky #brands

Coming up after lunch at 2:30 pm is Amira Moeding (@camhistory.bsky.social) with the talk - "AI is our Alchemy:" On knowledge claims and scientific standards in the history of AI.

🎙️ Up next at 11:30am: Tim Crane (CEU) @timcrane.bsky.social on "Intelligence as a Normative Concept" — arguing that the concept of intelligence isn't a cognitive capacity but a normative label we apply to one. A fresh lens on the AGI debate and so-called Superintelligence. #philsky #AI

📢 Kicking off the conference today at 9:30 am is Matthew Jones (@princeton.edu) with his talk: 'Making LLMs: a short history of generative artificial intelligence and its alternatives'. More info: buff.ly/IdIL9Ih #philevent

📢 Starting today! From 9am, philosophers and historians from across the globe come together to explore the foundations of contemporary AI. Join us for the Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence — a 2-day conference at CEU. @ceu-philosophy.bsky.social #AI #Philosophy

TODAY! Semantic Indecision Workshop @univie.ac.at Speakers include: • Bryan Pickel, Glasgow @bryanpickel.bsky.social • Emelia Stanley, Vienna • Richard Lawrence, Vienna • Max Kölbel, Vienna • John MacFarlane, California More info 👇 buff.ly/7Is5tVR #philevent #philsky

Reminder! Semantic Indecision Workshop @univie.ac.at is tomorrow - 5th March. #philevent #philsky

⚡ Next Monday! Historical & Philosophical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Conference Speakers: Tim Crane (CEU) @timcrane.bsky.social Thomas Haigh (UW-Milwaukee) Matthew L. Jones (Princeton) Raphaël Millière (Oxford) Amira Moeding (Cambridge) Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh) Tickets 👇️ #philsky

Today, key researcher Dr. Martina Fürst, ( @uni-graz.at ) is presenting her talk, 'Core beliefs and epistemic injustice' at the Logos Colloquium, University of Barcelona. Read more about the talk here: buff.ly/EmjtaSj #philsky #philevent #knowledgecrisis

Congratulations to David Lanius @unisalzburg.bsky.social on his new publication! 'Deeper into Populist and Authoritarian Bald-Faced Bullshit' (coauthored with Romy Jaster, Topoi, 2026) examines “bald-faced bullshit” — when someone openly doesn’t care if what they say is true. 📖 Link below #philsky

Director of research @timcrane.bsky.social and Katalin Farkas (deputy director of research) recently published a new paper, 'Lack of Attitude'. Read it via the link below #philsky #newpaper

TODAY! KiC Seminar starts today. We are very pleased to have Anni Räty ( @univie.ac.at ) as our first speaker with their talk 'Staying Private & Being Forgotten'. #philsky #philseminar

📌 Save the Date! Thursday 5th March 2026 Semantic Indecision Workshop @univie.ac.at Speakers include: • Bryan Pickel, Glasgow @bryanpickel.bsky.social • Emelia Stanley, Vienna • Richard Lawrence, Vienna • Max Kölbel, Vienna • John MacFarlane, California More info below 👇 #philevent #philsky

Proud to share that Key Researcher @philipaebert.bsky.social, is helping rethink the avalanche danger scale. A newly released survey is gathering feedback from people who’ve used the scale — aiming to make the language clearer and intuitive for everyone! #SciComm #KnowledgeCrisis #PublicEngagement

🎥 New FWF video alert! Austria’s Clusters of Excellence are advancing basic research on key topics at the highest scientific level — and we’re proud to be one! @fwf-at.bsky.social #FWF #ClusterOfExcellence #KnowledgeCrisis #FutureOfKnowledge

⚠️ Today and Tomorrow! Workshop on Relational Justice. Wednesday, 25 – 26, February at CEU This workshop brings together moral and political philosophers whose work explores the interplay between theories of justice and the normative structures of social relationships. More info >>

🔥 New Publication Navigating the Meta-Epistemology of the Scientific Realism Debate: In Defense of Truth, by Raimund Pils @unisalzburg.bsky.social, published in Philosophers' Imprint Volume 25, 2026. Read the paper here >> buff.ly/2WjqJHA #ScientificRealism #MetaEpistemology #philsky #philpaper

Quassim Cassam's book on extremism is now available in Persian. Cassam (@philoswarwick.bsky.social) is one of our key intl. collaborators. The book & its translation are discussed in 'A Book That Probes the Mindset of Terrorism from Within' from Habilian. More here: buff.ly/xF7fQVN #philsky

“To create AGI, you must first specify the goal of general intelligence. What does general intelligence do? What problem does it solve? … And my answer to this question, and this is the most important bullet point, is that there's no such thing as the goal of general intelligence,” said Crane.

Some really nice changes to our Knowledge in Crisis website! @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social www.knowledgeincrisis.com

⚡New Episode! Objectivity with Gregor Greslehner (Vienna), Matt Dougherty (CEU) & Guest Sophie Veigl (Vienna) Tune in for a conversation about knowledge, perspective, and whether rethinking objectivity might actually strengthen — rather than undermine — science. 🎧 Listen Now! (see comments)

👉 New publication Guido Melchior, “Infinite Regresses: The Confusion Between Stopping Problems and Starting Problems”, in Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming). The established view about regress problems has it that they, roughly speaking, come in only one variety, is mistaken. Read the paper 👇

🚩 TODAY! Book Launch! 📕 Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics. A Handbook Panelists include Katalin Farkas & Jonathan Knutzen, both from Department of Philosophy, CEU @ceu-philosophy.bsky.social & the Knowledge in Crisis project. More info >> buff.ly/v97VIkb @weareceu.bsky.social

Happening today and tomorrow! Postdocs @kraymondh.bsky.social & @flampert.bsky.social are presenting at the @biap.bsky.social conference in Barcelona. Keith's talk is on propaganda and propagandists. Fabio's is on propaganda and the arts of coordination. cc @univie.ac.at buff.ly/DW7o9T3 #PhilSky

👉 KiC im Kurier: Infos zum Projekt! Erkenntnis. Wahrheit. Zweifel Cluster-of-Excellence-Projekt: CEU forscht an der Wissenskrise. Zum Artikel >> buff.ly/VhLH8he #philsky #inthemedia #CEU @ceu-philosophy.bsky.social

👀 Have you ever wondered what it really means to “see someone as an object”? In September, Paulina Śliwa and Tom McClelland published “Seeing Others as Objects: Perceptual Objectification & Affordances”, in European Journal of Philosophy. Read the paper here >> buff.ly/sBaDZ6y #Philsky

⚡Conference! March 9 – 10, 2026 Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence. This workshop will bring together philosophers and historians to investigate the foundations of contemporary AI. ⚠️ Spaces are limited! Reserve your tickets! buff.ly/FlhrDn1 #philevent #philsky

Does studying philosophy make you a better thinker? 🤔 A new study finds philosophy majors outperform all other majors in reasoning, curiosity, and open-mindedness—even after controlling for differences at the start of college. What are your thoughts? 💭 #philsky #philosophy #betterthinker

📕 Book Launch! Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics. A Handbook 📌 16.02.26 - Save the Date Panelists include Katalin Farkas & Jonathan Knutzen, both from Department of Philosophy, @ceu-philosophy.bsky.social & KiC! More info and registration >> buff.ly/UF0nBVH #philsky #booklaunch

Happening Today 30.01.26! Alexandre Lefebvre (Professor of Politics and Philosophy at University of Sydney) presents his talk 'The Good Life State: Politics After Liberalism' at @univie.ac.at When: 3pm in 'Hörsaal 3F' on the 3rd floor of Neuen Institutsgebäudes (NIG) #philsky

📣 Call for Applications! Conference: Reason in Perception @uni-graz.at from 7-8 May 2026. Last week to submit your anonymized abstract of up to 500 words! ‼️ Deadline 31.01.26 More info at our events page #philsky #CallForPapers #Philosophy #Perception #PhilosophyOfMind

📢 New Publication! 'Free will and intensional operators', by Fabio Lampert (University of Vienna) @flampert.bsky.social, and John Waldrop, published in Canadian Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming) Read it here>> buff.ly/C0eQcLL #Philosophy #FreeWill

Maria Kronfeldner, Key-Forscherin beim KiC, ist in der ARTE-Serie 42 – Die Antwort auf fast alles in der Folge „Sind wir die Superspezies der Evolution?“ zu sehen. Jetzt auf der ARTE-Website ansehen: buff.ly/kbfLdEC @artefr.bsky.social #philsky #ARTE #KiC #Evolution #Superspezies #Science

🚨 Podcast Episode 3 OUT NOW! Cathy Mason (CEU) & Matt Dougherty (CEU) speak to Juliette Vazard about Emotions Listen Now! ➜ Spotify buff.ly/wqbEUWj ➜ Apple buff.ly/LysWFOk ➜ YouTube buff.ly/ERFlrU7 What do our emotions actually tell us about the world? #knowledge #emotions #philsky

🔥 New Publication! In his new publication, Coerced Consent and Third Parties, Cosmin Vraciu (@univie.ac.at), presents a case against the asymmetry thesis. Read the full paper as published in Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming) >> buff.ly/RKmtnvQ #research #philpaper

💥 TODAY! Will We Ever Achieve Artificial General Intelligence? Join us for a philosophical debate on AGI, with audience voting and the chance to share your thoughts, too! 📌 Jan 20 from 5:30pm to 7pm @CEU #Vienna ❗ Free Event, registration below. #phildebate #philsky