Knowledge in Crisis
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Philosophers investigating today's crises of knowledge. 📍Austria
https://www.knowledgeincrisis.com
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📢 Public lecture with Q&A! 'The Bounds of Knowledge' by acclaimed philosopher Ernest Sosa (Rutgers, USA) 📍May 11 at 5:30 pm | CEU
@weareceu.bsky.social
@ceu-philosophy.bsky.social
💥 🎟️ Free Tickets
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#philevent
#philosophy
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18 days ago
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Starting today! Key researcher Paulina Sliwa
@pasliwa.bsky.social
and postdoc Anni Räty have organised a workshop on interpersonal ethics: Between You & Me
@univie.ac.at
It brings together philosophers working on love, friendship, relationships, and other themes in interpersonal ethics.
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🔥 TODAY! Last Day. 'Self-Knowledge in Debate'
@uni-graz.at
Today's speakers: Ursula Renz (Graz), Lukas Schwengerer (Graz)
@lschwengerer.bsky.social
, Tuomo Tiisala (Vienna), Matthew Boyle (Chicago).
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🔥 TODAY! 'Self-Knowledge in Debate'
@uni-graz.at
featuring talks from KiC postdocs and three Author Meets Critics sessions on books around the topic of self-knowledge. Today's speakers: Béatrice Longuenesse (NYU), Lisa Doerksen (CEU), and Keith Harris (Vienna)
@kraymondh.bsky.social
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Former KiC postdoc, Juliette Vazard, will present her paper: Despair and Diachronic Agency: Disheartening Chances and the Rational Revision of Plans today at the Empirically Informed Philosophy of Mind online Seminar! 🗓️ TODAY at 5 – 6:30 pm (CET) 📍 Online via Zoom:
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#philsky
5 days ago
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💥 New Publication Elek Lane (
@univie.ac.at
) publishes 'Metaphor, truth, and composition: against Non-Cognitivism', in Inquiry. 👉️ Read the full paper
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#philosophy
#language
#newpublication
#philsky
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We're at this year's Pint of Science Austria! In Graz: (18.05) What do we really know? with Guido Melchior and (20.05) Pluralism, Perspectivism, Relativism: How Not to Lose Track of a Common Moral World with Denis Dzanic and Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl.
@uni-graz.at
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Rethinking Knowledge: From Skepticism to Swarm Intelligence
Let us explore how knowledge is formed, questioned, and contested in society. We will challenge our everyday assumptions about knowledge and ask how much w...
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🔥 TODAY at 5.30pm! Ernest Sosa presents the 3rd talk in our KiC Lecture Series: The Bounds of Knowledge.🧠 Come and join in the conversation as Sosa takes us on a journey from Galileo to Descartes and Elizabeth Anscombe. Tickets:
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#philsky
#philevent
#viennatalks
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KiC Lectures #3: The Bounds of Knowledge
Join us for a public lecture on the bounds of knowledge by acclaimed philosopher Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University, USA)
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KiC Seminar Series, 11:30-13:00 at
@univie.ac.at
Today Audrey Powers, postdoc at University of Vienna, presents: Gender Abolitionism
#philsky
#knowledgeincrisis
#gender
7 days ago
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💥 Today! Conference: Reason in Perception
@uni-graz.at
Today's speakers: Fiona Macpherson, Anders Nes, Paweł Grad, John Morrison, and Galen Strawson. More info
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#philsky
#philevent
#perception
10 days ago
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🔥 Today! 9am - 6pm Philosophy: What and How? A joint workshop with
@pace-philo.bsky.social
on the nature, aims, and methods of philosophy
@univie.ac.at
Today's speakers: Asya Passinsky (CEU), Eric Wallace (Vienna), Alice van’t Hoff (Vienna), Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh) More👇️
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Philosophy: What and How?
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The FWF has just published their annual report for 2025 with Tim Crane
@timcrane.bsky.social
, Director of Research contributing a guest piece exploring how artificial intelligence is changing the way we handle knowledge and facts. Read it below!
#philsky
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🔥 Today: Philosophy: What and How? A joint workshop with
@pace-philo.bsky.social
on the nature, aims, and methods of philosophy
@univie.ac.at
Today's speakers: Max Kölbel (Vienna), Yaokun Fu (Vienna), Sophie Veigl (Vienna), Elijah Chudnoff (Miami), Matti Eklund (Uppsala) More 👇️
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💥 Today! Conference: Reason in Perception
@uni-graz.at
Today's speakers: Michelle Montague, Valentina Martinis, Daniel Neumann, Denis Džanić, Søren Overgaard, and Tobias Endres. More info below 👇️
#philsky
#philevent
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Reason in Perception
GrazAustria
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📢 HEUTE um 17 Uhr! Gibt es eine objektive Wahrheit? Erleben Sie die Debatte um die objektive Wahrheit. Diskutieren Sie mit und stimmen Sie ab! Philosophen Marian David and Max Kölbel debattieren die Exsitenz einer objektiven Wahrheit! Mach mit!! 🎟️ Tickets:
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#philsky
#viennaevent
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KiC Debates: Gibt es eine objektive Wahrheit?
Erleben Sie die Debatte um die objektive Wahrheit. Diskutieren Sie mit und stimmen Sie ab!
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13 days ago
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Ethics-Society Group meets at 10am today! The group will hear presentations from: Vittorio Catalano (Uni Vienna) Javad Hajialikhani (Uni Vienna) Camilo Martinez (CEU) Audrey Powers (University of Vienna) Anni Räty (University of Vienna)
#philsky
#ethics
#Knowledgeincrisis
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💥 Save the Date! 7th-8th May 2026 Conference: Reason in Perception
@uni-graz.at
Speakers: Michelle Montague, Valentina Martinis, Daniel Neumann, Denis Džanić, Søren Overgaard, Tobias Endres, Fiona Macpherson, Anders Nes, Paweł Grad, John Morrison, Galen Strawson. Info below
#philsky
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Reason in Perception
GrazAustria
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17 days ago
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📢 Public lecture with Q&A! 'The Bounds of Knowledge' by acclaimed philosopher Ernest Sosa (Rutgers, USA) 📍May 11 at 5:30 pm | CEU
@weareceu.bsky.social
@ceu-philosophy.bsky.social
💥 🎟️ Free Tickets
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#philsky
#philevent
#philosophy
#knowledge
#ernestsosa
18 days ago
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Wonderful to see KiC researchers taking on the
#VCM26
relay. Turns out collaboration looks just as good on the road as it does in research!
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19 days ago
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Tim Crane
@timcrane.bsky.social
presents again today at Petrus Hispanus Lectures 2026! LECTURE 2: WHAT CAN COMPUTERS DO? The lectures will close with some proposals about how the philosophy of AI can help us with the practical problems that contemporary AI has created. More 👇️
#philsky
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Petrus Hispanus Lectures 2026 – Lancog
School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon
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Director of research, Tim Crane
@timcrane.bsky.social
is in Lisbon presenting a two part lecture on 'Against Intelligence' at Petrus Hispanus Lectures 2026! Today at 4 pm he presents: WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE? focusing on AGI and what exactly is it? More>>https://buff.ly/KQenudK
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Petrus Hispanus Lectures 2026 – Lancog
School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon
https://cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/lancog/petrus-hispanus-lectures-2026/
20 days ago
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Thanks
@nigelwarburton.bsky.social
! Last chance to get your tickets for tonight's talk with Nigel!
www.eventbrite.at/e/kic-lectur...
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TODAY at 5:30pm! KiC Lecture Series: Absences Join us for a public lecture on the philosophy of absence by acclaimed author and Philosophy Bites co-founder, Nigel Warburton
@nigelwarburton.bsky.social
📍 CEU | Vienna Get your (free) tickets here!👇️
#philevent
#philsky
#eventvienna
#seeuatCEU
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KiC Lectures #2: Absences
Join us for a public lecture on the philosophy of absence by acclaimed author and Philosophy Bites co-founder, Nigel Warburton.
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🔥 Workshop! Philosophy: What and How? A workshop on the nature, aims, and methods of philosophy. 📍 7 - 8 May 2026 Vienna, Austria Find out more:
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or see our website for more details
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21 days ago
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'Kann KI denken? Experten über die Zukunft von künstlicher Intelligenz.' Unser Forschungsdirektor Tim Crane (
@timcrane.bsky.social
) und Key Researcher Simon Rippon sprechen mit
@kurier.at
über AGI. Artikel unten 👇 Podcast-Episode zum Thema AGI: Link in den Kommentaren 🎧
#AGI
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Kann KI denken? Forscher streiten über die Zukunft der AGI
Wo liegen die Grenzen? Experten diskutierten über die theoretischen und praktischen Dimensionen künstlicher Intelligenz.
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Many of us struggle to imagine a future in which we will become an absence for others: we lack the resources to think about a world without our first-person perspective. Nigel Warburton explores some of the meaning, ethics and aesthetics of Absences. Don't miss it! FREE Tickets👇️
#philsky
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KiC Lectures #2: Absences
Join us for a public lecture on the philosophy of absence by acclaimed author and Philosophy Bites co-founder, Nigel Warburton.
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Lange Nacht der Forschung
#LNF26
Wir sind an zwei Stellen. April 24 | Universität Wien | 17:00 - 23:00 🧠 Was wissen wir wirklich?
@univie.ac.at
Was unterscheidet eigentlich Wissen von Unwissen? Oder von Mutmaßung oder Überzeugung? Alle Details 👇️
#philsky
#eventvienna
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Was wissen wir wirklich? - #LNF26 Lange Nacht der Forschung
Was unterscheidet eigentlich Wissen von Unwissen? Oder von Mutmaßung oder Überzeugung? In Zeiten von Fake News, Verschwörungstheorien und AI Halluzinationen sind diese Fragen relevanter denn je.…
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Lange Nacht der Forschung
#LNF26
We have 2 locations this year! April 24 at CEU | 5-7pm 📢 Change My Mind!
@ceu-philosophy.bsky.social
Tackle some of today's most pressing issues, live with Matt Dougherty, philosopher at CEU. More details in link 👇️
#philsky
#eventvienna
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Change My Mind! - #LNF26 Lange Nacht der Forschung
Convinced you're right? Let's check — philosophy provides a useful toolset for uncovering the truth. At this station, you can tackle some of today's most pressing issues through open, honest dialogue…
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27 days ago
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🧠 Mind Group meeting today at CEU. The meeting allows the researchers to share their research and gain peer feedback. Presenters today include: Matt Dougherty (CEU), Bernhard Ritter (Graz), Ursula Renz (Graz), Spencer Paulson (Vienna), & Keith Harris (Vienna)
@kraymondh.bsky.social
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#philsky
28 days ago
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🚨 Episode 6 OUT NOW! Episode 6: 'Explanation' (with Gregor Greslehner, Paulina Sliwa and Benjamin Schnieder
@univie.ac.at
🎧️ Listen Now! ➜ Spotify
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about 1 month ago
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🗓️ KiC Events in April! 16.04 🎙️ Podcast – Ep 6 launches! 24.04 🔬 Lange Nacht der Forschung - 2 Stations! 📍 Uni Wien – „Was wissen wir wirklich?" 📍 CEU – „Change My Mind" 28.04 🎤 Lecture 'Absences' with Nigel Warburton Go to our events page for details!
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#whatshappeningwien
#LNF26
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News and Events
Three days of the latest in social epistemology.
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about 1 month ago
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🔥 KiC Debates: Gibt es eine objektive Wahrheit? Mit Max Kölbel
@univie.ac.at
& Marian David
@uni-graz.at
📢 Jetzt Tickets sichern!
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Neuer Termin! 📍 Mai 5 | 17:30 | CEU
@weareceu.bsky.social
Erleben Sie die Debatte, diskutieren Sie mit und stimmen Sie ab!
#eventwien
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about 1 month ago
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Miguel de la Riva
@m-de-la-riva.bsky.social
from
@derstandard.at
writes about AI and our conference 'The historical and philosophical foundations of AI', (9-10th March), a conference organised by KiC and
@ceu-philosophy.bsky.social
. Read the article here! (in German)👇️
#philsky
#AI
#knowledgecrisis
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Philosophisch betrachtet: Wie intelligent kann künstliche Intelligenz sein?
KI-Systeme geben nach vor viel Unsinn von sich: Welche Rolle sie in unserer Gesellschaft spielen sollen, ist nicht nur eine technische Frage
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about 1 month ago
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reposted by
Knowledge in Crisis
Miguel de la Riva
about 1 month ago
Können KI-Sprachmodelle denken, oder handelt es sich bloß um probabilistische Plapperapparate? Für die Wissenschaftsseiten des
@derstandard.at
habe ich eine Tagung von
@ceu-philosophy.bsky.social
,
@knowledgecrisis.bsky.social
&
@timcrane.bsky.social
besucht.
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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Philosophisch betrachtet: Wie intelligent kann künstliche Intelligenz sein?
KI-Systeme geben nach vor viel Unsinn von sich: Welche Rolle sie in unserer Gesellschaft spielen sollen, ist nicht nur eine technische Frage
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000314253/philosophisch-betrachtet-wie-intelligent-kann-kuenstliche-intelligenz-sein
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Today our research group Science meets
@univie.ac.at
Fabian Pregel will present 'Does AI Deception Risk Establish the Necessity of Mechanistic Interpretability For Safety?' and Gregor Greslehner presents 'Two dogmas of molecular biology'
#philsky
#philsophy
#science
about 1 month ago
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📢 NEW Lecture! Absences with Nigel Warburton
@nigelwarburton.bsky.social
📍 April 28th at 5:30 pm, at CEU Join us for a free public lecture on the philosophy of absence by acclaimed author and Philosophy Bites co-founder, Nigel Warburton. Free Tickets:
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#philsky
#vienna
#philevent
about 1 month ago
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👀 New Publication In his new paper 'Evidence Resistance and Control', published in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Keith Raymond Harris
@kraymondh.bsky.social
discusses evidence resistance. 🧠 Curious? Read more >>
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#newpublication
#distrust
#knowledgecrisis
#philsky
about 1 month ago
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🛑 Leider wird diese Veranstaltung auf einen späteren Termin verschoben. Wir geben das neue Datum in Kürze bekannt!
about 2 months ago
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Director of research, Tim Crane
@timcrane.bsky.social
shares his review of Michael Pollan's book 'A World Appears' on the TLS
@thetls.bsky.social
. Read it below 👇
#philsky
#bookreview
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about 2 months ago
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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
about 2 months ago
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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
about 2 months ago
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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
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about 2 months ago
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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
about 2 months ago
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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
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Belief, Truth and Faith
This is the ninth lecture in the lecture series Religious Philosophy in Pre-Modern Eurasia: Questions of Translatability organized within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence Eurasian…
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about 2 months ago
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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 👇
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#Philsky
#MoralPhilosophy
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Lack of Attitude
Abstract. This chapter examines the concept of belief, proposing that belief ascriptions serve as useful models of unconscious dispositions rather than ref
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about 2 months ago
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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
about 2 months ago
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🚨 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. 🎧️
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#Philsky
#AGI
#podcast
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E5 — The AGI Question (with Tim Crane and Simon Rippon)
What does it really mean to create a machine that thinks? Postdoctoral Researcher Audrey Powers (University of Vienna) speaks with philosophers Tim Crane and Simon Rippon (Central European…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NReOhSm6xAE
2 months ago
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📕 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:
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#newrelease
#irismurdoch
#moralphilosophy
2 months ago
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KiC Seminar Series at
@univie.ac.at
Today Fabian Pregel will present: Logic before Language?
#philsky
#knowledgeincrisis
2 months ago
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🎭 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.
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American Improv | English Improv Classes in Vienna to Build Confidence and Connection
Learn to think fast, connect deeply, and have fun with American Improv — Vienna’s first English-language improv school. Our 5.0⭐ classes help you stop overthinking, build confidence, and unleash…
https://www.americanimprov.com/
2 months ago
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📢 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:
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#research
#philpaper
#epistemology
#philsky
2 months ago
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