Knowledge in Crisis
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Philosophers investigating today's crises of knowledge. 📍Austria
https://www.knowledgeincrisis.com
📕 New Publication! Key researcher, Ferenc Huoranszki (CEU)
@ceu-philosophy.bsky.social
has published 'Dreams of a Final Normative Theory: An Essay on the Changing Role of Utopia in Contemporary Political Thought' in the book, 'Utopia and Democracy'. Read it here>>https://buff.ly/RxUQCFN
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Tim Crane (
@timcrane.bsky.social
) joined Rebecca Lowe on her podcast 'Working Definition' for a wide-ranging conversation on consciousness: what it is, why "conscious experience" is a bit of a redundant phrase, and why he's sceptical that LLMs are anywhere close to having it. Listen👇️
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Working Definition episode 10: Consciousness, with Tim Crane
Listen now | the eleventh episode of my philosophy podcast!
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Third and final day of the Knowledge, Power and Social Life conference begins with J. Carr (UC San Diego) on 'Interestingness' at 9 am! Abstract 👇️
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5 days ago
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Finishing off Day 2, Johanna Thoma (University of Bayreuth) presents: 'Accountability and Credibility in Tension: On the Conflicting Roles of Expert Councils in a Democracy' at 16:00. Abstract 👇️
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6 days ago
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At 11:30 am we hear from Elise Woodard (King's College London)
@elisewoodard.bsky.social
with 'Genealogical Debunking and Desire' Abstract here 👇️
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6 days ago
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Berislav Marušić (University of Edinburgh) kicks off Conference Day 2 with 'Solidarity, not Charity: On Ideals of Interpretation' at 9:30 am! Abstract here 👇️
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Carolina Flores (University of Lisbon) presents: Feeling Safe and Staying Ignorant at 13:30 today at the Knowledge In Crisis Conference! Read the abstract here 👇️
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7 days ago
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Today is our final KiC Seminar Series for the academic year at
@univie.ac.at
Javad Hajialikhani presents: Understanding Normative Authority.
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📣 Today! Tuomo Tiisala (
@univie.ac.at
) presents 'Why History Matters to the Evaluation of Concepts' at the Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference: Tracing Genealogy. Tiisala works mainly in social and political philosophy, and the history of 20th-century philosophy.
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‼️ Last days to register for our conference Knowledge in Crisis: 'Knowledge, Power and Social Life' from July 1-3, at the
@univie.ac.at
Sky Lounge! 🔥 Registration closes tomorrow! All info at our website below 👇️
www.knowledgeconference.at
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@weareceu.bsky.social
@fwf-at.bsky.social
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NEW PUBLICATION! Raimund Pils has published 'History of Science Literacy as a Core of Science Literacy' in Education Sciences. Pils argues that science literacy needs a history of science literacy component — and shows what that could look like in the classroom. Article:
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TODAY @ 11am! Join Tim Crane
@timcrane.bsky.social
for 'Human and artificial minds: what are the differences?' at the Digital Humanism Conference in Vienna. He is joined by Rumman Chowdhury (Humane Intelligence:
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) and Stefan Szeider from BilAI:
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Details 👇️
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Programme 2026 – Digital Humanism Conference 2026
Soon available!
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📣 We're thrilled to announce that Katalin Farkas, Deputy Director of Research, has joined Noûs as one of its 12 editors! Noûs is one of the world's leading philosophy journals, and this is a wonderful achievement for Katalin. 👏 Congratulations, Katalin!
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In July, Director of research,
@timcrane.bsky.social
presents the next Barry Taylor & David Lewis Philosophy Lecture in Australia. His lecture 'Against Intelligence' shares insights on how the philosophy of AI can help us tackle the real, practical problems that today's AI presents. More 👇
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TODAY! KiC Seminar Series at
@univie.ac.at
Today Tuomo Tiisala (Vienna) presents: 'Does the history of a concept matter to its evaluation?'
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16 days ago
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Today at 10:40 am! Deputy director of research, Katalin Farkas, presents her talk, 'A Sense of Reality' at 'Existence After Kant IV: The Sense of Existence', a workshop from King's College London. More info:
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Select tickets – Existence After Kant IV: The Sense of Existence – Strand Campus (Bush House SE 2.12)
Existence After Kant IV: The Sense of Existence – Strand Campus (Bush House SE 2.12), Mon 22 Jun 2026 - In this fourth workshop within the Existence after Kant Research Project, we are exploring the…
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🔥 Episode 8 Part One - OUT NOW! The Unconscious Mind. From Kant to Freud, Tuomo Tiisala and Katarina Kraus sit down with Béatrice Longuenesse (NYU) to discuss the unconscious mind. 🎧️ Listen now Spotify:
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E8: Part 1 — The Unconscious Mind (with Béatrice Longuenesse)
Knowledge in Crisis: The Podcast · Episode
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19 days ago
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TODAY At 16:50! Postdoc researcher Anni Räty (
@univie.ac.at
) presents: "Privacy & Permission" at the 2-day conference: Who gave you permission? Norms, Agency and Other Awkward Questions. 📍 Vienna, 19.-20. June 2026 Hybrid event, check below for more details 👇️
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Events
The conference examines the power structures embedded in gendered, romantic, and sexual relations. Bringing together perspectives form ethics, social philosophy, political philosophy, feminist and...
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Today at 4pm! Key researcher, Katharina Kraus (
@univie.ac.at
), delivers her inaugural lecture, 'Der allgemein menschliche Standpunkt in der Aufklärung und der Moderne'. 📍 University of Vienna’s Große Festsaal ⏰️ 18 June at 4pm
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20 days ago
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🔥 NEW PUBLICATION! Daniel Sharp (
@univie.ac.at
) whose research focuses on moral and political philosophy, has published 'Immigration and social citizenship in times of crisis: deepening and broadening citizenship' in Ethics & Global Politics. 👉️ Read it here
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21 days ago
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Join Anna Breitwieser (
@unisalzburg.bsky.social
) for the talk 'Why the ability to philosophize is crucial' as part of the 'Science Lectures' series from FWF @fwf-at.bsky.social and VHS. ⏰ Thursday 18.06, 19:15 🗣️Hybrid event in German, more info below👇
#ScienceLectures
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22 days ago
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KiC Seminar Series at
@univie.ac.at
Today Yannic Kappes (
@yannickappes.bsky.social
) presents his paper, 'Saving Social Construction' at 11:30!
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23 days ago
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Key researcher, Katharina Kraus (University of Vienna) will be presenting her talk 'The Supreme Principle of Reason in Kant: Metaphysical Foundation or Practical Presupposition?' at the workshop: “Truth, Modality and Explanation: Historical Perspectives”,
@univie.ac.at
today!
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26 days ago
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🔥 Key researcher, Cathy Mason, was recently re-featured in the Editors' Picks Week Aeon Weekly
@aeon.co
, where their editors selected Essays that have stood out to them with themes and ideas worth revisiting. Read the essay 'Why love matters most', below👇️
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For Iris Murdoch, morality is about love, not duties and rules | Aeon Essays
For Iris Murdoch, morality is not about duties and rules but stopping our ego fantasies and attending to others with love
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Yesterday, Key Researcher, Maria Kronfeldner (
@ceu-philosophy.bsky.social
), presented her talk 'Academic Freedom and Foundations of Democracy' at the Beyond Displacement: The Future of Universities and Researchers in Exile Conference in collaboration with CPVA and CEU. Continues today!
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Each project – for a better quality of life Project „Stasys Museum“ Learn more Administered programmes in Lithuania Administering 13 programmes with a total budget of more than €14,8 billion, we work…
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28 days ago
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Tonight at 8pm! Key researcher, Ursula Renz, (
@uni-graz.at
) joins the podium discussion after the film screening of “Spinoza: Six Reasons for the Excommunication of the Philosopher” at Gloriette Cinema, in Heidelberg!
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28 days ago
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Today! Key researcher, Ursula Renz, (
@uni-graz.at
) presents 'Spinozean acquiescientia in se ipso vs. Hegelian Reconciliation' at 'Conatus – Self-determination – Subjectivity – Hegel and/or/with Spinoza', Philosophisches Seminar at University of Heidelberg.
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29 days ago
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💬 The Language Group meets today in Graz! Speakers include Jason Means (CEU), Katharina Felka (Münster), Andrea Raimondi (Vienna), Mani Rashtipour (Vienna), & Max Kölbel (Vienna) and is organised by Lukas Schwengerer (Graz).
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30 days ago
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👏 New Publication! Alice van't Hoff from
@univie.ac.at
recently published 'Ways of Being Qualified' in Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 👉️ Interested to read more? Read it here >>
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about 1 month ago
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Key researcher, Maria Kronfeldner
@ceu-philosophy.bsky.social
is part of the UP Salon
@univie.ac.at
event 'What Are We Even Doing? Metaphilosophical Conversations Part 2' ⏰ Friday June 5th! 📍 University of Vienna More info here >>
upsalon.univie.ac.at/events/detai...
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about 1 month ago
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We closed day one of our annual general meeting in Graz, with a keynote ‘On Love and Consciousness’, from American philosopher Alva Noë. Alva is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley and is also an international collaborator with the KiC project.
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Director of research, Tim Crane talks to
@derstandard.at
about Wikipedia, AI and chatbot errors in an essay: 'Why knowledge is important'. Read it below!
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about 1 month ago
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🔥 Elek Lane (Vienna) and Levani Sikharulidze (previously with KiC) have been awarded Early-Career Scholar Prizes at the 12th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (#ECAP12)! Elek in Language, Levani in Social & Political Philosophy / Philosophy of Law. 👏 Congratulations to both!
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Early-Career Scholar Prize | ESAP – European Society for Analytic Philosophy
https://analyticphilosophy.eu/early-career-scholar-prize/
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FIRESIDE CHAT! What is Intelligence, Really? June 9, 5:30 - 7 PM CEU 🔥 Tickets
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Organized by us, (a
@fwf-at.bsky.social
Cluster of Excellence) &
@weareceu.bsky.social
in cooperation with European Forum Alpbach
#EFA26
as part of the democracy in a digital age event series.
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CEU Philosophy Department
2 months ago
Professor Tim Crane (
@timcrane.bsky.social
) was recently featured in Wiener Zeitung, contributing to the conversation in an article titled 'Denkst Du noch, oder hasst Du schon?' (In German) Read it below 👇️
www.wienerzeitung.at/a/denkst-du-...
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In der Politik sind harte Worte an der Tagesordnung. Wie du dich davor schützen kannst. | WZ • Wiener Zeitung
Aggressive Sprache macht aggressiv. Wie du dich vor Kriegsrhetorik schützen kannst.
https://www.wienerzeitung.at/a/denkst-du-noch-oder-hasst-du-schon
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New Publication! 'Knowledge and Argument' by Spencer Paulson, in Nous. Paulson argues that knowledge plays a distinctive role in psychological explanation that weaker epistemic states can't because it is robust in the face of counterevidence in a way that they aren't. 👉️
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about 1 month ago
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The Entaglement, a book by Alva Noë
@alvanoe.bsky.social
, who is on our international advisory board, was reviewed on Philosophy Now!
@philosophynow.bsky.social
Read the review here >>https://buff.ly/V6UA9UU
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The Entanglement by Alva Noë | Issue 173 | Philosophy Now
Luka Zurkic considers how art and philosophy affect life.
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about 2 months ago
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Episode 7 OUT NOW! Pseudoscience! This episode we map out the spectrum from science to bad science to pseudoscience. Turn up the volume as we unpick the boundaries between them, and come away better equipped to spot the next pseudoscientific claim headed your way. Links in comments 👇️
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about 2 months ago
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💥 New Publication! 'Overconfidence and Prosocial Behavior-Promoting Virtual Reality' by postdoc researcher, Lukas Schwengerer
@lschwengerer.bsky.social
, published in Philosophy & Technology. 👀 Curious? Read more here >>
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about 2 months ago
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Continuing today! Between You & Me: A workshop on interpersonal ethics
@univie.ac.at
Speakers include: Monika Betzler (LMU Munich) Samuel Dishaw (Université Catholique de Louvain) Cathy Mason (CEU) Anni A. Räty (Vienna) Jonas Vandieken (LMU Munich) P. Quinn White (Harvard)
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about 2 months 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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about 2 months ago
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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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about 2 months ago
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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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about 2 months ago
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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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about 2 months 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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#newpublication
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about 2 months ago
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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
More details here:
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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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about 2 months ago
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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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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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about 2 months ago
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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
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about 2 months 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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2 months 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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Knowledge in Crisis / PACE project
Philosophy: What and How?
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