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Philosophers investigating today's crises of knowledge. 📍Austria
https://www.knowledgeincrisis.com
🎄 Taking a little festive break to relax, recharge, and get ready for 2026! Wishing you all a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year—we’ll see you next year! ✨ 📅 2026 is shaping up to be huge—check our events page and start filling your diaries!
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🔥 New Publication! One Crisis to Solve Another? The Place of Care in a World of Automated Work by Anca Gheaus, published in Journal of Social Philosophy. Interested? Read the publication here >>
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⚠️ Conference! Knowledge, Agency & Responsibility 9-10th Jan Vienna A conference organised by Fabio Lampert
@flampert.bsky.social
, on issues concerning human agency, abilities, and capacities, with a focus on problems about free will and moral responsibility. More info:
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https://www.knowledgecrisis.com/events
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🔥 New Podcast Episode! What do we give our attention to—and why does it matter? Our second episode explores attention from moral, political, philosophical and personal dimensions. Listen Now! ▶ Apple Podcasts
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, ▶ Spotify
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▶ YouTube
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E2 — Attention (with Cathy Mason and Paulina Sliwa)
Podcast Episode · Knowledge in Crisis: The Podcast · 12/18/2025 · 27m
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🔔 New Post! Breaking Bread With the Enemy by Anca Gheaus. Starting with a social media scandal about a man abandoning two cats, Gheaus questions the " role that philosophy should have in public life as well as what philosophers would have to do if our work is to play that role". 👉
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🙌 New Publication! Trusting Despite Oneself: Stated, Introspected, and Revealed Epistemic Trust by Keith Harris and published in Social Epistemology. In his new publication, Harris looks at the “crisis of trust”. Read the paper
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Trusting Despite Oneself: Stated, Introspected, and Revealed Epistemic Trust
It is commonly claimed, based in large part on survey data, that we now face a crisis of trust characterised in part by a lack of epistemic trust in experts and mainstream media institutions. Such ...
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In her new article, 'Despair can help us mourn lost futures and chart new paths', former KiC Postdoc
@ceu-philosophy.bsky.social
, Juliette Vazard, writes about despair — and asks: after the devastation, what role can it play in helping us move forward? Read it below
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Despair can help us mourn lost futures and chart new paths | Psyche Ideas
Hope is indispensable. But when false hope blinds us to reality, a short bout of despair might be the antidote we need
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❯❯❯❯ TODAY! Film Screening & Discussion! 🎬 💬 𐂺 The Couple in the Cage (1993) (31mins) Two artists intended to create a satirical commentary on the notion of discovery. Their audience had something different in mind... ╰┈➤ˎˊ˗ Join us for the film and a discussion afterwards! Tickets below! ↘
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Film Screening: The Couple in the Cage (1993)
Two artists intended to create a satirical commentary on the notion of discovery. Their audience had something different in mind...
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💡 Public Lecture Series Our inaugural KiC Lectures start again in January and we are kicking it off with world renowned philosopher of mind, Ned Block
@neddo.bsky.social
. "Can only meat machines be conscious?" 📌 Join Us! 12th January 2026 17:30-19:00 @CEU 👉 Register here >>
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🥊 KiC Debates: Will we ever achieve artificial general intelligence? A philosophical debate with Tim Crane and Simon Rippon on artificial general intelligence, with audience voting and the chance to share your thoughts, too! 📌 Jan 20 @ 17:30 CEU Auditorium Register here >>
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KiC Debates: Will we ever achieve artificial general intelligence?
Join us for a philosophical debate on artificial general intelligence, with audience voting and the chance to share your thoughts, too!
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Tim Crane
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We are starting our
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Knowledge in Crisis 'KiC public lecture series', with Ned Block on 12 Jan 2026!
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Can Only Meat Machines Be Conscious?
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💥 Der philosophische Kurz-Essay in der Zeitung | Journalistisches Handwerk für Print und Online ✍🏻 📌 25.-27. März 2026 Ein Workshop von PhilPublica
@philpublica.bsky.social
und KiC an der Uni Wien
@univie.ac.at
und CEU
@weareceu.bsky.social
‼️ Bewerbungsfrist: 4. Januar 2026
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🚨 Save the Date: 12.12.25 Film Screening & Discussion! 🎬 💬 🎞️ The Couple in the Cage (1993) (31mins) Two artists intended to create a satirical commentary on the notion of discovery. Their audience had something different in mind... ╰┈➤ˎˊ˗ Join us and reserve your tickets below!
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👍 New Post! 'Deadnames and the Philosophy of Language' by Elek Lane. Published in Blog of the APA, Elek Lane, a postdoc with KiC
@univie.ac.at
, discusses his particular interest in deadnames, a name that someone has rejected in virtue of a gender transition. Read more below!
#philblog
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Deadnames and the Philosophy of Language | Blog of the APA
Names are a big deal in the philosophy of language. Gottlob Frege taught philosophers about sense and reference with “Hesperus” and “Phosphorus.” Bertrand Russell used names to demonstrate how the…
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First Conference of the European Moral Responsibility Consortium (EMRC) at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven.
@kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
Paulina Sliwa
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(Vienna) and Denis Džanić (Graz), both with KiC, are giving talks here today! More info here >>
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First Conference of the European Moral Responsibility Consortium (EMRC)
First Conference of the European Moral Responsibility Consortium (EMRC)
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📢 TODAY! Workshop: Analogies, External Validity and the Future of Experimental Modeling Across Sciences. This 2 day hybrid workshop addresses science questions from an interdisciplinary perspective to improve understanding and to create a dialogue between scientists and philosophers.
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Salzburg-Vienna Workshop: Analogies, external validity and the future of experimental modelling across sciences
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TODAY! Online at 16:00 Can we Asses Consciousness in AI Systems? A talk with Tobias Schlicht. 🔥 Join via Zoom here:
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Find out more at our events page:
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#PhilEvent
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#AIAndConsciousness
23 days ago
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📣 Call for Applications! Conference: Reason in Perception
@uni-graz.at
from 7-8 May 2026. We invite you to submit an anonymized abstract of up to 500 words by January 31, 2026 ▶ More info at our events page
#philsky
#CallForPapers
#Philosophy
#Perception
#PhilosophyOfMind
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News and Events
Call for Applications:
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🚨 Save the Date: 12.12.25 Film Screening & Discussion! 🎬 💬 🎞️ The Couple in the Cage (1993) (31mins) Two artists intended to create a satirical commentary on the notion of discovery. Their audience had something different in mind... ╰┈➤ˎˊ˗ Join us and reserve your tickets here!
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📌 Save the Date! Can we Asses Consciousness in AI Systems? A talk with Tobias Schlicht. Wed 03.12.25 | Online at 16:00 ▶ Join the talk online here:
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📣 Call for participation! 4&5 Dec Hybrid Workshop: Analogies, External Validity and the Future of Experimental Modeling Across Sciences. Addressing science questions from an interdisciplinary perspective! ✅ Register Now!
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@unisalzburg.bsky.social
@univie.ac.at
@fwf-at.bsky.social
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Salzburg-Vienna Workshop: Analogies, external validity and the future of experimental modelling across sciences
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📌 Save the Date! Can we Asses Consciousness in AI Systems? A talk with Tobias Schlicht. Wed 03.12.25 | Online at 16:00 📩 Email us at
[email protected]
for the zoom link! Find out more at our events page:
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TODAY! Paulina Sliwa (Vienna)
@pasliwa.bsky.social
has been awarded the honor of giving the annual Hartnack Lecture 2025 in Aarhus. She presents 'Changing Perspectives and the Virtue of Perspectival Flexibility' at 13:15! Read more here >>https://buff.ly/ImrW2oj
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#philevent
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🎬 Film Screening & Discussion! 📌 Save the Date: 12.12.25 The Couple in the Cage (1993) A short film (31 min) that documents the traveling performance of Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco, in which they exhibited themselves as caged Amerindians from an imaginary island. 🔥 FREE tickets here!!
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Film Screening: The Couple in the Cage (1993)
Two artists intended to create a satirical commentary on the notion of discovery. Their audience had something different in mind...
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about 1 month ago
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Nigel Warburton
about 1 month ago
Excellent first episode of a new monthly podcast series Knowledge in Crisis - on Conspiracy Theories available on Apple, Spotify etc
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E1 — Conspiracy Theories (with Keith Harris)
Podcast Episode · Knowledge in Crisis: The Podcast · 20/11/2025 · 22m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/knowledge-in-crisis-the-podcast/id1854155140?i=1000737563837
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Record everything! Our memories are precious to us and constitute our sense of self. Why not enhance them by recording all of your life? Yannic Kappes our postdoc researcher
@univie.ac.at
talks about memory and what it could mean to record it all!
#memories
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If memory is precious to you then go ahead and record everything! | Aeon Essays
Our memories are precious to us and constitute our sense of self. Why not enhance them by recording all of your life?
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about 1 month ago
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NOW ONLINE! What better day to launch than on World Philosophy Day! Knowledge in Crisis: The Podcast. In our first episode, Cathy Mason and Fabio Lampert speak with Keith Harris about conspiracy theories. Check it out on Spotify
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about 1 month ago
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Happening TODAY!!! Last chance to grab your FREE tickets to our World Philosophy Day Screening! Waking Life (2001) by Richard Linklater 📍 5.30 pm at Filmcasino
#WorldPhilosophyDay
#PhilosophyInFilm
#FilmCasinoVienna
#ViennaEvents
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Film Screening: Waking Life (2001)
For World Philosophy Day we'll watch & discuss the adult animated surrealist drama written and directed by Richard Linklater.
https://buff.ly/YYmF1WL
about 1 month ago
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📌 Save the Date! 4th & 5th Dec. Workshop: Analogies, External Validity and the Future of Experimental Modeling Across Sciences. Addressing questions across science from an interdisciplinary perspective! ╰┈➤ˎˊ˗ Register Now!
@unisalzburg.bsky.social
@univie.ac.at
@fwf-at.bsky.social
#philsky
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Salzburg-Vienna Workshop: Analogies, external validity and the future of experimental modelling across sciences
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about 1 month ago
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Join us today
@ceu-philosophy.bsky.social
for their Colloquium with Katalin. Katalin Farkas is Professor of Philosophy at CEU and the Deputy Director of Research for Knowledge in Crisis project.
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Our KiC seminar series continues today with: "I don't want your apology!" This talk by Paulina Sliwa (Vienna)
@pasliwa.bsky.social
is about what it is to accept and refuse apologies. If a wrongdoer apologises to a victim, is the victim under an obligation to accept the apology?
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Today, Maria Kronfeldner joins the Austrian ERA Symposium to discuss how science communication and public participation can be designed to promote trust, enable dialogue, and strengthen social participation. More here:
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about 1 month ago
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Today in Graz Scientific Knowledge, Literacy, and Public Understanding – For the Common Good 🎙️ A talk with Anjan Chakravartty (Miami) 📍 University of Graz
@uni-graz.at
📅 November 14, 18:00 🏛️ SR 09.51, Heinrichstraße 26/V Check out our events page for more info.
#philtalk
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Can we understand the properties of black holes by studying the behavior of a moving fluid in the university lab? Can we learn something about the molecular mechanisms of aging by performing genetic…
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about 1 month ago
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Next week in Vienna! Join us at Filmcasino on world philosophy day to watch & discuss Waking Life with philosophers Camilo Martinez and Alex Horne ➡️
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CEU Philosophy Department
about 1 month ago
Today Asst. Prof. Asya Passinsky, will be giving a talk on “Ameliorative Metaphysics” at the XVII NOMOS Meeting on Katharine Jenkins’s Ontology and Oppression: Race, Gender, and Social Reality at the University of Barcelona! Read more about Asya here
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Asya Passinsky | Department of Philosophy
Contact information
https://philosophy.ceu.edu/people/asya-passinsky
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KiC Postdoc Reasearcher, Camilo Martinez (CEU) discusses his new publication, 'No Guarantee: Coherence, Rationality, and Fragmentation' on New Work in Philosophy. Read it over on Substack.
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“No Guarantee: Coherence, Rationality, and Fragmentation” - Camilo Martinez (Central European University)
Forthcoming in Thought
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about 1 month ago
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Friday, 14 November! Scientific Knowledge, Literacy, and Public Understanding – For the Common Good 🎙️ A talk with Anjan Chakravartty (Miami) 📍 University of Graz 📅 November 14, 18:00 🏛️ SR 09.51, Heinrichstraße 26/V Check out our events page for more info:
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about 1 month ago
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Today is our Knowledge Group meeting
@uni-graz.at
! We welcome Richard Pettigrew from Bristol as a visiting speaker. Followed by talks from Katalin Farkas (CEU), Lukas Schwengerer (Graz) & Camilo Martinez (CEU).
about 2 months ago
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TODAY
@unisalzburg.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary Challenges: Bridging Philosophy & Science Education Workshop A workshop to foster the collaboration between philosophy and science education & reflect on the nature of science (NoS). ➡️ MORE INFO
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#philevent
#knowledgecrisis
about 2 months ago
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HEUTE! 💭 Knowledge in Crisis mit Pint of Science Salzburg live im Antiquariat Weinek 🕕18:00. Eintritt frei (mit Reservierung)! Kommt vorbei für Denken, Trinken & gute Gespräche. 🍻🧠
#Salzburg
#Philosophie
#PintOfScience
#kiCEvent
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Knowledge in Crisis X Pint of Science
Join us on November 7th for a special off-season event co-organised with Knowledge in Crisis!
https://pintofscience.at/event/knowledge-in-crisis-x-pint-of-science/
about 2 months ago
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TODAY! 🎥 Film screening - Stalker (1979) Join us at
@weareceu.bsky.social
today @4:30 PM for a screening of Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker! After the screening: guided discussion with Maria Kronfeldner on the film’s philosophical themes — plus pizza! 🍕
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#philevent
#seeUatCEU
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about 2 months ago
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Knowledge in Crisis mit Pint of Science Salzburg live am 7. November im Antiquariat Weinek um 18:00 Uhr. Eintritt frei (mit Reservierung)! Kommt vorbei für Denken, Trinken & gute Gespräche. 🍻🧠 🔴 Anmelden hier!
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#Salzburg
#Philosophie
#PintOfScienceAT
#kiCEvent
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about 2 months ago
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Interdisciplinary Challenges: Bridging Philosophy & Science Education Workshop on November 10th. A workshop to foster the collaboration between philosophy and science education & reflect on the nature of science (NoS). ➡️ Register Now! via our events page
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#philevent
#knowledgecrisis
about 2 months ago
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Stalker Screening This Thursday! Grab your tickets now!
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about 2 months ago
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Join us today @15:40 for a colloquium with Lisa Doerksen,
#KiC
postdoc
@ceu-philosophy.bsky.social
Two Kinds of De Se Ignorance Providing new support about first-person identity claims, Lisa distinguishes two kinds of de se ignorance, or ignorance about one’s own identity.
#philsky
#philEvent
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Two Kinds of De Se Ignorance
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about 2 months ago
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🎥 FILM SCREENING To celebrate
#WorldPhilosophyDay
, KiC is screening Waking Life (2001), the adult animated surrealist drama written and directed by Richard Linklater. 📍 Film Casino, Vienna ⏰ 5pm, Thursday 20.11 Stay for a post-film discussion! 🍿 Grab Your Tickets Now! 🎟️
#wakinglife
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Film Screening: Waking Life (2001)
For World Philosophy Day we'll watch & discuss the adult animated surrealist drama written and directed by Richard Linklater.
https://buff.ly/5RTzLyr
about 2 months ago
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Don't forget to register by tomorrow! Vienna Postdoc Career Day 2025, on November 12th! Empowering researcher careers across Austria 🇦🇹 Open and free for all postdocs from Austrian universities & research institutions. Join in with panel discussions, workshops and networking.
@lbg.ac.at
#Postdoc
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Vienna Postdoc Career Day - LBG Career Center
Join us for a day focused on postdoc careers in & beyond academia!
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about 2 months ago
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Vienna Postdoc Career Day 2025, Nov 12th! Empowering researcher careers across Austria 🇦🇹 Open and free for all postdocs from Austrian universities & research institutions. Join in panel discussions, workshops and networking
@lbg.ac.at
🗓️ Register by 4 Nov to save your spot!
#Postdoc
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Vienna Postdoc Career Day - LBG Career Center
Join us for a day focused on postdoc careers in & beyond academia!
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about 2 months ago
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📣 TODAY
@univie.ac.at
KiC/PACE Metaphilosophical Talk with Barbara Vetter: “Metaphysical modality as a natural kind” Philosophers disagree deeply about both the nature and the extent of metaphysical modality. How can we get a common grip on what it is that we are disagreeing about?
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about 2 months ago
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Save the Date! - Tues Nov 4th Colloquium with Lisa Doerksen, our postdoc
@ceu-philosophy.bsky.social
Two Kinds of De Se Ignorance Providing new support about first-person identity claims, Lisa distinguishes two kinds of de se ignorance, or ignorance about one’s own identity.
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about 2 months ago
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