Open PhD position at the IAS-Research Center for Life Mind and Society (University of the BAsque Country) within the project “Outagencies: Varieties of autonomous agency across living, humanimal, and technical systems”

Open PhD position at the IAS-Research Center for Life Mind and Society (University of the BAsque Country) within the project “Outagencies: Varieties of autonomous agency across living, humanimal, and technical systems”

from: https://outonomy.net/?p=335 SUMMARY: Opportunity to join us at the IAS-Research Center for Life, Mind, and Society [https://ias-research.net] at the University of the Basque Country (San Sebastián) for a PhD studentship within the “Outagencies: Varieties of autonomous agency across living, humanimal, and technical systems” project [https://outonomy.net/project-description/]: an interdisciplinary exploration of agency across philosophy, biology, AI, and […]

Biennial summer meeting: ISHPSSB 2025 

Biennial summer meeting: ISHPSSB 2025 

Submission deadline: November 1st University of Porto, Porto, Portugal 20-25 July 2025  ISHPSSB 2025: Call for Session proposals  The International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) brings together scholars from diverse disciplines, including the life sciences as well as history, philosophy, and social studies of science. The biennial ISHPSSB summer […]

Workshop: Self-organization, Autonomy and the Bounds of the Self

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Workshop: Self-organization, Autonomy and the Bounds of the Self

Workshop on biological autonomy and the question of organismal agency at the Université Paris I. More information and the link to follow remotely available on the conference website. Program Lundi 18 mars 2024 9h00-9h15 : Ouverture du workshop/opening session : Florian Moullard (Bordeaux-Montaigne, SPH; Paris 1, IHPST) et Louis Virenque (CNRS, IHPST, Paris I),The Problem for Defining Agency. 9h15-10h45 : Anna Ciaunica (Université […]

CFA: MARXISM AND THE PITTSBURGH SCHOOL

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CFA: MARXISM AND THE PITTSBURGH SCHOOL

We are pleased to announce the call for abstract for this Conference, on the relation between the Marxian tradition and the left-Sellarsian Pittsburgh School, to be held at University College London. Thee conference aims to build a dialogical space between Marxism and the Pittsburgh School in this conference and thus extend this call for papers. […]

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Call for applications: Seventh European Advanced School in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences (EASPLS): “Explanation and Evidence in Biology and Medicine”

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Call for applications:  Seventh European Advanced School in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences (EASPLS): “Explanation and Evidence in Biology and Medicine”

The event will take place at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition in Klosterneuburg (Austria) on September 9th-12th. The summer school is organized by Leonardo Bich, Lucie Laplane and Matteo Mossio and is is mainly intended for young scholars, including PhD students and early post-doctoral researchers, who are engaged in the study of […]

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Conference: The Elephant in the Room: Investigating Consciousness Beyond Reductionism

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Conference: The Elephant in the Room: Investigating Consciousness Beyond Reductionism

Conference focusing on non-reductive approaches to the problem of consciousness, to be held at the University of Padua on February 21st-23rd. Conference will be only in person, recordings will be available later on on the UBI youtube channel. Program below. Wednesday, February 21Sala delle Edicole, Palazzo del Capitanio 9:00 am – Opening RemarksEGIDIO ROBUSTO | […]

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CFA: ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY AND E-COGNITION

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CFA: ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY AND E-COGNITION

Call for abstract for a conference to be held at the University of Granada on June 25th-27th. Confirmed speakers include Alva Noë, Louise Barrett, Dan Hutto, Tony Chemero, Glenda Satne, Annemarie Kalis, Carls Sachs, Luis Favela, and Gloria Andrada. Deadline for abstract submission is February 28th. Here the description from the conference website: The embodied […]

Workshop: Agency & Life (Syros, July 4-5)

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Workshop: Agency & Life (Syros, July 4-5)

We are glad to announce this workshop on the notion of organismal agency, which will take place in hybrid form at the University of the Aegean, Syros, Greece. Those who wish to attend the workshop online please contact Argyris Arnellos at arar@aegean.gr before the 3rd of July. Please be aware that times indicated below correspond […]

CFA: Philosophy and Mathematics of Situated Agency

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CFA: Philosophy and Mathematics of Situated Agency

Keynote speakers: Daniel Hutto (University of Wollogong), Inês Hipólito (HU Berlin), Antonio Bicchi (Italian Institute of Technology), S​teven M. LaValle (University if Oulu), Julian Kiverstein (University of Amsterdam). Organizers invite extended abstract of approximately 250-500 words (excluding references) on the following topics: For more information visit the event page.