Lectures and Conferences

Linie grünColloquium WS25

Colloquium Winter semester 2025

  • Tuesday, 14 October 2025: Dr. Margarida Hermida, University of Salzburg – “The Modal Structure of Biology”
  • Wednesday, 22 October 2025: Prof. Simon Pierre Chevarie-Cossette, University of Neuchâtel – “Fully Excused, but Responsible”
  • Tuesday, 28 October 2025: Prof. Gregor Betz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – “Emergent Rational Abilities in LLMs?”
  • Tuesday, 11 November 2025: Prof. TY Branch, Leibniz Universität Hannover – “Openness but not Transparency: Attitudes and Accountability for Science Communication”

Always at 15:15 in HS 301 (Wallistrakt, Franziskanergasse 1)

Linie grünWorkshop

New Perspectives on Conventionalism

Date: 29-30 September 2025

Location: Unipark, Erzabt-Klotz Straße 1, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

Conventionalist approaches to areas of discourse such as logic and mathematics were for many years almost universally rejected, but this appears to be changing. Recent years have seen the publication of significant works broadly in the conventionalist tradition, works that respond to objections previously thought to be fatal for conventionalism and that develop and defend views that either are explicitly conventionalist or at least are clearly indebted to historical conventionalist approaches. This workshop aims to bring together philosophers working on topics related to conventionalism, its challenges, and its prospects for a workshop on these themes.

Speakers:

  • Corine Besson (Sussex)
  • Andreas Fjellstad (Padua)
  • Luca Incurvati (ILLC, Amsterdam)
  • Deborah Kant (Hamburg)
  • Alexander W. Kocurek (UC San Diego)
  • Hannes Leitgeb (MCMP, LMU Munich)
  • Fredrik Nyseth (Tromsø)
  • Gil Sagi (Haifa)
  • Sebastian G. W. Speitel (Bonn)
  • Emelia Stanley (Vienna)

This workshop is supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through the ‘Categoricity by Convention’ research project (grant no. P33708) and the Knowledge in Crisis Cluster of Excellence.

More information can be found here:  New Perspectives on Conventionalism workshop

Linie grünConference

Conference on the Philosophy of Privacy

Date: 22-23 September 2025

Location: HS 302 (Franziskanergasse 1, 5020 Salzburg, Austria) and online

Schedule:

Monday 22nd September

10:45 – 11:00   Introduction

11:00 – 12:30   Lizzy Ventham – When ‘None of Your Business!’ Becomes Your Business

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30   Lauritz Munch – What is the Point of the Right to Privacy?

 15:45 – 17:15    Laura Hernández – The Epistemology of Privacy

Tuesday 23rd September

9:30 – 11:00     Leonhard Menges – What is Privacy?

11:15 – 12:45    Ashkan Razzaghi – Information Flow as Accessibility and Threatened Loss Cases

Lunch

14:15 – 15:45   Radu Bumbăcea – Is Mind-Reading a Breach of Privacy?

16:00 – 17:30    Asja Ahatović – Why Share Personal Information Online?

Linie grünSOPhiA 2025

Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 

September 03-05, 2025

Location: Unipark, Erzabt-Klotz Straße 1, 5020 Salzburg, Austria

Public conference in English for graduate students

More information can be found here:  SOPhiA 2025 – Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis