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!
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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 👇️
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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 👇️
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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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🚨 Episode 6 OUT NOW!
Episode 6: 'Explanation' (with Gregor Greslehner, Paulina Sliwa and Benjamin Schnieder @univie.ac.at
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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
🔥 KiC Debates: Gibt es eine objektive Wahrheit?
Mit Max Kölbel @univie.ac.at & Marian David @uni-graz.at
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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!
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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
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...
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
Public Lecture: Absences with Nigel Warburton. @8th April 2026 at Central European University. Organised by the Knowledge in Crisis project, an FWF Cluster of Excellence
📢 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: buff.ly/8nXxvJZ
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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.
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#newpublication #distrust #knowledgecrisis #philsky
🛑 Leider wird diese Veranstaltung auf einen späteren Termin verschoben. Wir geben das neue Datum in Kürze bekannt!
Unfortunately this event is postponed. A new date will be announced shortly!
🛑 Leider wird diese Veranstaltung auf einen späteren Termin verschoben. Wir geben das neue Datum in Kürze bekannt!
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 👇
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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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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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
🚨 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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📕 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.
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#newrelease #irismurdoch #moralphilosophy
KiC Seminar Series at @univie.ac.at
Today Fabian Pregel will present: Logic before Language?
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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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