From May 7 to 8, 2026, the workshop “Philosophy – What and How?” will take place at the University of Vienna, Austria.
The announcement reads:
Views on what philosophy is and how it should be done vary widely. Is philosophy concerned with reality or with our concepts used for grasping aspects of reality? Does philosophy use a priori or empirical methods? What is the role of intuitions? And of the method of cases? What are philosophers trying to find out? Is Philosophy a descriptive or a normative discipline, or both?
Key information:
Dates: May 7–8, 2026, 09:00–18:00
Venue: Sky Lounge (DG), Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Wien, AustriaHere is a list of speakers and titles:
- Max Kölbel: Philosophy as Conceptual Engagement
- Yaokun Fu: The Arrovian Impossibility Theorem in Metaphysical Theory Choice
- Sophie Veigl: Beyond Method? Philosophy of Science Between Analysis and Activities
- Elijah Chudnoff: Intuition and Philosophical Progress
- Matti Eklund: The Parochial, the Universal and the Alien
- Asya Passinsky: Ameliorative Metaphysics
- Eric Wallace: Idealisation and Overfitting
- Alice van’t Hoff: Choosing Metalanguages
- Edouard Machery: Arguments won’t help
Registration and more details:
https://philosophywhatandhow.phl.univie.ac.at/
Registration is required but free of charge, and all are welcome (registration form on the bottom of the page).
This workshop is supported by the PACE (pace.phl.univie.ac.at/) and KiC (www.knowledgeincrisis.com/) projects.