On April 17, 2026, the Research Center Normative Orders at Goethe University Frankfurt will host an online workshop titled “Theory and Practice After the Practice Turn – Where Social Theory and Empirical Philosophy Meet.” Proposals for contributions can be submitted until February 14. The call reads:
Author: Alexander Max Bauer
Hot Off The Press: “Health and Disease”
With “Health and Disease,” Somogy Varga, Andrew James Latham, and Edouard Machery deliver a deep dive into Experimental Philosophy of Medicine. The summary reads: The concepts of health and disease are fundamental to medical research, healthcare, and public health, and philosophers have long sought to clarify their meaning and implications. Increasingly, it is suggested that…
Hot Off The Press: “The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts”
In “The Fruitfulness of Normative Concepts,” Matt Lindauer argues for a strong connection between philosophical theory and its real-world applicability, also drawing on moral psychology and adjacent fields. The book’s summary reads: Can philosophical concepts do real work in improving our world? Should we, when evaluating competing understandings of concepts like “justice,” “empowerment,” and “solidarity,”…
Hot Off The Press: “Indirect Freedom”
Andrew James Latham published a book on indirect compatibilism, a new compatibilist account of free will that also takes into account experimental philosophy and cognitive neuroscience. The summary reads: This book advances a new kind of compatibilist account of free will: indirect compatibilism. It is the first sustained philosophical analysis of the idea that the…
Talk: “Expressivity Cross-Linguistically” (Xavier Villalba)
On Monday, December 15, from 14:30–16:00 (UTC+1), the “Slurring Terms Across Languages” (STAL) network will present Xavier Villalba’s talk “Expressivity Cross-Linguistically – A Corpus Study of Expressive and Evaluative Adjectives in Romance and Germanic” as part of the STAL seminar series. The abstract reads: In this presentation, I argue that pure expressive adjectives (such as…
Hot Off The Press: “Experimental Philosophy”
There’s a new journal in town: Experimental Philosophy. Founded by Editors-in-Chief Alex Wiegmann, Ivar Hannikainen, and Pascale Willemsen, run by Managing Editor Nikolai Shurakov, and supported by a broad team of Section Editors, it’s a journal dedicated entirely to, well, experimental philosophy. The editors write: Experimental Philosophy is an open-access journal founded to enable authors…
Workshop: “XPHI UK Work in Progress Workshop Series”
James Andow and Eugen Fischer have announced the first talks for this season’s “XPHI UK Work in Progress Workshop Series.” Talks will be held on Microsoft Teams. Anyone interested in joining can email james.andow@manchester.ac.uk. November 26, 16:00–18:00 (UTC±0) December 10, 16:00–18:00 (UTC±0) January 14, 16:00–18:00 (UTC±0)
Job: “Experimental argument analysis” (Norwich, UK)
The University of East Anglia is hiring a Research Associate to work from January 8 to June 30, 2026, on a research project in experimental philosophy. Applications are possible until November 25. The job announcement reads:
Talk: “Philosophical Arguments Can Boost Charitable Giving” (Eric Schwitzgebel and Kirstan Brodie)
On Thursday, October 30, the first talk in the Experimental Philosophy Journal Series will take place on Zoom. Celso de Oliveira Vieira, Alex Wiegmann, and Rodrigo Díaz write: We are pleased to invite you to the first talk in the Experimental Philosophy Journal Series, the new journal dedicated to X-Phi. In this session, Eric Schwitzgebel…
Call: “The Fifth Annual Formal and Experimental Philosophy Workshop”
Lake Forest College’s philosophy department is hosting “The Fifth Annual Formal and Experimental Philosophy Workshop” (FAX5), which will take place from March 20 to 21, 2026. Abstracts for posters can be submitted until October 10. The call reads: The Fifth Annual Formal and Experimental Philosophy Workshop (FAX5) at Lake Forest College brings together philosophers who…