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First Austrian Summer School in Phenomenology: Phenomenological Approaches to Epistemology, Metaethics, and Metaphysics

Graz, 6 - 8 September 2021

First Austrian Summer School in Phenomenology

Phenomenological Approaches to Epistemology, Metaethics, and Metaphysics

 

September 6-8, 2021

 

hosted by the Austrian Society for Phenomenology

 

organized by Philipp Berghofer, Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl, and Michael Wallner

 

keynote speakers: Sara Heinämaa, Walter Hopp, and Dan Zahavi

 

 

 

CfP

 

The Austrian Society for Phenomenology launches its first international summer school. Our objective is to promote the research of young scholars (bachelor, master, and doctoral students) that sheds new phenomenological light on current debates in epistemology, metaethics, and metaphysics. Husserl’s conceptions of originary givenness, evaluative experience, and eidetic intuition are among the various seminal contributions we find in the phenomenological tradition. Currently, promising research is done that utilizes such conceptions in order to develop phenomenological perspectives on experiential justification, the debate between epistemic internalism and externalism, the theory of value, (moral) emotions, moral epistemology, issues surrounding metaphysical realism and anti-realism, as well as the epistemology and metaphysics of modality. We would like to encourage students to develop phenomenological insights and teachings systematically and in view of contemporary debates in philosophy. Our ambition is to promote such phenomenological research by providing a platform to connect with, discuss with, and receive feedback from peers and experts. Each conference day is devoted to one of the subtopics of the event. The conference will be an online event.

 

If you wish to participate in the summer school but not to give a talk, please provide a short statement of motivation (not more than 150 words) and specify your name, affiliation, and research interests.

 

If you wish to participate in the summer school and give a talk, please apply with an (extended) abstract of the paper you wish to present. Submissions should not exceed 500 words, must be written in English (conference language), and should be prepared for blind review.

 

The submission deadline is July 4, 2021.

 

Please send your applications/submissions and general inquiries to philipp.berghofer@uni-graz.at. Women and members of other traditionally underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.

 

 

 

 

 

Preliminary schedule

 

September 6

Phenomenological Approaches to Epistemology

Walter Hopp: TBA

Philipp Berghofer: TBA

3 student presentations

 

 

September 7

Phenomenological Approaches to Metaethics

Sara Heinämaa: TBA

Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl: TBA

3 student presentations

 

 

September 8

Phenomenological Approaches to Metaphysics

Dan Zahavi: TBA

Michael Wallner: TBA

3 student presentations​