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Jul 1

Jul 2

Farewell Conference for Martine

Julien Bugnon Time: 09:00 - 18:00 Other

Hi everyone,

I’m happy to share that there will be a Farewell Conference for Martine’s retirement in Fribourg on July 1–2, bringing together some of her past and present colleagues from Switzerland and abroad. Further details and the program will follow.

All are welcome to attend–please let me …

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May 23

May 24

Masterclass on “The Ethics of Intimate Relationships” with Prof. Monika Betzler (LMU Munich)

Sarah KOEGLSPERGER Time: 13:00 - 15:00 Other
Masterclass on “The Ethics of Intimate Relationships” with Prof. Monika Betzler (LMU Munich), Call for Participation
23-24 May 2025, Université de Fribourg
The event is in-person only. All are welcome. To register for the masterclass, please email Sarah Köglsperger: sarah.koeglsperger@unifr.ch
Abstract:
Intimate relationships and the moral challenges parties …

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May 13

Martine Nida-Rümelin’s Farewell Lecture

Samet Sulejmanoski Time: 17:00 - 18:15 Other

Dear all,

This is, for some, news of (we apologize for the late notice), for others, a reminder that tomorrow we’ll have the pleasure of hearing Martine give her Farewell Lecture on Intuitions as Source of Knowledge at 5pm in room MIS3118. It will be followed by a small aperitif at …

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Dec, 2024 3

Workshop: “Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind”

Sharon Casu Time: 10:00 - 17:20 Other

Room MIS04 4118

10.00 – 11.20: Vera Hoffman-Kolss (Universität Bern): “Indeterminate Prevention: A Supervaluationist Approach”

11.30 – 12.50: Alex Moran (Université de Fribourg): “The Possibility of Non-Reductive Physicalism”

 

Room MIS04 4122

14.30 – 15.50: Will Moorfoot (University of Southampton): “Zombie-proof physicalism and Mary’s revenge”

16.00 – 17.20: John Donaldson (University of Glasgow): “Does super-causation entail …

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Aug, 2024 10

Book Symposium: Matt Duncan’s “Present to the Mind: Acquaintance and Its Significance”

Sharon Casu Time: 09:00 - 16:30 Other

Dear all,

I am pleased to invite you to a book symposium on Matt Duncan’s Present to the Mind: Acquaintance and Its Significance, which will take place on August 10, 2024 at the University of Fribourg (Room MIS 10 01.04).

Matt Duncan will briefly present five chapters of …

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Aug, 2024 5

Aug, 2024 9

CUSO Summer School with Gideon Rosen “Recent Work in the Metaphysics of Ethics”

Description:

The EPP Chair of the Université de Fribourg is organising a Summer School with Gideon Rosen (Princeton). The week-long summer school will focus on the metaphysics of morality, with a special focus on non-naturalist moral realism: the view that moral thought and discourse are concerned with real, mind-independent facts that …

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Jul, 2024 29

Jul, 2024 30

Applications of Grounding (Part II)

Alex Moran Time: 10:00 - 17:00 Other

This workshops brings together a range of scholars working on first-order issues in philosophy within a metaphysical grounding framework. We will have talks on various topics, in for example meta-ethics, metaphysics, mind, and ancient philosophy, whereby what unifies the talks is a grounding-theoretic approach. Confirmed speakers include:

 

Ralf Bader (Fribourg)

Carlo Rossi …

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May, 2024 3

May, 2024 4

Workshop with Elijah Chudnoff

Dear all

We kindly invite you to a forthcoming workshop with Elijah Chudnoff (University of Miami) that will take place on May 3rd and 4th.

Here is the program:

Friday, 3rd May – Espace Güggi, MIS08 0101

3:15-5pm: Elijah Chudnoff – The Role of Seemings in Deliberate Inference

Saturday, 4th May – Salle …

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Jan, 2024 28

Jan, 2024 31

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: CUSO Workshop on Normativity and Reasons

Call for Abstracts

English

Workshop with Ema Sullivan-Bissett and Adam Carter on Normativity and Reasons

Where: Crêt-Bérard (Vaud)

When: 28 January – 31 January 2024

 

Description

We invite PhD students at universities affiliated with the CUSO (Unil, Unige, Unine, Unifr, Unibe) to submit an abstract for the upcoming CUSO workshop titled Normativity and Reasons. The …

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Dec, 2023 19

Workshop on Contemporary Philosophy

Sharon Casu Time: 09:30 - 16:00 Other

Programme:

9:30-11:00 – Johannes Roessler (University of Warwick): “Centralism in Epistemology”

11:30-13:00 – Amir Saemi (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran): “Process-centered norms”

14:30-16:00 – Gianfranco Soldati (Université de Fribourg): “Inner perception and the first person”

 

To register, please write to: sharon.casu@unifr.ch

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