In the following you will find a historic overview of all Salzburg Conferences for Young Analytic Philosophy that have been held so far. We plan to hold one conference each year and will continue to limit only the methods used and not the topics the methods are applied to.
SOPhiA 2022
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Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2022 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
Bas van Fraassen (Scientific Theories and Their Empirical Support), Vera Hoffmann-Kolss (What Can You Do with Causal Models? Grounding, Levels, Individuation of Properties), Otavio Bueno (Models and Modal Knowledge) and Leonhard Menges (A Moral Problem for Free Will)
SOPhiA 2021
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Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2021 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
Marian David (Truth – Why Do Intelligent People Say So Many Odd Things about It?), Herlinde Pauer-Studer (A Normative Argument for the Separation of Law and Morals) and Markus Schrenk (What is Proprioceptive Art?)
SOPhiA 2020
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Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2020 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
Hilary Greaves (Distributional Weights in Cost-Benefit Analysis), Philip Kitcher (Pragmatism, Truth, and Progress) and Hannes Leitgeb (On Merely Expressive Devices)
SOPhiA 2018
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Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2018 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
Elisa Aaltola (Moral Psychology and Animal Ethics), Helen Beebee (Peer Disagreement and Philosophical Commitment) and Wolfgang Künne (Literally or Figuratively? — Reflections on Bolzano’s Philosophy of Religion and his Hermeneutics (Bolzano Lecture 2018))
SOPhiA 2017
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Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2017 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
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2017-09-13 – 2017-09-15
Location
Unipark, Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
Johannes L. Brandl (Why Language Matters for Self-Awareness: The Conceptual and the Narrative Route), Christian List (Free Will as a Higher-Level Phenomenon), Michela Massimi (What is Perspectival Pluralism?) and Stathis Psillos (Laws and Powers in the Frame of Nature)
SOPhiA 2016
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Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2016 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
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2016-09-07 – 2016-09-09
Location
Department of Philosophy (KGW) of the University of Salzburg
Jeremy Butterfield (Scientific realism and primordial cosmology), Dorothy Edgington (Vagueness, Indeterminacy and Conditionals), Julien Murzi (Generalised Revenge) and Sylvia Wenmackers (Infinitesimal probabilities and ultra-additivity)
SOPhiA 2015
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Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2015 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
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2015-09-02 – 2015-09-04
Location
Department of Philosophy (KGW) of the University of Salzburg
Christopher Gauker (On the Difference between Realistic and Fantastic Imagining), Friederike Moltmann (Sentences as Predicates of Modal and Attitudinal Objects), Sonja Smets (New developments in the logical foundations of quantum physics) and Ulla Wessels (What Ought We to Do? In Defense of a Welfarist Answer)
SOPhiA 2014
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Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2014 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
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2014-09-03 – 2014-09-05
Location
Philosophy Department (Humanities) of the University of Salzburg
Elke Brendel (Disagreement and Epistemic Relativism), Winfried Löffler (Formalization and Wide Reflective Equilibrium), Jeanne Peijnenburg (Lewis, Reichenbach, and Fading Foundations) and Benjamin Schnieder (Aristotle’s Insight and the Modest Conception of Truth)
SOPhiA 2013
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Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2013 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
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2013-09-11 – 2013-09-14
Location
Department of Philosophy (Humanities), University of Salzburg
Peter Brössel (Mathematical Philosophy), Catarina Dutilh-Novaes (The Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Deductive Reasoning as Cultural Phenomena), Catarina Dutilh-Novaes (Mathematical Philosophy), Ole T. Hjortland (Proof Theoretic Harmony With Higher-Order Rules), Ole T. Hjortland (Mathematical Philosophy), Simon M. Huttegger (Rational Foundations for Boundedly Rational Learning), Johannes Korbmacher (Mathematical Philosophy), Hans-Christoph Kotzsch (Mathematical Philosophy) and Martin Kusch (Pluralism in Science)
SOPhiA 2012
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Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2012 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
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2012-09-13 – 2012-09-15
Location
Conference venue of the Department of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of Salzburg
Adam Green (Ritual Spaces and the Extended Mind), Michael Grodzicki (Liefert Physik Beweise für eine kausale Struktur der Natur?), Andreas Hüttemann (A Process-theory of Causation), Stephan Hartmann (Updating on Conditionals = Kullback-Leibler + Causal Structure), Jeffrey Ketland (Mathematical Philosophy: Some Examples), Gerhard Schurz (Why causality is not superfluous), Patrick Todd (Why Your Modal Analysis Won’t Work), Paul Weingartner (Similarities and Differences between Scientific and Religious Belief) and Charlotte Werndl (A Bayesian Perspective on Confirmation and Calibration Illustrated by Climate Science)
SOPhiA 2011
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Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2011 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
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2011-09-07 – 2011-09-10
Location
Department of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of Salzburg
Prof. Dr. Heinrich Ganthaler (Symposium Programme), Dr. Norbert Gratzl (Symposium Programme), Prof. DDr. Norbert Hoerster (Symposium Programme), Prof. Dr. Reinhard Kleinknecht (Symposium Programme), Prof. Dr. Edgar Morscher (Symposium Programme), Prof. Dr. Carlos Ulises Moulines (Theory-Structuralism: A Programm for Analyzing Science), Prof. Dr. Hans Rott (Enthymematic validity), Ass.Prof. Dr. Olivier Roy (Symposium Programme), Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schurz (Causality as a Theoretical Concept, or: Metaphysics as Science) and Prof. DDDr. Clemens Sedmak (Symposium Programme)
SOPhiA 2010
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Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2010 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
Time
2010-09-08 – 2010-09-10
Location
Department of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of Salzburg
Prof. Alexander Hieke („Scientific Philosophy“ – Towards a pleonasm), Prof. Hannes Leitgeb (Why Philosophy Should be Scientific) and Prof. Edgar Morscher (Analytical Philosophy of Existence. (With a Commentarial Retrospection of the Presentations of the Conference))
SOPhiA 2023 