SOPhiA 2023


History

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

TitleSalzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2022 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
Time2022-09-07 – 2022-09-09
Location
SponsorsKRITERION – Journal of PhilosophySalzburg CountrySalzburg CityDepartment of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of SalzburgDeGruyterSpringerSchwabeGerman Society of Analytic PhilosophyOEH Salzburg and StV Philosophie
Plenary lecturersBas 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

TitleSalzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2021 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
Time2021-09-09 – 2021-09-11
Location
SponsorsKRITERION – Journal of PhilosophySalzburg CountrySalzburg CityOesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer PhilosophieDepartment of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of SalzburgVerlag MetzlerDeGruyterSpringerSchwabe and German Society of Analytic Philosophy
Plenary lecturersMarian 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

TitleSalzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2020 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
Time2020-09-02 – 2020-09-04
Location
SponsorsKRITERION – Journal of PhilosophySalzburg CountrySalzburg CityDeGruyterOesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer PhilosophieDepartment of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of SalzburgMentisSpringer and Verlag Metzler
Plenary lecturersMarian David (tba), Leah Henderson (tba) and Herlinde Pauer-Studer (tba)

SOPhiA 2019

TitleSalzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2019 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
Time2019-09-18 – 2019-09-20
Location
SponsorsKRITERION – Journal of PhilosophySalzburg CountrySalzburg CityOesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer PhilosophieDepartment of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of SalzburgSpringerOEH SalzburgDeGruyterMentis and Verlag Metzler
Plenary lecturersHilary Greaves (Distributional Weights in Cost-Benefit Analysis), Philip Kitcher (Pragmatism, Truth, and Progress) and Hannes Leitgeb (On Merely Expressive Devices)

SOPhiA 2018

TitleSalzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2018 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
Time2018-09-12 – 2018-09-14
Location
SponsorsKRITERION – Journal of PhilosophyMentisSalzburg CountrySalzburg CityVerlag MetzlerDCLPSSpringer and Department of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of Salzburg
Plenary lecturersElisa 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

TitleSalzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2017 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
Time2017-09-13 – 2017-09-15
LocationUnipark, Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
SponsorsDCLPSKRITERION – Journal of PhilosophySpringerStV PhilosophieMentisVerlag MetzlerSFBSalzburg CountrySalzburg CityÖH Salzburg and Department of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of Salzburg
Plenary lecturersJohannes 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

TitleSalzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2016 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
Time2016-09-07 – 2016-09-09
LocationDepartment of Philosophy (KGW) of the University of Salzburg
SponsorsGerman Society of Analytic PhilosophyGerman Society of Philosophy of ScienceKRITERION – Journal of PhilosophyMentisVerlag MetzlerSalzburg CountrySalzburg CitySpringerStV PhilosophieSuhrkampOEH Salzburg and Department of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of Salzburg
Plenary lecturersJeremy 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

TitleSalzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2015 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
Time2015-09-02 – 2015-09-04
LocationDepartment of Philosophy (KGW) of the University of Salzburg
SponsorsDCLPSGerman Society of Analytic PhilosophyGerman Society of Philosophy of ScienceKRITERION – Journal of PhilosophySalzburg CountrySalzburg CityStV PhilosophieOntology After QuineOEH Salzburg and Department of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of Salzburg
Plenary lecturersChristopher 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

TitleSalzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2014 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
Time2014-09-03 – 2014-09-05
LocationPhilosophy Department (Humanities) of the University of Salzburg
SponsorsDepartment of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of SalzburgGerman Society of Analytic PhilosophyGerman Society of Philosophy of ScienceDepartment for Philosophy of Science in SalzburgKRITERION – Journal of PhilosophySalzburg Country and Salzburg City
Plenary lecturersElke 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

TitleSalzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2013 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
Time2013-09-11 – 2013-09-14
LocationDepartment of Philosophy (Humanities), University of Salzburg
SponsorsDepartment of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of SalzburgCommunity of Analytic PhilosophyDepartment for Philosophy of Science in SalzburgKRITERION – Journal of PhilosophySalzburg Country and Salzburg City
Plenary lecturersPeter 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

TitleSalzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2012 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
Time2012-09-13 – 2012-09-15
LocationConference venue of the Department of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of Salzburg
SponsorsDepartment of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of SalzburgCommunity of Analytic PhilosophyDepartment for Philosophy of Science in SalzburgKRITERION – Journal of PhilosophySalzburg Country and Salzburg City
Plenary lecturersAdam 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

TitleSalzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2011 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
Time2011-09-07 – 2011-09-10
LocationDepartment of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of Salzburg
SponsorsDepartment of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of SalzburgThe Austrian Ministry of Science and ResearchCommunity of Analytical PhilosophyDepartment for Philosophy of Science in SalzburgKRITERION – Journal of Philosophy and Salzburg Country
Plenary lecturersProf. 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

TitleSalzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy 2010 (Salzburgiense Concilium Omnibus Philosophis Analyticis)
Time2010-09-08 – 2010-09-10
LocationDepartment of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of Salzburg
SponsorsDepartment of Philosophy (Humanities) at the University of SalzburgKRITERION – Journal of Philosophy and Department for Philosophy of Science in Salzburg
Plenary lecturersProf. 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))