Abhay Ashtekar: Einstein’s Universe and the Quantum Abhay Ashtekar (Physics Department, Penn State, US and Perimeter Institute, Canada) Our notions of space and time underwent a radical change just over a … Read more
14th International Summer School in German Philosophy: The Good in German Idealism This year’s Summer School will focus on a central issue in value theory: the good. We will explore … Read more
Gender and Digital Media Join us for our get together on Monday, 08th July at the IZPH, where we will discuss Gender and Digital Media in a casual enviroment with … Read more
Together with a group of distinguished guests (see poster) we will discuss the nature and scope of objectivity in the humanities. Our fundamental question is how and in what way … Read more
Mercator Lecture for AI in the Human Context Since Chat GPT we are witnessing another global AI hype. In his public Mercator-lecture Swiss philosopher Walther Ch. Zimmerli, at present Mercator … Read more
Workshop Positivity IRP Realism as a Philosophical Response to the Challenges of our Time: Speakers: Jocelyn Benoist (Paris)Alex Englander (Bonn)Maurizio Ferraris (Turin)Gregorio Fracchia (Turin)Mathieu Frerejouan (Paris)Markus Gabriel (Bonn)Charlotte Gauvry (Turin) Valeria … Read more
The Reality and Fictionality of Scientific Modelling: From Physics to Self-Models Modelling consists in developing a set of equations or rules to describe a phenomenon in a reproducible and stimulable … Read more
A Supposedly Fun Thing We Should Never Do Again: The Utter Hopelessness of Secondary Quality Theories Speaker: Prof. Zed Adams (New School for Social Research, New York) Since Locke, a … Read more
Kants Project of Enlightenment The 14th International Kant Congress will be organized and hosted by the Institute for Philosophie of the University of Bonn and the Kant-Society (Germany). In celebration … Read more
CYBER EVERYTHING Film screening and discussion. Guests: Markus Gabriel, Shimon Dotan and Netaya Anbar (producers of CYBER EVERYTHING), moderated by Gert Scobel This winter semester, the Mercator Lecture for AI … Read more