Knowledge in Crisis (KiC) Workshop/Tagung
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The Knowledge in Crisis Conference (KiC Conference) series, organized by the “Knowledge in Crisis” Cluster of Excellence (KiC), aims to showcase cutting edge work on knowledge: its nature and norms as well as its social and political dimensions. The conference wants to foster exchange between different approaches to knowledge and the crisis it finds itself in. At the heart of the crisis of knowledge are philosophical problems about the relationship between knowledge, truth, science, ethics and politics—and ultimately our relationship to reality itself.
The question is: How can epistemology help us to better understand and overcome the crisis of knowledge?
The “Knowledge in Crisis” Cluster of Excellence (KiC) is a collaboration between philosophy departments of the University of Graz, the University of Salzburg, and the University of Vienna, led by Central European University, and funded by the Austrian Science Fund.
Conference History:
KiC Workshop/Tagung 2026, 17-19 September 2026, Universität Salzburg, Salzburg, Österreich
Workshopthema: Epistemische und argumentative Kompetenzen im Zeitalter multipler Wissenskrisen
(Gastgeber: Fachbereich Philosophie, Geisteswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg; Mitveranstalter: Wissenschaftliches Netzwerk „Argumentieren in der Schule“)
- Vorträge:
Bias und Wohlwollen
Argument und Tatsache
The Contracted Mind: Active Externalism, LLMs, and Human Epistemic Capacities
Epistemische Kompetenz lehren und lernen
Philosophische Bildung und die Zukunft der deliberativen Demokratie: Wenn kritisches Denken zur Überlebensfrage wird
Epistemische Bildungsziele und das Problem der angemessenen Evidenzwahl
Was soll Philosophiedidaktik sein – und was nicht?
Wenn Argumente versagen: Wie man abwertender und manipulativer Sprache begegnen kann
Epistemische Aufgeschlossenheit im Desinformationszeitalter
Argumentieren in der Bioethik mit dem Toulmin-Schema: eine Sackgasse?
Zur Rationalität selbstbeeinflussender Überzeugungen
KiC Conference 2026, 1-3 July 2026, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Conference Theme: Knowledge, Power and Social Life
(Host: Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna;)
- Presentations:
Feeling Safe and Staying Ignorant
Know-How in Motion
Solidarity, not Charity: On Ideals of Interpretation
Genealogical Debunking and Desire
Unseen possibilities: moral learning as unlearning
Accountability and Credibility in Tension: On the Conflicting Roles of Expert Councils in a Democracy
Interestingness
Partisan Selective Exposure Theory: False, Non-Explanatory, and Normatively Misleading
What Is Wrong with Politicisation?
KiC Conference 2025, 4-5 September 2025, Central European University, Vienna, Austria
Conference Theme: Ryle on Knowledge, Sense, and Method
(Host: Department of Philosophy, Central European University)
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KiC Workshop 2025, 26-28 June 2025, Central European University, Vienna, Austria
Conference Theme: Social Metaphysics
(Host: Department of Philosophy, Central European University)
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Questions:
What are social objects and how do they differ from other ordinary objects? What is the nature of money, laws, nations, borders, corporations, property, etc.?
What is a social group? What is group agency/belief/intention? What are social structures and institutions?
What are social kinds and how do they differ from natural kinds? What form of mind-dependence do social kinds exhibit? Are social kinds real? What is race, gender, sexuality, disability, and mental illness? Are these natural or socially constructed categories? What does it mean for something to be socially constructed?
What is ontological justice? How does social ontology bear on considerations of justice and morality? How do considerations of justice and morality bear on social ontology?
How can notions such as essence, real definition, grounding, fundamentality, and truthmaking be applied to the social world?
Keynotes: (3)
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Presentations: (5 pre-read speakers)
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Associated Workshops:
Workshop on Conceptual Dogmatism: Epistemology and Ethics of Consciousness Raising, 25-26 June 2025, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
(Host: Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna; Supporter: Knowledge in Crisis” Cluster of Excellence)
- Primitive Normativity as a Condition of Understanding
Conceptual Agency
On Perspectival Flexibility
Conspiratorial Beliefs and Epistemic Agency: The Limits of ‘Rational Debunking’
Ethical Inquiry with Non-Epistemic Aims?
Blind Rule-Following as Structural Heteronomy: Against Acceptance-Based Accounts of Social Reality
KiC Conference 2025, 19-20 May 2025, Central European University, Vienna, Austria
Conference Theme: Misinformation and Disinformation
(Host: Department of Philosophy, Central European University)
- Presentations:
Rethinking the problem of misinformation and generative AI
Fake Answers: Fit-Checking vs. Fact-Checking
What’s so bad about fake news?
If you ask yourself a question, seek the answer!
Misinformation, mistrust, and immersive fantasy
Not even wrong? LLMs, meaning, and misinformation
The Misinformation Dilemma: Balancing Objectivity and Explanation
The problem with ‘misinformation’
KiC Conference 2024, 4-5 December 2024, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Conference Theme: Problems of Knowledge in Legal and Political Philosophy
(Host: Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna)
- Presentations:
Law, Philosophy, and the Susceptible Skins of Living Beings
Capacity and Sexual Consent
The Will of the People Revisited
Fair Equality of Opportunity for Positions of Advantage in Unjust Societies
Rethinking Rights
Beliefs that Wrong