Faculty of Philosophy
GRIPh
Groningen Research Institute for Philosophy
Bulletin
Volume 17
January 2017
Publications ...... 1 Academic ...... 1 Professional ...... 10 Popular ...... 13 Other research output ...... 14 Lectures ...... 15 Academic lectures ...... 15 Other lectures ...... 35 Appointments & accolades ...... 41 Membership of PhD committees & opposition ...... 44 Travel & conferences ...... 47 Miscellaneous ...... 54
Publications Academic
Articles • Decock, L., Douven, I., & Sznajder, M. (2016). A Geometric Principle of Indifference. Journal of Applied Logic, 19(2), 54-70. DOI: 10.1016/j.jal.2016.05.002 • Dutilh Novaes, C. (2016). Reductio ad absurdum from a dialogical perspective. Philosophical Studies, 173(10), 2605-2628. DOI: 10.1007/s11098-016-0667-6 • Dutilh Novaes, C., & Duncombe, M. (2016). Dialectic and logic in Aristotle and his tradition. History and Philosophy of Logic, 37(1), 1-8. DOI: 10.1080/01445340.2015.1086624 • Evers, H., & van Smeden, G. (2016). Meaning in Life: in Defense of the Hybrid View. The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 54(3), 355-371. DOI: 10.1111/sjp.12179 • Evers, D., & Deng, N. (2016). Acknowledgement and the Paradox of Tragedy. Philosophical Studies, 173(2), 337-350. DOI: 10.1007/s11098-015-0495-0 • Evers, D. (2016). Jonas Olson's Evidence for Moral Error Theory. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 13(4), 403- 418. • Friederich, S. (2016). Self-location and causal context. Grazer Philosophische Studien, 93(2), 232-258. DOI: 10.1163/18756735-09302008
1 • Hindriks, F., Douven, I., & Singmann, H. (2016). A New Angle on the Knobe Effect: Intentionality Correlates with Blame, not with Praise. Mind & Language, 31(2), 204-220. DOI: 10.1111/mila.12101 • Kleingeld, P. (2016). Kant's Moral and Political Cosmopolitanism. Philosophy Compass, 11(1), 14-23. DOI: 10.1111/phc3.12298 • Köder, F., & Maier, E. (2016). Children mix direct and indirect speech: evidence from pronoun comprehension. Journal of Child Language, 43(4), 843- 866. DOI: 10.1017/S0305000915000318 • Kooi, B. (2016). The ambiguity of knowability. The Review of Symbolic Logic, 9(3), 421-428. DOI: 10.1017/S1755020315000416 • Kuipers, T. (2016). Models, postulates, and generalized nomic truth approximation. Synthese, 193(10), 3057- 3077. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0916-9 • Lenz, M. (2016). Is Locke’s Account of Personal Identity Really Subjectivist? Kant-Studien, 107(3), 526- 535. DOI: 10.1515/kant-2016-0039 • Maier, E. (2016). A Plea against Monsters. Grazer Philosophische Studien, 93(3), 363-395. DOI: 10.1163/18756735-09303003 • Maier, E. (2016). Attitudes and Mental Files in Discourse Representation Theory. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 7(2), 473-490. DOI: 10.1007/s13164-015-0296-6
2 • Pauly, M. (2016). A Framework for Ontological Policy Reconstruction: Academic Knowledge Transfer in the Netherlands as a Case Study. Journal of Social Ontology, 2(2), 303-323. DOI: 10.1515/jso-2015-0028 • Romeijn, J., Morey, R., & Rouder, J. N. (2016). The philosophy of Bayes’ factors and the quantification of statistical evidence. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 72, 6–18. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2015.11.001 • Romeijn, J., & Wenmackers, S. (2016). A New Theory about Old Evidence. Synthese, 193(4), 1225-1250. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-014-0632-x • Sangiacomo, A. (2016). Locke and Spinoza on the epistemic and motivational weaknesses of reason: the Reasonableness of Christianity and the Theological- Political Treatise. Intellectual History Review, 26(4), 477-495. DOI: 10.1080/17496977.2016.1175214 • Sangiacomo, A. (2016). From secondary causes to artificial instruments: Pierre-Sylvain Régis's rethinking of scholastic accounts of causation. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part A, 60, 7-17. DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2016.08.004 • Sangiacomo, A. (2016). Aristotle, Heereboord and the polemical target of Spinoza’s critique of final causes. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 54(3), 395-420. DOI: 10.1353/hph.2016.0061 • Sangiacomo, A. (2016). Before the conatus doctrine: Spinoza’s correspondence with Willem van Blijenbergh. Archiv für die Geschichte der Philosophie, 98(2), 144– 168. DOI: 10.1515/agph-2016-0007
3 • Schmidt, A. (2016). Withdrawing Versus Withholding Freedoms: Nudging and the Case of Tobacco Control. The American Journal of Bioethics, 16(7), 3–14. DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2016.1180442 • Schmidt, A. (2016). Response to Open Peer Commentaries on ‘Withdrawing Versus Withholding Freedoms: Nudging and the Case of Tobacco Control.'. The American Journal of Bioethics, 16(11), W1-3. DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2016.1222019 • Schmidt, A. (2016). The Ethics and Politics of Mindfulness-Based Interventions. Journal of Medical Ethics, 42(7), 450-454. DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2015- 102942 • Schmidt, A. (2016). Abilities and the Sources of Unfreedom. Ethics, 127(1), 179–207. DOI: 10.1086/687335 • Stahl, T. (2016). Indiscriminate mass surveillance and the public sphere. Ethics and Information Technology, 18(1), 33-39. DOI: 10.1007/s10676-016-9392-2 • Sterkenburg, T. (2016). Solomonoff Prediction and Occam's Razor. Philosophy of Science, 83(4), 459-479. DOI: 10.1086/687257 • Streumer, B. (2016). No, We Cannot. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 24(4), 537-546. DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2016.1203982 • Streumer, B. (2016). Why Jonas Olson Cannot Believe the Error Theory Either. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 13(4), 419-436. DOI: 10.1163/17455243-01304003
4 • Sznajder, M. (2016). What conceptual spaces can do for Carnap’s late inductive logic. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part A, 56, 62-71. DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.12.001 • van Laar, J. A., & Krabbe, E. C. W. (2016). Fair and Unfair Strategies in Public Controversies. Journal of Argumentation in Context, 5(3), 316-348. • van Loo, H. M., Schoevers, R. A., Kendler, K. S., de Jonge, P., & Romeijn, J-W. (2016). Psychiatric comorbidity does not only depend on diagnostic thresholds: an illustration with major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. Depression and Anxiety, 33(2), 143-152. DOI: 10.1002/da.22453 • van Mazijk, C. (2016). Kant and Husserl on the contents of perception. The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 54(2), 267-287. DOI: 10.1111/sjp.12170 • van Mazijk, C. (2016). Kant and Husserl on bringing perception to judgment. Meta, 8(2), 419-441.
Comment/Letter to the editor • Evers, D., & Streumer, B. (2016). Are the Moral Fixed Points Conceptual Truths? Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 1-9.
5 Contribution to Book - Chapter • Bewersdorf, G. (2016). Total Evidence, Uncertainty and A Priori Beliefs. In L. Felline, A. Ledda, F. Paoli, & E. Rossanese (Eds.), New Directions in Logic and the Philosophy of Science. (pp. 57-66). College Publications. • Boele Van Hensbroek, P. (2016). Conceptualizing ‘Land’ and ‘Nation’ in Early Gold Coast Nationalism. In A. Fleisch, & R. Stephens (Eds.), Doing Conceptual History in Africa. (pp. 162-184). [7] New York and Oxford: Berghahn. • Dutilh Novaes, C. (2016). Five questions in the philosophy of logic. In T. Lupher, & T. Adajian (Eds.), Philosophy of Logic: 5 Questions. Automatic Press/VIP. • Dutilh Novaes, C., & Uckelman, S. (2016). Obligationes. In The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic. (pp. 370-395). (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy). DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781107449862.016 • Kleingeld, P. (2016). Kant on ‘Good’, the Good, and the Duty to Promote the Highest Good. In T. Höwing (Ed.), The highest good in Kant's philosophy. (pp. 33-49). Berlin: De Gruyter. DOI: 10.1515/9783110369007-006 • Maier, E. (2016). Why my I is your you: On the communication of de se attitudes. In M. García- Carpintero, & S. Torre (Eds.), About Oneself: De Se Thought and Communication. (pp. 220-245). Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198713265.003.0009
6 • Nauta, L. (2016). The Critique of Scholastic Language in Renaissance Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy. In C. Muratori, & G. Paganini (Eds.), Early Modern Philosophers and the Renaissance Legacy. (pp. 59-79). (International Archives of the History of Ideas ; Vol. 220). Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32604-7_4 • Nawar, T. (2016). The Augustinian Cogito and Materialist Theories of Mind. In J. Kaukua, & T. Ekenberg (Eds.), Subjectivity and Selfhood in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy. (pp. 25-35). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-26914-6_3 • Peeters, J., & Romeijn, J-W. (2016). Epistemic considerations about uncertainty and model selection in computational archaeology: A case study on exploratory modeling. In M. Brouwer Burg, H. Peeters, & W. Lovis (Eds.), Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis in Archaeological Computational Modeling. (pp. 37-58). (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology ). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27833-9_3 • Vega, J. (2016). A Toleration of the Enlightenment: From Limiting State Power to Empowering Citizens. In P. Scotton, & E. Zucchi (Eds.), Tracing the Path of Tolerance: History and Critique from the Early Modern Period to the Present day . (pp. 23-43). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars .
7 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary • Geurts, B., Beaver, D., & Maier, E. (2016). Discourse Representation Theory. In E. Zalta (Ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: (Spring 2016 Edition). Metaphysics Research Lab Center for the Study of Language and Information Stanford University.
Conference contribution • van Laar, J. A. (2016). Commentary on Ralph H. Johnson’s “On Distinguishing Between an Objection and a Criticism”. In P. Bondy, & L. Benacquista (Eds.), Argumentation, Objectivity, and Bias: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), 18-21 May 2016. (pp. 1-4). OSSA. • van Laar, J. (2016). Commentary on Douglas Walton, Alice Toniolo and Timothy J. Norman’s paper “Speech acts and burden of proof in computational models of deliberation dialogue”. In D. Mohammed, & M. Lewinski (Eds.), Argumentation and Reasoned Action: Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Argumentation, Lisbon 2015. (Vol. 1, pp. 777-780). College Publications.
8 • van Laar, J. A., & Krabbe, E. C. W. (2016). Eerlijke en oneerlijke strategieën in maatschappelijke discussies. In D. Van De Mierop, L. Buysse, R. Coesemans, & P. Gillaerts (Eds.), De macht van de taal: Taalbeheersingsonderzoek in Nederland en Vlaanderen. (pp. 131-143). Leuven (Louvain)/ The Hague: Uitgeverij Acco. • van Laar, J. A., & Krabbe, E. C. W. (2016). Fair and Unfair Strategies in Public Controversies: The Case of Induced Earthquakes. In D. Mohammed, & M. Lewinski (Eds.), Argumentation and Reasoned Action: Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Argumentation, Lisbon 2015. (Vol. 1, pp. 343-362). (Studies in Logic ; Vol. 62). London: College Publications. • van Laar, J. A., & Krabbe, E. C. W. (2016). Splitting a Difference of Opinion. In P. Bondy, & L. Benacquista (Eds.), Argumentation, Objectivity, and Bias: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), 18-21 May 2016. (pp. 1-19). Windsor, Ontario: OSSA.
Book • Booth, A. R. (2016). Islamic Philosophy and the Ethics of Belief. London: Palgrave MacMillan. DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-55700-1
9 Book editing • Roy, O., Tamminga, A., & Willer, M. (Eds.) (2016). Deontic Logic and Normative Systems: 13th International Conference, DEON 2016. London: College Publications.
Doctoral Thesis • Bates, T. E. (2016). Vice Versa: Situationism and character pessimism Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen • Blok, J. (2016). Bolzano’s early quest for a priori synthetic principles: Mereological aspects of the analytic-synthetic distinction in Kant and the early Bolzano Groningen: University of Groningen • Hermens, R. (2016). Philosophy of quantum probability: An empiricist study of its formalism and logic Groningen: University of Groningen • Köder, F. M. (2016). Between direct and indirect speech: The acquisition of pronouns in reported speech Groningen: University of Groningen • Van Driessche, J. (2016). Muishond: Techno- wetenschappelijke, literaire en ethische bewegingen van taal Groningen: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Professional
Article • Evink, C. (2016). De etnograaf en de zin van het leven. Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 108(4), 521-525. DOI: 10.5117/ANTW2016.4.EVIN
10 • Keijzer, F. (2016). De intuïties voorbij: Een biologische interpretatie van cognitie. Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 108(2), 131-159. • Keijzer, F. (2016). Repliek: Breken met een oude conceptuele tegenstelling. Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 108(2), 207-224. DOI: 10.5117/ANTW2016.2.KEIJ • van der Kolk, P., & Verhaegh, S. (2016). Opschorting en Onenigheid. Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 108(1), 37-52. DOI: 10.5117/ANTW2016.1.KOLK • Krabbe, E. C. W. (2016). Else Barth (1928-2015). Argumentation, 30(3), 341-343. DOI: 10.1007/s10503- 015-9369-z • Kuipers, T. (2016). Ten Geleide: Wetenschapsfilosofie in actie. Wijsgerig Perspectief, 56(3), 4-5. • van Mazijk, C. (2016). Wat 'maakt' ons intelligent? 108(2), 195-199. DOI: 10.5117/ANTW2016.2.MAZI • Romeijn, J. (2016). Wetenschapsfilosofie als grensganger. Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 108(4), 509–513. DOI: 10.5117/ANTW2016.4.ROME • Romeijn, J., & van Loo, H. (2016). Van realisme of constructivisme naar conventionalisme in de psychiatrie. Wijsgerig Perspectief, 56(3), 24–31.
11 Contribution to Book - Chapter • Boele Van Hensbroek, P. (2016). Inspiration and activities of the Coimbra Group Task Force for the African, Caribbean and Pacific region. In R. Manzanera (Ed.), Jartum: Experiencias Internationales de Cooperación Universitaria y de Desarollo desde el Grupo Coimbra. (pp. 23-31). [1] Granada: Universidad de Granada. • Evink, C. (2016). Vyvstání Subjektu. In J. Frei, & O. Švec (Eds.), Překonání Subjektivismu ve Fenomenologii. (pp. 119-136). Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart. • Hindriks, F., Steg, E., & Jans, L. (2016). Grenzen van regels. In Dromen over Groningen 2050: Vriendenboek Max van den Berg. (pp. 75-77). Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. • Stahl, T. (2016). Metaethik. Ein systematischer Gebietsüberblick. In M. Rüther (Ed.), Grundkurs Metaethik. (pp. 37-52). Münster: Mentis. • Stahl, T. (2016). Ideologiekritik. In M. Quante, & D. Schweikard (Eds.), Marx-Handbuch: Leben - Werk - Wirkung. (pp. 238-251). J.B. Metzler Verlag.
12 Conference contribution • van Laar, J. A., & Krabbe, E. C. W. (2016). Reply to David Godden’s Commentary on “Splitting a Difference of Opinion”. In P. Bondy, & L. Benacquista (Eds.), Argumentation, Objectivity, and Bias: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), 18-21 May 2016. (pp. 1-3). OSSA.
Book editing • Dutilh Novaes, C., & Read, S. (2016). The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic. (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy). Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781107449862
Report • Brandsma, N., & Pauly, M. (2016). Rapport Burgerpeiling KADO Kennisagenda 30 januari 2016. Kenniscentrum Aardbevingen en Duurzame Ontwikkeling (KADO). Popular
Contribution to journal - Article • Evink, C. (2016). Jan Patocka en de sprituele persoon. Filosofie, 26(1), 24-27. • Evink, C. (2016). De spelende en esthetische mens volgens Friedrich Schiller. Locus, 39, 36-39. • Tamminga, A. (2016). Deontische logica voor beginners. De Filosoof, 73, 11-14.
13 Book • van Ditmarsch, H., Kooi, B., Elancheziyan, & Kawabe, H., (TRANS.) (2016). 100人の囚人と1個の電球. 日本評 論社. Other research output
Contribution to journal - review • Keijzer, F. (2016). Matching concepts and phenomena: A review of Biological Autonomy. Adaptive Behavior, 24(6), 479-486. DOI: 10.1177/1059712316678050 • Keijzer, F. (2016). Bespreking van O’Malley’s Philosophy of microbiology. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, 78(3).
Other contribution - Other contribution • Booth, A. R.What is extremist belief? An answer from Medieval Islamic Philosophy • Romeijn, J.Preface to the second edition of Ian Hacking's "Logic of Statistical Inference" • Rusu, D-C.Jose de Acosta, Istoria naturală și morală a Indiilor de est și de vest • Rusu, D-C.Galileo Galilei, Dialog despre cele doua sisteme ale lumii
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14 Lectures
Academic lectures
Han Thomas Adriaenssen • 'John Sergeant on Enthusiasm and Locke's Theory of Ideas'. Locke Workshop, New York 7-9 april • 'The Pot and the Kettle. The Charge of Scepticism in Chatton's and Wodeham's Critique of Auriol'. Peter Auriol Workshop, Leuven, 3-4 juni • 'Comments on Gloria Frost: 'Efficient Causation as a Single Event: Aquinas’s defense of ‘Action-Passion’ Identity and Auriol’s Critique''. Activity, Spontaneity, and Agency in Later Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, Toronto 9-10 juni • 'Torn between Forms and Machines. Aristotelian Responses to Mechanization in Seventeenth-Century England'. Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period, Montréal 13 juni • 'Substantial Forms between Physics and Metaphysics. John Sergeant and Antoine Le Grand'. Workshop on Medieval Natural Philosophy, Saint Paul, 22 juni • 'Two Aristotelian Responses to Mechanization: Kenelm Digby and John Sergeant on Substantial Forms'. International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science Biennial Meeting, Minneapolis, 22-25 juni
15 • 'Spinoza and Leibniz: who is afraid of final causes?' (samen met Andrea Sangiacomo) Summer school the Challenge of Natural Teleology, Groningen, 28 juni-1 juli Katharina Bauer • ‘Imperatives of Self-Optimization’, OZSW Conference, Groningen, December 10th 2016. • ‘’One who makes himself a worm…’ – About Violating One’s Own Dignity.’ University of Illinois at Chicago, October 10th 2016 (invited by Marya Schechtman). • ‘Self-Optimization. A Duty to Oneself?’ PPA- Colloquiums at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, September 14th 2016. • ‘’Here I stand…’ An added weight of practical necessity?’, Panel Session “From Personality to Virtue”, 90th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Cardiff University, 10.7.2016. • ‘Under the idea of freedom – under the idea of necessity?’, Workshop: Kant on Freedom, University of Groningen, June 28th-29th 2016. • ‘Selbstentwürdigung und Selbst(miss)achtung’, Philosophisches Kolloquium der Universität Leipzig, January 20th 2016. Max Bialek • ‘Relativizing Laws to Kinds and Facts’, Dutch Society for the Philosophy of Science, Kaap Doorn, Netherlands, May 2016.
16 • ‘Special Science Interests in the BSA’, Society for the Metaphysics of Science, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2016. • ‘Moderate Deflationism for Literary Cognitivism’, X Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art, and Morality,Valencia, Spain, October 2016 Pieter Boele van Hensbroek • ‘Rocking the empire: Gold Coast, Chinese, Korean and Muslim intellectuals in the late nineteenth century calling for internal revolution’. Osaka University, 9 and 10 February 2016 • ‘Re-Imagining Indigenous Traditions: Gold Coast Intellectuals in Late 19th century Calling for Internal Revolution’ at workshop Critical Political Thought in the Age of Declining Empires: African, Asian, Islamic, and Russian Perspectives. (also organiser of this workshop). 25 and 25 April, 2016., Groningen. • ‘Comparative Political Theory and African Philosophy’. Lecture for OZSW section Comparative & Global. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 3 May, 201 • ‘Ideas of Rural Reconstruction in European, Russian and Chinese history’. At Seoul National University, Seoul, November 2, 2016 • ‘Movements for Alternative Paths of Modernisation: Chinese, Russian and European Historical Examples’. At Busan National University, S. Korea. November 4, 2016
17 Bianca Bosman • ‘The (Alleged) Containment Criterion in Abelard: Beyond Necessity?’, Berlin-Groningen-Toronto Workshop, Toronto, 11 June 2016. • ‘The (Alleged) Containment Criterion in Abelard: Beyond Necessity?’, 13th Meeting of the Medieval Philosophy Network, London, 17 June 2016. • ‘Containers and containees in medieval theories of consequence,’ 21 st European Symposium of Medieval Logic and Semantics, Pisa, 30 June - 5 July 2016 Boudewijn de Bruin • ‘Finance and human rights’, Groningen, 21 March 2016 • ‘Doxastic and epistemic freedom: A political approach’, Cambridge, 13 April 2016 • ‘Self-fulfilling epistemic injustice and recognition theory’, Frankfurt, 23 May 2016 • ‘Credit rating agencies’, Frankfurt, 24 May 2016 • ‘The ethics of regulating responsible lending’, Amsterdam, 3 October 2016 • ‘Self-fulfilling epistemic injustice’, Odense, 12 October 2016 • ‘Self-fulfilling epistemic injustice’, Aarhus, 14 October 2016 • ‘Justice in finance: An epistemic approach’, Bayreuth, 3 November 2016 Catarina Dutilh Novaes • ‘Argumentation as exchange and production of epistemic goods’, Social Epistemology Masterclass, Groningen, December 2016
18 • ‘Metaphors for argumentation’ Invited lecture, workshop of the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) Germany, Basel, November 2016 • ‘Reasoning biases, non-monotonic logics, and belief revision’, Invited lecture, workshop ‘The relevance of logic for human reasoning’. Munich, November 2016 • ‘Conceptual genealogy and conceptual engineering’, Invited lecture, workshop ‘Foundations of conceptual engineering’. Leeds, November 2016 • ‘A dialogical, multi-agent account of the normativity of logic’, Keynote lecture, conference ‘The Bounds of Logic’, Moscow, October 2016 • ‘Argumentation as transfer of epistemic assets: between credulity and conservativeness’, Invited lecture, workshop ‘Formal approaches in social epistemology’, Bristol, September 2016 • ‘Mathematical cognition as enculturation’, Contributed symposium, ESPP conference, St. Andrews, August 2016 • ‘The phylogeny and ontogeny of deductive reasoning: a cultural story. Cognitive Science Summer School, Montreal, July 2016 • ‘Carnapian explication as an ameliorative project: logic and social change’, Invited lecture, Philosophical methods workshop, Essen, June 2016 • ‘Axiomatizations of arithmetic, the first-order/second- order divide, and logical pluralism’, Invited colloquium lecture, Department of Philosophy, Geneva, April 2016
19 • ‘Carnapian explication as an ameliorative project: logic and social change’, Invited colloquium lecture, Philosophische Gesellschaft, Bern, April 2016 • ‘The beauty (?) of mathematical proofs’, Roots of Deduction closing workshop, Groningen, April 2016 • ‘Belief bias, non-monotonic logics, and belief revision’, Theoretical Philosophy Seminar, Department of Philosophy, Lund, April 2016 • ‘The phylogeny and ontogeny of deductive reasoning: a cultural story’, Philosophy Club, Department of Philosophy, Lund, April 2016 • ‘Carnapian explication as an ameliorative project: logic and social change’, Colloquium of ConceptLab project, CSMN, Oslo, March 2016 • ‘Comments on S. Shapiro’s Varieties of Logic’, Author- meets-critics session, Eastern APA, Washington January 2016 Coos Engelsma • ‘Is Common Sense a Source of Justification for Beliefs?’, presented on 25/2/2016 at conference ‘Science versus Common Sense?’, 25/2 – 27/2/2016, Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam. • ‘Can Foundationalism Avoid Arbitrary Beliefs?’, presented on 6/6/2016 at the ‘6th Annual Graduate Epistemology Conference’, 6/6 – 7/6/2016, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh. • ‘Can Foundationalism Avoid Arbitrary Basic Beliefs?’, presented on 4/7/2016 at the ‘European Epistemology Network Meeting’, 4/7 – 6/7/2016, Paris.
20 • ‘Can Foundationalism Avoid Arbitrary Basic Beliefs?’, presented on 10/12/2016 at the OZSW Conference 2016, 9/12 – 10/12/2016, University of Groningen, Groningen. Daan Evers • ‘Meaning in Life and the Metaphysics of Value’, workshop Meaning in Life and Objective Values, Umeå University, Sweden 30-11-2016 • ‘The Wittgensteinian Argument against Moral Error Theory’, annual conference of the OZSW 2016, University of Groningen, 09-12-2016 Eddo Evink • ‘The Idea of Europe in a Post-European Era’, paper for ‘Scientific Rationality and Europe’s Cultural Crisis. Re- addressing Husserl’s ‘Crisis of the European Sciences’”, Nijmegen, June 1 Simon Friederich • ‘Fine-Tuning as old evidence, double-counting, and the multiverse, Bristol, 26 October 2016 Leon Geerdink • ‘How Can We Think about Philosophical Progress’, Closing Workshop: The Roots of Deduction, Groningen, April 2016. • ‘Kant’s pure general logic: Its normativity as an argument in favor of the constitutive view’, Workshop "Kant on Following Rules", Berlin, June 2016. Job de Grefte • ‘On a Puzzle for Anti-luck Epistemology’, at EENM, Paris, July 2016
21 • ‘High Probability and Justification’ at VAF 2016, October 2016 • ‘A Reference Class Problem for Accounts of Luck’ at OZSW, December 2016 Sjoerd Griffioen • ‘Modernity between faith and reason. The Löwith- Blumenberg debate revisited’ at OZSW study group continental philosophy (11 February), and Groningen- Nijmegen colloquium (27 May). • ‘The struggle over secularization. The Löwith- Blumenberg debate in context’ at OZSW conference (10 December) Leah Henderson • ‘Explanation, probability and scientific realism’, Philosophy of Science in a Forest, Kaap Doorn, The Netherlands ,May 2016. • ‘Comments on Bengt Autzen’s ‘A Popperian Doctrine on Probability Revisited’, 13th annual Formal Epistemology Workshop, Groningen, The Netherlands, June 2016 • ‘Commentary on Bananaworld: Quantum Mechanics for Primates, Annual Philosophy of Physics Workshop, Rotman Institute and Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, June 2016 (invited) • ‘The No Miracles argument and the base rate fallacy’, British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, Cardiff, UK, July 2016.
22 • ‘Bringing virtues together’, 8th Quadrennial International Fellows Conference, Lund, Sweden July, 2016. • ‘Nonlocality in quantum mechanics’, Honours College, University of Ghent, Belgium, November 2016 (invited) • ‘Global vs. local approaches to the scientific realism debate’, 4th annual conference of the OZSW (Dutch Research School of Philosophy), Groningen, The Netherlands, December 2016. • ‘Reliability and evidence’, OZSW (Dutch Research School of Philosophy) Masterclass on Social Epistemology, Groningen, The Netherlands, December 2016 Frank Hindriks • Workshop Reassessing Responsibility, Cambridge, May 2016. ‘Responsibility, Consciousness, and Rationalization’. • EIPE seminar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, February 2016. ‘What's the Difference Between Money and Gender? Social Construction, Critique and Change.’ • Lecture Series The Philosophy of Social Functions (DFG Network: Social Functions), Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Februari 2016. ‘What's the Difference Between Money and Gender? Social Construction, Critique and Change.’ • Philosophical Colloquium Essen, January 2016. ‘What's the Difference Between Money and Gender? Social Construction, Critique and Change.’
23 Fred Keijzer • ‘Agents and organisms’ Invited talk for the research group of Developmental Psychology; University of Groningen (2016-01-11) • ‘Mindful brains or material minds?’ TED-like talk for the BCN Winter Meeting; University of Groningen (2016- 02-11) • ‘Early nervous systems and philosophy: Is there a mind in the brain?’ Invited talk for the Yuste Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York (2016-04-11) • ‘Why we may want a science of cognition that is not a science of mind’ Invited talk for the KLI Klosterneuburg, Austria (2016-05-18) • ‘Darwin’s impact: New forms of teleology’ Invited talk at the Natural Teleology from Aristotle to Darwin summer school, University of Groningen (2016-07-01) • ‘Origins of the animal sensorimotor organization’ Talk at the European Workshop of Ecological Psychology, University of Groningen (2016-07-06) Pauline Kleingeld • ‘Volitional Self-Contradiction and Kant’s Formula of Universal Law’, ‘Symposium paper’, Eastern Division Meeting of the APA, Washington DC, 8 January 2016. (Commentators: Robert Louden and Julian Wuerth) • 'Agency, Autonomy, and Freedom of the Will', Winter School on 'Agents and Agency', Groningen, 26 January 2016.
24 • 'Contradiction and Kant’s Formula of Universal Law’, Conference in honor of Karl Ameriks, University of Notre Dame, 8 April 2016. • 'Using Merely as a Means', Keynote Lecture, Biennial Conference of the North American Kant Society, Atlanta (Emory University), 28 May 2016. • 'Kant's Conception of Freedom of the Will', Conference on Kant on Freedom, 28 juni 2016. • ‘How to Use Someone “Merely as a Means”’, OZSW Conference, 9 december 2016. Barteld Kooi • comment on Simon Goldstein's talk: “Triviality Results for Probabilistic Modals”, at the Formal Epistemology Workshop, Groningen, 20-22 June 2016. • ‘The ambiguity of knowability’, Paradoxes, Logic and Philosophy, 15-16 October 2016. • ‘Knowledge, paradoxical or ambiguous?’ Departmental Seminar, Department of Philosophy, Peking University, 18 october 2016. Erik Krabbe • ‘Splitting a Difference of Opinion.’ Presented at the 11th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA 11): Argumentation, Objectivity, and Bias, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, 20 mei 2016 (with Jan Albert van Laar).
25 • ‘Commentary on: Michel Dufour’s “On the Difference Between Fallacy and Sophism.”’ Presented at the 11th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA 11): Argumentation, Objectivity, and Bias, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, 21 mei 2016. • ‘In the Quagmire of Quibbles’ (written with Jan Albert van Laar). Presented at the Journées d’études: Pinailler, entre souci de précision et bavardage of the Centre de recherche approches pragmatiques en philosophie du language et de la communication (APPLA&CO), Laboratoire Communication, Information, Médias,Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 26 november 2016 . Theo Kuipers • ‘Concretizations of two-sided nomic truth approximation: quantification, refinement, and stratification’, Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa-) seminar, Amsterdam, January 21. • ‘Concretizations of two-sided nomic truth approximation: quantification, refinement, and stratification’, Philosophy of Science in the Forest (NvWF), Doorn, May 21. • ‘Nomic truth approximation by ‘theories looking for domains’, revisited’, Celebratory Colloquium in Honor of Gerhard Schurz 60th Birthday, Düsseldorf, December 1-3.
26 Jan Albert van Laar • ‘Presumptions and argumentation schemes in policy debate’ op de conferentie “Presumptions, Presumptive Inferences and Burden of Proof” samen met Jean Wagemans aan de Universidad de Granada, 26-28 April, 2016. • ‘Splitting a difference of opinion’ op de conferentie “Argumentation, Objectivity and Bias” samen met Erik Krabbe in Windsor, Ontario, 18 – 21 Mei 2016. • ‘Commentary on Ralph H. Johnson’s
27 • ‘The Teleological Function of Qualities in Locke’, Summer School on Teleology, University of Groningen, 27-30 June 2016 • ‘Teleosemantics’, Summer School on Teleology, University of Groningen, 27-30 June 2016 • Comment on Deborah Brown (University of Queensland): “Agency, Motion and Self-Motion in Descartes and Hobbes”, Agency in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy Conference, University of Toronto, June 11 • ‘Science and Simplicity’, Colloquium Western University, London Ontario, June 12 Li-Chih Lin • - ‘Towards a Teleological Pantheism: Schelling’s Reception of Spinoza in the Freedom Essay’ presented on 07/11/2016 at the conference “Spinoza Stories: Pantheists, Spinozists, Jews, and the Formation of German Idealism,” Hebrew University of Jerusalem on November 6-8, 2016. Emar Maier • ‘Eventive and evidential speech reports’, 25 November, 2016. Belfast. ‘Fictional names and parasitic attitudes in psychologistic semantics’, 14 November 2016. Göttingen. • ‘Eventive and evidential speech reports’, 15 November, 2016. Göttingen Corijn van Mazijk
28 • ‘Transcendental consciousness: subject, object, or neither?’, Nordic Society for Phenomenology, Reykjavik, 21-23 April 2016. • ‘Kant and Husserl on the telos of history, Scientific Rationality and Europe’s Cultural Crisis’, Nijmegen, 1-2 June, 2016. ‘Husserlian replies to Crane’s impure intentionalist construal of pains’, OZSW Groningen, 9-10 April, 2016. Lodi Nauta • ‘Renaissance Humanism and the History of Philosophy’, Renaissance Society of America, Boston 31/3-2/4/16 • ‘Humanists on Sophistic Arguments’, The Sophistic Renaissance – Authors, Texts, Interpretations, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice, 26 Sept. 2016 Tamer Nawar • ‘Augustine on Friendship, Virtue, and Vice’, The Catholic University of America, 18 November 2016 • ‘The Stoics on Identity, Discernibility, and Identification’, Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, Boston College, 17 March 2016 • ‘Aristotle on Action and Agency’, Winter School: Agents and Agency, University of Groningen, 25 January 2016 Jeanne Peijnenburg • 'Acting in Retrospect: on regret and remorse', Groningen Summerschool, January 26, 2016 • 'Knowing in Part', 2nd Graduate Workshop in Mathematical Philosophy: Formal Epistemology, Muenchen, April 7, 2016
29 • 'Epistemic Justification', Workshop Aspects of Defeasible Reasoning, Konstanz, May 4, 2016 • 'Foundationalism and Anti-Foundationalism', Department of Philosophy, University of Roma Tre, Rome, November 21, 2016 • 'Can Probability Theory Help us Understand Hume's Argument?', Workshop in Hume's Treatise, Groningen, December 7, 2016 Jan Willem Romeijn • Keynote lecture ‘Irreducible chance and determinism’, 6th workshop of the Budapest-Krakow research group on Probability, Causality and Determinism, Krakow University, September 13. • Lecture series on ‘Induction and Statistics’, Gent University, September 21–23. • ‘Stein’s Paradox and Aggregating Distributions’, workshop on Collective Rationality, Venice, October 10. • ‘How Data becomes Evidence: theory-ladenness in statistics’, PSF conference in Doorn, May 20. • ‘Inherent Complexity: A problem for Statistical Model Evaluation’, PSA conference, Atlanta (USA), November 5. • ‘A Solution to the Metaphysical Reference Class Problem’, Chance Encounter, University of Groningen, June 24. • ‘All Agreed: Aumann meets DeGroot’, OZSW conference, Groningen, December 10.
30 Doina-Christina Rusu • ‘Interactions between Pneumatic and Tangible Matter in Francis Bacon’s Natural Philosophy’, presented at Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Bucharest, October, 24-26. • ‘Using Instruments in the Study of Living beings. Della Porta’s and Bacon’s experiments with plants’, presented at “Early Modern Intersections. Science, Experiments, Methodologies” (organized by Oana Matei), Vasile Goldis University Arad, April 17. • ‘Bacon’s Metaphysics. Forms, Motions, Pneumatic Matter’, presented at “Simplifications and Reductionism in Early Modern Science: (organized by Doina-Cristina Rusu and Martin Lenz), Institute of Research in the Humanities, University of Bucharest, April 14. • ‘Transforming Natural bodies. Francis Bacon on Efficient and Formal Causes’ presented at “The Early Modern Debates on Causality. First Meeting: Scholastic and Early Modern Accounts” (organized by Andrea Sangiacomo), Groningen Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Thought, March 14. • ‘Plants as Instruments in Natural Philosophy and Natural Magic,’ presented at “Manipulating Flora” (organized by Fabrizio Baldassarri, Dana Jalobeanu, and Oana Matei), Institute for Research in the Humanities, Bucharest, January 21-22.
31 Andrea Sangiacomo • ‘From secondary causes to artificial instruments: Pierre-Sylvain Régis’s rethinking of scholastic accounts of causation’, invited lecture at the Workshop “Medieval Natural Philosophy” (organized by Gloria Frost), 22 June 2016, University St. Thomas in St. Paul (Minneapolis, USA) • ‘Spinoza and Relational Autonomy: the case of Prostitution’, invited lecture at the Spinoza workshop organized by the Canadian Spinoza Society, 17 June 2016, McGill University (QC, Canada) • ‘Malebranche and Spinozism: extension and laws of nature’, invited lecture at the Department of Philosophy (invited by Prof. Christian Leduc, Montréal), June 13 2016, Université de Montréal (QC, Canada) • invited discussant at the conference “Activity, Spontaneity and Agency in Later Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy” organized by Martin Pickavé and Marleen Rozemond, June 9-11 2016, University of Toronto (Canada) • Keynote lecture at the seminar “The Body in Spinoza’s philosophy”, organized by Sean Winkler, March 18 2016, KU Leuven (Belgium) • ‘Leibniz on Final causes’ (co-authored with H. T. Adriaenssen), OZSW Conference, University of Groningen, 9-10 December 2016
32 • ‘Sine qua non causation: Kant and the legacy of a scholastic and early modern debate’, Symposium convenor at the HOPOS conference (University of Minneapolis, USA). Title of the symposium: “From powers to forces: the difficult legacy of Aristotelianism in the early modern natural philosophy”. Co-panelists: Han Thomas Adriaenssen (Groningen) and Christian Leduc (Université du Québec à Montréal).22-25 June 2016, Minneapolis, USA Andreas Schmidt • ‘Should the Government Manipulate People for their Own Good? - Nudging, Rationality, and Behavioural Science’, public lecture at Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, November 2016 • ‘Obesity and the Ethics of Behavioural Policies’, Wellcome Trust workshop on diversity and food policy, Cardiff University, September 2016 Bart Streumer • 'The Error in Non-Cognitivism and the Truth in the Error Theory'. Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, March 2016. • ‘Irresponsible Equality’. Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, November 2016. Marta Sznajder • ‘Inductive Logic on Conceptual Spaces: a Proposal for Analogical Reasoning’, Conceptual Spaces at Work 2016, Södertörn University, Sweden, 08.2016
33 • ‘Analogy by Similarity on Conceptual Spaces’, Reasoning in Conceptual Spaces workshop, ILLC, Amsterdam, 06.2016 • ‘Reasoning in Conceptual Spaces: Induction, Analogy, and Concept Formation’, Five Years MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy?, MCMP, Munich, 06.2016 • ‘Analogy by Similarity on Conceptual Spaces’, Reasoning in Conceptual Spaces, University of Windsor, 05.2016 Titus Stahl • ‘Hope beyond Liberalism’, Workshop “Hope – Social and Political Perspectives”, Groningen, Netherlands, June 7, 2016. ‘Fundamental Hope and Practical Identity’, Hope and Optimism Mid-Point Conference, Estes Park, Colorado, June 16, 2016. ‘Collective Hope”, Collective Intentionality X’, The Hague, The Netherlands, August 31, 2016 ‘Habermas and the Project of Immanent Critique’, Jornadas de la Teoria Verdad, Granada, November 3, 2016 ‘Civil disobedience and surveillance power’, OZSW conference, Groningen, December 9, 2016. Chris Thompson • 'Trust without reliance', Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics seminar, Rotterdam/ VU University Amsterdam
34 • 'Trust without reliance' Trust and Belief workshop, Cambridge • 'The moral responsibility of group agents' Hope and Trust Workshop, University of Frankfurt Allard Tamminga • ‘Collective obligations, group plans and individual actions’, Utrecht University, March 2016. • ‘Sequent systems for four-valued logics’, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, May 2016. • ‘Collectieve en individuele plichten: een formele analyse’, Radboud University Nijmegen, November 2016. Herman Veluwenkamp • 'Why Alethic Pluralism cannot rescue Objectivity in Ethics', Objectivity in Ethics Conference, March 2016. 'Why Alethic Pluralism cannot rescue Objectivity in Ethics’, GCTP'16, April 2016. ‘Moral Objectivity and Inferentialism’, OZSW'16, December 2016.
Other lectures
Pieter Boele van Hensbroek • ‘Four Freedoms and Amartya Sen’s concept of Freedom’ at Filosofisch Café Middelburg preceding the event of Four Freedoms Awards; 27 January, 2016 • ‘Filosofie voor een mondialiserende wereld: het idee van Vergelijkende Politieke Theorie’
35 • En ‘Afrikaanse Filosofie’ both at Nacht van de Filosofie Leeuwarden 9 april in Tresoar en Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden • ‘Universaliteit van Mensenrechten’ for College Carrousel, RUG • ‘Het Discours Rondom Vrijheid’ voordracht en discussie over ‘vrijheid’. In: debatcentrum/nachtclub • OOST, Groningen, op 21 april • ‘How to look at African Philosophy – views, currents, examples, debates’ met Joram Tarusarira en Isabella Amma . Nacht van de Filosofie Groningen, 22 April in Forum, Groningen • Cursus ‘Scientific Writing’ op Catholic University of Mozambique, Beira. 30 mei tot 4 juni 2016 • ‘Ideas of Rural Reconstruction in European and Russian history’; lecture at Summer School ACE, China Agricultural University, Beijing, August 8, 2016 • ‘Amartya Sen’s innovations in Development Studies’; guest lecture in the course Population & Development. Groningen , 22 nov. 2016 Boudewijn de Bruin • ‘Ethiek management: Wat wel en wat niet’, CMS Compliance Academy, 1 December 2016 Catarina Dutilh Novaes • ‘The trouble with porn’. Nacht van de Filosofie, Groningen , April 2016, and Utrecht Filosofisch Café, December 2016 • ‘Participation in LSE The Forum public debate ‘Reason and Rhetoric’ , October 2016
36 Coos Engelsma • ‘Agrippa’s trilemma, het regressieprobleem en scepticisme’, lecture given on 14/9/2016 at a refresher course for high school teachers in philosophy, University of Groningen, Groningen. • ‘Infinitisme’, guest lecture given on 16/9/2016 for BA-1 students Philosophy, Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam. Daan Evers • ‘Meaning in Life’ (lecture in Dutch) Women's Dispute Miloth, Groningen • ‘Presentation Metaethics and Empirical Research’,"Professor's Pub" • ‘Presentation Moral Relativism Symposium on scepticism for secondary school students Eddo Evink • ‘Denken aan de grens’, lezing voor Filosofie café Fryslân, Leeuwarden, 16 februari • en voor Café Philos Groningen, 26 april • ‘De kunst van het kijken’, lezing voor GSp studenten platform voor Levensbeschouwing, Academie Minerva, Groningen 12 mei • ‘Gelassenheit’, lezing voor studiedag Open Universiteit, Eindhoven, 23 juni • ‘Liefde in tijden van Tinder’, lezing voor ‘Het Discours’, jongerenforum Oost, Groningen, 29 september
37 • ‘De spelende en esthetische mens volgens Friedrich Schiller’, lezing voor de Landelijke Dag Cultuurwetenschappen’, Open Universiteit, Nijmegen, 8 oktober • ‘De nieuwe onzekerheid’, lezing voor symposium over angst, ‘De mens lijdt het meest…’, studievereniging ValC-hof, Nijmegen, 8 december Leon Geerdink • ‘Het bewijs van de onafhankelijke buitenwereld’, Scholierensymposium, Groningen, 20 Januari 2016 • ‘Het bewijs van de onafhankelijke buitenwereld’, Stichting Maçonnieke Initiativen, Rotterdam 2 Februari 2016 • ‘Het bewijs van de onafhankelijke buitenwereld’, Filosofie tweedaagse Emmauscollege Rotterdam, Postel, 12 Mei 2016 Job de Grefte • ‘What is Scepticism?’ at Scholierenacademie, Groningen, Januar 2016 Sjoerd Griffioen • Guest lecture on Löwith’s Meaning in History in the context of the philosophy of history, at the RU Nijmegen (18 November) Leah Henderson • ‘Tools for thought: John Dewey and American pragmatism’ at Night of Philosophy, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2016.
38 Pauline Kleingeld • 'Menselijke waardigheid', workshop over menselijke waardigheid, FPC Mesdag kliniek, Groningen, 23 juni 2016. Barteld Kooi • ‘Logic meets law’, lunch lecture for PhD students from the Faculty of Law, Groningen, April 5th. • ‘Logica: de prinses of de tijger’, college voor middelbare scholieren wiskunde D, Groningen, 16 november. Theo Kuipers • ‘Wetenschapsfilosofie in actie: ecologie, rechtspraak, psychiatrie, politiek’, voorbeschouwing gelijknamig themanummer Wijsgerig Perspectief, Probus Kennemerland III, 19 juli. Jan Albert van Laar • ‘Politieke Argumentatie’ voor Philos, Groningen, 29 november 2016. Lodi Nauta • Speech, Welcome Event, Young Academy Groningen, 4 July 2016 • Speech, Opening Academic Year RUG, Martinikerk, Groningen, 5 Sept. 2016 • Presentation about the Spinoza Prize, Ceremonial Award Spinoza Prize, Den Haag 13 Sept. 2016 • ‘De filosofische betekenis van het humanisme in de Renaissance, Docentennascholing Rome, 14 Oct. 2016
39 • ‘Hoe humanistisch waren de humanisten in de Renaissance?’, Humanistisch Verbond, Groningen, 27 Nov. 2016 Tamer Nawar • ‘Response: Leibniz on Possible Worlds and Possible Substances (by R. Mason)’, University of Toronto, 11 June 2016 Jan Willem Romeijn • ‘Why do Philosophy of Science’, lecture for BetaStuf, University of Groningen, February 22. • Participation in debate on the NWA, NVWF event within Science in Transition conference, KNAW Amsterdam, March 15. • ‘Beslissen met een groep’, BONG lecture for judges and public prosecutors, April 14 • ‘Hokjesdenken’, Philosophy Night Groningen, April 22. • PPE lecture ‘Collective decision making’, University of Groningen, June 27. • Lecture on ‘Collective Rationality’, masterclass on Social Epistemology, University of Groningen, December 7. Bart Streumer • ‘Equality Without Responsibility’, TEDx University of Groningen, Groningen, June 2016. Allard Tamminga • ‘Die Logik kontrafaktischer Konditionalsätze’, Ruhr- Universität Bochum, May 2016 Judith Vega
40 • ‘Europa tussen hoop en wanhoop’, Filmlezing STUFF/Diskursi, Groningen, 23 februari.
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Appointments & accolades
Katharina Bauer • Habilitation in Philosophy at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. Habilitation thesis: “Ich muss das tun. Selbstzuschreibungen praktischer Notwendigkeit”, 375pp. Pieter Boele van Hensbroek • Editorial Board of series: Comparative Political Theory and Intellectual History. Edinburgh University Press. Catarina Dutilh Novaes • Area editor for philosophy of logic of Thought , since February 2016 • Editor-in-Chief of Synthese , starting in January 2017 • Fellow at NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study), September-December 2016. Eddo Evink • March 1, next to his Groningen position, Eddo Evink has been appointed as Professor in Philosophy at the Faculty for Humanities and Law, Open University, Heerlen • appointed member of the editorial board of Tijdschrift voor Filosofie
41 • appointed member of the board of the Gezelschap voor Fenomenologische Wijsbegeerte Simon Friederich, • Veni grant from NWO, 250 000€ awarded July 2016, for project "Epistemology of the Multiverse" Leah Henderson • NWO Veni grant • Appointed Academic Director of the Core Programme at University College Groningen (March 2016) Pauline Kleingeld • Member Editorial Board, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, vanaf augustus 2016. Barteld Kooi • member of the Ubbo Emmius Colleghie. Martin Lenz • Nominated as Vice-President of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science / HOPOS (postponed due to time constraints) 08/2016 Emar Maier • NWO VIDI grant (2016-2021) • appointed UD (0.4fte) in Semantics & Cognition, Faculty of Arts • appointed UD (0.4fte) in Theoretical Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy Oberto Marrama
42 • Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada: Member of the Comité de sélection des Prix d'excellence en recherche de l'UQTR. Appointed by the Vice-Rectorate for Research and Development of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, the committee confers each year the Awards for Excellence in Research to two professors of the UQTR, October 2015 - September 2016 Lodi Nauta • won the Spinoza Prize 2016, officially announced in de Rode Hoed in Amsterdam on 10 June 2016. The Prize of 2,5 million euros was awarded on 13 Sept. during a ceremonial event in the Nieuwe Kerk in Den Haag. The news was widely covered by national and local newspapers (Trouw, Volkskrant, NRC, Telegraaf, Dagblad vh Noorden, etc.), television (NOS journal), Radio (Met het Oog op Morgen), NWO and KNAW bulletins/magazines, etc. A lunch with the King and Queen was held in Paleis Noordeinde, 1 Dec. Tamer Nawar • received NWO VENI Award: Relativism in Ancient Philosophy (beginning February 2017) Jan Willem Romeijn • The thesis of Hanna van Loo was awarded the “Wieringa-Rengerink” best thesis prize for the UMCG medical school, it came second for the “van Swinderen” award, and it was awarded the university-wide dissertation prize.
43 Doina-Christina Rusu • Visiting Scholar University of London, April 27-May 28 • Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University, May 29-June 10. • The project “Manipulating Spiritual Matter. How Did Early Modern Science Become Experimental?” won a VENI grant from NWO (2016-2020). Marta Sznajder • I accepted a postdoc position at the Czech Academy of Sciences, starting in April 2017. Allard Tamminga • Habilitation in Philosophy, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, May 2016
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Membership of PhD committees & opposition
Pieter Boele van Hensbroek • Promotiecommissie Tilburg University; Dissertation “Philosophic Sagacity and Intercultural Philosophy: Beyond Henry Odera Oruka” by Mr. P.M. Mosima. promotors W. van Binsbergen, W van Beek Eddo Evink
44 • member of PhD committee, Martijn Boven, Metaphor and Metamorphosis, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, December 22 Simon Friederich • Committee member and opponent for candidate Kim- Erik Berts, Abo Akademi University Finland, 25 November 2016 Leah Henderson • Opposition to Ronnie Hermens, ‘Philosophy of Quantum Probablity’ PhD defence, January 2016. Frank Hindriks • Thomas Bates, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, March 2016. ‘Vice Versa. Situationism and Character Pessimism’ Pauline Kleingeld • Promotor, Tom Bates, 14 maart 2016, Vice Versa: Situationism and Character Pessimism. • Beoordelingscommissie Stuart Wong, University of Sydney, June 2016 • Beoordelings- en promotiecommissie, Matthé Scholten, UvA, promotie 9-9-2016 • Promotiecommissie, Leonie Venhoeven, RUG FSW, promotie 29-9-2016 Barteld Kooi • Opposition to Johan Blok Bolzano’s Early Quest for A Priori Synthetic Principles, November 3, 2016. Erik Krabbe
45 • Member of the reading committee and opponent at the PhD ceremony of Jacobus Cornelis (Jacky) Visser at the University of Amsterdam; promotor: prof. dr. F.H. van Eemeren; copromotores: Dr. A. F. Snoeck Henkemans en Prof. Dr. H. B. Verheij; title of the dissertation: A Dialogue Game for Critical Discussion: Groundwork in the Formalisation of the Pragma- Dialectical Model of Argumentation Martin Lenz • Johan Blok, opposition • Leon ter Schure, reading committee • Martin Klein, second promotor (HU Berlin) Emar Maier • Co-promotor for Franziska Köder ‘Between Direct and Indirect Discourse’ (Groningen) • PhD reading committee member for Annika Hübl ‘Pointing in context: Semantic and pragmatic aspects of indexicals in sign language role shift’ (Göttingen) Jeanne Peijnenburg • Leescommissie van Johan Blok zijn proefschrift Bolzano’s Early Quest for A Priori Synthetic Principles, verdedigd op 3 november 2016. • Lid van het Wetenschappelijk Adviescollege van NWO. Jan Willem Romeijn • Promotor of Ronnie Hermens, University of Groningen • Opposition to Saverio Ranciati, Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen • Reading committee for Charlotte Vlek, Alice, University of Groningen
46 • Tenure case for the University of Maryland Allard Tamminga • Opposition PhD defense John Blok, ‘Bolzano's Early Quest for A Priori Synthetic Principles’, University of Groningen, November 2016
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Travel & conferences
Max Bialek • Triennial meeting of the Dutch Society for the Philosophy of Science in Kaap Doorn, Netherlands, May 2016 • 2016 meeting of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science in Geneva, Switzerland, September 2016 • The X Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art, and Morality in Valencia, Spain, October 2016 Pieter Boele van Hensbroek • Travel for academic purposes (lectures, courses, Summer School etc.) to: Japan, China, Korea, France, Mozambique, Italy, Vietnam Boudewijn de Bruin • A conference on Trust and Beliefs, sponsored by the NWO project Trusting Banks, was organized in Cambridge, 12-13 April 2016.
47 Catarina Dutilh Novaes • See above under ‘lectures’, plus participation in the MCMP 5 years celebration event (LMU Munich), as invited discussant. Coos Engelsma • Visited all and only the conferences mentioned under ‘Acedemic lectures’. Daan Evers • conference Objectivity in Ethics, Utrecht University, 31- 03-2016 - 01-04-2016 • workshop Contextualism in Metaethics, University of Groningen (co-organizer with Bart Streumer), 12-04- 2016 • workshop Meaning in Life and Objective Values, Umeå University, Sweden 30-11-2016 • Annual conference of the OZSW 2016, University of Groningen, 09-12-2016 Eddo Evink • together with Gert-Jan van der Heiden (RU), Eddo Evink organized a conference on ‘Philosophy and Literature’, at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen, December 21 Simon Friederich • ‘Merits and Limits of the fine-tuning argument for the multiverse’, GWP-Meeting in Düsseldorf, March 2016 • ‘Merits and Limits of the fine-tuning argument for the multiverse’, SPSS-Meeting in Cardiff, July 2016
48 • ‘Anthropic reasoning, origin-oriented reasoning and typicality in multiverse cosmolog’, OZSW-Meeting in Groningen, December 2016 • ‘Reasoning in Physics’ Workshop, Munich "Anthropic reasoning, origin-oriented reasoning and typicality in multiverse cosmology" (invited), December 2016 Leon Geerdink • Five years of MCMP: Quo Vadis, Mathematical Philosophy? MCMP, Munchen, June 2016 Leah Henderson • Annual Philosophy of Physics Workshop, Rotman Institute and Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, 2016. • 4th annual conference of the OZSW (Dutch Research School of Philosophy), Groningen, The Netherlands December, 2016 • OZSW (Dutch Research School of Philosophy) Masterclass on Social Epistemology, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2016 • 8th Quadrennial International Fellows Conference, Lund, Sweden 2016 • British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, Cardiff, UK, 2016. • 3th annual Formal Epistemology Workshop, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2016 • Philosophy of Science in a Forest, Kaap Doorn, The Netherlands , 2016
49 Frank Hindriks • Workshop Reassessing Responsibility, Cambridge, May 2016. ‘Responsibility, Consciousness, and Rationalization’. • EIPE seminar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, February 2016. ‘What's the Difference Between Money and Gender? Social Construction, Critique and Change.’ • Lecture Series The Philosophy of Social Functions (DFG Network: Social Functions), Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Februari 2016. ‘What's the Difference Between Money and Gender? Social Construction, Critique and Change.’ • Philosophical Colloquium Essen, January 2016. ‘What's the Difference Between Money and Gender? Social Construction, Critique and Change.’ Pauline Kleingeld • Conference on Objectivity in Ethics, Utrecht, 31 maart- 1 april 2016 • Deelname workshop 'The Morality of Inequality', Lorentz Center, 9-13 mei, 2016. • Organized international workshop on Kant on Freedom, Groningen 28-29 June, 2016. Barteld Kooi • Barteld Kooi visited Peking University from 10 to 21 October.
50 Erik Krabbe • 11th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA 11): Argumentation, Objectivity, and Bias, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, 18-21 mei 2016. • Journées d’études: Pinailler, entre souci de précision et bavardage of the Centre de recherche approches pragmatiques en philosophie du language et de la communication (APPLA&CO), Laboratoire Communication, Information, Médias,Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 25-26 november 2016. Jan Albert van Laar • ‘Presumptions, Presumptive Inferences and Burden of Proof’ aan de Universidad de Granada, 26-28 April, 2016. • ‘Argumentation, Objectivity and Bias’ in Windsor, Ontario, 18 – 21 Mei 2016. Emar Maier • taught ESSLLI graduate course "Quotation", Bolzano, Italy. Oberto Marrama • Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Nijmegen-Groningen Colloquium): “Spinoza on Memory and Consciousness”, 18 November 2016. • University of Lodz, Poland (2016 ISSEI Conference): “Conflicts of the soul and mind-body interaction in Descartes’ Passions of the Soul”, 13 July 2016
51 • University of Calgary, Canada (CPA Congress 2016): “Common notions and common properties in Spinoza’s theory of knowledge”, 01 June 2016 • University of Calgary, Canada (CPA Congress 2016): Comments on Torin Doppelt’s “Idle Material in Spinoza’s Ethics”, 30 May 2016 • Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada (Colloque Fodar 2016): “Langage et curiosité au cœur de l’anthropologie philosophique de Thomas Hobbes”, 08 April 2016 • Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy III): “Common notions and common properties in Spinoza’s theory of knowledge”, 24-25 March 2016. • Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada (Journées d’étude sur la philosophie moderne): “Les défis de la philosophie de la connaissance de Spinoza”, 19 February 2016. Lodi Nauta • chaired sessions at conferences in Boston (April), and Oslo (Sept.). • co-organized the Erasmus Birthday Lecture, KNAW, 4 Nov. 2016.
52 Stipe Pandžić • 27th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2016), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, August 15-26, 2016. Workshop: The Relevance of Logic to Human Reasoning, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Germany, November 18 - 19, 2016. Marc Pauly • Setting the Agenda for Earthquake Research: What do Citizens want to know?(with Nephtis Brandsma) Living Knowledge conference in Dublin, Ireland, 22-24 June • Philosophy meets real world problems: past examples and future perspectives (with Sanne Raap), Living Knowledge conference in Dublin, Ireland, 22-24 June Bart Streumer • Two week Erasmus visit to Central European University, Budapest, November 2016. Allard Tamminga • Formal Epistemology Workshop, University of Groningen, June 2016 (local organizer) • Deontic Logic and Normative Systems, University of Bayreuth, July 2016 (program chair) • Research stay at Ghent University, November- December 2016. Judith Vega • OZSW studiegroepbijeenkomst Continental Philosophy, Utrecht, 11 februari.
53 Herman Veluwenkamp • Co-organization of the OZSW 2016 Conference, Groningen, December 2016. Lieuwe Zijlstra • Research stay at Yale – September-October 2016
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Miscellaneous
Benjamin Bewersdorf • Workshop Organization: Formal Epistemology Workshop 2016 • Grant Stichting Groninger Universiteitsfonds for the Formal Epistemology Workshop 2016 (900 EUR) • (with Simon Friederich and Jeanne Peijnenburg) Grant Evert Willem Beth Foundation for the Formal Epistemology Workshop 2016 (1.500 EUR) (with Simon Friederich and Jeanne Peijnenburg) Pieter Boele van Hensbroek • Book reviews for publishers: Academia Press (Belgium) and Oxford University Press (UK) • Public interview at Studium Generale evening of dr. Gaby Bamana, on ‘The Mongolian and Congolese Experience’. May 17, 2016 Academy Building Groningen. • Interviewed for ‘De Boekenkast Van ...’ Qualia, Groningen
54 • Host and co-applicant for Vasileios Syros (Helsinki) , NWO Fellow at Faculteit Wijsbegeerte 15/2 to30/5, 2016 Anthony Booth Leon Geerdink • Moderator philosophical lecture by Jasper van den Herik, Stichting Maçonnieke Initiativen, Rotterdam, 29 Februari 2016 Sjoerd Griffioen • Contributor to Denkjewel.nl, a website that aims to make philosophical subjects accessible to non- academics Leah Henderson • Organising committee for HOPOS (History of Philosophy of Science) conference, Groningen, The Netherlands, (2018). • Programme committee for 14th annual Formal Epistemology Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle, USA (2017). • Organising committee for OZSW (Dutch Research School of Philosophy) annual conference, Groningen, The Netherlands (2016). • Organising committee for 13th annual Formal Epistemology workshop, Groningen, The Netherlands, (2016). Frank Hindriks • Chair of the program committee of Collective Intentionality X, The Hague, August 31 – September 2
55 Carlo Ierna • Organizer international workshop “The School of Brentano and the Rise of Scientific Philosophy”, Utrecht University, 29 & 30 September 2016. • Participation in the Rathenau Institute debate “Recalibrating Excellence”, 13-10-2016. • Participation in the OZSW Valorisatiedebat, 28-10- 2016. Pauline Kleingeld • Jurylid, KNAW Ammodo commissie 2016. • Interview over ‘open access’, voor de bibliotheek OA nieuwsbrief (april/mei 2016). • publicatie herdruk/vertaling: 'L'évolution du cosmopolitisme de Kant', Franse vert. van 'The development of Kant's cosmopolitanism', Lumières 25 (2015), special issue, "Politique et cosmopolitique", vert. Tristran Coignard, 29-46. Fred Keijzer • The workshop proposal ‘The ground-floor of cognition: From microbes to animals and plants’ was accepted for funding by the KLI board, Klosterneuburg, Austria. Barteld Kooi • Barteld Kooi and Jan-Willem Romeijn were interviewed by Catarina Dutilh Novaes and Rohan French for "The Reasoner" Volume 10, number 7. • Gleb Karpov (Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia) visited Barteld Kooi and Allard Tamminga on a Marco Polo scholarship in april 2016.
56 • one of the organizers of "De Groningse Nacht van de Filosofie", 22 april 2016. • acted as "denkdouane" at the "Groningse Nacht van de Filosofie" • member of the discussion panel on Methodology, at the OZSW conference, 9-10 december 2016, Groningen. Martin Lenz • Organisation of a Workshop on Simplicity and Reduction in Early Modern Science, Bucharest (with Doina Rusu) 04/2016 • Organisation of a Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy of Language: Social Minds, Groningen (with Lodi Nauta) 05/2016 • Organisation of the Fifth International Workshop of the Berlin-Toronto-Groningen Network Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, Toronto (with Martin Pickavé) 07/2016 • Two blog posts at the blog Medieval Logic & Semantics: o “How Simple Is Simple Apprehension?”: https://medievallogic.wordpress.com/2016/03/1 0/how-simple-is-simple-apprehension-some- worries-about-psychological-structures-and- historiography/ o “Ockham’s Razor as a Principle of (Epistemic) Agency”: https://medievallogic.wordpress.com/2016/05/0 5/ockhams-razor-as-a-principle-of-epistemic- agency/
57 Yanjun Li • The 28th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI2016), Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, 15-26 August • PhD defense China, Thesis title: A Dynamic Epistemic Framework for Conformant Planning, University of Higher Education: Peking University, China, 2016-7-4 Emar Maier • organized "Between Direct and Indirect Discourse", 1- day workshop (6 invited speakers). Groningen, February 2016. • organized (with C. Bary) "Backgrounded Reports" 1- day workshop (5 invited speakers). Nijmegen, January 2016 Oberto Marrama • Reviewer for the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, July 2016 - present. • McGill University, Canada: Co-organiser of the workshop Spinoza et ses amis, 17 June 2016. • University of Calgary, Canada: Co-organiser of the symposium First Meeting of the ‘Spinoza Society of Canada / Société canadienne d’études sur Spinoza’: Current Debates and Ongoing Research, within the frame of the CPA Congress 2016, 01 June 2016. • Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada: I organised and oversaw a cycle of nine seminars for postgraduate and graduate students at the Department of Philosophy of the UQTR, February 2016 - May 2016.
58 • Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada: Research Assistant, January 2016 – April 2016. Lodi Nauta • was member of a KNAW committee to implement the new governance structure of the KNAW, a follow-up committee of another one that he chaired to design a new structure. Marc Pauly • "Corrigeer grote fout in referendumwet", Volkskrant, 15 maart 2016 • "Rapport Burgerpeiling KADO Kennisagenda 30 januari 2016" , Report for the Kenniscentrum Aardbevingen en Duurzame Ontwikkeling (KADO) • I have also been helping the city of Groningen with the design of a new democratic body called "cooperative council". Jan Willem Romeijn • External membership of ColAForm, a research network on Collective Attitude Formation funded by the German and French gevernment, with participants from the University of Bayreuth, the ENS, and the LSE • Broadcasting of “Wetenschapper in de Klas”, MOOC for kids • Advice on and contribution to curriculum for legal professionals about social deliberation • Advice to a KNAW committee on Big Data
59 Doina-Christina Rusu • ‘Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science’ (co- organized with Dana Jalobeanu and Mihnea Dobre), University of Bucharest, October 24-26. • ‘Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in early Modern Philosophy’ (co-organized with Dana Jalobeanu, Mihnea Dobre, Dan Garber, Ovidiu Babes), Alba Iulia, July 11-16. • ‘Simplicity and Reductionism in Early Modern Science’ (co-organized with Martin Lenz, University of Groningen), University of Bucharest, April 14. • ‘Baconian Themes in Natural and Moral Philosophy’, University of Bucharest, April 1. Andrea Sangiacomo • member of the organizing-committee of the OZSW conference (University of Groningen), 9-10 December 2016 • co-organization (with Ignacio Silva) of the Workshop: “Early Modern Laws of Nature: Secular and Divine” (part of the VENI project ‘Occasionalism and secularization’), University of Oxford, July 7 2016 • co-organization (with Han Thomas Adriaenssen) of the Summer School “The Challenge of Natural Teleology: Final Causes from Aristotle to Darwin”, University of Groningen, June 28-July 1 2016 • Workshop: “A day with Spinoza: bodies, cognition and society”, University of Groningen, April 20 2016
60 • co-organization (with Han van Ruler) of the Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy (III), Erasmus University, Rotterdam., March 24-25, 2016 • Workshop: The early modern debate on causation – first meeting: scholastic and early modern accounts (part of the VENI project ‘Occasionalism and secularization’), University of Groningen, March 14 2016 • co-organization (with Catarina Dutilh Novaes) of the Winter School “Agents and Agency”, University of Groningen, January 25-26, 2016 Marta Sznajder • I manage the bibliography of conceptual spaces, for the Conceptual Spaces 360 international research network. Lieuwe Zijlstra • BA course: Philosophy 101 • Referee for Philosophical Psychology ‘Variance in Metaethical Attitudes’, Psychology Department, Yale, Oct. 2016
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