Faculty of Philosophy

GRIPh BULLETIN

Groningen Research Institute for Philosophy

2018

Volume 19

December 2018

GRIPh BULLETIN 2018

Volume 19

Groningen Research Institute for Philosophy

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The GRIPh Bulletin

is published by

the Faculty of Philosophy

of the University of Groningen

and appears once a year.

This bulletin is the result of

the efforts of Barteld Kooi,

Daniël Huizenga, Fred Keijzer,

Marga Hids, Marion Vorrink

and, of course, all the people

appearing in its pages

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Contents

Publications ....................................................................... 6

Academic .................................................................. 6

Articles......................................................... 6

Book chapters ............................................. 9

Proceedings .............................................. 11

Book/journal editing ................................... 12

Doctoral theses ......................................... 12

Book/article reviews .................................. 12

Professional ............................................................ 13

Popular ................................................................... 14

Lectures ..................................................................... 14

Academic lectures .................................................. 14

Other lectures ......................................................... 32

Appointments & accolades ............................................... 35

PhD defenses ................................................................... 38

Membership of PhD committees & opposition ................. 38

Travel & conferences ........................................................ 40

Miscellaneous ................................................................... 44

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Publications

Academic

Articles

Adriaenssen, H. T. (2018). Antoine le Grand on the identity

over time of the human body. British Journal for the History

of Philosophy, 26(6), 1084-1109. DOI:

10.1080/09608788.2018.1437539

David Santos, Y., Bitencourt Matos, V., Moretto Ribeiro, M.,

& Wassermann, R. (2018). Partial meet pseudo-contractions.

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 103, 11-27.

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2018.08.006

de Grefte, J. (2018). Epistemic justification and epistemic

luck. Synthese, 195(9). DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1306-7

Dutilh Novaes, C. (2018). The enduring enigma of reason.

Mind & Language, 33(5), 513-524. DOI: 10.1111/mila.12174

Dutilh Novaes, C., & French, R. (2018). Paradoxes and

structural rules from a dialogical perspective. Philosophical

Issues, 28(1), 129-158. DOI: 10.1111/phis.12119

Embry, B. (2018). On (Not) Believing That God Has

Answered a Prayer. Faith and Philosophy, 35(1), 132-141.

DOI: 10.5840/faithphil201811694

Evers, D. (2018). Expressivism and Arguing about Art. British

Journal of Aesthetics, 58(2), 181-191. DOI:

10.1093/aesthj/ayy003

Evink, E. (2018). Religious Life after Religion: Jan Patočka’s

Care for the Soul and its Relation to Religion. Journal for

Cultural and Religious Theory, 17(2), 268-280.

Friederich, S. (2018). The asymptotic safety scenario for

quantum gravity - An appraisal. Studies in history and

philosophy of modern physics, 63, 65-73. DOI:

10.1016/j.shpsb.2017.12.001

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Georgescu, L. (2018). Rotating Poles, Shifting Angles and

the Use of Geometry (Bond’s Longitude Found and Hobbes’

confutation). Journal of Early Modern Studies, 7(1), 15-45.

Haisma, H., Yousefzadeh Faal Daghati, S., & Boele Van

Hensbroek, P. (2018). Towards a capability approach to child

growth: A theoretical framework. Maternal and child nutrition,

14(2), [e12534]. DOI: 10.1111/mcn.12534

Henderson, L. (2018) The Problem of Induction. The

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2018 Edition),

E. N. Zalta (ed.), URL =

<https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2018/entries/inductio

n-problem/>.

Hindriks, F. (2018). Collective Agency: Moral and Amoral.

Dialectica, 72(1), 3-23. [1]. DOI: 10.1111/1746-8361.12215

Hindriks, F., & Douven, I. (2018). Nozick’s experience

machine: An empirical study. Philosophical Psychology,

31(2), 278-298. DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2017.1406600

Köder, F., & Maier, E. (2018). The advantage of story-telling:

children's interpretation of reported speech in narratives.

Journal of Child Language, 45(2), 541-557. DOI:

10.1017/S0305000917000344

Maier, E. (2018). Quotation, Demonstration, and Attraction in

Sign Language Role Shift. Theoretical Linguistics, 44(3-4),

165-176. DOI: 10.1515/tl-2018-0019

Nauta, L. (2018). Latin as a Common Language: The

Coherence of Lorenzo Valla’s Humanist Program.

Renaissance Quarterly, 71(1), 1-32. DOI: 10.1086/696885

Nawar, T. (2018). Thrasymachus’ Unerring Skill and the

Arguments of Republic 1. Phronesis, 63(4), 359-391. DOI:

10.1163/15685284-12341354

Romeijn, J. W., & Roy, O. (2018). All agreed: Aumann meets

DeGroot. Theory and Decision, 85, 41–60. DOI:

10.1007/s11238-017-9633-9

Romeijn, J. W., & Williamson, J. (2018). Intervention and

Identifiability in Latent Variable Modelling. Minds and

Machines, 28, 243–264. DOI: 10.1007/s11023-018-9460-y

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Rubin, H. (2018). The Debate over Inclusive Fitness as a

Debate over Methodologies. Philosophy of Science, 85(1), 1-

30. DOI: 10.1086/694809

Rubin, H., & O'Connor, C. (2018). Discrimination and

Collaboration in Science. Philosophy of Science, 85(3), 380-

402. DOI: 10.1086/697744

Rusu, D-C. (2018). Same Spirit, Different Structure: Francis

Bacon on Inanimate and Animate Matter. Early Science and

Medicine, 23, 444-458.

Sangiacomo, A., & Nachtomy, O. (2018). Spinoza’s

Rethinking of Activity: From the Short Treatise to the Ethics.

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 56(1), 101-126. DOI:

10.1111/sjp.12266

Schmidt, A. (2018). Persons or property – freedom and the

legal status of animals. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 15(1),

20-45. DOI: 10.1163/17455243-46810070

Schmidt, A. (2018). Domination without Inequality?

Republicanism, Mutual Domination and Gun Control.

Philosophy and Public Affairs, 46(2), 175-206. DOI:

10.1111/papa.12119

van Laar, J. A., & Krabbe, E. C. W. (2018). Splitting a

Difference of Opinion: The Shift to Negotiation.

Argumentation, 32(3), 329-350. DOI: 10.1007/s10503-017-

9445-7

van Laar, J. A., & Krabbe, E. C. W. (2018). The Role of

Argument in Negotiation. Argumentation, 32(4), 549-567.

DOI: 10.1007/s10503-018-9458-x

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Book chapters

Bates, T., & Kleingeld, P. (2018). Virtue, Vice, and

Situationism. In N. Snow (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Virtue

(pp. 524-545). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Chadwick, A. (2018). Hobbes on the Motives of Martyrs. In L.

van Apeldoorn, & R. Douglass (Eds.), Hobbes on Politics and

Religion (pp. 79-94). Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI:

10.1093/oso/9780198803409.003.0006

Dutilh Novaes, C. (2018). A Dialogical Conception of

Explanation in Mathematical Proofs. In Ernest, P. (ed.), The

Philosophy of Mathematics Education Today (pp. 81-98).

Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77760-3_5

Dutilh Novaes, C. (2018). Formal Methods and the History of

Philosophy. In S.O. Hansson & V.F. Hendricks (eds.),

Introduction to Formal Philosophy (pp. 81-92). Springer,

Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77434-3_3

Dutilh Novaes, C. (2018). Ockham’s supposition theory as

formal semantics. In C. Kann, B. Loewe, C. Rode, S.L.

Uckelman (eds.), Modern Views of Medieval Logic (pp. 85-

110). Peeters Publishers, 2018.

Evink, C. (2018). Intersubjectiviteit en normativiteit volgens

Jan Patočka. In C. Bremmers, G-J. van der Heiden, & P.

Reynaert (Eds.), Fenomenologie als houding: Bijdragen aan

een fenomenologische wijsbegeerte (pp. 201-216). Brussel:

VUB Press.

Henderson, L. (2018). Global versus local arguments for

scientific realism. In J. Saatsi (Ed.), The Routledge

Handbook of Scientific Realism (Routledge Handbooks in

Philosophy). Routledge.

Ierna, C. (2018). Intentionality and Consciousness. In D.

Jacquette (Ed.), The Bloomsbury Companion to the

Philosophy of Consciousness (pp. 325-346). (Bloomsbury

Companions). Bloomsbury.

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Kleingeld, P. (2018). Moral Autonomy as Political Analogy:

Self-Legislation in Kant's Groundwork and the Feyerabend

Lectures on Natural Law(1784). In S. Bacin, & O. Sensen

(Eds.), The Emergence of Autonomy in Kant's Moral

Philosophy (pp. 158-175). Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781316863435.010

Kleingeld, P. (2018). The Principle of Autonomy in Kant's

Moral Philosophy: Its Rise and Fall. In E. Watkins (Ed.), Kant

on Persons and Agency (pp. 61-79). Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781316856529.005

Knowles, C. (2018). Feminist Perspectives on Well-Being. In

K. T. Galvin (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Well-Being (pp.

68-75). London: Routledge.

Maier, E. (2018). Lying and Fiction. In J. Meibauer (Ed.),

Oxford Handbook of Lying (pp. 303-314). Oxford: Oxford

University Press.

Stahl, T. (2018). Anerkennung und Sozialontologie. In L.

Siep, H. Ikäheimo, & M. Quante (Eds.), Handbuch

Anerkennung (Springer Reference Geisteswissenschaften ).

Wiesbaden: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-19561-8_70-

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Stahl, T. (2018). Lukács and the Frankfurt School. In P. E.

Gordon, E. Hammer, & A. Honneth (Eds.), The Routledge

Companion to the Frankfurt School (pp. 237-250).

Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9780429443374-17

Stahl, T. (2018). Ideologiekritik. In S. Salzborn (Ed.),

Handbuch Politische Ideengeschichte: Zugänge - Methoden -

Strömungen (pp. 35-39). J.B. Metzler Verlag. DOI:

10.1007/978-3-476-04710-6_6

Streumer, B. (2018). Why We Really Cannot Believe the

Error Theory. In D. E. Machuca (Ed.), Moral Skepticism: New

Essays (pp. 71-90). (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral

Theory). Abingdon: Routledge.

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Proceedings

David Santos, Y. (2018). A Dynamic Informational-Epistemic

Logic. In A. Madeira, & M. Benevides (Eds.), Dynamic Logic:

New Trends and Applications: First International Workshop,

DALI 2017 Brasilia, Brazil, September 23–24, 2017

Proceedings (pp. 64-81). (Lecture Notes in Computer

Science; Vol. 106669). Cham: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-

319-73579-5_5

Krabbe, E. C. W. (2018). Commentary on Jacobs’s On How

to Do Without the Opening Stage: Arguers and

Argumentation Theorists Can Get Along Without It. In S.

Oswald, & D. Maillat (Eds.), Argumentation and Inference:

Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on

Argumentation, Fribourg 2017 (Vol. 1, pp. 279-282). (Studies

in Logic: Logic and Argumentation; Vol. 76). College

Publications.

Krabbe, E. C. W., & van Laar, J. A. (2018). In the Quagmire

of Quibbles. In S. Oswald, & D. Maillat (Eds.), Argumentation

and Inference: Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference

on Argumenation (Vol. 1, pp. 283-303). (Studies in Logic:

Logic and Argumentation; Vol. 76). College Publications.

Pandzic, S. (2018). A logic of default justifications. In E.

Fermé, & S. Villata (Eds.), 17th International Workshop on

Nonmonotonic Reasoning (NMR 2018) (pp. 126-135)

van Laar, J. A., & Krabbe, E. C. W. (2018). Criticism and

Justification of Negotiated Compromises. In S. Oswald, & D.

Maillat (Eds.), Argumentation and Inference: Proceedings of

the 2nd European Conference on Argumentation (Vol. 2, pp.

887-907). (Studies in Logic: Logic and Argumentation; Vol.

77). College Publications.

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Book/journal editing

Bewersdorf, B., & Peijnenburg, J. (Eds.) (2018). Special

issue on Epistemic Justification. Synthese, 195(9). DOI:

10.1007/s11229-017-1440-x

Doctoral theses

Snellen, P. J. (2018). Akrasia as a character trait. University

of Groningen

Sterkenburg, T. (2018). Universal Prediction: A Philosophical

Investigation. University of Groningen

Book/article reviews

Keijzer, F. A. (2018). [Review of] Brain Evolution by Design:

From Neural Origin to Cognitive Architecture. Diversity and

Commonality in Animals. Edited by S. Shigeno, Y. Murakami,

and T. Nomura. Springer, 2017. Quarterly review of biology,

93(2), 157-158.

Krabbe, E. C. W. (2018). [Review of] J.C. Visser, A Dialogue

Game for Critical Discussion: Groundwork in the

Formalisation and Computerisation of the Pragma-Dialectical

Model of Argumentation. Dissertation, University of

Amsterdam, 2016. Argumentation, 32(3), 457-460. DOI:

10.1007/s10503-017-9447-5

Marrama, O. (2018). [Review of] M. Balaguer. Free Will. MIT

Press, 2014. The European Legacy: toward new paradigms,

23(1-2), 204-206. DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2017.1383013

Marrama, O. (2018). [Review of] Models of the History of

Philosophy, Vol. III: The Second Enlightenment and the

Kantian Age, edited by G. Piaia and G. Santinello. Springer,

2015. The European Legacy: toward new paradigms, 23(1-

2), 206-208. DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2017.1383012

Rusu, D-C. (2018). Bringing Past Practices to the Present.

[Review of special issue] From the Library to the Laboratory

and Back Again: Experiment as a Tool for Historians of

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Science. Edited by H. Fors, L.M. Principe, and H. O. Sibum,

Ambix, 63(2), 2016. Society and Politics, 12(1), 130-132.

Professional Evink, E. (2018). Derrida, Kafka, en de wet. In L. Duyvendak,

& J. Oosterholt (Eds.), Uit de marge: Kanttekeningen bij de cultuurhistorische canon (pp. 55-60). Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren.

Evink, E. (2018). Horizon – spel – verhaal: Contouren van

een hedendaagse metafysica. Inaugural lecture. Open

University, Netherlands.

Hasper, P. S., (TRANS.), & Krabbe, E. C. W., (TRANS.)

(2018). Over Drogredenen. (Aristoteles in Nederlandse

vertaling). Groningen: Historische Uitgeverij.

Keijzer, F. (2018). Beyond brain-body dualism: Neural

signaling inside and outside the brain. [Introduction to

Grossberg 1978 Communication, memory, Development]. In

D. S. Adams, & M. Levin (Eds.), Ahead of the Curve, Vol. 2:

Hidden breakthroughs in the biosciences IoP Publishing.

DOI: 10.1088/978-0-7503-1677-4ch6

Knowles, C. (2018). Autumn News, on Police Harassment

and Philosophy in Schools. The Philosophers' Magazine,

83(4), 6-9.

Knowles, C. (2018). Spring News on Philosophy and

Humanism and Strike Action. The Philosophers' Magazine,

81(2), 6-9.

Knowles, C. (2018). Summer News on Philosophy by 'Non-

Philosophers'. The Philosophers' Magazine, 82(3), 6-9.

Knowles, C. (2018). Winter News on Bentham, Philosophy in

Policing and Academic Censorship. The Philosophers'

Magazine, 80(1), 6-9.

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Streumer, B. (2018). The Unbelievable Truth About Morality.

In L. Clapp (Ed.), Philosophy for Us (pp. 135-144). San

Diego: Cognella.

van Ditmarsch, H., Hoek, W. V. D., & Kooi, B. (2018). Playing

cards with Hintikka: An introduction to dynamic epistemic

logic. In H. van Ditmarsch, & G. Sandu (Eds.), Jaakko

Hintikka on Knowledge and Game-Theoretical Semantics

(pp. 237-262). (Outstanding Contributions to Logic; Vol. 12).

Springer.

Popular

Stahl, T. (2018). Why politics needs hope (but no longer

inspires it). Aeon Magazine.

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Lectures

Academic lectures

Han Thomas Adriaenssen

‘Antoine Le Grand and John Sergeant on the Occasional

Cause of Cognition’. Causation and Cognition in Early

Modern Philosophy, Berlin (May 31 – June 2, 2018).

‘Digby on the Domain of Form’. Navigating the Old and the

New. Sir Kenelm Digby and the Canon, Groningen (January

26-27, 2018).

Diego Castro Amenabar

‘Persistent Disagreement and Argumentation”, International

Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) Conference

2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (July 6, 2018).

‘The use of counter-fallacies as rational resolution of

disagreements”, International Summer School 2018.

Emotions and Judgment: Argumentation, biases and public

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affairs. University of Granada; Granada, Spain (September

10, 2018).

Justin Bruner

‘Self-correction, meta-analysis and social structure’, Biennial

Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Seattle,

Washington (November, 2018).

Alexandra Chadwick

‘Hobbes on the social construction of the self and the

problem of reason’ Socialising minds workshop, KNIR,

Rome, (15 February 2018).

‘Hobbes on reason and reality’, OZSV study group,

Groningen, (7 March 2018).

‘Human nature as capacities in Hobbes’s political theory’,

Cambridge Intellectual History and Political Thought

Seminar, Cambridge, UK (21 May 2018) (invited talk).

‘Hobbes’s materialism and natural law’, Universität zu Köln,

(23 June 2018) (invited talk).

Ryan Doody

‘Hard Choices Made Harder’, Conference on Ethics and

Uncertainty, Centre for Moral and Political Philosophy at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel (June 6-8,

2018).

‘Risk-taking and Tie-breaking’, Mini-workshop on Attitudes to

Risk, Edelstein Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,

Jerusalem, Israel (March 26-27, 2018).

‘Hard Choices Made Harder’, Colloquium lecture, Hebrew

University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel (March 20, 2018).

‘Hard Choices Made Harder’, Workshop on Recent Work in

Decision Theory and Epistemology, Columbia University,

New York, New York (March 3, 2018).

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Catarina Dutilh Novaes

‘Carnapian explication as an ameliorative project: Logic and

social change’. Philosophy colloquium, Leibniz University

Hannover, Hannover (January 2018),

‘A dialogical account of deductive reasoning’. Keynote

lecture, annual meeting of research program ‘New

Frameworks of Rationality’, Etelsen (February 2018).

‘Metaphors for argumentation: a social epistemological

approach’. Thursday Lectures, Institute of Philosophy,

University of Leuven (March 2018).

‘Conservative, revisionary, and genealogical conceptual

analysis’. Workshop on E. Machery’s Philosophy within its

Proper Bounds, University of Amsterdam (June 2018).

‘Aristotle's argument for the Principle of Non-Contradiction’.

Invited lecture, workshop ‘Approaches to contradiction – Old

and new’, University of Leeds, Leeds (June 2018).

‘Conceptual genealogy and longue durée history of

philosophy’. Invited lecture, workshop ‘Historiography,

methodology, metaphilosophy and the canon’, McMaster

University, Hamilton (Canada) (June 2018).

Brian Embry

‘Suarez on the Being of Beings of Reason’, Being Univocal

and Being Equivocal: Scotus and Suarez on Being,

University of Notre Dame, London Campus, July 14- 15,

2018.

‘Carving the Beast of Reality: Suarez on Modes and Other

Substances’, Berlin-Hamburg Workshop in Early Modern

Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin, June 14-15, 2018.

‘Descartes and Jesuit Scholastics on Substantial Unity’,

Substance in Early Modern Scholasticism, Groningen, June

4-5, 2018.

‘Carving Reality at the Joints: Francisco Suarez on the

Categorization of Modes and Other Substances’, Medieval

Philosophy Network in the UK, London, March 11, 2018.

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Daan Evers

'Metaethical Contextualism and the Triviality Objection',

Practical Philosophy Research Seminar, University of

Gothenburg (invited) (May 16, 2018).

'Streumer on Noncognitivism and Reductivism about

Normative Judgement', Book Symposium on Unbelievable

Errors, by Bart Streumer, Faculty of Philosophy, University of

Groningen (May 9, 2018).

Eddo Evink

‘Transcendental and Religious Violence’, 10th annual

meeting of the Gezelschap voor Fenomenologische

Wijsbegeerte (Society for Phenomenological Philosophy),

Groningen (February 2, 2018).

‘Transcendental and Religious Violence’, Phenomenologies

of Religious Violence, Universität Wien, Vienna (March 20,

2018).

‘Che Che Che! The Icon in the Age of Digital Reproduction’,

The Icon as Cultural Model: Past, Present and Future, Open

University of the Netherlands, Amsterdam (January 26,

2018).

Simon Friederich

‘The observer reference class problem and researcher

degrees of freedom in multiverse cosmology.’, workshop

‘Observers in the Cosmos’, Bristol, UK (May 23, 2018).

'Are beable-free foundational accounts of quantum theory

coherent?', workshop on Richard Healey's “The Quantum

Revolution in Philosophy”, University of Bonn (June 1st

2018).

'Causal exclusion turned downward?', workshop on George

Ellis' “How can Physics Underlie the Mind”, University of

Bonn (June 5 2018).

'Testing multiverse theories and the problem of researcher

degrees of freedom', Foundations of Physics conference

Utrecht, June 13 2018.

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‘How fine-tuning is relevant to belief in a multiverse (and how

not)’, ETH Zurich (August 21 2018).

‘Are we ethically committed to expanding nuclear power?’,

Workshop “Energy Justice and the Capability Approach”,

Malmö University (September 13 2018).

Alexander Gebharter

‘Constitutive relevance discovery without interventions: Boole

meets Bayes’ (with Jens Harbecke), conference on

‘Causation vs constitution: loosening the friction’, Bergen,

Norway (December 4, 2018) (invited).

‘Free will, control, and the possibility to do otherwise from a

causal modeler’s perspective’, Research Colloquium of the

Department of Philosophy at the University of Duesseldorf,

Duesseldorf, Germany (November 27, 2018) (invited).

‘Modeling creative abduction Bayesian style’ (with Christian

J. Feldbacher-Escamilla), 26th Biennial Meeting of the

Philosophy of Science Association, Seattle, United States of

America (November 2, 2018).

‘Confirmation based on analogical reasoning: Bayes meets

Jeffrey’ (with Christian J. Feldbacher-Escamilla), conference

on ‘Analogical reasoning in science and mathematics’,

Munich, Germany (October 27, 2018).

‘Modeling creative abduction Bayesian style’ (with Christian

J. Feldbacher Escamilla), workshop on ‘Concept formation in

the natural and the social sciences’, Zurich, Switzerland

(October 18, 2018).

‘Free will, control, and the possibility to do otherwise from a

causal modeler’s perspective’, workshop on ‘Freedom and

determinism’, Cologne, Germany (October 5, 2018) (invited).

Laura Georgescu

‘No true disorder, no true order: Regularity and Irregularity in

Cavendish’s Philosophy of Nature’, 6th OZSW Conference,

Twente, (November 10, 2018).

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‘Rotating magnetized needles diagrammatically: Edward

Wright’s use of diagrams’, ESHS, London, UK (September

17, 2018).

‘Dipping needles and rotating poles: What a mistaken

solution tells us about legitimate and illegitimate uses of

mathematics in natural philosophy’, HOPOS, Groningen,

(July 10, 2018).

‘On how to select entry points in a Rousian history and

philosophy of science’, SPSP 2018, Ghent, Belgium (June

30- July 2) (invited in a panel).

‘Browne and Digby on the microcosmos within: faith and

method’, Thirteenth Nijmegen– Groningen Colloquium,

Groningen, (May 18, 2018).

‘Sylva sylvarum: a solution to the problem of the idols?’,

Workshop Translating experimentation: Francis Bacon’s

Sylva sylvarum and Novum Organum, Paris, France (May

24-25, 2018) (invited).

‘A natural philosophy built on a theory of light’, Bucharest

Graduate Conference on HPPS, Bucharest, Romania (March

16, 2018) (keynote speaker).

‘On Divisibility and the Individuation of Bodies’, OZSW Study

Group in Early Modern Philosophy, Groningen (March 7,

2018)

‘Quantity in Digby’s natural philosophy’, Navigating the Old

and the New. Sir Kenelm Digby and the Canon, Gronigen,

(January 26-7, 2018).

Sanjana Govindarajan

‘Epistemic Injustice in Asylum Systems’, Association of

Social and Political Philosophy (ASPP) Conference, Rome,

Italy (June 21, 2018).

Sjoerd Griffioen

‘Secularization’, Essentially Contested: Methodological

Concerns” (Keynote), Philosophy PhD Conference RuG,

Groningen (June 22, 2018).

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Leah Henderson

‘Dealing with uncertainty about science: scientific controversy

and public trust’, PPE Winter School, Groningen (January 29,

2018).

‘Going local in the scientific realism debates’, Department of

Philosophy, Stockholm University, Sweden (March 15, 2018).

‘Living in different worlds: trust in sources and belief

polarisation’, Conference on Fake Knowledge, Cologne

Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian

tradition’, Germany (June 2, 2018).

‘Norton at the boundaries of probability’, Conference on

Norton for Everyone, Center for Philosophy of Science,

University of Pittsburgh, USA (October 27, 2018).

‘The conditions for belief polarisation’, Tilburg Center for

Logic and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg (November 15,

2018).

‘The conditions for belief polarisation’, Griph lunchtime

lecture, Faculty of Philosophy, Groningen (November 28,

2018).

Frank Hindriks

‘Collective Duties.’ Manuscript Workshop ‘Group Duties’ by

Stephanie Collins. Budapest, Invited (June 2018).

‘Corporate Psychopathy without Corporate Psychopaths’.

OZSW Business Ethics Meeting. Tilburg (June 2018).

‘The Problem of Insignificant Hands’. Annual Congress of the

Canadian Philosophical Association. Montreal (June 2018).

‘Responsibility for Failure and Negligence’. OZSW

Manuscript Workshop on Intentions Unbound. The

Rationality and Morality of Intentions by Ulrike Heuer. Utrecht

(June 2018).

‘How Strong Are Institutions? On Social Norms and Virtual Sanctions’. 4th International Conference on Philosophy and Economics. Lyon (June 2018).

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‘Social Construction and the Reality of Social Kinds’.

Conference on Social Ontology (Collective Intentionality XI).

Boston (August 2018).

‘Social Construction and the Reality of Social Kinds’.

Conference of the European Network for the Philosophy of

the Social Sciences (ENPOSS). Hannover (August 2018).

‘Energy Justice and Responsibility Gaps: The Duty to Join

Forces’. A Conference on Energy Justice and the Capability

Approach. Malmö (September 2018).

‘Institutions and Virtual Sanctions: How Social Norms

Motivate and Justify.’ Seminar of the Erasmus Institute for

Philosophy and Economics (EIPE). Rotterdam, Invited

(October 2018).

‘Institutions and Virtual Sanctions: How Social Norms

Motivate and Justify.’ Workshop on Social Coordination and

Communication. Nijmegen, Invited (November 2018).

Fred Keijzer

‘On the origin of subjects: Formulating a blob’s point of view’,

PCCP talk for Theoretical Philosophy, University of

Groningen (April 5, 2018).

‘On the origin of subjects: From a point to a blob of view’,

Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain la Neuve, invited

(May 2, 2018).

‘On the origin of multicellular subjects’, Varieties of Mind

Conference, University of Cambridge, invited (June 8, 2018).

‘On the origin of subjects’, The ground floor of cognition:

From microbes to plants and animals, 37th Altenberg

Workshop in Theoretical Biology, KLI, Klosterneuburg,

Austria (June 16, 2018).

‘On the origin of subjects: A first-person blob of view’,

Workshop Reconceiving Cognition, University of Antwerp,

invited (June 27, 2018).

‘Beyond brain-body dualism: Organizing contraction-based

motility’. Skyped talk at The Levin Lab, Department of

Biology, Tufts University, Boston, invited (October 29, 2018).

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‘On the origin of subjects: A first-person blob of view’,

Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, invited (November 14, 2018).

Pauline Kleingeld

‘How to Use Someone “Merely as a Means”’, Jean-Jacques

Rousseau Lecture, KOSAK [Kant Research Network of

Oxford, St. Andrews, Keele], Keele (March 9, 2018).

‘Freedom, Republicanism, and Cosmopolitanism’,

Department of Political Science, Leiden University (April 23,

2018).

‘Moral Autonomy as Political Analogy’, Keynote, 5-yearly

conference of the Kant Society of Brazil, Campinas (June 12,

2018).

‘How to Use Someone “Merely as a Means”’, Keynote,

Annual Conference of the Society for Applied Philosophy,

Utrecht (July 1, 2018).

‘Moral Autonomy as Political Analogy’, Conference on Kant’s

Feyerabend Lectures on Natural Law, Mainz (July 6, 2018).

‘Dignity and Self-Legislation’, Conference on ‘Human

Dignity’, Bayreuth (July 20, 2018).

‘How to Use Someone “Merely as a Means”’, Keynote,

Multilateral Kant Conference, Catania (October 12, 2018).

‘Kant’s Republican Conception of Free Will’, Colloquium

Lecture, University College Dublin, Dublin (November 15,

2018).

Charlotte Knowles

‘Beyond Adaptive Preferences: Women’s Complicity in their

own Oppression’, Politics, Philosophy and Religion Seminar

Series, University of Lancaster, UK (November 14, 2018),

(Invited talk).

‘Right Wing Women, Internalised Oppression and the

Analysis from Complicity’, Different Ways of Operating with

Heidegger, University of Milan, Italy (October 25th – 26th,

2018).

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‘The Problem of Gendered Complicity: A Phenomenological

Approach’, Navigating the Grey Zone: Complicity, Resistance

and Solidarity, University of Edinburgh, UK (June 25th – 27th,

2018).

‘Freedom, Complicity and the #MeToo Backlash’, Society for

European Philosophy, University of Essex, UK (June 18th –

20th, 2018).

‘Rethinking Woman's Complicity in her Own Unfreedom: The

Heideggerean Roots of Beauvoir's Analysis’, Feminist

Phenomenology after Beauvoir: Canadian Society for

Women in Philosophy panel at the Existential and

Phenomenological Theory and Culture Annual Conference at

Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2018.

University of Regina, Canada (May 28th – 30th, 2018).

‘A Phenomenological Account of Complicity’, The Society for

Phenomenological Philosophy, 11th Annual Meeting,

University of Groningen, the Netherlands (February 1st – 2nd,

2018).

Erik Krabbe

‘Pressie en Argumentatie in Maatschappelijke Discussies’,

14th VIOT-conference (of the Vereniging Interuniversitair

Overleg Taalbeheersing): Duurzame taalbeheersing,

Groningen (January 19, 2018).

‘Pressure and Argumentation in Public Controversies’, 9th

Conference of the International Society for the Study of

Argumentation (ISSA), Amsterdam (July 6, 2018).

Theo Kuipers

‘Probabilistic truth approximation’, Symposium For a bottom-

up epistemology, in honour of Maria-Carla Galavotti,

Bologna-Bertinoro, (June 7-9, 2018).

Martin Lenz

‘Hume on the Contagion of Opinion’, Workshop Socialising

Minds, Rome, KNIR (February 2018).

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“What does it mean to share a view? Hume on the

transmission of mental states” Keynote lecture for the

Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Aberdeen

(May 2018).

"Biased Beliefs: Spinoza on the Interaction of Ideas",

Canadian Philosophical Association, Montréal (June 2018).

"Locke's Life-World", Workshop of the John Locke Society,

Oxford, (July 2018).

‘Commentary on Elena Gordons “Descartes on Infant

Thought”’, International Graduate Workshop. Harvard

University (September 2018).

Emar Maier

‘Point of View: Representing perception, dreaming, and

hallucination in visual narratives’ Second HSE Conference of

Semantics and Pragmatics, Moscow (September 4, 2018).

‘Blending perspectives in pictorial narrative’ (with Sofia

Bimpikou) Sinn und Bedeutung 23, Barcelona (September 5,

2018).

‘Dealing with imaginative resistance’ (with Daniel Altshuler

and Jennifer Spenader) Once upon a time… Groningen

(September 17, 2018).

‘Communicative reception reports as hear-say: Evidence

from indexical shift in Turkish’ (with Deniz Özyıldız and

Travis Major) West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics

(WCCFL36), Los Angeles (April 21, 2018).

Oberto Marrama

‘Spinoza on Reason, Memory, and the ‘Habits of Virtue’’,

CPA Congress 2018, Université du Québec à Montréal,

Canada (June 7, 2018).

‘Spinoza on Memory and Intellect’, 8th Quebec Seminar in

Early Modern Philosophy, Université du Québec à Trois-

Rivières, Canada (May 31, 2018).

‘Spinoza on Memory’, BSHP Annual Conference, University

of Durham, UK (April 14, 2018).

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Lodi Nauta

‘Wresting Words from their Common meaning. Kenelm Digby

on Knowledge and Language’. Workshop Navigating the Old

and the New. Sir Kenelm Digby and the Canon, Groningen

(January 26, 2018).

‘Thomas Hobbes and the Rhetoric of Common Language’.

Workshop Socialising Minds. Language, Culture and Human

Nature from the Renaissance to the Eighteenth Century,

Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (February 15, 2018).

‘Thomas Hobbes and the Rhetoric of Common Language’,

Roma Tre, Rome (March 20, 2018).

‘The Critique of Scholastic Language in Renaissance

Humanism and Early-Modern Philosophy’. Early-Modern

History Workshop, Harvard University (October 1, 2018).

Tamer Nawar

‘The Fregean Revolution’, AUC Tahrir (Middle Eastern

Society for Analytic Philosophy), Cairo 29 December 2018.

‘The Augustinian Cogito and the Cartesian Cogito’, Durham

29 November 2018.

‘Stoic Puzzles about Identity’, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

(23 August 2018) & University of Cambridge (11 September

2018) .

‘Aristotle on Teleological Reasoning and Agency’,

Groningen, 3 July 2018.

‘Revisiting the Arguments between Thrasymachus and

Socrates in Republic I’, Oxford, 22 February 2018.

Stipe Pandžić

‘A logic of default justifications’, 17th International Workshop

on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2018), Tempe, Arizona

(USA), (October 27-29, 2018).

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Marc Pauly

‘The Cooperative Council in Groningen: An Experiment in

Democracy’, 8th Living Knowledge Conference, Budapest,

Hungary, May 30th, 2018 (together with L. van der Wetering).

Jeanne Peijnenburg

‘On Hume’s Regress Argument’, conference ‘For A Bottom-

Up Epistemology’, Bertinoro, Italy (June 8, 2018).

‘On Hume’s Regress Argument’, Erasmus School of

Philosophy, Rotterdam (November 28, 2018).

‘On Hume’s Regress Argument’, Theoretical Philosophy

Colloquium, Leiden (December 13, 2018).

Jan-Willem Romeijn

Three lectures on “Connecting the Dots”, my book project, at

UC Irvine, invited (February 2018).

“Resiliency in Psychiatric Science”, Topics in Scientific

Philosophy, workshop in honour of Brian Skyrms, UC Irvine,

invited (February 2018).

“Stein’s paradox and Group Rationality”, CalTech, (March

2018)

“Data-driven Science and Undercover Theory”, keynote

lecture at workshop on the Philosophy of Machine Learning,

Invited (March 2018)

“Retaining diversity and seeking the extreme”, workshop on

Social Deliberation, Lund, invited (April 2018)

“Stein’s paradox and Group Rationality”, KNAW colloquium

Amsterdam, (May 2018)

“Psychiatric classification: an a-reductionist perspective”,

conference on Conceptual Issues in Psychiatry V,

Kopenhagen, invited (May 2018)

“Psychiatric disease classification: a reference class

problem”, Social Science Out of the Box, research seminar,

Groningen, invited (May 2018)

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“Retaining diversity and seeking the extreme”, workshop on

Social Deliberation, Groningen, (June 2018)

“Epistemic diversity and Editor Decisions”, conference of the

German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP-10), Cologne,

invited (September 2018)

“Epistemic diversity and Editor Decisions”, PSA 2018, Seatlle

(USA), (November 2018)

“Data-driven Science and Undercover Theory”, Centre for

Digital Humanities, University of Groningen, invited

(December 2018)

Felipe Romero

‘The Division of Replication Labor’, PSA2018: The 26th

Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association,

Seattle, Washington (November 3, 2018).

‘The Division of Replication Labor’, SPSP2018: The 7th

Biennial Conference of the Society for the Philosophy of

Science in Practice, University of Ghent, Belgium. (July 1,

2018).

‘Meta-analysis of Semantic Intuition Research’, (with Noah

van Dongen, Matteo Colombo, Jan Sprenger) UK

Experimental Philosophy Conference, University College

London, UK (June 14, 2018).

‘The Division of Replication Labor’, PHILOGICA V: The 5th

Colombian Conference on Logic, Epistemology and

Philosophy of Science. Villa de Leyva, Colombia (May 19,

2018).

Doina-Christina Rusu

‘Thinking Bodies as Orbs’ together with Laura Georgescu,

Francis Bacon’s Sylva sylvarum: An Exercise in

Philosophical Translation, IHR-ICUB, University of Bucharest

(January 17-18, 2019).

‘Giordano Bruno’s Conception of Matter and the Emergence

of the Scientific Method’, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance

Society of America, New Orleans (March 22-24, 2018).

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‘Deviations and Nova. Bacon on the Transmutation of

Species’, ‘Traduire l’expérience: autour de Sylva sylvarum et

Novum Organum de Francis Bacon. Atelier de travail et

constitution d’un réseau scientifique européen’, Institute

d’Etudes Avancées de Paris (May 24-25, 2018).

‘Matter in Motion. Francis Bacon on Action at a Distance’,

2018 HOPOS Meeting, University of Groningen, (July 9-12,

2018).

‘Comments to Dominic Dimech’s Hume’s Relative Ideas’,

THOUGHTS Seminar, Harvard University (September 29-30,

2018).

‘Cosmology and Redemption in Anne Conway’s

Metaphysics’, ERC Early Modern Cosmology Seminar, Ca’

Foscari University of Venice (November 22, 2018).

Andrea Sangiacomo

‘Spinoza on common notions and the origin of rational ideas’,

Workshop “Socialising Minds – Language, Culture and

Human Nature from the Renaissance to the Eighteenth

Century” Royal Dutch Institute in Rome, (February 15-16,

2018)

‘Three kinds of narratives and the case for digital fictions’,

HOPOS conference, University of Groningen (July 12, 2018).

‘The Normalisation of Natural Philosophy’, Digital Humanities

Thursdays, University of Groningen (November 15, 2018).

‘Divide et Impera: a model of domination in the early modern

Republic of Letters’ SKILLNET ERC project workshop,

University of Utrecht (December 14, 2018).

‘The Normalisation of Natural Philosophy: case studies and

perspectives for future research’, Università di Roma3 (IT),

Department Lecture (December 20, 2018).

Andreas Schmidt

‘Domination without inequality’, invited departmental talk,

Tilburg philosophy department (April 2018).

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‘Autonomy and tobacco control’ invited talk and participation

at Brocher summer school on tobacco harm reduction,

Geneva, Switzerland (May 2018).

‘Should effective altruists be egalitarians?’ Talk at

International Society of Utilitarian Studies Karlsruhe,

Germany (July 2018).

Merel Semeijn

‘Metafictional anaphora. An abstract object account’,

Intensional Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality’ 30 years

later”, Warsaw (June 2018).

‘Music semantics and musical expressivism’, Linguistic

explorations beyond language: music, dance and visual

narrative, Crete (July 2018).

‘Cognitive and formal semantics: A case study about fictional

names’, Bridging Formal and Conceptual Semantics, Sofia

(August 2018).

‘Metafictional Anaphora’, ESSLLI student session, Sofia

(August 2018).

‘Parafictional tense’, Once upon a time… Semantic

approaches to fiction, literature, and narrative, Groningen

(September 2018).

‘Fiction and common ground: A workspace account’, the

Aesthetics and Cognitive Science seminar, Paris (October

2018).

‘Bald-faced lies and parafictional beliefs’, Speech Acts and

Fiction, Genoa (November 2018).

Titus Stahl

‘Towards a materialist theory of propaganda’, Colloquium

Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Prague, Czech

Republic, (16 May 2018).

‘Ideology, Propaganda, and Epistemic Injustice’, Summer

School “Critical Theory”, Groningen (23-27 July 2018).

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‘Surveillance as Colonization of the Public Sphere’,

Amsterdam Privacy Conference, Amsterdam (6 October

2018).

Bart Streumer

‘How to Both Accept and Reject Nihilism’, Moral Philosophy

Seminar, University of Oxford (February 2018).

‘Reduction Without Supervenience’, Serious Metaphysics

Group, University of Cambridge (February 2018).

‘Reduction Without Supervenience’, University of Reading

(February 2018).

Comments on Daniel Fogal and Olle Risberg, ‘The

Metaphysics of Moral Explanations’, Chapel Hill Normativity

Workshop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (March

2018).

Responses to Victor Moberger, Stina Björkholm, and Conrad

Bakka, symposium on Unbelievable Errors, Stockholm

University (March 2018).

‘Reduction Without Supervenience’, Stockholm University,

(March 2018).

‘How to Both Accept and Reject Nihilism’, Umeå University

(May 2018).

Responses to Nicholas Laskowski, Christine Tiefensee,

Anandi Hattiangadi, and Daan Evers, symposium on

Unbelievable Errors, University of Groningen (May 2018).

‘So What’, workshop on the error theory, University of

Luxembourg (December 2018).

Allard Tamminga

‘Two-sided sequent calculi for FDE-like four-valued logics’,

Workshop Modal and Many-Valued Logics, École normale

supérieure Paris (January 31, 2018) (invited).

‘Methodological individualism. An impossibility result’,

Workshop Collective Responsibility, Joint Action, and

Participation, Utrecht University (May 17, 2018) (invited).

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‘Against Individualism: An Impossibility Result’, University of

Groningen (June 7, 2018).

‘An Impossibility Result on Methodological Individualism’,

Trends in Logic XVIII Conference, Univeristà Cattolica del

Sacro Cuore, Milaan (September 25, 2018).

‘An Impossibility Result on Methodological Individualism’,

Critical Social Ontology Workshop, Saint Louis University

(October 14, 2018).

Jan Albert van Laar

‘Pressure and Argumentation in Public Controversies’, 9th

International. Conference on Argumentation of the

International Society for the Study of Argumentation,

Amsterdam, The Netherlands (July 3-6, 2018).

‘Criticism that Yields Dialectical Justification’, Workshop

‘Does Valid Reasoning Matter?’, Stara Lesna, Slovakia (14-

15 September 2018).

‘Pressie en Argumentatie in Maatschappelijke Discussie’,

VIOT 2018 Duurzame Taalbeheersing, Groningen (17-19

January).

Wessel van Dommelen

‘Conscious Control and Responsibility for Habits’, OZSW

Conference, Enschede (November 9-10, 2018).

Derek van Zoonen

‘The metaphysical argument against hedonism in Plato’s

Philebus’, 41st Annual Ancient Philosophy Workshop,

Gainesville (Florida), United States (February 23, 2018).

Judith Vega

Keynote lecture ‘Spectatorship between submission and

redemption: Benjamin, Adorno, Kracauer’. Summer School

‘Critical Theory’. 24 June, University of Groningen.

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Other lectures

Han Thomas Adriaenssen

‘Individuation in Late Medieval and Early Modern

Metaphysics’. Research Seminar Humanist and Scholastic

Roots of Early Modern Philosophy, Rome (12-19 March,

2018).

‘Matter, Form and Individuation from Durandus to Suarez’.

Autumn School Medieval Philosophy of the Henri Pirenne

Institute, Ghent (16-19 October, 2018).

Daan Evers

'De Objectiviteit van Schoonheid', Philos Cafe, Groningen

(April 10, 2018).

'De Objectiviteit van Schoonheid', Nacht van de Filosofie,

Groningen (April 13, 2018).

Eddo Evink

‘Nadenken over kunst na het einde van de kunst’ Regiodag

Zuid, Open University of the Netherlands, Eindhoven, (March

2, 2018).

‘De voltooiing van de geschiedenis van de kunst’ CW-debat,

Open University of the Netherlands, Groningen, (March 6,

2018).

Sjoerd Griffioen

Guest lecture SPF2 ‘Het antagonisme van Carl Schmitt.’

(June 11, 2018).

Leah Henderson

‘Trust in Experts’, Felix en Sofie Philosophical Café,

Amsterdam (January 23, 2018).

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Pauline Kleingeld

‘Reply to My Critics’, Annual KOSAK Conference, Keele

(March 10, 2018).

‘Kantian Ethics: Kant’s Formula of Universal Law’, OZSW

Spring School on Ethical Theory and Moral Practice,

Barchem (April 17, 2018).

‘Virtue, Vice, and Situationism”, Colloquium Lecture,

Netherlands Institute in St. Petersburg (May 30, 2018).

Charlotte Knowles

‘The (Illusory) Power of the Social World’, Nacht van de

Filosofie, Groninger Forum, Groningen, (April 13, 2018),

(Invited talk).

‘Complicity and Gender Oppression’, International School,

Groningen, (March 28, 2018). (Invited talk).

Debate: ‘This house would kill one to save many’, Cambridge

Union, University of Cambridge (November 23, 2017),

(Invited talk).

Jan Albert van Laar

‘Dialectical Justification.’ Invited lecture summer school

‘Emotions and judgment: Argumentation, biases and public

affairs’, Granada, Spain (9-12 September 2018).

Emar Maier

‘Leugens, verhalen, en filosofie’ Kinderuniversiteit. Forum

bioscoop, Groningen (March 2018).

‘Interpreting fiction and the limits of authorial authority’

Stuff/Flanor introduction to Van der Leeuw Lecture

(November 2018).

Lodi Nauta

‘Geschiedenis van de Retorica’, Royal Netherlands Institute

in Rome (January 20, 2018).

‘Language and Language Critique in the Early Modern

Period’. Masterclass Humanist and Scholastic Roots of Early

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Modern Philosophy, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome

(March 14, 2018).

‘David Hume’s Projectivism and the Science of Human

Nature’. Roma Tre (May 25, 2018).

‘De betekenis van het Renaissance Humanisme in de

geschiedenis van de Filosofie’. Koninklijk Genootschap

PHYSICA, Alkmaar (December 3, 2018).

Jan-Willem Romeijn

“De waarde van meervoud”, lecture for the civil courts in

Amsterdam, (June 2018)

“Besliskunde voor Civilisten”, courses for judges through

SSR and BONG, (November 2018).

Andreas Schmidt

‘How to be a better person’, Lecture at Science Dinner

Groningen (2018).

Allard Tamminga

‘How to solve conflicts between collective and individual

duties?’, PPE Winter School, University of Groningen

(January 29, 2018).

Derek van Zoonen

‘Plato’s Pluralism about the Good Life’, OZSW movie night,

Nijmegen (June 21, 2018).

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Appointments & accolades

Han-Thomas Adriaenssen

Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize. Gewonnen

voor Representation and Scepticism from Aquinas to

Descartes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Alexandra Chadwick

Appointed as Associate editor, Hobbes Studies (Sept 2018

onwards; previously assistant editor).

Ryan Doody

Appointed post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for

Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of

Groningen.

Simon Friederich

Appointed Chair of the Young Academy Groningen (YAG)

Fellowship for Innovation in Teaching by the RUG (together

with Chris May and Rink Hoekstra).

Appointed member of the scientific sustainability council of

the RUG.

Leah Henderson

Appointed full-time in Faculty of Philosophy as Rosalind

Franklin Fellow.

Frank Hindriks

SCOOP fellow, NWO Gravitation Program ‘Sustainable

Cooperation’ (SCOOP).

Fred Keijzer

Joined the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Philosophy as

vice-dean.

Received the ius promovendi for five years.

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Pauline Kleingeld

Awarded a ‘Free Competition’ Grant, NWO Humanities

Division, ‘Universal Moral Laws’.

Appointed as member of the Kant-Kommission of the Berlin

Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (2018).

Appointed as member of the Editorial Board, European

Journal of Philosophy.

Appointed as member of the Editorial Board, Aequitas: A

Journal of Political Philosophy & Society (new journal).

Appointed as member of the Editorial Board, Enrahonar:

International Journal for Theoretical and Practical Reason.

Appointed as member of the Editorial Board, Transcendental

Philosophy (new journal).

Appointed as member of the Advisory Board, ‘Readers

Guides’ Series, Oxford University Press.

Theo Kuipers

Member of the jury of the “scriptieprijs 2018” for philosophy

for the Koninklijke Hollandse Maatschappij der

Wetenschappen

Jan Albert van Laar

Appointed as vice-chair of the working group ‘Norms of

Public Argument: Concepts and Methods’ of the COST

Action Project: ‘European network for argumentation and

public policy analysis’ (CA17132).

Acted as vice chair of the steering group of the European

Conference on Argumentation.

Member of the editorial board of the journal ‘Argumentation:

An International Journal on Reasoning’.

Martin Lenz

Appointed as Member of the Editorial Board of the HOPOS

Journal.

Appointed as Vice-President of the German Spinoza Society.

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Appointed as Member of the UCW.

Appointed as Committee Member NWO “Free Competition”.

Emar Maier

Visiting Professor, EHESS/Institut Jean Nicod, Paris.

February-March, 2018.

Oberto Marrama

Appointed Coordinator of the Scientific Committee of the

Societas Spinozana (Italy).

Lodi Nauta

Fellow at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome from Jan-

March 2018.

Appointed as a member of the Board of Studium Generale.

Marc Pauly

People’s Choice Poster Award (together with Nick

Nieuwenhuijsen) for the Poster “Philosophy meets real-world

problems” at the 8th Living Knowledge Conference in

Budapest, Hungary.

Jeanne Peijnenburg

Runner-up Lecturer of the Year 2017, University of

Groningen, April 12, 2018; 2500 euros.

Recipient ‘Penning van de Universiteit’, September 19, 2018.

Jan-Willem Romeijn

Appointed as member of the Koninklijke Hollandse

Maatschappij voor Wetenschappen (KHMW)

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Doina-Christina Rusu

Appointed as the Chair of the Nominations and Elections

Committee, HOPOS (International Society for the History of

Philosophy of Science).

Andrea Sangiacomo

ERC Starting Grant “The Normalisation of Natural

Philosophy: how teaching practices shaped the evolution of

early modern science”.

Merel Semeijn

Descartes excellence fellowship (Campus France/Institut

Français).

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PhD defenses

Tom Sterkenburg, Universal prediction, 18 January 2018.

Paulien Snellen, Akrasia as a Character Trait, 19 March 2018.

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Membership of PhD committees & opposition

Eddo Evink

Promotor, Wim Post, Theodor Lessinsg filosofie en de

uitgaven van Europa und Asien 1914-1930, Open University

of the Netherlands, Heerlen (June 8, 2018).

Reading committee, Herman Simissen, The Fourth Blow.

Theodor Lessing’s philosophy of history in its time, Open

University of the Netherlands, Heerlen (March 9, 2018).

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Leah Henderson

Opposition, Tom Sterkenburg, Universal prediction: a

philosophical investigation. (January 18, 2018).

Frank Hindriks

Reading Committee, Paulien Snellen, Akrasia as a Character

Trait, Groningen (March 19, 2018).

Theo Kuipers

Reading committee, Merel Lefevere, Rethinking Unification:

Unification as an explanatory value in scientific practice.

University of Gent. (October 9, 2018).

Emar Maier

Opposition, Jessica Overweg, Taking an alternative

perspective on language in autism Groningen.

Jeanne Peijnenburg

Co-Promotor, Paulien Snellen, Akrasia as a Character Trait,

Groningen (March 19, 2018).

Andrea Sangiacomo

External reviewer and committee member, Davide Monaco,

“The Foundamental Equation of Nature. Spinoza’s

Parallelism Revisited” University of Aberdeen (June 26,

2018).

External reviewer and committee member, Laura Kennedy,

“Seeking Spinoza: The Spinozistic Origins of Early

Psychological Theory in Wundt, James and Freud”

Trinity College Dublin (September 3, 2018).

Bart Streumer

Opponent, Emma Beckman, Mistaken Morality? An Essay on

Moral Error Theory, Umeå University (May 2018).

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Allard Tamminga

Opposition, Ekaterina Kubyshkina, La logique de l’agent

rationnel, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (January

30, 2018).

Co-promotor, Hein Duijf, Let’s Do It! Collective

Responsibility, Joint Action, and Participation, Utrecht

University (May 18, 2018) (cum laude).

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Travel & conferences

Alexandra Chadwick

Invited respondent, Book symposium on Freedom: An Unruly

History, by Annelien de Dijn, Leiden (11 June 2018).

Invited respondent, History of Political Thought workshop,

University of York, UK (15 June 2018).

‘Hobbes and Gender’ workshop, co-organised with Dr. Eva

Odzuck, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

(22-23 November 2018).

Ryan Doody

‘Comments on Roberto Fumagalli’s “Rationality, Normativity

and Degenerate Intentions: Why Rational Choice Theory is

not Self-Defeating”’, Workshop on Preference-based

modeling in economics, London School of Economics,

London (November 10, 2018).

Laura Georgescu

Member of the organizer committee for the Conference

History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), Groningen,

Netherlands, (July 9-10, 2018).

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Frank Hindriks

Panel discussion on PPE in Europe. Second Annual

Conference of the PPE Society. New Orleans (March 2018).

Fred Keijzer

Co-organized with Pamela Lyon ‘The ground floor of

cognition: From microbes to plants and animals, 37th

Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology’, KLI,

Klosterneuburg, Austria (June 14-17, 2018).

Pauline Kleingeld

Annual meeting Kant network, Mainz (July 8-9, 2018).

Conference, ‘The public uses of coercion and force: From

constitutionalism to war’, Amsterdam, UvA and VU,

(February 1, 2018).

Charlotte Knowles

Workshop on Jonathan Lear’s book Wisdom Won from

Illness, Birkbeck College, London, UK (May 21, 2018).

Freedom and Autonomy Conference, Birkbeck College,

London, UK (May 24th – 25th, 2018).

Martin Lenz

Co-Organiser: Workshop Socialising Minds with Lodi Nauta,

Rome KNIR (February 20).

Chair of the Local Organising Committee: HOPOS

Conference, Groningen (July 2018).

Co-Organiser, Groningen delegation for the International

Graduate Workshop, Harvard University (September 2018).

Emar Maier

Organizer conference “Once upon a time… Semantic

approaches to fiction, literature, and narrative”, Groningen,

September 2018.

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Oberto Marrama

Comments on Anna Ortín’s “Descartes on the distinction

between primary and secondary qualities”, 5th Conference

by Women in Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the

Netherlands (July 6, 2018).

Lodi Nauta

Co-organizer, together with Martin Lenz, of the Workshop

Socialising Minds. Language, Culture and Human Nature

from the Renaissance to the Eighteenth Century, Royal

Netherlands Institute in Rome (February 15, 2018).

Participation in a panel discussion about Renaissance

philosophy, Leuven (Dec. 6, 2018).

Stipe Pandžić

30th European Summer School in Logic, Language and

Information (ESSLLI 2018), Sofia University “St. Kl.

Ohridski”, Bulgaria, August 6-17, 2018.

16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge

Representation and Reasoning (KR 2018), Tempe, Arizona

(USA), October 27-November 2, 2018.

Doina-Christina Rusu

Visiting Scholar at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (October

8- November 30, 2018).

Erasmus+ programme at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

(October 8-12, 2018).

Andrea Sangiacomo

International Conference of the Society for the History and

Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), member of the local

organizing committee (July 9-12, 2018).

Second Edition of the Summer School “The Challenge of

Natural Teleology: Final Causes from Aristotle to Darwin”,

University of Groningen, co-organized with Han Thomas

Adriaenssen (July 3-6, 2018).

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Seminar in Early modern Philosophy (V), University of

Utrecht, co-organized with Chris Meyns (May 30-31, 2018).

Organizer of the international workshop “The early modern

debate on causation – third meeting ‘Newtonian debates’”,

Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen (April 25,

2018).

Merel Semeijn

Research visit at Institut Jean Nicod (ENS), Paris

(September 2018 to December 2018).

Organized workshop ‘Once upon a time… Semantic

approaches to fiction, literature, and narrative’, Groningen

(September 2018).

Titus Stahl

Summer School “Ideology”, Humboldt University, Berlin,

Germany (16-20 July 2018) (invited teacher, panel member).

Seminar on paper ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the

Public Sphere’, MA course on surveillance and privacy,

University of Amsterdam (8 October 2018).

Allard Tamminga

14th International Conference on Deontic Logic and

Normative Systems, Utrecht University (July 3-6, 2018).

Research stay at Ghent University, Belgium (January 8-12,

2018).

Research stay at the University of Bayreuth, Germany

(November 26-30, 2018).

Wessel van Dommelen

Workshop ‘Taking responsibility and holding responsible’,

Oslo (August 30-31, 2018).

PhD Course ‘Blame and Forgiveness’, Oslo (September 3-5,

2018).

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Judith Vega

Visited the Workshop Europe and Arendt. 31 May – 1 June,

Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen.

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Miscellaneous

Justin Bruner

Article ‘How to beat science and influence people’, included

in The Oxford Think Festival

(https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/oxford_think_festiv

al_2018).

Alexandra Chadwick

Executive committee member, European Hobbes Society

(April 2018 onwards; previously publications officer).

Blog post, Groningen Centre for Medieval and Early Modern

Thought, ‘Hobbes, Hume, and the World Cup’, 13 July 2018.

Brian Embry

Visiting Instructor, University of Salzburg, “The Philosophy of

William of Ockham”. May 2018.

Daan Evers

Organizer Book Symposium on Unbelievable Errors, by Bart

Streumer, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen

(May 9, 2018).

Co-organizer 1st Annual OZSW Metaethics Workshop,

Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of

Groningen (September 27, 2018).

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Eddo Evink

Gave his inaugural lecture ‘Horizon – spel – verhaal.

Contouren van een hedendaagse metafysica’, as professor

in philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Law, Open

University of the Netherlands, Heerlen (November 2, 2018).

Wrote an ‘education letter’ on the philosophy of Jan Patočka,

who received the posthumous price ‘Spinozalens’ from the

‘Stiching Internationale Spinozaprijs’.

Laura Georgescu

Editor of the GCMMT BLOG

Blog post, Groningen Centre for Medieval and Early Modern

Thought, ‘Cavendish contra contextualism’, 9 February 2018.

Blog post, Groningen Centre for Medieval and Early Modern

Thought, ‘We have always been wrong: Thomas Browne on

the inescapability of error’, 4 May 2018.

Blog post, Groningen Centre for Medieval and Early Modern

Thought, ‘Against confidence in opinions –with Glanvill’, 11

September 2018.

Job de Grefte

“De Mogelijkheid van een Wereld”, Bij Nader Inzien, online

publicatie

(https://bijnaderinzien.org/2018/04/24/demogelijkheid-van-

een-wereld/).

“2.500 jaar onderzoek en nog steeds weten we niet wat

kennis is”, online publicatie

(https://www.brainwash.nl/bijdrage/na- 2500-

jaaronderzoekweten-we-nog-steeds-niet- wat-kennis-is).

Leah Henderson

Organizing committee HOPOS, Groningen, June 2018.

Frank Hindriks

Organized: Manuscript workshop ‘The Structure of Society

(by Frank Hindriks)’, in Groningen. March 2018.

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Program Committee. Biennial ISOS conferences on Social

Ontology (previously Collective Intentionality) ‘Social

Ontology: Collective Intentionality XI.’ Boston, August 2018

Fred Keijzer

Had a meeting on AI and science fiction with the creative

designers, dancers, actors, musicians, and writer of the text

for the production ‘Brave New World 2.0’ of the Noord

Nederlands Toneel and Club Guy & Roni. (December 12,

2018)

Pauline Kleingeld

Member, Research Grants Committee, Institutes of the Royal

Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Member, Ethics/Practical Philosophy Chamber of the OZSW

External evaluator (promotion to full professor, promotion to

associate professor, for universities in US and Australia;

NEH fellowships; Jackman Research Fellowships; ICREA

Research fellowships); journal refereeing.

Referee, Program Selection, 13th International Kant

Congress, Oslo 2019.

Participation in research meetings, SCOOP gravitation

program.

Charlotte Knowles

I have continued as the contributing news editor for The

Philosophers’ Magazine, I have written news articles for each

of the four issues of the magazine published this year.

Erik Krabbe

has been working with Pieter Sjoerd Hasper for more than

twenty years on a Dutch translation of Aristotle’s Sophistical

Refutations. The translation was actually completed in 2006,

but publication for various reasons postponed until

December 2018. In the meantime the manuscript underwent

many revisions so as to be up to date with contemporary

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Aristotle scholarship. The Dutch title is Over drogredenen:

Sofistische weerleggingen, Groningen: Historische Uitgeverij.

Jan Albert van Laar

Workshop ‘Deliberation’ for Kentalis, Assen (3 April 2018).

Martin Lenz

Since July 2018 I’m running Handling Ideas: A blog on

(writing) philosophy; https://handlingideas.blog/ (so far I have

written 40 texts; the blog’s texts are regularly featured on the

APA Blog and Daily Nous).

Emar Maier

Membership NWO VIDI Interdisciplinary Division committee.

Oberto Marrama

July 2018 – present: reviewer for Archiv für Geschichte der

Philosophie (De Gruyter).

Co-organiser of the symposium “Third Annual Meeting of the

Spinoza Society of Canada / Société canadienne d’études

sur Spinoza : Desiring and Knowing: Bodies, Cognition, and

Power”, at the CPA Congress 2018, Université du Québec à

Montréal, Canada. (June 5, 2018).

Co-organiser of the symposium “Spinoza: Method,

Metaphysics, and Morality / La méthode de Spinoza, sa

métaphysique et sa morale”, at the Congress 2018 of the

Central Division of the APA, University of Chicago, US

(February 21, 2018).

Lodi Nauta

Organizer of a masterclass (12-19 March 2018) while being

Fellow at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome from Jan-

March 2018.

Co-organizer (together with Arnoud Visser, UU) of the annual

Erasmus Birthday Lecture at the KNAW (November 9, 2018).

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Marc Pauly

Co-organized the day of participatory action research with

other RUG science shops on April 12th, 2018.

Jan-Willem Romeijn

Member of the program committee for the PSA 2018 in

Seattle.

Felipe Romero

Workshop Organization: ‘2nd Perspectives on Scientific Error

Workshop’, University of Groningen (co-organized with Jan-

Willem Romeijn, Noah van Dongen, Jan Sprenger, Daniel

Lakens) (29-30 October).

Symposium Organization: ‘The Replication Crisis: How

Should Science Change?’, The 26th Biennial Meeting of the

Philosophy of Science Association, Seattle, Washington

(November 3, 2018).

Referee for: Philosophy of Science, The British Journal for

the Philosophy of Science, The National Science Foundation

(NSF), Erkenntnis, Advances in Methods and Practices in

Psychological Science, Journal for General Philosophy of

Science.

Program Committee: 11th Munich-Sydney-Tilburg/Turin

(MuST) Models and Explanation Conference, Turin, Italy (11-

13 June).

Doina-Christina Rusu

Organiser of the OZSW Annual Meeting of the Study Group

in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Groningen (March

7, 2018).

Member of the Local Organisation Committee of the HOPOS

Annual Meeting (International Society for the History of

Philosophy of Science), University of Groningen (July 9-12,

2018).

Organiser of the Mentoring Programme at the HOPOS

Annual Meeting (International Society for the History of

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Philosophy of Science), University of Groningen (July 9-12,

2018).

Andreas Schmidt

Blog post for democratic audit (UK) [reposted on PPE blog];

title: ‘The power to nudge: can we democratise choice

environments?”

http://www.democraticaudit.com/2018/02/20/the-power-to-

nudge-can-we-democratise-choice-environments/

Titus Stahl

Summer School “Critical Theory”, Groningen (23-27 July

2018), Organiser.

Allard Tamminga

Host of Frederik Van De Putte (Ghent University), guest

researcher at the University of Groningen (April 9-13, 2018).

Judith Vega

Organised the Summer School ‘Critical Theory’, 23-27 July,

with Titus Stahl.

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