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The philosopher who established that the content of our thoughts is not fixed inside our heads published a new book in August. Burge answers the two scepticisms that have run since Descartes, and both answers come from one place: understanding is a far greater achievement than we suppose.
Oxford's philosophy conference for graduate students meets for the thirtieth time on 13 and 14 November. The keynote speakers are David Chalmers, Monima Chadha and Rob Simpson. One detail of the design separates it from the ordinary student gathering: every paper draws a reply from an Oxford faculty member.
David Chalmers
The essay prizes awarded by the Marc Sanders Foundation across seven fields are one of the most concrete openings in contemporary philosophy for researchers at the start of a career. What sets them apart takes one sentence: independent scholars may apply. The early modern prize closes on 1 October.
Philosophy's centre of gravity is moving. Set the past week's calls for papers, new books, prizes and journal articles side by side and the picture is clear enough: the discipline has eight live fronts, and nearly all of them run back to the same three questions.
The New School for Social Research is giving Stanley Cavell two days on 30 and 31 October. The focus falls on his writings about art — and on the constitutive part that scepticism about other minds plays in his reading of it. Alice Crary and Jay Bernstein are among the speakers.
The rule behind the APA and Phi Beta Kappa's Lebowitz Prize is unusual: the winners must be two philosophers defending opposing views on the same question. In 2026 it went to Felipe De Brigard and Sarah Robins. The question they disagree about looks simple: is remembering a kind of imagining?
Two philosophers in Singapore have launched the first international competition for philosophy papers written by artificial intelligence. David Chalmers and John Hawthorne sit on the panel. The real argument, though, is not about the prize money: what is the criterion for a good philosophical text, and who sets it?
David Chalmers
Christian Tornau, a Latinist at Würzburg, has identified two previously unknown sermons by Augustine in a monastic manuscript held in Poland. Their subject is the Witch of Endor summoning a dead prophet — which is to say, the question of whether God is omnipotent. The sermons give no answer; they leave the congregation to think.
The world congress of logic, methodology and philosophy of science has met every four years since 1960. The eighteenth is at Kobe University in August 2027. The call for papers is open — and the single word added to the congress's name tells you how the field has changed in a quarter of a century.
