Research Activities

Emmy Noether Armchair Labs

The Emmy Noether Armchair Lab is a series of intensive workshops on topics relevant to the research project. The format varies, from conference-style presentations by visiting speakers, to group discussions of advance-read papers, to state-of-the-art seminars by researchers working in related empirical disciplines such as cognitive psychology and linguistics. The Armchair Lab meets at least twice per year.

Upcoming Armchair Labs:

• “New Research on the A Priori” with Yuri Cath (St. Andrews), Daniel Cohnitz (Tartu), Jonathan Ichikawa (St. Andrews), Carrie Jenkins (Nottingham) and Thomas Krödel (Konstanz) (May 2010)
• “Meaning, Modality and Apriority” with Scott Soames (May 2010)
• “Fictionalism” with Daniel Nolan, Robbie Williams (19-20 August 2010)

Recent Armchair Labs:

• “Issues in Philosophical Methodology” with Tamar Gendler and Zoltán Szabó (July 2009)

Conferences

We are planning major international conferences in Germany for 2011 and 2013.

Graduate Conferences

Our first graduate conference will be held in Cologne on 17-18 May 2010. Scott Soames (University of Southern California) will be the keynote speaker:

• Graduate Conference “Meaning, Modality and Apriority”

For 2011 we are tentatively planning a graduate student conference/summer school on epistemology in cooperation with two other Emmy Noether groups in philosophy, on the Philosophy and Logic of Explanation at Humboldt University Berlin and on Formal Epistemology at the University of Konstanz.

Weekly Reading Group

We run a weekly reading group at the University of Cologne on topics related to the research areas of the group and its members. During the current semester the reading group meets on Mondays at 3pm. If you are interested in participating in the reading group, please contact us: contact@fromthearmchair.net.