Guest Editor: Prof. Stephen Gardiner (University of Washington, University of St Andrews)

Guest Editors: Sonja Deppe (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg), Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty (Universitätsmedizin Göttingen), Mark Schweda (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg), Christopher Simon Wareham (Utrecht University), and Julia Zielke (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)

CFP for the topical collection: Waiting for Robot: Toward a Philosophy of Technological Failure, Artificial Life (MIT Press)

Contemporary bioethics has developed sophisticated tools for ethical decision-making. Yet it often operates within assumptions that reduce life to physiological viability. Ethical questions are frequently treated as matters of procedure and consent. Meanwhile, patients and clinicians face questions that exceed these frameworks. What makes a life worth living? How does illness disrupt or reveal meaning? What forms of care support not just survival but existential coherence? These questions call for a deeper engagement between bioethics and the philosophy of existence.

AI raakt het leven van dieren. Maar wie bepaalt waar AI voor wordt ingezet en wie wordt daarbij over het hoofd gezien? Een dag voor iedereen die werkt aan, onderzoekt, of nadenkt over de plek van het dier in een gedigitaliseerde wereld.

CfP ETHICOMP 2027: ‘Tech Shaping Lives’ | 2–4 June 2027 |

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming nearly every aspect of contemporary society. Beyond technological innovation, AI raises profound philosophical, ethical, legal, social, economic, and educational questions that increasingly influence the way we live, work, communicate, and govern.

CfP for the Topical Collection Untangling the Quantum Ecology: Charting the Impact of Quantum Theory and Quantum Technologies on Technoscience and the Digital Transformation, guest-edited by Dr Stefano Calzati (Joint Research Centre, Brussels) and Prof. Robert Braun (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna) in the journal Digital Society.

See the full description of the call.

We welcome research articles (8000 words) or commentaries (3000 words), which can be sent until the 30th of September 2026 via Editorial Manager by selecting "TC-Quantum Ecology". Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis and, if accepted, published as soon as they are ready.

ISMAI: The Journal of the International Society of Medical AI invites submissions to a special issue on clinical judgment, accountability, and responsible medical AI. As AI systems increasingly reach patients before a clinician does, the issue examines who interprets, who decides, and who answers for the outcome, across clinical, ethical, legal, and policy perspectives.

EXPLAIN, JUSTIFY, DEFEND

This Call for Submissions is for a volume in the new Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence series to be published by Brill. Edited by Sara Bizarro (LSU New Orleans)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly embedded in nearly every part of our lives. While this widespread integration offers immense opportunities, it also raises a wide range of ethical, legal, and social aspects (ELSA) or implications (ELSI) that require serious attention. Recent theoretical and empirical research has shown that these aspects often manifest at multiple, interconnected levels (Wang & Blok, 2025; Ryan et al., 2024; Bolte & van Wynsberghe, 2024) — from ethical and legal concerns at the level of newly designed artefacts, such as biased or discriminatory outcomes, infringements on privacy, and lack of transparency, to structural socio-political issues related to the power of big tech companies (Ryan et al. 2024) and ontological issues related to the identification of human and artificial intelligence and its transferability (Blok 2025; Ryan 2025).

The University of Vienna is a community of almost 11,000 individuals, including approximately 7,700 academic staff members, who passionately pursue answers to the profound questions that shape our future. Fueled by curiosity and a deep sense of duty, they contribute invaluable insights to research and teaching, enriching our society. Are you inspired and driven by the desire to make a meaningful impact? We are currently seeking a/an

The organizers inviite your faculty, students, scholars, and institutional leaders to the 2nd Annual TIDEL Summit & Showcase, taking place October 1–2, 2026, in New York City, at Union Theological Seminary and Teachers College, Columbia University.

Editors: Mark Thomas Young (University of Paderborn) & Andrea Gammon (TU Delft)

Call for Papers “Philosophy in Times of War” with Delayed Deadline for Submissions, The Dutch Research School of Philosophy (Nederlandse Onderzoeksschool Wijsbegeerte or OZSW) Chamber of Ethics and Practical Philosophy yearly conference will engage the subject of “Philosophy in Times of War.” We encourage submission of papers for 20 minutes presentations by academics and PhD researchers and research pitches of 5 minutes by graduate students related to description below.

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The Russian-Ukrainian war is the longest, continuous, high-intensity armed conflict in modern Europe (UN 2025) and its number of casualties has reached an estimated 1.5 million people (Lawry et al. 2025). Politicization of campuses followed the protests against Israel’s
onslaught and destruction of living conditions (UN 2024) in Gaza raising concerns over complicity with war crimes and genocide, as well as
demands for boycotts and sanctions. Subsequently, US-Israeli attacks in Iran last summer and more recently have triggered spikes in the prices of fuel and gas, impacting European cost of living, and encouraging inflation globally. Israel’s renewed occupation of Southern Lebanon in complete disregard for the EU’s commitments and traditional ties with Lebanon have caused major concerns in Paris, London, and Berlin and a serious engagement with the possible suspension of the different agreements the EU has with the former. However, in a world where the post-WWII International Order has collapsed, Europe’s ability to influence its path has been undermined, not least as that order was established to prevent war in Europe and maintain some of the privileges of the preceding European-led order. Indeed, since January 2026 alone, British, and French warships have moved to defend Cyprus, drones have exploded in Poland and Romania, and an onslaught of trolls and bots have launched a destabilization and misinformation campaign against EU-democracies unseen since the heydays of the Cold War. War, although a global phenomenon of impressive consistency, has returned to the minds of citizens across the EU and been shaping concrete questions of policy with evermore urgency in recent years. And yet, the ethical and politico-philosophical reflections on this renewed relevance of war have been hesitant at best.

Indeed, all these negative impacts of war on the borders and stability of Europe have not led to a resurgence of opposition to war as the
continuation of politics. If anything, the opposite seems to be the case. Most European NATO members have increased their defence budgetary spending, surpassing the required traditional 2% of GDP and slashing budgets for health and education. Invigorated armies are opening draft for new recruits, branding the military as an exciting new career path for young people in an unstable, rapidly changing world. Are the lights flickering once more across the continent? And if so, where are our voices in the midst of all this?

Where does ethics, political, and social philosophy stand in relation to the resurgence of what seems like classical, inter-state, war making and its related social mobilization? Where do we, as philosophers, citizens, and academics stand in relation to war? Do we have moral duties or political obligations to stand on this or that side even if the Netherlands engages in these conflicts only tangentially? Should
philosophers seek to contribute from their own expertise and collaborate with the army and defence ministry? Or is their task primarily to
problematize, criticize or even disrupt such institutions and their involvement in new war efforts (and, if so: how)?

The University of Copenhagen seeks to appoint a visionary and team-oriented tenure-track assistant professor to commence 1 February, 2027, or as soon as possible thereafter.

We are pleased to announce an international hybrid conference on ethical uncertainty and epistemic injustice in the care of patients with disorders of consciousness, featuring keynote speakers Joseph J. Fins (Weill Cornell Medicine), Ralf J. Jox (University of Lausanne), Havi Carel (University of Bristol), Keith Harris (University of Vienna), and Michael J. Young (Harvard Medical School).

The conference will explore the intersection of neuroethics, epistemology, and clinical practice in the context of disorders of consciousness, addressing topics including epistemic injustice in doctor-family communication, the moral value of uncertainty, power dynamics in clinical decision-making, intellectual virtues and vices in medical contexts, and inference under uncertainty in disorders of consciousness.