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World Desk · 23 August 2026 · Scott J. Shapiro
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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.
World Desk · 2 September 2026
The 5th World Congress on Logic and Religion meets in Vancouver from 23 to 27 September. Alongside the classical debates in theology, the programme sets artificial intelligence, epistemic coherence and traditions from Jainism to China. One question runs through all of it: under what conditions can a person believe rationally?
A congress on Timothy Williamson in Shanghai, the Kyoto Prize ceremony, and World Philosophy Day on 19 November. The international philosophy calendar for the autumn is set.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has honoured the Princeton philosopher known for 'constructive empiricism' in the philosophy of science. The prize is 600,000 Swedish kronor.
Marking a century in print, the journal returns to an article it published a quarter of a century ago: Bernard Williams's 'Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline'.
Philosophy of mathematics
The fifth international conference of the Italian network for the philosophy of mathematics, at the University of Bologna. One keynote, by Chris Pincock, asks: do mathematical objects have a nature?
Philosophy, science, politics and art
The festival that calls itself the world's largest philosophy and music festival comes to London in September. Emily Wilson speaks on adaptations of Homer in a session titled 'The Ego and the Epic'.
Logic, philosophy of religion and the epistemology of belief
The fifth international congress on the relation between logic and religion, reason and faith, meets in Vancouver. Working groups run from artificial intelligence and epistemic coherence to the Jain and Chinese traditions.
Stephen Batchelor compares the Buddha and Socrates through method rather than doctrine: neither wrote a book, and each proceeded by questioning.
Yale University Press · 2026 · English
Publisher page →Philippe Huneman examines the effect on identity and the social fabric of predictive algorithms that place an individual into a class of probability.
Stanford University Press · 2026 · English
Publisher page →Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah examines the mutual construction of religion and the birth of the social sciences: as the disciplines were established in the nineteenth century, the concept of 'religion' was itself reshaped.
Yale University Press · 2026 · English
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