Workshops and Conferences

Speakers: Maike Albertzart (Mainz) Dmitry Ananiev (Bielefeld) Douglas Portmore (Notre Dame) Martin Sticker (Bristol) Date and Location: The workshop will be held at Bielefeld University, on June 12th as an in-person event. Summary: The concept of an obligatory end is commonly associated with Kantian ethics, specifically, with Kant's idea that there are duties to adopt the happiness of others and one's own perfection as ends. However, the notion of obligatory ends has been recently attracting philosophical interest from outside Kantian tradition and there is good reason to think that this notion can be fruitfully employed in moral theorising beyond Kantian ethics. Obligatory ends play an important role in …

On December 11th and 12th 2025, we held the Bielefeld-Southampton-Berlin (BiSoBer) Normativity Workshop with keynote lectures by John Skorupski (St. Andrews) and Sarah Stroud (UNC Chapel Hill), and contributed talks by Henrik Andersson (Lund University), Irene Bosco (University of Southern California), Jingzhi Chen (McGill University), Javier González de Prado Salas (UNED Madrid), Daniel Häuser (London School of Economics), Felix Lambrecht (LMU Munich), Marina Moreno (LMU Munich), Brian Talbot (University of Colorado Boulder) and Michael Vollmer (Heidelberg University). Click here to download the workshop programme.

10-12 December 2025, Bielefeld University Keynote Speakers: John Skorupski (St Andrews) Sarah Stroud (UNC Chapel Hill)  Speakers: Henrik Andersson (Lund University) Irene Bosco (University of South California) Jingzhi Chen (McGill University) Javier González de Prado Salas (UNED Madrid) Daniel Häuser (London School of Economics) Felix Lambrecht and Marina Moreno (LMU Munich) Brian Talbot (University of Colorado Boulder) Michael Vollmer (Heidelberg University) The workshop will be held from December 10th to December 12th. It will begin on the evening of December 10th with a keynote talk by Sarah Stroud. All other talks will be held on December 11th and 12th. This workshop will bring together philosophers working on normativity. We …

On October 7th 2025, our research group held a one-day workshop in Herford. 

Call for Abstracts: BiSoBer Normativity Workshop The Bielefeld-Southampton-Berlin (BiSoBer) Normativity Workshop, formerly known as Humboldt-Southampton Normativity Conference, is the tenth edition in a series of annual workshops, alternating between Humboldt University in Berlin, Southampton University, and, stating in 2025, Bielefeld University. The workshop will bring together philosophers working on normativity. We invite submissions on practical, epistemic, and other forms of normativity, on foundational problems of moral philosophy, and on reasons, rationality, and value. Our primary aim is to provide a forum for lively and constructive exchange among philosophers currently working in the field. There are eight slots for contributed papers. …

On June 16th and 17th 2025, we held a conference with Maria Alvarez, Rüdiger Bittner, John Brunero, Jonathan Dancy, Ulrike Heuer, Antti Kauppinen, Benjamin Kiesewetter, Susanne Mantel, Conor McHugh and Shane Ward. Click here to download the workshop programme.

Speakers: Maria Alvarez (King’s College London) Rüdiger Bittner (Bielefeld University) John Brunero (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) Jonathan Dancy (University of Texas, Austin) Ulrike Heuer (University College London) Antti Kauppinen (University of Helsinki) Benjamin Kiesewetter (Bielefeld University) Susanne Mantel (Heidelberg University) Conor McHugh (University of Southampton) Shane Ward (Bielefeld University) Dates and Location: The conference will be held at Bielefeld University in Bielefeld, Germany, from June 11th to June 13th as an in-person event, with no online participation available. It will begin on the evening of June 11 with a keynote talk by Jonathan Dancy. All other talks will be held on June …

On January 16th and 17th 2025, we held a workshop with Dmitry Ananiev, Singa Behrens, Joseph Bowen, Rowan Cruft, Simon Ewers, Giulio Fornaroli, Matthew Perry, Adina Preda, Laura Valentini and Ariel Zylberman. Click here to download the workshop programme.

Confirmed Speakers: Dmitry Ananiev (Bielefeld) Singa Behrens (Bielefeld) Joseph Bowen (Leeds) Rowan Cruft (Stirling) Simon Ewers (Zurich) Giulio Fornaroli (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) Matthew Perry (British Columbia) Adina Preda (Trinity College Dublin) Laura Valentini (LMU Munich) Ariel Zylberman (SUNY Albany) Moral rights occupy a central place in contemporary moral theorizing. At the same time, a promising hypothesis in the theory of normativity is that normative phenomena (including moral phenomena) can be explained in terms of reasons, i.e., in terms of the factors that count in favour of actions or attitudes. The aim of this workshop is to investigate and discuss the …

On October 24th and 25th 2024, we held a conference with Singa Behrens, Selim Berker, John Broome, Shlomit Wygoda Cohen, Daniel Fogal, Benjamin Kiesewetter, Stephanie Leary, Olle Risberg, Eva Schmidt and Eliot Watkins. Click here to download the conference programme.