The reading group of the project New Paths in the Philosophy of Hybrid Representations restarts in October 2025.
The first term of 2025-2026 is dedicated to recent work on philosophy of language in connection with AI, propaganda, and conspiracy theories.
The second term of 2025-2026 is dedicated to manipulation and deception, and hate speech.
Unless otherwise indicated, we meet every other week on Fridays at 13:00 (local time) online via zoom. We invite the authors of papers to join us for discussion, whenever possible
SESSIONS:
- 1st Session: Una Stojnić (Princeton), “Meaning in chatbots”
Una Stojnić, “Meaning in chatbots” (work in progress)
17 October 2025, 13:30, via zoom
- 2nd Session: Anna Ichino (Milan), “The Imagination View of Conspiracy Attitudes”
Anna Ichino, “The Imagination View of Conspiracy Attitudes”, forthcoming in Research Handbook on Conspiracy Theories, edited by Melina Tsapos and David Coady, Edwar Elgars Publishing; forthcoming 2026
24 October 2025, via zoom
- 3rd Session: Stefan Rinner (Duisburg-Essen), “Scorekeeping in a Therapeutic Language Game”
Stefan Rinner, “Scorekeeping in a therapeutic language game”, Philosophy, 99 (2024)
14 November 2025, via zoom
- 4th Session: Megan Hyska (Northwestern), “The Politics of Past and Future: Synthetic Media, Showing, and Telling”
Megan Hyska, “The politics of past and future: synthetic media, showing, and telling” Phil. Studies. 182:137–158 (2025)
5 December 2025, via zoom
- 5th Session: María Bibiloni (University of Aberdeen), “A Decolonial Criticism of Content-Based Theories of Slurs”
María Bibiloni, “A Decolonial Criticism of Content-Based Theories of Slurs”, PhD thesis
- 6th Session: Manuel García-Carpintero (University of Barcelona), “Conspiracy Theories as Fictions”
Manuel García-Carpintero (University of Barcelona), “Conspiracy Theories as Fictions”, work-in-progress
23 January 2026, via zoom
- 7th Session: Schlomo Cohen (Ben-Gurion University), “Manipulation and Deception”
Shlomo Cohen (2018) Manipulation and Deception, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 96:3, 483-497, DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2017.1386692
6 February 2026, via zoom
- 8th Session: Robert Noggle (Central Michigan University), “Manipulative Actions: A Conceptual and Moral Analysis”
