Workshops
45. Organisation of the international workshop “Modification and (non-)existence-entailing predicates”, Essen, Haus der Technik, 23th – 24th of September, 2024. [planned]
https://sites.google.com/view/modificationandexistence/home
44. Organisation of the international workshop “Proper names and their semantic relationship to (other) singular terms”, Dortmund, Sparkassenakademie, 22th – 23th of August, 2024. [planned]
43. Organisation of the international workshop “Bochum Meets Grazer Philosophische Studien”, Ruhr University, Bochum, Veranstaltungszentrum, 6th – 7th of March, 2024, Speakers: M. David, M. Fürst, G. Melchior, R. Pils, J. Horvath, D. Rami.
42. Organisation of the workshop “Wirklichkeit und Existenz”, Bochum, 13th of October 2023, Speakers: G. Gabriel, D. Rami, E. Viebahn, E.-M. Konrad, J. Köpping.
https://sites.google.com/view/fiktionundwirklichkeit/home
41. Organisation of the international workshop “Fiction and Existence”, Essen, Haus der Technik, 2023, 29th – 30th of September, 2023, Speakers: Uygar Abaci, Wouter Cohen, Karen Green, Michael Kremer, Jan Köpping, Dolf Rami, Mark Siebel, Hamid Taieb. https://sites.google.com/view/fictionandexistence/home
40. Organisation of the international workshop “Higher-Order Theories of Existence. From Kant to Quine”, Dortmund, Sparkassenakademie, 25th – 26th of September, 2023, Speakers: Stacie Friend, Manuel García-Carpintero, Dominic Gregory, Frederick Kroon, Dolf Rami, François Recanati, Louis Rouillé, Alberto Voltolini, Zsófia Zvolenszky. https://sites.google.com/view/higher-order-theories/home
39. Organisation of the international workshop “Existential entailments of general and singular propositions”, Göttingen, 31st of August – 1st of September 2023, (together with Jan Köpping). https://sites.google.com/view/quantandexistentialimport/home
38. Organisation of the international workshop “Existenz und Quantifikation bei Frege, seinen Zeitgenossen und Vorgängern“, Göttingen, 18th - 21th of August 2022. Invited Speakers: Gottfried Gabriel, Volker Peckhaus, Wolfgang Kienzler, Tabea Rohr, Markus Rossberg, Mark Siebel, Michele Vagnetti, Hamid Taieb.
37. Organisation of the international workshop Nonexistent Objects, die Wolfsburg: katholische Akademie, Duisburg, 3rd to 4th of June 2022. Invited speakers: Friederike Moltmann, Graham Priest, Nathan Salomon, Niall Campbell, Maria Reicher-Marek, Alberto Voltolini, Lee Walters.
36. Organisation of the online-workshop Existence and Free Logic, 6th – 8th of October 2021. Invited speakers: Christoph Benzmüller, John Nolt, Graham Priest, Thomas Hofweber, Nathan Salmon. Participants: Mark Sainsbury, Lee Walters, Louis de Rouille.
35. Organisation of the online-workshop Empty Names (together with Giulia Felappi), 11th – 12th of January 2021; Participants apart from the organizers: Manuel Garcia-Carpintero (Barcelona), Eliot Michaelson (London), Stefano Predelli (Nottingham), Mark Sainsbury (Austin), Lee Walters (Southampton).
34. Organisation of the international conference The Natural History of the Concept of Being, at the department of philosophy I, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, 13th – 14th of February 2020, external speakers: Fedor Benevich (Muinch); Lesley Brown (Oxford), Gabriele Galluzzo (Exceter), Gyula Klima (New York), Ohad Nachtomy (Tel Aviv), Nick Stang (Toronto), Rainer Stuhlmann-Laeisz (Bonn), Mark Textor (London).
33. Organisation of the international conference Logic in Bochum V: Metaphysics & Modal Logic, at the department of philosophy I, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, 4th - 5th of July 2019, external participants: Kai Wehmeier (Irvine); Timothy Williamson (Oxford); Elia Zardini (Lisbon).
32. Organisation of the international conference Philosophie der Logik zwischen Kant und Frege [Philosophy of logic between Kant and Frege] (together with Christian Beyer and Stefan Klingner], at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, 18th – 19th of July 2019, (supported by the Fritz-Thyssen Stiftung).
31. Organisation of the 8th Göttingen Compact Seminar in Logic, The logic and semantics of indexicals, given by Stefano Predelli (Nottingham) at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, 26th of February – 1st of March 2019.
30. Organisation of the 3rd Göttingen Compact Seminar in the History of Analytic Philosophy, Frege, given by Mark Textor (London) at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, 11th – 14th of September 2018.
29. Organisation of the 7th Göttingen Compact Seminar in Logic, Variables and Quantification, given by Brian Rabern (Edinburgh) at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, 19th – 23rd of March 2018.
28. Organisation of the Arbeitsgruppe AG 15, Reference Determination: Literal and Non-literal uses of referring expressions, (together with Thomas Ede Zimmermann and Sarah Zobel) at the 40. DGfS-Jahrestagung, Stuttgart, 7th- 8th of March 2018.
27. Organisation of the 6th Göttingen Compact Seminar in Logic, Logik und Wahrscheinlichkeit [logic and probability] given by Hannes Leitgeb (München) at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, 11th-14th of October 2017.
26. Organisation of the 1st Göttingen-Chicago-Colloquium (together with Holmer Steinfath, Mario Brandhorst and Hannes Worthmann) at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, 10th-11th of July 2017.
25. Organisation of the 2st Göttingen Compact Seminar in the History of Analytic Philosophy (together with Hannes Worthmann), Russell’s Philosophical Development from 1903-1918 given by Michael Kremer (Chicago) at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, 3rd- 7th of July 2017.
24. Organisation of the compact seminar Von Brentano zum Wiener Kreis [From Brentano to the Vienna Circle] (together with Christian Beyer) given by Mark Textor (King’s College London) at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, 11th- 12th of May 2017.
23. Organisation of the lecture series “Ist die Demokratie noch zu retten? Vortragsreihe: Demokratie und Aufklärung“, at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, summer term 2017.
22. Organisation of the 1st Göttingen Compact Seminar in the History of Analytic Philosophy, Wittgenstein über Regelfolgen given by James Conant (Chicago) at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, 14th- 17th of September 2016.
21. Organisation of the 5th Göttingen Compact Seminar in Logic, Vagueness given by Elia Zardini (Lisbon) at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, 31th of August-3rd of September 2016.
20. Organisation of the Colloquium “Philosophie, Wissenschaft und Alltäglichkeit” in Honor of Prof. Felix Mühlhölzer at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Göttingen, Germany, 20-21 Feburary 2016. Speakers: Wolfgang Carl, Volker Halbach, Godehard Link, Stefan Majetschak, Olaf Müller, Wolfgang Spohn and Holger Sturm.
19. Organisation of the 4th Göttingen Compact Seminar in Logic, Einführung in die zwei-dimensionale Mögliche-Welten-Semantik [Introduction to two-dimensional possible-worlds-semantics] given by Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Frankfurt) at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, 23-26 July 2015.
18. Organisation of the book symposium: “The Nonexistent” (Anthony Everett) (together with Tobias Klauk and Tilmann Köppe) at the Courant Center Textstructures at the University of Göttingen, Germany, 18-19 July 2015. Speakers: Anthony Everett, Wilfried Keller, Tobias Klauk, Dolf Rami, Frank Sode, Jan Stühring and Lee Walters.
17. Organisation of the compact seminar Bewusstsein und Intentionalität: Zu einigen Themen aus Brentanos Philosophie II [Consciousness and Intentionality: On some themes of Brentano’s philosophy II] (together with Christian Beyer) given by Mark Textor (King’s College London) at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, 1-2 July 2015.
16. Organisation of the 3rd Göttingen Compact Seminar in Logic, Formal Theories of Truth and Paradoxes (together with Edgar Onea) given by Volker Halbach (Oxford) at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, July 2014.
15. Organisation of the international conference Proper Names: Semantics vs. Pragmatics (together with Thomas Ede Zimmermann) at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, June 2014 (supported by the Fritz-Thyssen Stiftung). Speakers: Graeme Forbes, Delia Graff Fara, Aidan Gray, Klaus von Heusinger, Ora Matushansky, Dolf Rami, Francois Recanati, Peter Ridley and Thomas Ede Zimmermann.
14. Organisation of the compact seminar Bewusstsein und Intentionalität: Zu einigen Themen aus Brentanos Philosophie [Consciousness and Intentionality: On some themes of Brentano’s philosophy] (together with Christian Beyer) given by Mark Textor (King’s College London) at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, January 2014.
13. Organisation of the international workshop The Nature of Fictional Characters (together with Tobias Klauk and Christiana Werner) at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, November 2013; Speakers: Fiora Salis, Tatjana von Solodkoff, Graham Priest and Lee Walters.
12. Organisation of the 2nd Göttingen Compact Seminar in Logic, Introduction to Non-Classical Logic (together with Edgar Onea) given by Graham Priest (CUNY) at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, September 2013.
11. Organisation of the international conference The Individuation of Proper Names & the Determination of their Reference (together with Peter Ridley), King’s College London, United Kingdom, May 2013. (Supported by King’s College London, Aristotelian Society und Mind-Association). Speakers: Frank Jackson, Gail Leckie, Hans Kamp, Genoveva Marti, Dolf Rami, Peter Ridley, Louis de Rosset, Mark Sainsbury and Mark Textor.
10. Organisation of a reading group on Spielarten des Skeptizismus [Varieties of Scepticism] with James Conant (Chicago) during the summer term 2013 at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany.
09. Organisation of the international conference The Semantics of Fictional Discourse (together with Tobias Klauk and Tilmann Köppe) at the Courant Center „Textstructures“ at the University of Göttingen, Germany, March 2013; Speakers: Anthony Everett, Stacie Friend, Tobias Klauk, Peter Lamarque, Dolf Rami, Mark Textor, Alberto Voltolini and Christiana Werner.
08. Organisation of the international conference Proper Names: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives (together with Mark Textor and Christian Beyer) at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg Göttingen, Germany, August 2011 (supported by the Lichtenberg-Kolleg [German Research Foundation (DFG)]). Speakers: Stephen Barker, Robin Jeshion, Hans Kamp, Ora Matushansky, Giuseppe Longobardi, Emar Maier, Stefano Predelli, Dolf Rami, Mark Sainsbury, Mark Textor and Kenneth Taylor.
07. Organisation of the international conference Nothing but the Truth (together with Benjamin Schnieder and his phlox-group) at the Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany, August 2010 (supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG)). Speakers: Arvid Bave, Stefano Caputo, Marian David, Volker Halbach, Max Kölbel, David Liggins, Dolf Rami and Peter Schulte.
06. Organisation of the international conference A Matter of Attitude (together with Magdalena Schwager) at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg Göttingen, Germany, February 2010 (supported by the by the Lichtenberg-Kolleg [German Research Foundation (DFG)]). Speakers: Stephen Schiffer, Graeme Forbes, Kenneth Taylor, Friederike Moltmann, Tobias Rosefeldt, Benjamin Schnieder, Moritz Schulz and Thomas Ede Zimmermann.
05. Organisation of the 1st Göttingen Compact Seminar in Logic, Nicht-klassische Prädikatenlogik [Non-classical predicate logic] (together with Magdalena Schwager) given by Heinrich Wansing (Bochum) at the the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, October 2009.
04. Organisation of the international workshop Wozu Substanzen? [Why substances?] (together with Andree Hahmann und Bernd Ludwig) at the department of philosophy of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany, September 2009 (supported by Fritz-Thyssen Foundation). Speakers: Andreas Brandt, Konrad Cramer, Andree Hahmann, Johannes Hübner, Bernd Ludwig, Christof Rapp, Dolf Rami, Andreas Schmidt, Benjamin Schnieder and Käthe Trettin.
03. Organisation of the philosophical colloquium Realismus, Wahrheit und Existenz [Realism, Truth and Existence] during the winter term 2006/2007 at the University of Technology Dresden, Germany. Speakers: Andre Fuhrmann, Frank Hofmann, Geert Keil, Max Kölbel, Alexander Miller and Olaf Müller.
02. Organizational assistance: international conference Ontologie und Institutionen [Ontology and Institutions] at the University of Technology Dresden, Germany, June 2004 (supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG)). Keynote Speakers: Peter Simons, Johanna Seibt.
01. Organizational assistance: international conference Normativität und Faktizität [Normativity and Facticity] at the University of Technology Dresden, Germany, April 2003 (supported by Fritz-Thyssen Foundation). Keynote Speaker: Gerold Prauss.