Keynote Speakers

International Congress

What is it? That's the Question!

Rio de Janeiro, July 27-31, 2026

Vasilis Politis

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

"The ti esti question and the philosophical revisability of language"

Alan C. Love

University of Minnesota, USA

"What is evolution?"

Franca D'Agostini

University of Turin, Italy

"What is nothing?"

Thomas Adajian

James Madison University, USA

"What is art?"

Sylvain Delcomminette

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

"What is a Platonic definition?"

Caroline Pires Ting

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Macau International Institute, Macau

"What is beauty ?"

Otávio Bueno

University of Miami, USA

"What is truth?"

Kevin Timpe

Calvin University, USA

"What is freedom?"

Claudia Passos Ferreira

University of New York, USA

"What is empathy?"

Fernando Santoro

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

"What is what is it? ?"

Jonathan Westphal

Yale University, USA

"Asking and Answering the 'What is it?' Question?"

Maria Giulia Dondero

University of Liège, Belgium,

"What is an image?"

André Martins Vilar de Carvalho

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

"What is real?"

Oksana Cherkashina

State University of Moscow, Russia

"What is justice?"

Henrique Fortuna Cairus

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

"The Hippocratic ti esti"

Renato Kinouchi

Federal University of ABC, Brazil

"What is risk ?"

Tatiana Denisova

University of the Aegean, Greece

"What is loneliness?"

Décio Krause

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Brazilian Academy of Philosophy

"What is identity?"

David Papineau

King's College, London, UK

"What is sport?"

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