Call for Abstracts: Knowing by Example
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18. März 2026
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Call for papers
Knowing by Example
Workshop
Nuremberg, October 8–9, 2026
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2026
Focusing on ancient, medieval, and early modern materials across diverse cultural traditions, the workshop investigates how examples achieve epistemic force within different knowledge cultures. It asks how exemplary reasoning stabilizes or challenges knowledge claims, structures judgment and comparison, and shapes epistemic communities across time and cultural boundaries. How do examples foster shared modes of reasoning? How do they connect communities and stimulate further inquiry—whether through paradigmatic cases, authoritative repertoires such as the Greek paradeigma and Roman exemplum, or through hypothetical and thought examples that function as heuristics for theory formation?
The workshop combines participants’ contributions (ca. 20 minutes) — including paper presentations and impulse talks — with close readings of selected key passages from thinkers such as Aristotle, Quintilian, and Bacon. Both formats are designed to foster sustained discussion and to consolidate a shared conceptual vocabulary for analyzing exemplarity as an epistemic practice.
Participants
The workshop warmly welcomes contributions from Classicists, Sinologists, Judaists, Medieval and Early Modern scholars, philosophers, historians of science, epistemologists, and researchers from related disciplines. We invite applications from advanced PhD candidates to senior researchers and particularly encourage contributions that engage across disciplinary and cultural boundaries.
Organization
UTN covers the costs of a round-trip to (Deutsche Bahn, 2nd class) and accommodation in Nuremberg for all participants.
Application
Please submit:
· An abstract of approximately 300 words
· A short bio (max. 150 words), including an email address
Please send submissions by June 30, 2026 to tobias.hirsch@utn.de
Organizers
Gyburg Uhlmann, Chair and Professor of Classics, University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN)
Dana Jalobeanu, Professor of Early Modern Philosophy, UTN
Tobias Hirsch, Postdoctoral Researcher in Classics, UTN
Contact
tobias.hirsch@utn.de
The complete Call for Abstracts can be found here as a PDF-Download.
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