elbphi:2026 (The Philosophy Workshop on the Elbe)

26-27 June 2026

Location: DEEPTECH Campus, Heimhuderstrasse 56, 20148 Hamburg

The Workshop is a joint initiative of Matthew Braham (UHH) and Max Kiener (TUHH)
and generously supported by the DFG Graduate Program “Collective Decision-Making”.

If you would like to attend, please sign up here.

Program

	Time	Title	Speaker	Abstract
Friday, 26.06.	09:30-11:00	“Defining Deepfakes”	Caroline Benn, Cambridge	In this talk I discuss the need for a new definition of deep fakes that can explain the ethical and political problems that deepfakes raise.
	11:15 - 12:45	“Automating the Bureaucracy”	Luise Müller, FU Berlin	In this talk, I discuss the question whether we have egalitarian reasons for automating bureaucratic procedures.
	14:15 - 15:45	“The Myth of Collective Agency”	Matthew Braham, UHH	In this talk I will analyse and refute the standard argument in social ontology that infers ontological holism from the non-additive or superadditive character of collective outcomes.
	16:00 - 17:30	“The Definition of Antisemitism”	John Hyman, UCL	In this talk I shall consider what definitions are, the forms they take, their validity and their use; and then reassess the IHRA definition of antisemitism and the criticism of it, especially by historians and lawyers.
Saturday, 27.06.	09:30 - 11:00	“Criminal wrongdoing and what we owe to each other”	Erasmus Mayr, FAU Nürnberg	tba
	11:15 - 12:45	“Dementia, Binds, and Nudges”	Anna Mahtani, LSE	In this paper I explore the ethics and practical consequences of nudging rather than binding one’s future self.