Ennoia Symposion A symposion organised by the kata agorein Foundation
Prediction, Purpose, and the Becoming of the Human Person
June, 3-5, 2026
The Ennoia symposion is a multi-year intellectual platform organized around the umbrella theme Being Human in the Age of AI. The series begins with Prediction, Purpose, and the Becoming of the Human Person. Subsequent symposia develop this inquiry by turning to three interrelated dimensions:
Summer 2027
Probability,
Prudence, and the
Exercise of Human
Judgement
Summer 2028
Acceleration, Memory,
and the Rhythm of
Human Time
Summer 2029
Delegation,
Responsibility,
and the Making of
a Shared World
Ennoia is an ancient Greek concept for ‘understanding.’ For the Stoics, it named what all human beings share in virtue of being human. The ENNOIA SYMPOSION draws from this insight — and carries it further. Ennoia is entrusted to us. It grows through encounter before it becomes possession. The age of artificial intelligence invites us to ask again what encounter can give to reason, science, and society — and to place the relational at the centre of how we become human, how we think, how we mark the rhythm of time, and how we build a common world. The ENNOIA SYMPOSION makes encounter its method. And the ennoia that emerges between participants is the measure of our progress.
ENNOIA SYMPOSION is funded by the kata agorein Foundation.
The ENNOIA SYMPOSION is designed to translate the shared human understanding into durable intellectual outcomes. Alongside the annual symposia, it sustains a year-round program of fellowships and seed grants, a curated publication pipeline, and a growing digital knowledge base that documents and extends the work of the series.
Meet theSymposiasts
Katja Krause is a historian of science and a philosopher specializing in medieval thought and beyond.
As technological systems simulate cognitive functions and reproduce their outputs with increasing accuracy, the question of how human reason unfolds becomes one of the decisive philosophical challenges. It is at this juncture that Katja Krause’s research in philosophy and the history of science takes its point of departure.
From her background in the premodern sciences of the human, she develops the philosophical vision of ‘relational rationality’. Reason, she argues, is a becoming of the living human being, constituting and enacting itself in relations: in the experience of reality, in the encounter with other people, in the orientation toward what is true, beautiful, and good, and in the reflexive relation to the self. This insight permeates older traditions; yet with modernity, when reason was reinterpreted as the inner ability of an autonomous subject, this insight receded into the background. Taken to their logical conclusion, some modern understandings of reason make the human appear replaceable. The philosophical engagement with AI, for Krause, therefore consists in making visible those conditions under which human reason comes into its own.
In 2026, Katja Krause established the ENNOIA Symposion on the theme of Being Human in the Age of AI, drawing on the insight that the question of the human is touched by many sciences but can be answered by none alone. With a four-year grant from the kata agorein Foundation, the Symposion pursues a program in which natural scientists, social scientists, engineers, AI researchers, and humanities scholars seek to clarify together what it means to be and to become human in the age of AI.
Krause’s work has its institutional homes at the Faculty of Computer Science of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Visiting Professorship), at the Lamarr Institute (Associated Principal Investigator, via TU Dortmund), at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford (Research Fellow), and at the Angelicum in Rome (Founding Director of the Project for the Arts and Humanities; Endowed Chair at the Faculty of Philosophy).
Lisa Perkuhn is the Scientific Coordinator of the ENNOIA Symposion. She steers the program's budget, fellowships, publications, and reporting; and she delivers its two annual cornerstones: the annual symposium and the Logos Summer Series.
She coordinates all international guests and contributors for each event cycle, and is the first point of contact for inquiries about the Symposion. Her editorial work, moreover, shapes the publications that the Symposion generates, from essays and bibliographies to the multilingual platform and the annual impact report. Her background is in project management, and she holds BAs in Translation and History.
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