November 2024 - HPS_EST - Philosophy bulletin board

by Vinzenz Fischer

Dear all, by now I'm so confused if we communicate in English or German. We have a date! Our Meet-Up will be on Tuesday, the 26.11.2024 at 19:00 h. There is no fixed location yet. I propose the Spielebar as a possible location. If you have any other suggestions please let me know. Remember (students) to join the student signal group: https://signal.group/#CjQKII9CIPWOjPBrfU1RkePZsdPqez-misg9E3-DGxZJbVPSEhDEu… See you then! Vinzenz

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POSTPONEMENT Vienna STS Talks - FutureSpace Talk by Eleanor S Armstrong & Réka P Gál

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 6th talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2024W [cid:image001.jpg@01DB311F.4E1BE600] FutureSpace Talk by Eleanor Armstrong & Réka Gál Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester & STS, TU Munich December 11, 2024 04:00 PM-05:00 PM The Playboy Bunny and the Astronaut Wife: Constructing Femininities and the United States Space Program. You can register for the talk here<https://futurespace-project.eu/futurespace-talk-registration/> Abstract Inspired by Ahmed (2010), we follow the figures of the 'playboy bunny' and the 'astronaut wife' through the cultural legacies of (north american) space flight. Following from our work on what feminist interventions can offer to social studies of outer space (2023), in this talk we work through how femininities of the Other of the hegemonic masculinities of outer space are constructed. Our work asks how these figures reverberate in popular cultures to shape present and futures conceptions of femininity in outer space, and offer pathways that intervene in normative gendered futurities. In following these figures, we think about what illuminating them might do also for directing pathways of feminist scholarship on outer space in the future. We consider the Playboy Bunny: a construct of the pornotopic 1950s, and the discursive counterpoint to the womanizing young man. Appearing off-handedly in archival interviews about life at Johnson Space Center during the early space programmes of the 1950s and 60s, making her way secretly into lunar checklists worn by astronauts on the Moon, and continuing to draw media attention into the 2000s, we draw on Preciado's biopolitical theorising (2019) to think through the sexual relations and gender politics of the space programme. Contrastingly on the mother-whore axis, stands the media construct of the "astronaut wife." Using perspectives from Feminist Communication Studies, we explore how the assigned duties of the astronaut wife upheld the figure of the hypermasculine astronaut. We argue that the caretaking duties assigned to the figure of the "astronaut wife" extended beyond the confines of her homeboundness and homemaking into outer space: she was rendered part of the communication technologies available to take care of the hypermasculine astronaut's mental health. We conclude by considering how these examples help us pluralise and (re)make future femininities in relation to outer space. Biography Eleanor S Armstrong is a Space Research Fellow at the University of Leicester, UK, where she leads the Constellations Lab (on Outer Space & Feminism). She was awarded her PhD at University College London, UK, in 2020; and since then has held positions at the University of Delaware and Stockholm University, and visiting positions at, among others, the University of Cambridge, Ingenium Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation, New York University, and University of Vienna. Réka P Gál is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Technische Universität München. She completed her doctorate at University of Toronto's Faculty of Information. She is the co-editor of Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times: A Critical Atlas of the Anthropocene, published by meson press. Organiser Nina Klimburg-Witjes, Assist. Prof. STS Dep Vienna / PI "FutureSpace" & Joseph Popper (Postdoc Researcher, STS Dep Vienna / FutureSpace) FutureSpace (ERC Starting Grant Project), Department of Science and Technology Studies Location online via zoom<https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63251489007?pwd=FBTgiIoQbHPTvmHhnjFwObba9mAGqZ.7> [cid:image006.png@01DB3120.3735F880] Best wishes, Katrin Hackl __________ Mag. Katrin Hackl Research Support & Communication Department of Science and Technology Studies University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 /II/ 6th floor (NIG) 1010 Vienna / Austria Tel.: 0043-1-4277-496007 [cid:image002.jpg@01DB311F.4E1BE600]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/>

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IVC Talk: Georg Schiemer "On two types of instrumental devices", November 14, 4.45pm

by Zarah Weiss

Dear all, our next speaker in the Philosophy of Science Colloquium organized by the Institute Vienna Circle is Georg Schiemer, who will give a talk on November 14, 4.45-6.15 pm. All are welcome! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philosophy of Science Colloquium TALK: Georg Schiemer On two types of instrumental devices Philosophy of Science Colloquium The Institute Vienna Circle holds a Philosophy of Science Colloquium with talks by our present fellows. Date: 14/11/2024 Time: 16h45 Venue: New Institute Building (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, HS 2G Abstract: Instrumental devices are linguistic expressions that are formal or non-representational but nevertheless indispensable or at least instrumentally useful for certain theoretical purposes. We give a systematic study of such expressions and their roles in theorizing, thus offering a unified treatment of instrumental devices across different philosophical areas. Specifically, we present an explication of two general types of such devices, namely merely expressive devices and merely inferential devices and discuss their respective theoretical roles based on a number of philosophical examples. Joint work with Hannes Leitgeb (LMU Munich).

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Call for Applications - Summer School on History and Epistemology of Econometrics - Vienna July 2025

by Zarah Weiss

Summer School Call for Applications (Deadline: February 15, 2025) 23rd univie: summer school Scientific World Conceptions (USS-SWC) The History and Epistemology of Econometrics Vienna, July 7-11, 2025 https://summerschool-ivc.univie.ac.at/ Course Description Models and their econometric estimation play an increasingly important role in modern economic and political life. From macroeconomic policy and financial regulation to public health and climate policy, models contribute to shaping policies. The generation of ever more data is likely to support the proliferation of models and econometrics. Research resources in academia focus on the theoretical foundations of the underlying model and on the statistical methods of econometrics; much less attention is devoted to the epistemological challenges of the underlying concepts, the normative challenges of the everyday work with econometrics, and the application of its results in policy decisions and evaluation. The objective of this program is to increase attention amongst philosophers of science, academic economists, and empirical economists in policy institutions (eg, central banks) to these issues. The course is also structured around a particular point of view namely, that economics is a science of models and that most of the main features of econometrics relate generally to the role of models in science. Topics will be selected reflecting participants interests and may include: * History of econometrics to frame the philosophical issues to be discussed in the course * The Vienna Circle and econometrics * Values and Ethical Pitfalls in econometric research * Key philosophical issues of how models relate to the world and how they relate to each other * Data: observation, classification, and measurement of economic variables from a modeling point of view * Conceptual issues related to modeling randomness * The identification problem: how possibly, if at all possible, to map descriptive relations onto theoretical variables? * Issues related to optional stopping, search methodologies, and the proper interpretation of results obtained through search * Different approaches to the nature of causation and different strategies of causal inference * The conceptual basis of graphical causal modeling and controlled, natural, and field experiments * The conceptual issues surrounding the problem of model uncertainty, as well as some of the strategies economists use to address it Main Lecturers: Kevin D. Hoover (Duke University) Kevin D. Hoover is Professor of Economics and Philosophy and Senior Fellow of the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. He is the editor of the journal History of Political Economy and a past editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology. His current research addresses causality, causal inference in economics, the history of macroeconomics, philosophical issues related to the microfoundations of macroeconomics, and the engagement with economics of the American pragmatist philosopher Charles. S. Peirce. He is the author of The New Classical Macroeconomics, the Methodology of Empirical Macroeconomics, Causality in Macroeconomics, Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics, as well as many articles in monetary and macroeconomics, the history of economics, the philosophy of economics, and applied econometrics. Jennifer Jhun (Duke University) Jennifer Jhun is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Duke University, as well as a Senior Fellow of the Center for the History of Political Economy. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. Her main research interests are in the philosophy of science, especially philosophy of economics, but also in issues in other areas, such as psychology and physics. She is currently engaged on a project that investigates antitrust from a historical and philosophy-of-science perspective: Whats the Point of ceteris Paribus? or, How to Understand Supply and Demand Curves. Philosophy of Science 85, no. 2 (2018): 271-292; Economics, Equilibrium Methods, and Multi-scale Modeling. Erkenntnis 86, no. 2 (2021): 457-472; Multi-Model Reasoning in Economics: The Case of COMPASS. Philosophy of Science 90, no. 4 (2023): 836-854; Implied Market Shares and Antitrust Markets as Fuzzy Sets. Forthcoming at The Antitrust Bulletin. (Joint with Matthew Panhans, Federal Trade Commission) Guest Lecturer: Marcel Boumans (University of Utrecht) Marcel Boumans is historian and philosopher of science at Utrecht University. His main research focus is on understanding empirical research practices in science outside the lab from a philosophy of science-in-practice perspective. He is particularly interested in the practices of measurement and modelling and the role of mathematics in social science. The first step in these practices is to make sense of the available data. Visualisations play an important role in this. His current research project Vision and Visualisation is nearing completion with a book manuscript Shaping the Phenomena. The program is primarily directed at graduate students and junior researchers in philosophy of science and economics as well as empirical economists at policy institutions (eg, central banks) but the organizers also encourage applications from people in all stages of their career and from fields other than economics that apply advanced econometrics. Application form and further information: <https://summerschool-ivc.univie.ac.at/application/> https://summerschool-ivc.univie.ac.at/application/ USS-SWC operates under the academic supervision of an International Program Committee of distinguished philosophers, historians, and scientists. Its members represent the scientific fields in the scope of USS-SWC, make contact to their home universities and will also support acknowledgement of courses taken by the students. The annual summer school is organised by the Institute Vienna Circle of the University of Vienna. <https://wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/> https://wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/ Find information about our exchange programme with Duke University (North Carolina) here: <https://international.univie.ac.at/en/international-cooperation/university- wide-partnership-agreements/north-america/> https://international.univie.ac.at/en/international-cooperation/university-w ide-partnership-agreements/north-america/ Inquiries: Administrator: Zarah Weiss Institute Vienna Circle Alser Straße 23/32 1080 Wien <mailto:summerschool.ivc@univie.ac.at> summerschool.ivc(a)univie.ac.at Scientific director: Georg Schiemer Institute Vienna Circle Alser Straße 23/32 1080 Wien <mailto:georg.schiemer@univie.ac.at> georg.schiemer(a)univie.ac.at

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Workshop und Wiener Kreis Vorlesung über Moritz Schlick

by Vienna Circle Society

Das Institut Wiener Kreis und die Wiener Kreis Gesellschaft laden sehr herzlich ein zur 32. Wiener Kreis Vorlesung Massimo Ferrari (University of Turin) Moritz Schlick und sein Zirkel. Nach 100 Jahren Donnerstag, 28. November 2024 17 Uhr Aula am Campus Universität Wien Hof 1, Eingang 1.11 Spitalgasse 2-4 1090 Wien Wir laden außerdem sehr herzlich zu einem Workshop am Vormittag: Neue Forschung über Moritz Schlick - Zwei Buchprojekte: Julia Franke-Reddig (Universität Siegen) Zur Kontinuität und Eigenständigkeit der Wissenschaftsphilosophie von Moritz Schlick (2025) Friedrich Stadler (Universität Wien) Moritz Schlick, Philosophie der Natur, Kultur und Geschichte. Ausgewählte Schriften aus dem Nachlass (2025) 28. November 2024, 10-12 Uhr Aula am Campus Vorträge in deutscher Sprache Eintritt frei, um Anmeldung wird gebeten: vcs(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:vcs@univie.ac.at> Weitere Informationen entnehmen Sie bitte dem Anhang

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IVC Talk: Lorenzo Sartori on "Scientific Pictures, Models, and their Justification", November 7, 4.45pm

by Zarah Weiss

Dear all, our next speaker in the Philosophy of Science Colloquium organized by the Institute Vienna Circle is Lorenzo Sartori (IVC Fellow), who will give a talk on November 7, 4.45-6.15 pm. All are welcome! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philosophy of Science Colloquium TALK: Lorenzo Sartori SCIENTIFIC PICTURES, MODELS, AND THEIR JUSTIFICATION Philosophy of Science Colloquium The Institute Vienna Circle holds a Philosophy of Science Colloquium with talks by our present fellows. Date: 07/11/2024 Time: 16h45 Venue: New Institute Building (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, HS 2G ABSTRACT: In this paper, I first show that similarity accounts of scientific pictures fail with more realistic cases of scientific pictures. My primary case study is the picture of a black hole, from which I develop an interpretation-based account of picture representation analogous to how models represent: a picture represents a designated target system iff, once interpreted, it exemplifies properties that are then imputed to the target via a de-idealising function. Then, I show that justification of the inferences from pictures crucially depends on their causal mechanisms of production, in contrast with the standard justificatory strategies we employ for model inferences.

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Termino für nächstes EST Studi Meet-Up

by Vinzenz Fischer

Hey alle! Ich finde Ende November ist die perfekte Zeit für ein nächstes EST Studi Meet-Up. Ich hab dafür ein Termino erstellt. Bitte gibt an, wann für euch am besten passt! https://www.termino.gv.at/meet/p/910f5194d33e724d8f5c98d9dd2c30e2-383433 Für alle Studierenden, die es noch nicht wissen: Es gibt eine Signal-Gruppe für uns zum Vernetzen untereinander. (Die Gruppe ist nur für Studierende) Hier der Invite: https://signal.group/#CjQKII9CIPWOjPBrfU1RkePZsdPqez-misg9E3-DGxZJbVPSEhDEu… Freu mich auf euch! Vinzenz

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Herzliche Einladung zur Veranstaltung "Friedrich Waismanns Wiener Zeit" am 27.11.2024 um 18h

by Wiener Kreis Gesellschaft

*Herzliche Einladung* *„Friedrich Waismanns Wiener Zeit“* 27.11.2024 um 18h Lesesaal der FB Philosophie und Psychologie Neues Institutsgebäude Universitätsstraße 7 1010 Wien OR Mag. Sonja Fiala /Leiterin der Fachbereichsbibliothek Philosophie und Psychologie / /Fachreferentin für Philosophie / Universität Wien Universitätsbibliothek Fachbereichsbibliothek Philosophie und Psychologie Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien T: +43-1-4277-15079 sonja.fiala(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:sonja.fiala@univie.ac.at> https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/person.html?id=15366 <https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/person.html?id=15366> https://bibliothek.univie.ac.at/fb-philosophie-psychologie/ <https://bibliothek.univie.ac.at/fb-philosophie-psychologie/> https://bibliothek.univie.ac.at/fb-philosophie-psychologie/fb_in_medien.html <https://bibliothek.univie.ac.at/fb-philosophie-psychologie/fb_in_medien.html>

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Symposium zu Paul Neurath 19.-20. November

by Wiener Kreis Gesellschaft

*Einladung* *Symposium* *Paul Martin Neurath: Über-Leben und Werk* Symposium | 19. bis 20. November 2024 | Beginn jeweils 17:00 Uhr Fachbereichsbibliothek Soziologie und Politikwissenschaft Rooseveltplatz 2, 1090 Wien *PAUL MARTIN NEURATH* Geboren am 12. 9. 1911 als Sohn des Philosophen und Sozialwissenschaft- lers Otto Neurath und der Schriftstellerin, Übersetzerin und Ökonomin Anna Schapire-Neurath in Wien. Soziologe und Statistiker. 1937 Promotion an der Universität Wien zum Dr.jur. Paul Neurath wurde 1938 von der Gestapo verhaftet, mit dem ersten Österreicher-Transport in das KZ Dachau deportiert und einige Monate später in das KZ Buchen- wald überstellt. 1939 wurde er entlassen und emigrierte nach Schweden, 1941 in die USA. Er arbeitete und studierte Soziologie und Statistik an der Columbia University. Zudem war er Assistent von Paul F. Lazarsfeld. Ab 1946 war er Mitarbeiter am Queens College der City University of New York, wo er vom Instruktor zum Professor für Soziologie und Statistik aufstieg. Er lehrte und forschte unter anderem in Bombay, Köln und Wien. 1980 gründete Paul M. Neurath mit Anton Amann das Paul F. Lazarsfeld Ar- chiv an der Universität Wien, das er bis zu seinem Tod am 3.9.2001 leitete. Das Paul F. Lazarsfeld Archiv verwaltet den wissenschaftlichen Nachlass von Paul M. Neurath sowie seine Privatbibliothek. *RAHMENPROGRAMM* Ausstellung von Archivalien und Objekten aus dem Nachlass von P. M. Neurath *Eine Kooperation von* Paul F. Lazarsfeld Archiv / Fachbereichsbibliothek Soziologie und Politikwissenschaft Institut für Soziologie, Universität Wien Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Wien ÖGE – Österreichische Gesellschaft für Exilforschung VGA – Verein für die Geschichte der ArbeiterInnenbewegung *Weitere Informationen entnehmen Sie bitte dem Anhang*

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