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Reminder - Termino for MA EST Semester Opening Event

by Dolores Šurlina

Dear all, Just a quick reminder to fill in your preferred dates for our MA EST Semester Opening Event by 24.02.2025! :) Here is the Termino link: https://www.termino.gv.at/meet/de/p/7f6b38796caaf6193436ecc947badbec-418686 As Vinzenz already mentioned last week, students, teachers, researchers and all those interested in EST are welcome. Based on the current poll results, Wednesday seems best for most of us - hint, Wednesday is also Rector's Day, which means a lecture-free day, yaay. However the final date and location will be decided on the basis of the final results, so you will be hearing from us soon with all the details. In the meantime, enjoy your semester-free time! :) All best, Dolores Šurlina and Vinzenz Fischer

10 months, 1 week

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Termino for MA EST Semester Opening Event

by Vinzenz Fischer

Hey everyone! As we did last semester, Dolores Šurlina and I (Vinzenz Fischer) are organizing another MA EST Semester Opening Event! We want to make sure as many of you (that is students, teachers, researchers and all interested in EST) can come. Since the core courses of our Masters Program start on the 11.03.2025, we have made a Termino for that whole week. Please let us know what dates work best for you: https://www.termino.gv.at/meet/de/p/7f6b38796caaf6193436ecc947badbec-418686 Please fill out your preferences until the 24.02.2025! Based on the date best for most of us we will arrange the location and let you know! We hope you are enjoying your break and we're looking forward to welcoming you into the new semester! Best, Vinzenz Fischer and Dolores Šurlina

10 months, 2 weeks

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Invitation to Writing Weeks in February

by Lisa Tragbar

Writing Weeks in February Are you planning on writing your dissertation/ Master's Thesis/ Bachelor's Thesis/ Seminar paper in February? Come join us! The Wiener Forum für Analytische Philosophie and the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy (VDP) are co-organising two writing weeks from Monday - Friday 17.02.-21.07.2024 and 24.02.-28.07.2024 in room 3A, NIG, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna. Schedule: 8:50-9:00 Welcome 9:00-9:50 1st writing period (50 min) 9:50-10:00 Break 10:00-11:30 2nd writing period (90 min) 11:30-12:00 Break 12:00-12:50 3rd writing period (50 min) 12:50-14:00 LUNCH BREAK 14:00-14:50 4th writing period (50 min) 14:50-15:00 Break 15:00-15:50 5th writing period (50 min) 15:50-16:00 Break 16:00-16:50 6th writing period (50 min) Information: * If you want to sleep in and join for the later sessions, or join only for the early sessions – no problem! But please join during the short breaks for the sake of our concentration. * No registration needed, but if you like to register, such that there is more commitment to coming, feel free to send an email to: lisa.tragbar(a)univie.ac.at * We will provide snacks, in case you want to share your favourite snack with us, feel free to bring! * Doctoral, Master and Bachelor students welcome! Looking forward to seeing you there! Veronika Lassl (WFAP) & Vinzenz Fischer (MA EST) Eva Liedauer & Lisa Tragbar (VDP) -- Lisa Tragbar, BA BA MA Universitätsassistentin an der Professur für Ethik mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von angewandter Ethik Fakultät für Philosophie und Bildungswissenschaft der Universität Wien Universitätsstraße 7 (NIG, Zi. A 0308) A-1010 Wien lisa.tragbar(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:lisa.tragbar@univie.ac.at>

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Vienna STS Talks - FutureSpace Talk by Sitraka Rakotoniaina

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 1st talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2025S: [cid:85b00d22-60fb-4c69-96c1-f1f66fe6d9ec] 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 [https://owa.univie.ac.at/owa/projection.aspx]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/>

10 months, 3 weeks

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Save the dates: Vienna STS Talks 2025W

by Katrin Hackl

The Department of Science and Technology Studies invites you to its lecture series in the upcoming summer term! We present a wide range of lectures by international scholars talking about their work in the fields of science and technology, outer space, electronic fingerprinting, environment, health, and geo-economics! We look forward to seeing you! [2025W Announcement Vienna STS Talk Series] 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:image001.jpg@01DB789A.78C5D790]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/>

10 months, 3 weeks

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REMINDER: Deadline February 15: 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 on Logical Empiricism and Austrian Economics: Deadline for Registration Approaching

by Alexander Linsbichler

Reminder: Deadline for registration: February 5 *Workshop I "Adverse Allies: Logical Empiricism and Austrian Economics"; 12.-14.02.2025 in Vienna* The FWF ESPRIT research project “Adverse Allies: Logical Empiricism and Austrian Economics”, the Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method (JKU Linz), the Institute Vienna Circle (University of Vienna), and the Vienna Circle Society will host two workshops in 2025. *Workshop I at the University of Vienna: 12.02.-14.02.2025* Workshop II at JKU Linz: 23.09.-25.09.2025 Watch out for call for papers for workshop II in April/May 2025. Registration / Online Participation for workshop I: *The event is free and open to the public, with advance registration via **vcs(a)univie.ac.at <vcs(a)univie.ac.at> **by 05.02.2025 requested*. Please indicate whether you want to attend in person or online, in which case the link for online participation will be provided. All presentations will be in person. Participation in discussions will be limited for online participants. For those participating in person: There will be a dinner on Thursday, February 13, 7pm, at Restaurant Roth (Hotel Regina). Please let us know until February 5 if you would like to attend at your own expense. You can find the program, a book of abstracts, and further information on workshop I here <https://homepage.univie.ac.at/alexander.linsbichler/>, here <https://www.jku.at/institut-fuer-philosophie-und-wissenschaftstheorie/news-…>, and on philevents. Scientific Committee: Alexander Linsbichler, Julian Reiss, Georg Schiemer, Friedrich Stadler Contact: Alexander Linsbichler (alexander.linsbichler(a)jku.at) Subject to Changes. Both workshops are supported by the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DLMPST) of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. *Alexander Linsbichler* Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method (Johannes Kepler University Linz) alexander.linsbichler(a)jku.at Department of Philosophy ( <https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/person.html?id=47545>University of Vienna) <https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/person.html?id=47545> alexander.linsbichler(a)univie.ac.at *neu erschienen: Viel mehr <https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/detail/index/sArticle/57805/sC…>als nur <https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/detail/index/sArticle/57805/sC…>Ökonomie <https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/detail/index/sArticle/57805/sC…> (Böhlau, 2022)*

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REMINDER: "Adverse Allies: Logical Empiricism and Austrian Economics": Program and Registration for Workshop in Vienna

by Vienna Circle Society

REMINDER Deadline for registration: February 5 Program for Workshop I "Adverse Allies: Logical Empiricism and Austrian Economics"; 12.-14.02.2025 in Vienna The FWF ESPRIT research project Adverse Allies: Logical Empiricism and Austrian Economics, the Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method (JKU Linz), the Institute Vienna Circle (University of Vienna), and the Vienna Circle Society will host two workshops in 2025. Workshop I at the University of Vienna: 12.02.-14.02.2025 Workshop II at JKU Linz: 23.09.-25.09.2025 Watch out for call for papers for workshop II in April/May 2025. Registration / Online Participation for workshop I: The event is free and open to the public, with advance registration via <mailto:vcs@univie.ac.at> vcs(a)univie.ac.at by 05.02.2025 requested. Please indicate whether you want to attend in person or online, in which case the link for online participation will be provided. All presentations will be in person. Participation in discussions will be limited for online participants. For those participating in person: There will be a dinner on Thursday, February 13, 7pm, at Restaurant Roth (Hotel Regina). Please let us know until February 5 if you would like to attend at your own expense. You can find the program, a book of abstracts, and further information on workshop I <https://homepage.univie.ac.at/alexander.linsbichler/> here, <https://www.jku.at/institut-fuer-philosophie-und-wissenschaftstheorie/news- events/detail/news/2-workshops-adverse-allies-logical-empiricism-and-austria n-economics/> here, and on philevents. Scientific Committee: Alexander Linsbichler, Julian Reiss, Georg Schiemer, Friedrich Stadler Contact: Alexander Linsbichler ( <mailto:alexander.linsbichler@jku.at> alexander.linsbichler(a)jku.at) Subject to Changes. Alexander Linsbichler Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method (Johannes Kepler University Linz) <mailto:alexander.linsbichler@jku.at> alexander.linsbichler(a)jku.at <https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/person.html?id=47545> Department of Philosophy ( <https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/person.html?id=47545> University of Vienna) alexander.linsbichler(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:alexander.linsbichler@univie.ac.at> neu erschienen: Viel mehr <https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/detail/index/sArticle/57805/sC ategory/1545?number=BVW0010374> als nur <https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/detail/index/sArticle/57805/sC ategory/1545?number=BVW0010374> Ökonomie <https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/detail/index/sArticle/57805/sC ategory/1545?number=BVW0010374> (Böhlau, 2022)

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Invitation: APSE talk by Igor Grabovac & accompanying reading circle

by Ella Valerie Berger

Dear all, we warmly invite you to the next APSE (Applied Philosophy of Science and Epistemology) lecture and to the accompanying Reading Cycle. The talk will be held by Igor Grabovac (MedUni Wien). Title: From Pandoras Box to Pandoras Hope: Opening the Lid on Transdisciplinary Work in Public Health Date: Thursday, January 30th 2025 Reading Circle: 1pm - 3pm Talk: 3pm - 5 pm Location: Room 3A, NIG Abstract of the talk (3-5 PM): Climate change, armed conflicts, rising inequities, pandemics, and the displacement of large population groups constitute some of the most pressing current concerns for the discipline of Public Health. These complex issues require intersectional analyses and solutions--and a turn to transdisciplinary research. This need is commonly voiced in Public Health literature and increasingly enacted through funding calls and commissions. In this talk, I want to show how the over-reliance on biomedical knowledge and its accompanying reductionism has left Public Health not only "de-socialized," but current attempts to "add in" social science knowledge--as one pathway for transdisciplinarity--often fall short of the promise to transcend disciplinary boundaries and create more suitable types of knowledge. Starting with the work of John Ryle, Julius Tandler, and Andrija Stampar, I will provide a short overview of the historical development of Public Health and its separation from the field of Social Medicine. Using the examples of Michael Marmot and Camara Phyllis Jones on the "Social Determinants of Health," I will then present the changes in the field in its move towards structural explanations of health inequalities. Finally, I end on the work of Emily Yates-Doerr and her critique of the pervasive "determinants model," showcasing the potential, affordances, and demands of true transdisciplinarity in Public Health today. Reading Circle (1-3 PM): We will focus our discussion on a text by Paul Farmer (attached pdf): Farmer, P. (1996) 'On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below', Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.), 125(1), pp. 261-283. As introduction to the field, we suggest: Farmer, P.E. et al. (2006) 'Structural violence and clinical medicine', PLoS medicine, 3(10), pp. 1686-1691. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030449. For further reading regarding the topic: Especially Research by Grabovac and colleagues: Carmichael, C. et al. (2023) 'Barriers and facilitators to health care access for people experiencing homelessness in four European countries: an exploratory qualitative study', International journal for equity in health, 22(1), pp. 1-206. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-02011-4. Chapter 11: "Making Up People" Ian Hacking (pp. 161-171): Biagioli, M. (1999) The science studies reader. New York, NY [u.a.]: Routledge. Jones, C. (2000) 'Levels of racism: a theoretic framework and a gardener's tale', American journal of public health (1971), 90(8), pp. 1212-1215. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.90.8.1212. Please send a quick message to vinzenz.fischer(a)univie.ac.at if you are planning to attend the Reading Cycle! Feel free to bring your lunch! Feel free to share this invitation with anyone who might be interested! Best wishes, Ella Berger (on behalf of the APSE unit) -- Ella Berger (she/her or they/them) Department of Philosophy University of Vienna

11 months

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Invitation: WFAP Talk on "Gaslighting and Epistemic Agency"

by Veronika Lassl

Dear all, On behalf of the Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy (WFAP), I warmly invite you to a talk this friday held by Phyllis Pearson. She is a research fellow in the FWF Cluster of Excellence "Knowledge in Crisis" and her talk is titled "Gaslighting and Epistemic Agency". Abstract: Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation that involves making another doubt the deliverances of their epistemic capacities. Gaslit individuals are made to believe their epistemic faculties are defective, thereby coming to doubt their sense perception, reasoning, and memory. How exactly does this happen? I argue that gaslighting should be understood as involving a kind of weaponized skepticism. Gaslighting involves the unjust manipulation of another’s epistemic context, making it the case that one must take seriously difficult-to-rule-out possibilities, like the possibility that one’s memory is faulty. This is an important way in which a person’s epistemic agency can be undermined. This promises to be an insightful discussion, and I warmly invite everyone to join us. ____________________________________________________________ There is, of course, also the option to join the meeting via Zoom, and I have included the Zoom link here: When? Friday, 24.01.2025, 18:30 Where? Hörsaal 3B, NIG Universitätsstaße 7 or via Zoom This is the permanent Zoom Link for this year’s Forum Sessions: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/65469787612?pwd=waSaaRCESzjFjQmb7aJq275B3ikkDV.1 Meeting-ID: 654 6978 7612 Passcode: Forum4ever ____________________________________________________________ Looking forward to seeing you this Friday! Best, Veronika Lassl Vice-Chair, Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy wfap.philo.at To get weekly updates, including the reading material for each session per mail, subscribe to our Mailing List: https://lists.univie.ac.at/mailman/listinfo/forum

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