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Invitation: APSE talk by Laura Caponetto & accompanying reading circle

by Veronika Lassl

Dear all, I warmly invite you to an upcoming APSE event on refusal. It consists of a talk by Laura Caponetto (Milan) entitled "Refusing - and Refusing to Obey" and an accompanying reading circle prior to the talk. Date: Thursday, January 16th Reading Circle: 1pm - 3pm Talk: 3pm - 5 pm Location: room 3A (NIG) After the talk, we will go out for dinner. Please write to veronika.lassl(a)univie.ac.at if you would like to join. Everyone is welcome to attend parts or all of this event! Abstract: We can do several different things with the word ‘No’. We can turn down an offer, decline an invitation, deny permission. We can engage in civil disobedience. In this talk, I aim to map these varieties and unpack the normative profile of refusal. I argue that refusal constitutes an illocutionary family comprising acts which have different felicity conditions but share the definitional normative function of preventing certain obligations from being created or waived. I begin by singling out what I take to be the paradigmatic case of refusal. I then broaden the picture a little, to consider speech acts that share ‘family resemblances’ with this paradigmatic case. And then I broaden it further, to look at speech acts that populate the ‘illocutionary neighborhood’, including ‘refusal to obey’. The talk expands upon my previous work on the topic (Caponetto 2023). While that work was primarily concerned with ‘upstream norms’ for refusing (i.e. the conditions under which refusal succeeds), I here focus on its ‘downstream norms’ – on the changes refusal effects on the normative landscape. Reading Circle: We will discuss Caponetto's 2023 paper "The pragmatic structure of refusal" (attached as a PDF), which is closely related to the topic of the talk. Please feel free to bring your lunch! The reading circle is open to everyone - please send a message to vinzenz.fischer(a)univie.ac.at if you want to attend. As an introduction to the field, we suggest: Green, M. (2020) . Speech acts. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy (Fall 2021 Edition). https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2021/entries/speech-acts/ For further reading regarding the topic: Caponetto, L. (2017). On silencing, authority, and the act of refusal. Rivista di Estetica, 64, 35–52. Langton, R. (2018b). Blocking as counter-speech. In D. Fogal, D.W. Harris, & M. Moss (Eds.), New work on speech acts (pp. 144–164). Oxford University Press. Sbisà, M. (2019). Assertion among the speech acts. In S. C. Goldberg (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of assertion (pp. 158–178). Oxford University Press. Looking forward to seeing you there, Veronika Lassl

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REMINDER: 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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Vienna STS Talks - STS Talk by Aristotle Tympas

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 8 talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2024W [cid:image001.jpg@01DB6107.4A0AF8E0] STS Talk by Aristotle Tympas Department of History & Philosophy of Science, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens January 20, 2025 05:00 PM-06:30 PM On starting with 'artificial intelligence' and arriving at 'existential risks', 19th-21st century: From local engine 'explosions' and regional network 'instability' to global environmental 'unsustainability'. Abstract The presentation will seek to contextualize the emergence of the so called 'existential risks' (also called 'existential threats') by offering a long-run history of technology-related risks. As the argument goes, key to this history is, first, the wide-spread phenomenon of steam engine 'explosions' at the start of industrial capitalism (up to the first half of the nineteenth century), and, then, alongside the connection of steam engines to long distance energy transmission lines and networks of lines (throughout the first half of the twentieth century), the emergence of the phenomenon of line/network 'instability'. Biography Aristotle Tympas, a specialist in the study of technology from the humanities and the social sciences, works as professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, School of Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His studies combined engineering (MSc, Aristotelio University, 1989), technology and science policy (MSc, Georgia Tech, 1995) and history-sociology of technology (PhD, Georgia Tech, 2001). Former chair (2017-2019) of the management committee of the 'Tensions of Europe: Research Network on History, Technology and Europe', Tympas currently serves as vice president of the International Master's Programme on Society, Science and Technology (ESST), as director of the Interdepartmental Graduate Program 'Science, Technology, Society-Science and Technology Studies' and as vice-chair of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (he served as department chair from 2020 to 2022). He has been a visiting scholar in the US (MIT Program in Science, Technology and Society), Germany (Viadrina Center B/Orders in Motion) and Sweden (Swedish Institute for Disability Research). He is the author of Calculation and Computation in the Pre-electronic Era (Springer, 2017) and Analog Labor, Digital Capital (Angelus Novus, 2018, In Greek). Organiser Department of Science and Technology Studies Location STS Seminar Room, NIG, St. II. 6th floor, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna & online via zoom<https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63251489007?pwd=FBTgiIoQbHPTvmHhnjFwObba9mAGqZ.6> [cid:image003.png@01DB6108.03B99C10] 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@01DB6107.4A0AF8E0]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/>

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

by Alexander Linsbichler

*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 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. 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. *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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Buchpräsentation: Demokratisierung des Wissens: Von der Wiener Methode der Bildstatistik zu Isotype | 7. Januar 2025, 18.30 Uhr

by Zarah Weiss

Einladung zur Buchpräsentation Demokratisierung des Wissens: Von der Wiener Methode der Bildstatistik zu Isotype Buchpräsentation und Diskussion mit Günther Sandner 7. Jänner 2025, 18.30 Uhr FAKTory | Literatur, Wissen und Beratung für Studierende Universitätsstraße 9, 1010 Wien Mitte der 1920er Jahre entwickelte ein Team rund um den Ökonomen und Wissenschaftsphilosophen Otto Neu rath die Wiener Methode der Bildstatistik. Vor allem für Arbeiter*innen und an Schulen sollten soziale und ökonomische Zusammenhänge bildhaft vermittelt werden. Austrofaschismus und Nationalsozialismus zwangen die Gruppe zur Flucht, ihre Bildsprache aber wurde international. Ab Mitte der 1930er Jahre hieß sie ISOTYPE International System Of TYpographic Picture Education. Das Buch History and Legacy of Isotype zeichnet diese Geschichte nach und verweist auf ihre ungebrochene Aktualität wissenschaftliches Wissen in der Gesellschaft und im politischen Diskurs zu stärken. Christopher Burke / Günther Sandner: History and Legacy of Isotype, Bloomsbury, London 2024. Günther Sandner, Politikwissenschaftler und Autor von (u.a.): Otto Neurath. Eine politische Biographie (2014) und Weltsprache ohne Worte. Margaret Mead, Rudolf Modley und das Glyphs-Projekt (2022). Ko-Kurator der Ausstellung Isotype Wie man mit Bildern die Welt erklärt (ab November 2025 im Wien Museum). Um Anmeldung wird gebeten bis Montag, 6. Jänner 2025: veranstaltungen(a)ihsf.at <mailto:veranstaltungen@ihsf.at> 01 50165-13778 ihsf.at

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Webinar Invitation: Policy bias in economic research and the epistemological problems of econometrics: Lessons for designing economic policy processes | Jan 14, 3pm

by Zarah Weiss

Invitation Policy bias in economic research and the epistemological problems of econometrics: Lessons for designing economic policy processes SUERF BAFFI Bocconi webinar Tuesday, January 14, 2025 Online, Webex, 3-4.30 pm A recent paper finds considerable policy bias in economic research. Jelveh, Kogut and Naidu (2024) show that partisanship is detectable across fields and within fields, even across those estimating the same theoretical parameter. This poses serious challenges to economic policy development. 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. Yet, 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 models and econometrics as well as the inevitable role of expert judgement. Yet, understanding these challenges would be crucial to design policy processes that effectively address potential policy biases on economic policy development and ensure the integrity of that process. This SUERF panel discussion discusses how serious the policy bias in economic research is and how it affects policy development. Furthermore, panellists will explain how that policy bias is possible even when rigorous mathematical /statistical methods are employed. Finally, the panel suggests design features of economic policy development processes that improve its integrity in the face of the policy bias in economic research. Registration: https://www.suerf.org/events/policy-bias-in-economic-research-and-the-episte mological-problems-of-econometrics-lessons-for-designing-economic-policy-pro cesses/registration/ More information: https://www.suerf.org/events/policy-bias-in-economic-research-and-the-episte mological-problems-of-econometrics-lessons-for-designing-economic-policy-pro cesses/

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New Years Greetings, New Years Plans

by Vinzenz Fischer

Dear all! Before the new year begins, I wanted to share some new year plans with you: 1. New Year's Writing Marathon 2. APSE Reading Circle 3. Guide to this Mailing List 1. New Year's Writing Marathon Veronika Lassl from the Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy (WFAP) is organizing a New Year's Writing Marathon and has asked me to invite you all. If structured co-working helps you with writing and researching, please feel free to join us! Dates: December 30th & January 2nd - 4th (Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday) Location: Room 3C (NIG) Here's our 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) After 16:50 People can continue to write if someone with a key card is still there. A few rules: - No coming/going during writing periods (except for obvious exceptions: going to the toilet, emergencies, …) - Please arrive and get settled in your seat before the session begins - No disturbances during writing periods (crunchy or smelly snacks, phone ringing, etc) - If you want, you can put your phone away at the teacher’s desk during writing periods - Bring snacks if you want, we will have a shared snack desk to use during breaks - If you want to eat the shared snacks, we kindly ask for a donation of 5€ per person per week. - You can work on anything you want It's helpful if you could let us know if you're planning to attend (so we can gauge the amount of coffee we need to make). Please write an e-mail to veronika.lassl(a)univie.ac.at We're looking forward to seeing you there! 2. APSE Reading Circle The Applied Philosophy of Science and Epistemology (APSE) Unit is organizing a lecture series every semester. Upcoming January there are three talks planned. We are organizing an accompanying reading circle for these three upcoming sessions. We will be reading and discussing a text written and suggested to us by the speaker and then visit the talk afterwards. Since it will take place at lunch time, feel free to bring some food and snacks with you to the Reading Circle. The sessions are: Thursday, 16.01.2025 Laura Caponetto (University of Milan) Reading Circle Session: 13:00-15:00, HS 3A, NIG 3rd floor APSE Lecture: 15:00-17:00, HS 3A, NIG 3rd floor Thursday, 23.01.2025 Stephan Hartmann (LMU) Reading Circle Session: 13:00-15:00, HS 3A, NIG 3rd floor APSE Lecture: 15:00-17:00, HS 3A, NIG 3rd floor Thursday, 30.01.2025 Igor Grabovac (MedUni Wien) Reading Circle Session: 13:00-15:00, HS 3A, NIG 3rd floor APSE Lecture: 15:00-17:00, HS 3A, NIG 3rd floor Closer to each event I will send out an seperate e-mail with the literature and a more detailed description of the topic. Please feel warmly invited! 3. Guide to this Mailing List This Mailing List is intended to facilitate the communication among students, teachers and researchers in and surrounding the Master Epistemologies of Science and Technology. Any information for events and other happenings concerned with the topics Philosophy of Science and Technology, History of Science and Technology and/or Science and Technology Studies are welcome. Current Settings: Anyone can send messages to hps_est(a)lists.philo.at that will be sent to all members of the list. Messages from members of the list will be sent without the acceptance of a moderator. This is to ensure quick and easy communication from member to member. Messages from non-members need to be accepted by a moderator of the list. If any questions or suggestions arise, please send a message to hps_est-owner(a)lists.philo.at Signing up via E-Mail: Send an e-mail with the subject "subscribe" to: hps_est-subscribe(a)lists.philo.at Signing up via Link: Alternatively, you can follow this link and follow the instructions: https://lists.philo.at/postorius/lists/hps_est.lists.philo.at/ I wish you all a warm winter break and einen guten Rutsch (a good slide into the new year)! Vinzenz Fischer

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FutureSpace Talk by Eleanor Armstrong & Réka 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@01DB40AD.59CFEBC0] 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.6> [cid:image004.png@01DB40AE.A5A235C0] 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@01DB40AD.59CFEBC0]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/>

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TODAY! Vienna STS Talks - STS Talk by Matthew Kearnes

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 6th talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2024W [cid:image001.png@01DB4AFA.AE812420] INNORES Talk by Matthew Kearnes School of Humanities & Languages, UNSW Sydney December 10, 2024 05:00 PM-06:30 PM Critical Circularity - (re)configuring repair and reuse Abstract Inasmuch as the circular economy has become a prominent topic within political and corporate discussions worldwide - imagining a wholescale transformation of linear modes of production and the creative recovery and repurposing of materials formerly classified as waste - a range of recent critical assessments have identified key faultlines in this discourse. These critiques have characterised the circular economy as a "refurbished version of market-oriented capitalism"(Genovese and Pansera 2021), and identified tendencies toward technocratic policy interventions such as "consumer nudging, quality assurance standards, and enhanced waste policies" (Niskanen and Mclaren 2023). Responding to these critiques in this paper we develop a notion of critical circularity, drawing on two overlapping projects focused on the configuration of projects of repair and reuse. Our first case is drawn from the fields of wastewater and sewage treatment. Emerging in the nineteenth century, through the consolidation of public health, sanitation and environmental science - together with what Schneider (2011) characterises as the technologies of industrial ecosystems in recent years sewage infrastructures have years emerged as sites of renewed political concern. In this context, visions of the circular reuse and anticipated monetisation of sewage have been troubled by a recognition of the ways in which wastewater is commonly contaminated by a range of toxic substances (including PFAS, microplastics and heavy metals). Basing our analysis in current research exploring the potential reuse of the solid waste produced through sewage treatment - commonly referred to as sludge or biosolids - we explore the ways in which anticipated transitions in sewage treatment entail situated negotiations of the mass and volume of solid waste, together with the ways in which biosolids are entangled with more-than-human and chemosocial relations, in the context of changing climatic dynamics. Our second case draws on an ongoing engagement with projects of repair and activism around the global 'right to repair' movement. In this case we explore how the objectives of a movement for a right to repair configure repair practices in ways that simultaneously preserve and subvert existing socio-material orders. We conclude by pointing to the prospects for critical and engaged conceptions of the circular economy. My coauthors for this work at Patrik Bonney (Deakin University) and Kevin Witzenberger (Queensland Universiyt of Technology). Biography Matthew is Professor of Environment and Society and Deputy Head of School (Research), School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW. His most recent books include the co-edited volumes Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics (with Jason Chilvers, Routledge, 2016) & Thinking with Soils: Material Politics and Social Theory (with Juan Francisco Salazar, Céline Granjou, Anna Krzywoszynska & Manuel Tironi, Bloomsbury, 2020). Matthew is an editor of Science, Technology and Human Values (Sage), an associate editor for Science as Culture (Taylor & Francis). Organiser Department of Science and Technology Studies Location STS Seminar Room, NIG, St. II. 6th floor, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna 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@01DB4AFA.AE812420]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/>

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IVC Talk: Zofia Hałęza (University of Łódź) on "How Women Contributed to the Emergence of Polish Analytic Philosophy. Outstanding Female Philosophers from the Lvov-Warsaw School", December 12, 4.45pm

by Zarah Weiss

Dear all, our next speaker in the Philosophy of Science Colloquium organized by the Institute Vienna Circle is Zofia Hałęza (University of Łódź), who will give a talk on December 12, 4.45-6.15 pm. All are welcome! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Philosophy of Science Colloquium TALK: Zofia Hałęza (University of Łódź) How Women Contributed to the Emergence of Polish Analytic Philosophy. Outstanding Female Philosophers from the Lvov-Warsaw School Philosophy of Science Colloquium The Institute Vienna Circle holds a Philosophy of Science Colloquium with talks by our present fellows. Date: 12/12/2024 Time: 16h45 Venue: New Institute Building (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, HS 2G Abstract: From today's perspective, one of the most significant 20th-century discoveries in Polish philosophy's history was the Lvov-Warsaw School's rediscovery. The turbulent history of Poland and the political events after the Second World War led this group's members, who were still living, to the conviction that science would forget them. However, thanks to the woman philosopher Izydora Dąmbska and her influence on her pupils, the memory of the Lvov-Warsaw School has survived. I would even say - that the Lvov-Warsaw School has been rediscovered. Although the Lvov-Warsaw School was founded at the end of the 19th century by Kazimierz Twardowski, to a large extent his female students have contributed to the survival of the memory of his legacy, not only in the immaterial sphere, but also in the form of artefacts, archives and documents. In addition to their merits in the struggle for the survival of memory, women at the Lvov-Warsaw School practised philosophy equally with men. At the turn of the 20th century, this was a phenomenon unprecedented in any school of philosophy. A critical analysis of the history of philosophy is a vital phenomenon. After all, people write histories, and several different factors influence them. Thus, it is the history of Polish philosophy which I have been studying for several years. In the case of the Lvov-Warsaw School, we are dealing with a phenomenon that has yet to be sufficiently described-namely, the number of active women in this formation. In this seminar, I am eager to present the potential impact of my research, conducted as part of my PhD at the University of Lodz in the Doctoral School of Humanities. I will also share the inspiration that led me to this topic. How has the issue of women in the Lvov-Warsaw School been addressed in the past, and what promising avenues are there for further exploration? My research is primarily a critical analysis of the history of philosophy and a comparative analysis of the state of Polish philosophy at that time. In telling the story of women associated with the Lvov-Warsaw School, I will also present my research methodology and the unique historical and social conditions that enabled women in Poland to climb the scientific Olympus. I will emphasize the need for philosophical reflection in women's history, as it is not just a reenactment and reminder of forgotten figures and their achievements, but a crucial aspect that adds depth and significance to our understanding of the past. In the current situation, in addition to multiplying research on women's history, we should also ask ourselves - how do we do it? To what end do we conduct such research, and what does it result in?

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