We are happy to invite you to our 3th talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2025W:
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Best wishes,
Katrin Hackl
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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.: 0043-1-4277-49607
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We are happy to invite you to our 2nd talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2025W:
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Best wishes,
Katrin Hackl
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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.: 0043-1-4277-49607
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We are happy to invite you to our 1st talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2025W:
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Best wishes,
Katrin Hackl
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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.: 0043-1-4277-49607
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The Department of Science and Technology Studies invites you to its lecture series in the upcoming winter term!
We present a variety of lectures by international scholars presenting their work in their respective fields. The lecture series offers a broad overview of the field of science and technology and incorporates talks related to our ERC Grants INNORES, FutureSpace, and ALTERBIOTIC, as well as a cooperation with CeSCos.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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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.: 0043-1-4277-49607
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Dear all,
this is to remind you of the talk being held Kelli Barr entitled "The
Material Theory of Values in Science" this week.
When? Tuesday, 19.08.2025, 4:45pm - 6:15pm
Where? Room 3C, NIG Universitätsstaße 7, 1010 Wien
Zoom Link:
https://univienna.zoom.us/j/68261699318?pwd=GNjaMAgSHyFxLpbRHNfmeZ5DFme6aw.1
Meeting ID: 682 6169 9318
Passcode: 976552
Abstract
How are we to understand situations where science fails on its own
terms? For example, Scientists have blamed perverse incentives for
systematic epistemic failures like non-replicability and publication
bias, but the exact relationship remains an open question. Let's assume
they are right to blame the (social) system. This paper presents a novel
framework for understanding how features of the social organization of
science are implicated in collective epistemic failures: the material
theory of values in science (MTV). This project is inspired by and
follows in the tradition of feminist philosophers of science who have
called attention to the need for explanations of systemic, specifically
antifeminist, biases in science and for embodied models of scientists as
epistemic agents. In the first part, I discuss the replication crisis as
involving a particular type of collective action problem: a no-win
standoff. The next part introduces the MTV and the explanation it
supplies for this phenomenon. In the third section, the MTV is compared
to several alternative explanatory strategies, including from the
contemporary literature values in science and social epistemology,
specifically agent-based computational models. I argue for why my
approach is preferable and describe an important revision it entails for
the general Mertonian sociological picture invoked in discussions of
incentives in science.
Kind regards,
Veronika Lassl
Chairperson - Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy
wfap.philo.at
Dear all,
the WFAP warmly invites you to join a talk to be held by Kelli R. Barr
(PhD) from the University of California, Davis, in two weeks. The title
of the talk is "The Material Theory of Values in Science".
When? Tuesday, 19.07.2025, 4:45pm - 6:15pm
Where? Room 3C, NIG Universitätsstaße 7, 1010 Wien
Please send an e-mail to veronika.lassl(a)univie.ac.at for the Zoom link,
should you wish to listen in online.
Abstract
How are we to understand situations where science fails on its own
terms? For example, Scientists have blamed perverse incentives for
systematic epistemic failures like non-replicability and publication
bias, but the exact relationship remains an open question. Let's assume
they are right to blame the (social) system. This paper presents a novel
framework for understanding how features of the social organization of
science are implicated in collective epistemic failures: the material
theory of values in science (MTV). This project is inspired by and
follows in the tradition of feminist philosophers of science who have
called attention to the need for explanations of systemic, specifically
antifeminist, biases in science and for embodied models of scientists as
epistemic agents. In the first part, I discuss the replication crisis as
involving a particular type of collective action problem: a no-win
standoff. The next part introduces the MTV and the explanation it
supplies for this phenomenon. In the third section, the MTV is compared
to several alternative explanatory strategies, including from the
contemporary literature values in science and social epistemology,
specifically agent-based computational models. I argue for why my
approach is preferable and describe an important revision it entails for
the general Mertonian sociological picture invoked in discussions of
incentives in science.
Kind regards,
Veronika Lassl
Chairperson - Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy
wfap.philo.at
This pluralistic joint seminar is organized by the University of Vienna,
Johannes Kepler University Linz, and Doshisha University (Kyoto, Japan).
It aims to foster meaningful intellectual exchange among scholars,
master's, and PhD students across national and disciplinary borders. By
bringing together students and scholars from the Philosophy and
Economics program in Vienna and the Faculty of Economics at Doshisha,
the seminar provides a platform for critical engagement with a plurality
of methodologies in the history of political economy. By exploring
differences in economic and philosophical ideas, the seminar encourages
dialogue that bridges different academic traditions and perspectives.
This joint seminar particularly investigates pluralism in the history of
economic thought, economic methodology, and philosophy of science.
Guests are welcome.
Date: Friday 05.09.2025
Time: 09:00 – 18:10
Place: University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 2nd floor,
Seminarraum 13 (in person)
Organisers: Dahyun Lee, Alexander Linsbichler, Karl Milford
Keynote Speakers: Takato Kasai (Doshisha University, Kyoto), Julian
Reiss (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
Further Speakers: Lara Brühl, Vinzenz Fischer, Jakob Gschwandtner,
Dahyun Lee, Alexander Linsbichler, Taiki Nakao, Pauline Paulik, Shintaro
Wada
https://homepage.univie.ac.at/alexander.linsbichler/
Kind regards,
Dahyun Lee
MA Philosophy and Economics,
University of Vienna
Dear all,
our next speaker in the Philosophy of Science Colloquium organized by
the Institute Vienna Circle is Luana Poliseli (IVC Fellow), who will
give a talk on July 3, 4.45-6.15 pm.
All are welcome!
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Philosophy of Science Colloquium TALK: Luana Poliseli (IVC Fellow)
THE LEFT VIENNA CIRCLE, DEMOCRATIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE EPISTEMIC
FUNCTIONS OF AESTHETICS
Philosophy of Science Colloquium
The Institute Vienna Circle holds a Philosophy of Science Colloquium
with talks by our present fellows.
Date: 03/07/2025
Time: 16h45
Venue: New Institute Building (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, HS
3A
Abstract:
Aesthetics is traditionally associated with the appreciation of beauty.
In science, beauty is traditionally and largely related to the success
of a theory or an experiment (McAllister 1996). However, recent debates
on the aesthetics of science have indicated that the scientists'
aesthetics arsenal is far more diverse and epistemically advantageous
than traditionally conceived (see Ivanova & French 2020; Ivanova &
Murphy 2023). I undertake these debates to argue against the traditional
oversimplification as it does not represent the complexity of aesthetic
values and experiences used in contemporary science to explain and
understand the world. By expanding the philosophical account of
aesthetics in science, this project challenges reductive views of
science as purely logical or objective. I second the Left Vienna Circle
on the ambiguities and lack of homogeneity in knowledge, and the
recognition of the limited resources of human cognitive capacities.
Acknowledging the plurality and vagueness of our cognitive endeavours
make us conscious of the limitations, gaps and ambiguities existent in
scientific practices. As such, I will emphasize that scientific
knowledge is not only shaped by empirical and theoretical considerations
but also by the sensuous, affective, and interpretive dimensions of
aesthetic experiences. Ultimately, by unboxing unorthodox methods
underlying scientific decisions, I reposition aesthetics as central to
reflections of scientific practice and knowledge production, enabling
philosophers to reconceptualize the epistemic functions of aesthetics as
a means of enriching scientific resources. If science, as a social and
cultural phenomenon, seeks to make sense of a world that is chaotic,
political, diffuse, emotional, ephemeral and transient, then it must
begin to embrace and engage with non-traditional methods and values that
reflect this diversity. By doing so, it can foster the creation of
spaces for development and dissemination that are more democratic and
inclusive.
Dear all,
the Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy (WFAP) is hosting its annual
graduate conference in the first week of July and warmly invites you all
to participate! The title of this year's conference is "Filtering Truth:
A Graduate Conference on Epistemic Bubbles, Echo Chambers and the Spread
of Misinformation". It focuses on philosophical challenges raised by
socio-epistemic structures that systematically act as "filters" in the
transmission of truth.
Here are the details of the conference at a glance:
Dates: 3-5 July, 2025
Venue: Room 3D, NIG, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna AND via Zoom (for
link see below)
Keynotes:
Keith Harris (University of Vienna)
Giulia Napolitano (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Megan Fritts (University of Arkansas, Little Rock)
Benjamin Elzinga (Georgetown University)
To view the program and the abstracts for the talk, visit:
https://wfap.philo.at/conferences/14th-wfap-graduate-conference/ [1]
To receive the Zoom access details or to ask questions about the
conference, contact: filteringtruth(a)gmail.com
We are looking forward to seeing you at our event!
Kind regards,
Veronika Lassl
(Chair, WFAP)
Links:
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[1] https://wfap.philo.at/conferences/14th-wfap-graduate-conference/
Dear all,
It is my pleasure to cordially invite you to the next installment of the
Trans*Formation Talk Series at the Department of Philosophy at
University of Vienna, which showcases exciting new developments in Trans
Philosophy. This Thursday, 26.6., Prof. Emma Heaney from NYU will give
the talk "Provincializing Cisness" at 19:30 in HS 3A, NIG. Everyone is
welcome! Please also forward this invite to others who might be
interested!
Abstract:
Most examinations of sex and gender in the academy take bourgeois
national histories of North America and Western Europe as their frame of
reference. In the histories of Germany, the UK, France, and the United
States, doctors and state bureaucracies incorporated sexual and gendered
social practices into a taxonomy of identities (or even species, as
Foucault puts it,) beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. However, in
many sex-gender systems, including those of the proletarian
neighborhoods of these nations' metropoles, the assumptions that formed
expert orderings did not apply. This lecture surveys the non-cis
vernacular categories that ordered these sex-gender systems. The
relation between race/class and cisness means that there is no absolute
geography to this story. Drawing on source material from Indigenous
Americas to the South Asian subcontinent and from the working-class
neighborhoods of Kansas City to the courts of Nigerian nobility, the
talk will be attuned to a range of sex-gender systems that do not accord
with the categories produced by the Euro- American bourgeois in order
to, as the title suggests, reveal the provincial status of cisness.
The talk will be in English with ÖGS translation.
Bio:
Emma Heaney is a scholar and teacher of feminist theory, comparative
literature, and trans studies. Her first book, _The New Woman: Literary
Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory [1]
_(Northwestern 2017) is a study of the prominence of the medicalized
figure of trans femininity in works of twentieth-century literature and
philosophy. Her edited collection _Feminism Against Cisness _ [2](Duke
2024) gathers essays that demonstrate the nature and potential of
feminist thought unobscured by the counterrevolutionary mystification of
assigned sex. _This Watery Place: Four Essays on Gestation [3] --- _a
political and phenomenological report from the gestational sensorium
against cisness, capital, and genocide --- is forthcoming from Pluto
Press in November 2025. Her current book project is a sequel edited
collection that draws on the work of scholars from many disciplines and
areas of geographical and historical focus to reveal the provincial
nature of the ideology of cisness. Forthcoming essays theorize the
emergence of the trans-gay distinction in the twentieth century via
literary representations. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the
XE program at New York University, where she serves as faculty advisor
for the Advanced Certificate in Experimental Writing.
I want to thank the VDP [4], the Culture & Equality Unit [5] of the
University of Vienna, queer@hochschulen [6], and ACCESTECH / TU Wien [7]
for their financial support dor this event.
Looking forward to seeing many of you at the talk!
All the best,
Flora Löffelmann
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Flora Löffelmann, MA MA
University assistant & doctoral candidate
Department of Philosophy at University of Vienna
Pronouns: they/them (for more info see:
https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why/)
Happy about a gender neutral "hello"!
Links:
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[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv47w5mz
[2] https://www.dukeupress.edu/feminism-against-cisness
[3] https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350158/this-watery-place/
[4] https://vd-philosophy.univie.ac.at/
[5] https://personalwesen.univie.ac.at/en/culture-equality/
[6] https://queer-at-hochschulen.org/
[7] https://www.experiencing-access.eu/de/news/