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by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 3th talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2025W: [cid:image001.png@01DC32C3.6530C9E0]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/news-events/details/news/vienna-sts-talk-by-sally-…> 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 [cid:image002.jpg@01DC32C3.6530C9E0]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/>

1 year, 1 month

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Vienna STS Talk x Panel discussion 'Alternative knowledge practices and the politics of urban transformation'

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 2nd talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2025W: [cid:image001.png@01DC28AF.45FC4220]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/news-events/details/news/vienna-sts-talk-x-by-pane…> 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 [cid:image002.jpg@01DC28AF.45FC4220]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/>

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Vienna STS Talk by Inga Ulnicane

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 1st talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2025W: [cid:image002.png@01DC27DF.AC569D20]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/news-events/details/news/vienna-sts-talk-by-inga-u…> 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 [cid:image001.jpg@01DC27DF.0CDC80C0]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/>

1 year, 1 month

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Save the dates: Vienna STS Talks Autumn 2025!

by Katrin Hackl

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! [cid:image001.png@01DC2188.23708DC0]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/news-events/vienna-sts-talks/2025w/> 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 [cid:image002.jpg@01DC2188.23708DC0]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/>

1 year, 1 month

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REMINDER - Talk by Kelli Barr - "The Material Theory of Values in Science"

by Veronika Lassl

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

1 year, 2 months

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Invitation - Talk by Kelli Barr on August 19th - "The Material Theory of Values in Science"

by Veronika Lassl

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

1 year, 3 months

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History of Economic Thought and Methodology: A Joint Workshop at the University of Vienna (05.09.2025)

by Dahyun Lee

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

1 year, 3 months

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IVC Talk: Luana Poliseli (IVC Fellow) on "The Left Vienna Circle, Democratization of Knowledge and the Epistemic Functions of Aesthetics", July 3, 4.45 pm

by Zarah Weiss

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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

1 year, 4 months

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Invitation: "Filtering Truth - 14th WFAP Graduate Conference on Epistemic Bubbles, Echo Chambers and the Spread of Misinformation"

by Veronika Lassl

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: ------ [1] https://wfap.philo.at/conferences/14th-wfap-graduate-conference/

1 year, 4 months

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Invitation: Trans*Formations talk by Prof. Emma Heaney, 26.6.

by Flora Löffelmann

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 -- 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: ------ [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/

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