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We look forward to seeing you!
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Katrin Hackl
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University of Vienna
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1010 Vienna / Austria
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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
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)*
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)
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
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
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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
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Dear all,
our next speaker in the Philosophy of Science Colloquium organized by
the Institute Vienna Circle is Georg Brun (IVC Fellow), who will give a
talk on January 23, 4.45-6.15 pm.
All are welcome!
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Philosophy of Science Colloquium TALK: Georg Brun (IVC Fellow)
EXPLICATION BASED PLURALISM
Philosophy of Science Colloquium
The Institute Vienna Circle holds a Philosophy of Science Colloquium
with talks by our present fellows.
Date: 23/01/2025
Time: 16h45
Venue: New Institute Building (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, HS
2G
Abstract:
Carnap emphasized that for a given explicandum, there is no such thing
as the correct explicatum, but only one or more adequate explicata. This
talk addresses two questions: In what ways can an explication problem
have more than one solution? In what sense do multiple solutions to
explication problems give rise to pluralism? Based on an analysis of the
general structure of explications, I will first develop a systematic
overview of the surprisingly many factors that can be responsible for
multiple outcomes of an explication project. I will then suggest some
conditions under which it is plausible to interpret multiple outcomes as
giving rise to explication-based pluralism.
Dear all,
I wanted to inform you about this public hearing regarding the
professorship for Epistemology. Since this is closely tied to our
Masters Program I thought it would be of interest to you. I want to
invite especially all fellow students to come and see the lecture. There
will be the opportunity to share our opinion with the student
representatives that take part in the comission.
Best wishes,
Vinzenz
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talks as part of the hearings for the professorship: Epistemolog
Datum: 17.01.2025 15:02
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An: vinzenz.fischer(a)univie.ac.at
Invitation Epistemology
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UPDATE: INVITATION TO THE PUBLIC TEACHING SESSIONS AND RESEARCH TALKS
AS PART OF THE HEARINGS FOR THE PROFESSORSHIP: EPISTEMOLOGY
UPDATE!
Invitation to the public teaching sessions and research talks as part of
the hearings for the professorship: Epistemology
23.1.2025 - Tag 1: Kelp, Littlejohn:
Location: 3A (NIG, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna)
24.1.2025 - Tag 2: Schulz, Simion:
Location: 3A (NIG, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna)
23.1.2025:
Teaching Presentation 45 min
09.00-09.45 Teaching Kelp
10.00-10.45 Teaching Littlejohn
10.45-11.30 Pause
Research Presentation 45 min
11.30-12.15 Research Kelp
12.30-13.15 Research Littlejohn
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Teaching Presentation 45 min
09.00-09.45 Teaching Schulz
10.00-10.45 Teaching Simion
10.45-11.30 Pause
Research Presentation 45 min
11.30-12.15 Research Simion
12.30-13.15 Research Schulz
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Herausgeber:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Barbara Schulte, M.A. (Dekanin)
Redaktion:
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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 Stephan Hartmann (LMU Munich).
Title: Coherence and Truth
Date: Thursday, January 23rd 2025
Reading Circle: 1pm - 3pm
Talk: 3pm - 5 pm
Location: this APSE event will exceptionally NOT take place in room 3A
but in the "Konferenzzimmer" of the Department of Political Science
(Institut für Politikwissenschaften). This room is located in the NIG,
2nd floor, in hallway A (the one at staircase 1). You can find the room
on the floorplan here: Orientierung [1]
Abstract of the talk (3-5 PM):
One of the most important questions in epistemology is what our
knowledge of the world is ultimately based on. In this context, some
epistemologists argue that there are fundamental beliefs that do not
themselves require justification and on which all other beliefs depend.
Coherence theorists reject this answer and argue instead that our
knowledge is based on the mutual support of the propositions under
consideration: If our beliefs add up to a coherent whole, then we have a
reason for them to be true. It has also been argued that much of
scientific reasoning relies on coherence considerations. In this talk,
we will first outline the coherence theory of justification and discuss
some of the reasons for and against it. In doing so, we will also
address the central question of what coherence actually is. For this
purpose, a Bayesian framework proves particularly useful, as coherence
considerations are most effective in the domain of uncertainty. We will
then take a closer look at the relationship between coherence and truth.
To what extent is the coherence of a set of propositions an indicator of
its truth? Answering this question leads to some old and new challenges
for the coherence theorist. The talk concludes with a moderately
optimistic assessment of the role of coherence considerations in
everyday life and in science.
Reading Circle (1-3 PM):
We will focus our discussion on Chapter 2 of Stephan Hartmann's book:
Bovens, Luc, and Stephan Hartmann, '2 Coherence', Bayesian Epistemology
(Oxford, 2004; online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 Jan. 2005),
https://doi-org.uaccess.univie.ac.at/10.1093/0199269750.003.0003
(pdf in the attachment)
As introduction to the field, we suggest:
Olsson, Erik, "Coherentist Theories of Epistemic Justification", The
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2023 Edition), Edward N.
Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL =
<https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2023/entries/justep-coherence/>.
For further reading regarding the topic:
Especially Chapter 1 in:
Bovens, Luc, and Stephan Hartmann, Bayesian Epistemology (Oxford, 2004;
online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 Jan. 2005),
https://doi-org.uaccess.univie.ac.at/10.1093/0199269750.001.0001 Titel
anhand dieser DOI in Citavi-Projekt übernehmen, accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
Hartmann, Stephan and Trpin, Borut (2023) Why Coherence Matters.
Why_Coherence_Matters_preprint.pdf [2]
Hartmann, S., & Trpin, B. (2024). A New Posterior Probability-Based
Measure of Coherence. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Science Society, 46. Retrieved from
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/30p8x5xh
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)
Links:
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