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IVC Talk: Sebastian G. Speitel (IVC Fellow) on "Mathematical Determinacy", March 6, 4.45pm

by Zarah Weiss

Dear all, our next speaker in the Philosophy of Science Colloquium organized by the Institute Vienna Circle is Sebastian G. Speitel (IVC Fellow), who will give a talk on March 6, 4.45-6.15 pm. All are welcome! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philosophy of Science Colloquium TALK: Sebastian G. Speitel (IVC Fellow) Mathematical Determinacy Philosophy of Science Colloquium The Institute Vienna Circle holds a Philosophy of Science Colloquium with talks by our present fellows. Date: 06/03/2025 Time: 16h45 Venue: New Institute Building (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, HS 3A Abstract: The existence of non-standard models of important mathematical theories, such as first-order Peano-Arithmetic, threatens to undermine the claim of the moderate mathematical realist that non-mysterious access to mathematical structures is possible on the basis of our best mathematical theories. The move to frameworks stronger than FOL to articulate ‘better’ versions of these theories is denied to the moderate realist on the grounds that it merely shifts the indeterminacy ‘one level up’ into the meta-theory by — illegitimately, — assuming determinacy of the notions needed to formulate such logics. In this talk I want to outline the beginnings of a response to the determinacy challenge facing the moderate mathematical realist. I argue that the unique determinability of notions that enable categorical characterizations of important mathematical structures provides grounds for claiming naturalistically acceptable access to these structures, sufficient to resolve the determinacy challenge. I will illustrate the idea by showing how the mathematical realist may achieve arithmetical determinacy, and discuss ways to extend this approach to richer mathematical theories.

6 months, 3 weeks

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Invitation: Trans*formations talk by Emelia Stanley, 11.3.2025

by Flora Löffelmann

Dear all, I am delighted to invite you all to the fourth installment of the Trans*formations talk series at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna. The talk series provides insights into recent developments in trans* philosophizing. The next talk, "On the Cass Review: A Philosophy of Science Perspective" will be given by Emelia Stanley, University of Vienna, on March 11, 2025, at 16:30 in HS 2 (NIG). Abstract: The Cass Review was a report commissioned by NHS England in 2020 to recommend new practice guidelines in transgender healthcare for children and adolescents, as well as to document problems with the existing gender identity services. Following its release last year, it was cited by both major political parties to justify the wholesale closure of the services, a halt and then ban on the prescription of puberty blockers to under 18s, and the suspension of a pending law to outlaw conversion-therapy. A valuable case study as a piece of scientific research and communication, this presentation examines the scientific Cass Review from a philosophy of science perspective, evaluating its conclusions and methodology with respect to notions of evidential norms, standpoint epistemology, prejudicial attitudes, and the current paradigm for trans* healthcare. Bio: Emelia Stanley is a Philosophy PhD candidate at the University of Vienna. She is pursuing a thesis in the philosophy of logic and mathematics, but writes independently about trans* issues in the UK and abroad from a personal and philosophical perspective. There will be drinks and snacks kindly provided by the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy (VDP)! When: March 11, 2025 - 16:30 to 18:15 Where: Lecture Hall 2H, NIG (2nd floor, Neues Institutsgebäude, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien) AND ONLINE: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/69476786960?pwd=vNGjtMMTQUZWo6bUGJumapbQRssHH8.1 On The Cass Review (Trans*Formations Series) Mar 11, 2025 04:30 PM Vienna Meeting ID 694 7678 6960 SecuritycheckedPasscode 98279 Attached, you find a poster for the event. Happy if this invitation is forwarded to all who could be interested, and the poster disseminated widely! Looking forward to seeing many of you at the talk! 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"!

6 months, 3 weeks

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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

6 months, 3 weeks

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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

7 months

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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>

7 months

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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/>

7 months, 1 week

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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/>

7 months, 1 week

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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

7 months, 1 week

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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)*

7 months, 2 weeks

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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)

7 months, 2 weeks

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