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
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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"!
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
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
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>
We are happy to invite you to our 1st talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2025S:
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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.: 0043-1-4277-496007
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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
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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.: 0043-1-4277-496007
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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