9 Apr
2025
9 Apr
'25
9:38 a.m.
*Call for Abstracts: Workshop II: Adverse Allies: Logical Empiricism and
Austrian Economics*
*23.9.-25.9.2025, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria*
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 host two workshops in 2025. The organisers seek submissions
for contributed talks for the second workshop. You can find more
information about the workshops here
<https://www.jku.at/en/institute-of-philosophy-and-scientific-method/adverse-allies-ii/>
.
*Deadline for Submissions of Abstracts for Workshop II: 08.06.2025*
Notification of Acceptance: 08.07.2025 at the latest
*Workshop II in Linz: 23.09.-25.09.2025*
Logical empiricism and Austrian economics are arguably the two
internationally most influential intellectual movements with Viennese
roots. The Vienna Circle and the Austrian School have shaped the
development of philosophical, scientific, and political debate in the 20th
century. In the 21st century, logical empiricism has undergone extensive
re-evaluation, while the Austrian School experiences another revival.
Yet, despite numerous connections and interactions between the two
movements, their relationship has captured surprisingly sparse attention in
the historical and philosophical literature. If an account is provided at
all, logical empiricists and Austrian economists are portrayed as
philosophically, scientifically, and politically antithetical groups. Among
the most frequently mentioned contrastive pairs of catchwords are
empiricism vs apriorism, formal methods vs verbal reasoning, and socialism
vs classical liberalism.
Acknowledging the existence of disagreements between logical empiricism and
the Austrian School, recent scholarship has challenged the received view of
antithetical opposition by reconstructing hitherto neglected
compatibilities and similarities between the two movements.
This workshop aims to advance historical as well as systematic discussions
on the relationship between logical empiricism and Austrian economics.
Contributions that fruitfully inform contemporary debates in philosophy,
methodology, politics, or the sciences are particularly welcome.
*Topics for workshop II include but are not limited to:· Karl Menger and
Felix Kaufmann as mediators between LE and AE· common influences: Frege,
Husserl, Kant, Mach, Wittgenstein· non-cognitivism, the fact/value
distinction, and the ideal of value-neutrality· the principle of tolerance
and polylogism· logical tolerance, methodological tolerance, political
liberalism· logicism and the logic of action· naturalism vs antinaturalism,
unity vs disunity of science, scientific pluralism and pseudorationality·
essentialism and its discontents (Menger, Wieser, Neurath, Popper,
Rothbard,…)· defenses of democracy in Viennese Late Enlightenment*
*· expertise, education, and democracy*
*Abstracts should be 300-400 words (including references, if needed) and
submitted here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe4Oa0v65SfMmKUhTmr88xVx847CuxPptaKJ4TWNTtIjWKEag/viewform>.*
*Scientific Committee: *Alexander Linsbichler (chair), Julian Reiss, Georg
Schiemer, Friedrich Stadler
*Local Organising Committee:* Alexander Linsbichler, Michalis Christou,
Robert Frühstückl, Jakob Gschwandtner, Jonatan Magnusson, Pauline Paulik,
William Peden, Julian Reiss, Evelin Stockinger
*Queries:* Alexander Linsbichler (alexander.linsbichler(a)jku.at)
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
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(Böhlau, 2022)*