January 2023 - Iris - Philosophy bulletin board

TALK: Rachel Ankeny and Audrey Henry: 'Evolving Models for Co-Production of Marine Science Knowledge in South Australia' (October 20th, 12:30-2pm CEST)

by Martin Kusch

Dear All, The Philosophy Department of the Central European University, the Institute Vienna Circle and the Unit for Applied Philosophy of Science and Epistemology (of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna) are jointly organizing a series of talks this term: https://wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/news-events/apse-ceu-ivc-talks-wintersemes… The next talk will be Thursday, October 20th, 12:30-2pm CEST. The talk will be online only. The speakers will be Rachel Ankeny and Audrey Henry (University of Adelaide). The title of the talk is: 'Evolving Models for Co-Production of Marine Science Knowledge in South Australia' (Abstract below) Online access (without registration): univienna.zoom.us/j/61475205762 You can also log into our meetings through the Zoom application (rather than by clicking the link above), by using the following credentials: Meeting-ID: 614 7520 5762 Password: 264065 No RSVP or registered accounts are required for online attention, it's enough to click on the link and enter your name. Chrome or Firefox browsers work best. Abstract: Australia presents a complex example of a locale where there is increasing awareness about the moral and legal requirements associated with benefit sharing and acknowledgment of traditional knowledge, particularly Indigenous knowledge sources. After a brief overview on the history and current status of Indigenous communities in Australia, we present a series of vignettes associated with marine research in South Australia where different types of engagement or collaborations have occurred between academic and governmental researchers and local Indigenous communities. We use these vignettes to problematise typical Western scientific methods of giving credit and including local and traditional knowledges as part of knowledge production methods in scientific research, and explore a broader range of options such as diverse forms of benefit sharing that in turn can support a more robust vision of what is epistemically and morally relevant in these domains. Everyone welcome! On behalf of the organizers, Martin Kusch --------------------------------------- Prof. Martin Kusch (he/they) Univ. of Vienna, Dpt. of Philosophy https://martinkusch.wixsite.com/website

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Ass.Prof. i.R. Dr. Werner Gabriel, 02.10.1941 - 14.01.2023

by Institut für Philosophie

Sehr geehrte Kolleginnen und Kollegen, mit großer Trauer und Anteilnahme müssen wir Sie darüber informieren, dass Ass.Prof. i.R. Dr. Werner Gabriel am 14. Januar 2023 gestorben ist (die Parte finden Sie im Anhang). Unser Mitgefühl gilt besonders seinen Angehörigen. Werner Gabriel war bis Ende 2006 als Assistenzprofessor und danach weiterhin als Lehrbeauftragter am Institut für Philosophie tätig, seine Schwerpunkte in Forschung und Lehre lagen in der chinesischen Philosophie, der komparativen und der interkulturellen Philosophie. Er wird uns fehlen. George Karamanolis und Anja Weiberg -- Mag. Markus Riedl Institutskoordinator philosophie(a)unvie.ac.at +43(1)4277 46401 Institut für Philosophie Universitätsstraße 7/3 1010 Wien https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/

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Fwd: CEU Summer School on Contemporary Issues in Ontology and Social Ontology

by Martin Kusch

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CEU Summer School on Contemporary Issues in Ontology and Social Ontology Date: 27.01.2023 09:07 From: "International Social Ontology Society" <ISOS(a)wildapricot.org> Reply-To: "Asya Passinsky" <asyapass(a)gmail.com> Central European University is offering a summer course on “Contemporary Issues in Ontology and Social Ontology [1]”. The course will be held July 17th to July 28th, 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. The faculty includes Mark Balaguer (Cal State LA), Talia Bettcher (Cal State LA), Åsa Burman (Stockholm), Esa Díaz-León (Barcelona), Alex Grzankowski (Birkbeck), Ferenc Huoranszki (CEU), Michaela McSweeney (Boston), and Asya Passinsky (CEU). Course description: Philosophers are becoming increasingly interested in real-world problems and in how their discipline is relevant to these problems. The recent explosion of interest in social ontology is part of a movement in philosophy to come down out of the ivory tower and engage with issues that actually matter—issues concerning, e.g., race, gender, and social justice. This course will introduce students to ontology, and to social ontology in particular, by delving deeply into numerous important issues in the field.  Specific topics to be covered in the course include the following: social justice, social construction, groups, social structures, ideal vs. non-ideal social ontology, social power, essentialism as it relates to social groups and genders, metaphysical grounding in the social realm, issues pertaining to mental health and moral responsibility, social theories of art, rationality, and mental content, and issues in meta social ontology. We invite applications from graduate students, postdocs, and faculty in philosophy. A few places for advanced undergraduate students will also be available. The application deadline is February 14th, 2023. For more information and details on how to apply, please visit the course website [1]. Unsubscribe [2] Links: ------ [1] https://isos.wildapricot.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipient… [2] https://isos.wildapricot.org/Sys/Unsubscribe?et=oXCjSpVQap6yKc3gzJICr0hUla0…

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Barbara Muraca: Why protect nature? 25.01. || Student Colloquium on Decision Principles in Ethics, 26.01.

by Institut für Philosophie

Dear all, please be invited to the following two events: Barbara Muraca: Why protect nature? The multiple values of human-nature relationships and their relevance for policy Date: January 25, 2023 Time: 20:00 – 21.30 Location: Zoom Sign-up: eva.hijlkema(a)univie.ac.at Barbara Muraca is a Professor of Philosophy at The University of Oregon. Her research focuses on Environmental and Social Philosophy, Process Philosophy, and Political Ecology. Prior to working at University of Oregon she was Assistant Professor of Environmental and Social Philosophy at Oregon State University and Senior Researcher (Post-Doc) at the Center for Advanced Studies 'Post-growth Societies' at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Jena, Germany. From 2014 to 2020 she was co-director of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP). Since Summer 2018 she is a Lead Author of the IPBES assessment on multiple values of nature (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services). Abstract: For decades the question about why nature should be protected has had two different answers: because nature matters for its own sake (intrinsic value), independent of how it affects people, or because of the benefits people derive from interacting with nature (instrumental value). While the first perspective rejects instrumental justifications for conservation and considers anthropocentrism as part of the problem, the second one highlights anthropocentric arguments and employs economic valuation to assess the importance of ecosystems to people. But does it have to be one or the other? Recent research suggests a third possibility: protecting nature because of the meaningful relationships that connect people to nature, and to each other through nature. These so-called relational values remain anthropocentric, but are not instrumental justifications for conservation. Since its development, the relational value framework has proven relevant for policy and in valuation studies across disciplines and has been adopted by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). The lecture will present the policy relevance of this old debate in environmental ethics and embed it into the way in which IPBES operates at the global level. Student Colloquium on Decision Principles in Ethics Date: January 26, 2023 Time: 11.30 – 14.45 Location: Hörsaal 3F (NIG) As a part of the research seminar ‘Decision Principles in Ethics’ the students will host a colloquium on ethical decision-making and its shortfalls in real scenarios. Please be invited to join! Schedule: 11.30 – 12.00 Pauline de Ronde and Julia Leturio: Should medical AI always be supervised by humans? 12.00 – 12.30 Ida Miczke and Jakob Lissy: How to choose whom to treat: triage planning during the Covid-19 pandemic 12.30 – 13.00 Ekkehard Tenschert and Felix Servus: How to judge someone’s estimated developmental capacities? 13.00 – 13.15 Break 13.15 – 13.45 Silvia Schori: An ethical dilemma with child labour in Senegal 13.45 – 14.15 Eduard Mastalski and Egzona Bokshi: The Covid-19 lockdown through an ethical framework 14.15 – 14.45 Eva Hijlkema: Is there a case for favouring evidence-backed choices over and above expected value? -- Eva Hijlkema, BSc Studienassistenz Univ.-Prof. Dr. Angela Kallhoff Universität Wien Institut für Philosophie Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien

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Invitation - Didier Debaise: "The Earth of the Moderns" - Lecture and Discussion

by Institut für Philosophie

Dear Colleagues, The Reading Circle of the Research Group "Poststructuralism, Gender Theory, Psychoanalysis" at the University of Vienna cordially invites you to the next public event (on Zoom): *Didier Debaise* (Université Libre de Bruxelles) "The Earth of the Moderns. How to Inherit Latour's Inquiry into Modes of Existences" January 27th 2023, 6-8pm (CET) Lecture and Discussion (online) Debaise is currently working on a series of texts around Bruno Latour's thought. Thus, in his lecture, he will present his research: bringing together his interpretation of Whitehead ("Cosmology of the Moderns"), laid out in the book /Nature as Event. The Lure of the Possible/, with Latour's /Inquiry into Modes of Existence/. Register here to get the Zoom-Link and reference texts: ralf.gisinger(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:ralf.gisinger@univie.ac.at> More information: poststrukturalismus.univie.ac.at <mailto:poststrukturalismus@univie.ac.at> Didier Debaise is Professor for Contemporary Philosophy at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and permanent researcher at the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique. His main areas of research are contemporary forms of speculative philosophy, philosophy of nature, and links between American pragmatism and the French contemporary philosophy. He wrote several books on Whitehead's philosophy (/Un empirisme spéculatif, Le vocabulaire de Whitehead /and /L'appât des possibles/), edited volumes on pragmatism (/Vie et experimentation/), on the history of contemporary metaphysics (/Philosophie des possessions/), and he wrote numerous papers on Bergson, Tarde, Souriau, Simondon, and Deleuze. Two of his books appeared in English: /Nature as Event /(Duke University Press) and /A Speculative Empiricism /(Edinburgh University Press). Since 2021 the Reading and Research Circle PS-GT-PA (initiated by Arno Böhler) includes public events additionally to the monthly readings. This lecture follows a workshop with Erin Manning and Brian Massumi on "The Three Ecologies" as well as a lecture by Avital Ronell on Deconstruction. _____________________________________________________________ Liebe Kolleg*innen, Wir möchten Sie sehr herzlich zu einem öffentlichen Vortrag im Rahmen des Reading Circles des Fachbereichs "Poststructuralism, Gender Theory, Psychoanalysis" einladen (auf Zoom): *Didier Debaise* (Université Libre de Bruxelles) "The Earth of the Moderns. How to Inherit Latour's Inquiry into Modes of Existences" 27. Jänner 2023, 18-20 Uhr (CET) Vortrag und Diskussion (online) Debaise arbeitet aktuell an einer Reihe von Texten zum Denken Bruno Latours. Der Vortrag beinhaltet die Vorstellung dieser Forschung, indem er seine im Buch /Nature as Event/ dargelegte Whitehead-Interpretation („Cosmology of the Moderns") mit Latours /Inquiry into Modes of Existence/ zusammenführt. Bitte registrieren Sie sich hier, um den Zoom-Link zu erhalten: ralf.gisinger(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:ralf.gisinger@univie.ac.at> Mehr Informationen unter: poststrukturalismus.univie.ac.at <mailto:poststrukturalismus@univie.ac.at> Didier Debaise ist Professor für zeitgenössische Philosophie an der Freien Universität Brüssel (ULB) und Forscher am Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique.Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind aktuelle Formen der spekulativen Philosophie, Naturphilosophie sowie Verbindungen zwischen dem amerikanischen Pragmatismus und französischer zeitgenössischer Philosophie.Er schrieb mehrere Bücher über Whiteheads Philosophie (/Un empirisme spéculatif, Le vocabulaire de Whitehead /und /L'appât des possibles/), ist Herausgeber eines Bandes über Pragmatismus (/Vie et experimentation/), über die Geschichte zeitgenössischer Metaphysik (/Philosophie des possessions/) und verfasste zahlreicheArtikel über Bergson, Tarde, Souriau, Simondon und Deleuze.In deutscher Übersetzung erschien kürzlich (2021): /Vom Reiz des Möglichen, Natur als Ereignis/. Seit 2021 organisiert der Forschungs- und Lesekreis PS-GT-PA (initiiert von Arno Böhler) zusätzlich zu den monatlichen Lektüretreffen öffentliche Veranstaltungen. Didier Debaises Vortrag folgt damit einem Workshop mit Erin Manning und Brian Massumi zu "The Three Ecologies" sowie einem Vortrag von Avital Ronell zum Thema Dekonstruktion.

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DSPL43: FÖP 05.12.2022 ab 15:00 Uhr

by Institut für Philosophie

Liebe Kolleg*innen, im Anhang übermittle ich Ihnen den Aushang für die kommende FÖP der DSPL43 ( Philosophie) am Montag, 30.01.2023 ab 15:00. Bitte beachten Sie, dass die FÖP dieses Semester vor Ort im Hörsaal 3C (3. Stock, NIG) stattfindet. Dear colleague, Please find attached the schedule for the DSPL43's next faculty-public presentation (FÖP) of doctoral research projects on Monday, 30.01.2023 3 p.m. onwards. Please note that this semester the FÖP will be held on site in Hörsaal 3C (3. Stock, NIG). Mit besten Grüßen With best wishes, Benjamin Schnieder, DSPL43

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Vortragseinladung, Dienstag 17. Jänner, 18:30.

by Brigitta Keintzel

Einladung zum Vortrag von Jennifer Eickelmann im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung „Gewalt und Geschlechterverhältnisse“ (Der Vortrag findet in deutscher Sprache statt.) „Wenn der Troll den Laden kauft…“. Digitale Öffentlichkeiten, Grenzen der Redefreiheit und Ethik der Verletzbarkeit“ Dienstag 17. Jänner 2023, 18:30 Hörsaal 41 Gerda-Lerner Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 8 <https://uspace.univie.ac.at/web/gast/rauminfo/raumdetails/-/raumdetails/3441> Der Vortrag kann auch über Zoom gehört werden. „Wenn der Troll den Laden kauft“ – so betitelte Alexander Demling, der Silicon-Valley-Korrespondent des SPIEGEL Anfang April 2022 einen Artikel über das Vorhaben des Tesla-Gründers und Tech-Milliardärs Elon Musk, die Plattform Twitter zu kaufen. Im Zentrum der öffentlichen Debatte zu diesem aufsehenerregenden Investment stand einmal mehr eine Meinungsfreiheit, die es unbedingt zu retten gelte. Der Vortrag problematisiert die Differenz von Hassrede und Redefreiheit im Kontext digitaler Teilöffentlichkeiten und zeigt ihre komplexen Bedingungskonstellationen und Voraussetzungen auf. Auf dieser Grundlage werden anhand aktueller Ereignisse Herausforderungen mit Blick auf die Regulierung digitaler Zeichen diskutiert. Mit der Einführung einer Ethik der Verletzbarkeit im digitalen Zeitalter wird eine alternative Perspektive vorgeschlagen, die sich jenseits der Verteidigung einer entgrenzten Redefreiheit wie auch einer konsensuellen Regulierung digitaler Zeichen bewegt. Jennifer Eickelmann ist Juniorprofessorin für Digitale Transformation in Kultur und Gesellschaft an der FernUniversität in Hagen. Zuvor war sie wiss. Mitarbeiterin am Lehrgebiet für Soziologie mit dem Schwerpunkt Soziale Ungleichheit und Gleichstellungsbeauftragte der Fakultät Sozialwissenschaften an der TU Dortmund. 2017 promovierte sie am Institut für Medienwissenschaft der Ruhr-Universität Bochum mit einer Arbeit zur Materialität mediatisierter Missachtung. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen an der Schnittstelle von Medientheorie, Ungleichheits-/Kultursoziologie sowie Gender/Queer Media Studies und beschäftigen sich mit der digitalen Transformation von Subjektivierungsprozessen und affektiven Öffentlichkeiten, insbesondere im Kontext digitaler Gewalt, sowie dem digitalen Wandel des Kuratorischen im Kontext von Museen Zoom Code: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/69454832909?pwd=ZkpYbTRpaXZFcnA0cWhTZjN6SnEwZz09 <https://univienna.zoom.us/j/69454832909?pwd=ZkpYbTRpaXZFcnA0cWhTZjN6SnEwZz09> Meeting ID: 694 5483 2909 Kenncode:824713 https://gender.univie.ac.at/veranstaltungen/ringvorlesung-gender-studies/ge…

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Invitation to the Pragmatic Academic Series

by Institut für Philosophie

*Pragmatic Academic Event Graduate Applications and Research Proposals* Dear Students, We are organizing a workshop for Doctoral and Master Students on Graduate Applications and Research Proposals as part of the Pragmatic Academic Event series of the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy. The aim of this workshop is to help students who are interested in pursuing their PhD in Philosophy and those applying for funded positions with preparing their applications. Our panellists, Prof. Dr. Paulina Sliwa and Prof. Dr. Hans Bernhard Schmid, will be sharing their experiences and strategies for writing research proposals and preparing and evaluating graduate applications in general. We will focus on issues such as how to write a good research proposal, how to prepare your graduate application, how such proposals and applications are evaluated, and so on. There will be ample time for students to raise questions themselves. *Date*: 20 January 2023 *Time*: 17.30 – 19.30 CET *Place*: Room 3D, Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien This event will be organized in hybrid form. Students will also be able to participate online via Zoom. Students can join via the following link: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/69127473337?pwd=aGliWmI2b3FhK3M4SmdQWWZSZCtrQT09 Meeting ID: 691 2747 3337 Passcode: 098874 The event is open to all students. We look forward to seeing you at the workshop! Further information available at: https://vd-philosophy.univie.ac.at/upcoming-events/events-details/news/grad… Kind regards, Raphael Aybar and Niels de Haan

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Call for Applications - Summer School on Climate Science - Vienna

by Zarah Weiss

Call for Applications (Deadline: March 15, 2023) Climate Science: Historical, Philosophical and Sociological Issues univie: summer school Scientific World Conceptions (USS-SWC) Vienna, July 1019, 2023 Since 2001, the University of Vienna and the Institute Vienna Circle hold an annual summer school dedicated to major current issues in the natural and the social sciences, their history and philosophy. The title of the program reflects the heritage of the Vienna Circle which promoted interdisciplinary and philosophical investigations based on solid disciplinary knowledge. Climate science, understood as an interdisciplinary field of study of the Earths climate and the causes and effects of climate change, is clearly of central importance today. The summer school will explore climate studies from a historical, philosophical, and sociological perspective. Topics to be covered will include: foundations and methodological issues relating to climate science, including various definitions of climate change, different types of models of climate change, and the use of simulations; further, historical roots and the development of climate science before and after the computer age; finally, issues concerning science policy and the communication of findings of climate science to a general public. Topics will be selected reflecting participants interests and may include: Defining climate and climate change Evidence for climate change Modelling climate change: issues of confirmation and prediction Climate change and decision theory History of climate science as a research program Climate science in the public debate Lecturers: Candis Callison (University of British Columbia) <https://jwam.ubc.ca/profile/candis-callison/> https://jwam.ubc.ca/profile/candis-callison/ Deborah Coen (Yale University) <https://hshm.yale.edu/people/deborah-coen> https://hshm.yale.edu/people/deborah-coen Eric Winsberg (University of South Florida) <http://philosophy.usf.edu/faculty/ewinsberg/> http://philosophy.usf.edu/faculty/ewinsberg/ The program is primarily directed at graduate students and junior researchers in relevant fields, but the organizers also encourage applications from undergraduates and people in all stages of their career. 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/en/> https://wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/en/ 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 Alserstraße 23/32 1080 Wien <mailto:summerschool.ivc@univie.ac.at> summerschool.ivc(a)univie.ac.at Scientific director: Prof. Georg Schiemer Institute Vienna Circle Alserstraße 23/32 1080 Wien <mailto:georg.schiemer@univie.ac.at> georg.schiemer(a)univie.ac.at

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Lecture: 13.01.2023: Siby K. George: The Disrupted Self - Madness, Modernity and Context

by EDV Philosophie

Lecture Series Winter semester 2022/23 ***Encountering Madness. Intercultural and Decolonial Approaches to the Phenomenon of Mental Illness* Organization: Cristina Chitu, Manu Sharma & Murat Ates Lecture 13.01., 15.00 (3:00 pm CET) via zoom. Please register under: office(a)wigip.org *Siby K. George (Mumbai): The Disrupted Self: Madness, Modernity and Context* Phenomenological accounts associate ill conditions of the psyche/soul with disturbance in its habitual ways of being in the world (Heidegger) or disruptions of the intentional arc (Merleau-Ponty) that envelops the body and connects it with the world. All illnesses involve varying degrees of disruptions of our embodied-enworlded way of being. However, because ill conditions of the psyche cannot be pinpointed to be located specifically in the body, cultural understandings of their meaning, character, and even reality have varied that much more starkly (Foucault). In this talk, my focus will be on how the disruptions of madness are looked at in India after the arrival of modern medicine, and how such an account could contribute to contextualize and decolonize psychopathology.

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