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Dear all,
I would like to remind you that the writing evenings are restarting
today at 2pm in room 3A, Neues Institutsgebäude (NiG),
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien.
The VDP Writing Evenings provide an opportunity for focused work on
dissertations and academic texts. They are accessible to philosophy PhD
candidates, advanced master's students, or anyone in between.
Upcoming sessions:
29.4., 14-18 Uhr
6.5., 14-18 Uhr
13.5., 14-18 Uhr
20.5., 14-18 Uhr
27.5., 14-18 Uhr
3.6., 14-18 Uhr
10.6., 14-18 Uhr
24.6., 14-18 Uhr
For questions and inquiries, please contact lisa.tragbar(a)univie.ac.at or
eva.liedauer(a)univie.ac.at.
Full information at
https://vd-philosophy.univie.ac.at/events/details/news/vdp-writing-afternoo…
Best,
Raphael Aybar
Dear Colleagues,
We warmly invite you to the graduate conference "From Minds to
Movements: Foresight in Cognition and Activism", taking place from May 8
to May 10, 2025, at the University of Vienna.
The conference will be held in a hybrid format, allowing both in-person
and online participation. Information about registration and how to
obtain the Zoom link can be found below.
The first two days of the conference will be held at Aula am Campus Hof
1.11, featuring workshops on Conceptual Change and Climate Activism,
alongside presentations by PhD and postdoctoral researchers in
philosophy and cognitive science. On the third day, the conference will
move to the Sky Lounge at Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, focusing on further
research presentations and concluding with a discussion on future
research directions.
The symposium will also coincide with a panel discussion on The Future
of Knowledge, AI, and Climate Science, organised jointly with the Vienna
Cognitive Science Hub. All conference participants are warmly invited to
attend the panel and the subsequent reception.
You can find the full schedule of the conference below and on the
conference’s website, alongside other details concerning venue
information and registration procedure:
https://mindstomovements.carrd.co/.
Participation is free of charge and open to all.
If you wish to attend the conference, please register here:
https://forms.gle/BGicd3G3kMJHadtQ7.
Participants joining online will receive a Zoom link upon registration.
If you have any inquiries, please contact us at:
mindstomovements.cogsci(a)univie.ac.at.
The symposium is supported by the Vienna Cognitive Science Hub and the
Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft.
Warm regards,
The Organising Committee
Ohan Hominis
Maria Fedorova
Xueyi Yao
Bojin Zhu
Conference Schedule
Thursday, May 8
Coffee & Registration
09:00 – 10:00
Reasoning under Uncertainty:
Hope, Anxiety, and Bounded Rationality
Juliette Vazard (Central European University)
10:00 – 10:55
Flooding with disinformation
Ákos Szegőfi (Central European University)
11:00 – 11:35
Coffee Break
11:35 – 11:50
Divergence Of Collective Memories Across Different
Sociopolitical Identities In Türkiye (Online)
Zeynep Eylül Gül (Koç University)
11:50 – 12:25
Strategic Ignorance in Early Childhood:
Turning a Blind Eye to a Partner’s Cheating
Tindaya Déniz (Leipzig University)
12:30 – 12:55
Lunch
13:00 – 14:30
Workshop: Conceptual Change
14:30 – 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:00
Labeling events in political discourse (Online)
Mengyuan Qi (University of Pittsburgh)
16:00 – 16:35
From Perception to Possibility: Reformulating Analogical Reasoning
through Affordance Landscapes
Mohsen Forghani (University of Warsaw)
16:40 – 17:05
Novel, Uncertain or Surprising? Young Children’s Exploration
When Simultaneously Facing Different Curiosity Triggers
Kai-Xuan Chai (Technical University of Munich)
17:10 – 17:35
Evening Panel Discussion
17:45 – 19:00
Reception
19:00
Friday, May 9
Coffee & Registration
09:00 – 10:00
Perspectival Models:
What Cognitive Science Can Learn From Climate Science
Moritz Kriegleder (University of Vienna)
10:00 – 10:55
Higher-Level Cognition in Predictive Processing:
Grounded Cognition & Conceptual Spaces
Jannis Friedrich (German Sport University Cologne)
11:00 – 11:35
Coffee Break
11:35 – 11:50
Predictive Processing and the Extended Mind Thesis:
A Persuading Story of Indifference (Online)
Muzaffar Abass Wazir (Indian Institute of Technology)
11:50 – 12:25
How in-group opinions skew perceptions of polarization
in the climate debate
Peter Steiglechner (Complexity Science Hub)
12:30 – 12:55
Lunch
13:00 – 14:30
Workshop: Climate Activism
14:30 – 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 – 16:00
Masking: Epistemic Harm, Testimonial Smothering, and
the Medicalization of Neurodivergence in Healthcare (Online)
Roxy Alexander (American University)
16:00 – 16:35
Blind spots in the mind’s eye
Andreas Arslan (Central European University)
16:40 – 17:05
Ecological Perception and (Information) Anticipation
Martyna Meyer (University of Southern Denmark)
17:20 – 17:25
Beyond Belief: An Enactive Account of Culture
and Its Existential Dimension
Felipe Machado (University of Vienna)
17:30 – 17:55
Saturday, May 10
Coffee
09:00 – 10:00
The Revitalization of Democracy in Serbia:
Participant Observation and the Student Movement
Aleksandra Knežević (University of Belgrade)
10:00 – 10:55
Escaping Russia, Trapped by Identity:
National Identity Negotiation in Light of In-group Wrongdoing
Elena Mikhina (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
11:00 – 11:35
Coffee Break
11:35 – 11:50
Bargaining between the sexes: Gender inequalities in households
Angarika Deb (Central European University)
11:50 – 12:25
Children’s preference for democracy erodes in light of personal reward
Francesca Bonalumi (Central European University)
12:30 – 12:55
Closing & Group Lunch
13:00 – 13:30
Dear All,
How do we create meaningful change? Should we focus on transforming institutions? Or should we inspire individuals to adopt new habits. How about both?
I’d like to invite you and your colleagues to join us on 30 April 2025 to celebrate the launch of Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change (MIT Press). Co-author and Philosopher Daniel Kelly (Purdue University, USA) is joined by Cesy Leonard (Activist & Founder of Radikale Töchter), Asya Passinsky (Philosopher at Central European University) and Martin Russ (Managing Director at AustriaTech) to discuss the book’s ideas and share their own.
We hope you’ll join us to share your perspective, too! Book your free tickets here<https://www.eventbrite.at/e/somebody-should-do-something-how-anyone-can-hel…>.
The Details
Date & Time: Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 7 – 8:30pm
Location: Kulturhaus Brotfabrik, Ankersaal (Absberggasse 27/Stiege 3/3. Stock, 1100 Wien)
The talk will be followed by a wine reception 🍷
This event is organized by Knowledge in Crisis, an FWF-funded Cluster of Excellence that aims to enable completely new understandings of today’s crises of knowledge.
Warmly,
Jason
Jason Means, MA
Director of Management & Transfer
FWF Cluster of Excellence Knowledge in Crisis
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Liebe alle,
wir laden herzlich zur nächsten Fakultätsöffentlichen Präsentation von Dissertationskonzepten der Philosophie (FöP) ein.
Die Veranstaltung findet am Mittwoch, den 7. Mai 2025, um 13:15 Uhr im Hörsaal 2G (NIG, 2. Stock) statt.
Folgende drei Kandidat*innen präsentieren ihre Dissertationsprojekte:
13:15 Uhr
Peihong Xie, BA BA MA
Conceptually Engineering Grounding
Betreuung:
Univ.-Prof. Max Kölbel, MA MPhil PhD
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Schnieder, M.A.
13:45 Uhr
Noemi Call, BA MA
Landschaft als gastlicher Raum des Imaginären bei Hans-Dieter Bahr:
Erforschung einer künstlerischen Denkweise
Betreuung:
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Mag. Mag. Dr. Dr. Kurt Appel
Assoz. Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Dr. Helmut Jakob Deibl, Privatdoz.
14:15 Uhr
Dr. Sebastian Horvat
On logic and its autonomy from the empirical
Betreuung:
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Georg Schiemer
Wir freuen uns sehr auf Ihre Teilnahme!
Mit herzlichen Grüßen
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Arne Holger Moritz
Studienprogrammleitung Doktoratsstudium Philosophie (SPL 43)
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Dear all,
We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming Faculty Public Presentation of Dissertation Projects in Philosophy (FöP).
The event will take place on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 1:15 PM in Lecture Hall 2G (NIG, 2nd floor).
The following three candidates will present their dissertation projects:
1:15 PM
Peihong Xie, BA BA MA
Conceptually Engineering Grounding
Supervisors:
Univ.-Prof. Max Kölbel, MA MPhil PhD
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Schnieder, M.A.
1:45 PM
Noemi Call, BA MA
Landschaft als gastlicher Raum des Imaginären bei Hans-Dieter Bahr:
Erforschung einer künstlerischen Denkweise
Supervisors:
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Mag. Mag. Dr. Dr. Kurt Appel
Assoz. Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Dr. Helmut Jakob Deibl, Privatdoz.
2:15 PM
Dr. Sebastian Horvat
On logic and its autonomy from the empirical
Supervisor:
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Georg Schiemer
We are very much looking forward to your participation!
With best wishes,
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Arne Holger Moritz
Directorate of the Doctoral Programme in Philosophy (SPL 43)
Dear all,
our next speaker in the Philosophy of Science Colloquium organized by
the Institute Vienna Circle is Jennifer Whyte (IVC Fellow), who will
give a talk on April 10, 4.45-6.15 pm.
All are welcome!
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Philosophy of Science Colloquium TALK: Jennifer Whyte (IVC Fellow)
TOWARDS A WAISMANNIAN THEORY OF CONCEPTUAL ENGINEERING
Philosophy of Science Colloquium
The Institute Vienna Circle holds a Philosophy of Science Colloquium
with talks by our present fellows.
Date: 10/04/2025
Time: 16h45
Venue: New Institute Building (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, HS
3A
Abstract:
Much philosophical attention has recently been paid to Conceptual
Engineering - or, the intentional modification of concepts by
philosophers in order to achieve epistemic, ethical, or political ends.
The most controversial aspect of conceptual engineering are its aims,
but there is also much debate over the mechanism by which the process
could even be carried out. In this project, I will propose a mechanism
derived from the work of Friedrich Waismann by which intentional
conceptual amelioration can - and does - occur. I will then argue that
this account of conceptual engineering solves a number of standing
problems in the literature, but in doing so, places some key checks on
the ambition of conceptual engineering as a project.
Dear all,
we are delighted to invite you to the next installment of the APSE talks
series, as well as to the accompanying reading circle prior to the talk.
The talk will be given by Remco Heesen (LSE).
When: Thursday, 10.04.2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Where: HS 3A, NIG (Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien)
The Division of Cognitive Labour under Poisson Productivity
When a community of academics faces a research problem and multiple
methodological approaches to solving it, how much effort should they
devote to each approach to maximise their chances of solving the problem
and minimise the time to a solution? This problem is known as the
division of cognitive labour (DCL). More specifically, Philip Kitcher,
Michael Strevens, and Kevin Zollman have asked whether and to what
extent academics' expectations of credit for solving the problem can act
as an invisible hand to produce an efficient DCL without a need for
top-down planning. Here I revisit this question using a modelling
framework (key ingredient: academic productivity follows a Poisson
distribution) that has more empirical support than Kitcher's, Strevens',
and Zollman's, and is also more flexible in that it can be used to
address broader questions about credit incentives. The somewhat
surprising finding is that in this framework the DCL problem becomes
essentially trivial. I'd like to discuss implications for how we think
about the model and/or the DCL problem.
Reading Circle (1:15-3 PM):
When: right before the talk - Thursday, 10.04.2025, 13:15 - 15:00
Where: same place - HS 3A, NIG (Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien)
We will focus our discussion on an article by Kevin Zollman (attached
pdf):
Zollman, K. J. S. (2007). The Communication Structure of Epistemic
Communities. Philosophy of Science, 74(5), 574-587.
https://doi.org/10.1086/525605
As an introduction we suggest this SEP article (especially Chapters 2,
3.1, 4.1 and 4.2):
Šešelja, Dunja, "Agent-Based Modeling in the Philosophy of Science", The
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2023 Edition), Edward N.
Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL =
<https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2023/entries/agent-modeling-philscie…>.
For further reading regarding the topic:
Heesen, R. (2018). Why the reward structure of science makes
reproducibility problems inevitable. The Journal of Philosophy, 115(12),
661-674. https://doi.org/10.5840/jphil20181151239
Kitcher, P. (1990). The Division of Cognitive Labor. The Journal of
Philosophy, 87(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.2307/2026796
Thoma, J. (2015). The Epistemic Division of Labor Revisited. Philosophy
of Science, 82(3), 454-472. https://doi.org/10.1086/681768
Best wishes,
Vinzenz Fischer
Dear all,
We cordially invite you to a lecture and workshop with Simon Godart<https://www.temporal-communities.de/people/godart/index.html> (FU Berlin).
LECTURE
Nach der Metapher - Die Katachrese bei Nietzsche, Derrida, Blumenberg
Do 03.04.2025 | 18:30-20:00 | Dep. of Philosophy | Hs 2i (NIG)
WORKSHOP
Jacques Derrida: "Die weiße Mythologie. Die Metapher im philosophischen Text"
Fr 04.04.2025 | 10:00-13:30 | Dep. of Philosophy | Hs 3D (NIG)
10:00-10:20 | Simon Godart: Einführung
10:20-11:00 | Eva-Maria Aigner: Migrierende Metaphern. Woher kommt, wofür steht die Metapher? (S. 239-249)
11:00-11:40 | Adrian Fleisch: Die Theorie des Nomens und der elliptische Syllogismus (S. 249-264)
11:40-12:10 | Kaffeepause
12:10-12:50 | Ralf Gisinger: Proprietät der Metapher: Die différance des Eigentlich-Natürlichen (S. 264-278)
12:50-13:30 | Johanna Thorell: Metaphysik - Aufhebung der Metapher (S. 278-290)
The text fort the workshop will be sent on request: gerald.posselt(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:gerald.posselt@univie.ac.at>
With best regard,
Gerald Posselt
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PD Dr. Gerald Posselt
Department of Philosophy |University of Vienna
Universitätsstr. 7 | 1010 Vienna
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Language and Violence / Critical Theories Network<https://language.univie.ac.at/>