Dear Colleagues,
Knowledge in Crisis is hosting its next public event on 21 February at the Billrothhaus. Please check out the details & register here<https://events.ceu.edu/2024-02-21/why-do-we-disagree-about-politics-role-kn…>.
Why Do We Disagree About Politics?
The Role of Knowledge in Democratic Societies
Panel Discussion and Reception
21 February 2024
19:30 - 22:00
Billrothhaus | Frankgasse 8, 1090 Wien
Doors open at 19:00. Registration required.
"Democracy is a mechanism for distributing knowledge about matters of public interest, allowing us to decide which politicians should govern." This popular view paints the picture that a politician's role is to inform voters about what is in our best interest. Losing elections, then, must be the result of ineffective communication: "If only we'd managed to get our message across to people properly", the story goes, "then they would have seen why they had to vote for us!"
This picture clearly falls short of the messy reality of politics. But why? Does it portray an overly rationalistic picture of the democratic process? Is this picture overly idealistic? Does it overestimate the importance of (conveying) knowledge in democratic decisionmaking? Does it overestimate the potential for people to know what is in their best interest? How can we even determine what a person's "best interest" truly is?
Speakers:
Michael Ignatieff (Historian, former politician, Rector Emeritus at Central European University)
Oliver Traldi (Philosopher at Princeton University, author of the forthcoming book Political Beliefs)
Åsa Wikforss (Philosopher at Stockholm University, member of the Swedish Academy, Director of the Knowledge Resistance project)
The discussion will be moderated by Eva Stanzl, journalist at the Wiener Zeitung.
All the best,
Jason Means
Jason Means, MA
Director of Management and Transfer
FWF Cluster of Excellence Knowledge in Crisis
Department of Philosophy
Pronouns: He/Him
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+43 1 25230 7538
LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-d-means/>
Workshop on Logic and Its Philosophy
This workshop brings together early career researchers in areas of
philosophy that intersect with logic (including philosophical logic,
philosophy of logic, and philosophy of mathematics) to discuss on-going
work.
08.02.2024 -- 09.02.2024
Neues Institutsgebäude HS 3B, 3. Stock, Universitätstrasse 7, 1090 Wien
Please contact Andrew Tedder ( <mailto:ajtedder.at@gmail.com>
ajtedder.at(a)gmail.com) with questions.
Dear Colleagues,
There is an open call for participants (at the master, doctoral, and
postdoctoral level) in the univie:summer school “Ways of Doing
Philosophy: East and West” that is organized by our doctoral researchers
at the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy.
Abstract:
Nowadays, the term philosophy is a common currency across cultures,
university curricula, and public discourses around the world. But what
happens when φιλοσοφία (philosophia) meets contemporary philosophy and
its non-Western counterparts such as Chinese zhexue 哲學? The term
encompasses a plethora of conceptions of philosophical practices that
vary between East and West cultures.
This edition of the Summer School will provide a platform for
participants to explore and learn from the plurality of philosophical
subjects, methods, and purposes. In addition, the Summer School will
focus on the past and present bridges between ancient and
modern/contemporary philosophy, as well as between Western and
non-Western philosophical traditions, and on the global lessons about
philosophy that can be drawn from these interactions.
The summer school will, in addition, host keynote lectures on Western
Philosophy (with a focus on Ancient Greek Philosophy) and Eastern
Philosophy (Daoism, Confucianism and Indian Philosophy).
All the relevant information can be found here:
https://vd-philosophy.univie.ac.at/phd-program/doctoral-training/summer-sch…
Dates: 25-30 July 2024
Location: Neues Institutsgebäude, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien
The deadline for applications is March 15, 2024.
Contact email: vdp.summerschool.2024(a)gmail.com
We would be very grateful if you could help us to spread this call to
your colleagues and students worldwide. Thank you very much for your
support!
Best,
Raphael Aybar
Dear Colleagues,
There is a job opening for six PhD positions (four years, fixed term) in
all areas of philosophy in our department.
The announcements can be found here:
Three PhD Positions in Philosophy at the University of Vienna - Cluster
of Excellence:
https://philjobs.org/job/show/25742
Three PhD Positions in Philosophy at the University of Vienna - PACE
Project:
https://philjobs.org/job/show/25738
The deadline for applications is March 6, 2024. Applicants can apply for
both simultaneously.
We would be very grateful if you could help us to spread this call to
your colleagues and students worldwide. Thank you very much for your
support!
Best regards,
Raphael Aybar
im Namen von Prof. Karamanolis laden wir Sie zu den zwei
Veranstaltungen am 25.01 ein:
1. Workshop zu Origen: An early Christian Philosopher (c. 185-254)
When & Where:
Hörsaal 3A
Thursday 26.1.2024
10.00-12.30
Introduction: George Karamanolis: Main Philosophical issues in Origen᾽s
Philosophy
Vito Limone (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele): Origen and
Methodius on the Resurrected Body
Mehr Information unten:
https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/news-events/nachrichten-news-events/detail…
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2. Workshop: Readings in Christianity: The Case of C. P. Cavafy
25. Jänner 2024
Ort: Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik, Postgasse 9, 3. Stock
Programme:
13:30: Opening Words
14:00: George Karamanolis (University of Vienna): "Cavafy's ancient
Christianity"
14:40-14:50: Coffee Break
14:50-15:30: Katerina Kostiou (University of Patras): "Cavafy's
construction of poetic personae: 'Julian in Nicomedia' and repetition as
complentarity"
15:30-15:40: Coffee Break
15:40-16:20: Vasiliki Dimoula (University of Vienna): "Christian
Pleasures: Reading Christianity's Historians through a fin-de-siècle lens"
16:20-16:30: Coffee Break
16:30-17:10: Martha Vassiliadi (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki):
"Refiguring Cavafy's Salome: The female hero and the storytelling mechanism"
17:10-17:30: Coffee Break
17:30-18:10: Maria Boletsi (Leiden University and University of
Amsterdam): "From Christianity to capitalism and Back: Cavafy's Noonday
Demon"
18:10-19:00: General Discussion, Conclusions
20:00: Workshop's Dinner
Mehr information unten:
https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/news-events/nachrichten-news-events/detail…
Dear colleagues,
I'm pleased to invite you to our next APSE talk on Thursday, 25th
January 2024, 3:00 (s.t.) - 5:00 p.m. in HS 3A, 3. OG, NIG.
The speaker is Professor Stella Villarmea (Complutense University of
Madrid & University of Oxford). She will be speaking about:
"Birthing: Vindicating a Visceral Body Philosophically"
Abstract:
Birth matters matter — and they matter philosophically too. I work on
philosophy of birth, that is, I use the tools of philosophy to analyse
representations and practices around childbirth. My thesis is that to
reorient philosophical conversation toward birth and, specifically, to
the origin of our lives in the female body, produces a radical shift.
Once we take that turn, many of the tales about our origin truly become
'old-tales'. Are we already imagining a new genealogy, a new logos for
genos? Can we philosophically (and medically/obstetrically) represent
and vindicate this new genea-logy?
The talk will be followed by a dinner. Please let me know if you would
like to join.
I'm looking forward to seeing you.
Best wishes,
Anne Sophie
--
"The Metaphysics of Development and Evolution: From Thing Ontology to
Process Ontology", Human Development, online first:
https://doi.org/10.1159/000534421
"Emergent Properties", in: The Routledge Handbook of Properties, ed. by
A.-S. Maurin & A. Fisher (pp.347-357), Routledge
"The Metaphysics of Living Consciousness: Metabolism, Agency and
Purposiveness", Biosemiotics 16 (2023), 281–290:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12304-023-09531-0www.annesophiemeincke.com
Elise Richter Research Fellow
Institute of Philosophy
University of Vienna
Universitätsstraße 7
1010 Vienna, Austria
Sehr geehrte Kolleg:innen,
ich möchte Sie im Namen von Khôra herzlich zum nächsten Colloquium einladen.
Termin: 25.01.2024, 18:30 - 20:00, HS 3F, Neues Institutsgebäude
Thema: "CLINAMEN - Bewegtbilder des Denkens" – An der Grenze zwischen Philosophie und Kunst mit einer Performance von Noemi Call und Philipp Quell
Beschreibung: Sarah Kofman wirft in ihrer Beschreibung der Paarung von Kunst und Philosophie eine Frage auf: „Aus der Kunst eine philosophische Frage machen, einen Diskurs über die Kunst führen, der sich diesem System von Oppositionen beugt, heißt das nicht die Herrschaftsgeste der Philosophie zu wiederholen, die immer die Kunst dem Logos und der Wahrheit unterordnen wollte?"(Kofman 1990, "Die Melancholie der Kunst" in: Postmoderne und Dekonstruktion, 224)
Die Beziehung zwischen Philosophie und Kunst scheint in einer Sackgasse zu sein. Entweder die Philosophie spricht "über" die Kunst und will erklären, was sie "eigentlich" bedeutet, oder sie muss sie unberührt und für sich selbst sprechen lassen. Doch gibt es neben dieser erstarrten Opposition alternative Wege, Holzwege oder Schleichwege vielleicht, die Kunst und Philosophie in einen "Dialog auf Augenhöhe" bringen? In einem Dialog mit dem Videokünstler H. Arcier, der in seinem Werk die atomistische Kosmologie zum Anstoß nimmt, um eine ganz neue Perspektive auf den Tanz zu eröffnen, wollen wir mit einem performativ-philosophischen Text antworten, indem wir Figuren und Impressionen des Videokunstwerks sprachlich verarbeiten und weiterspinnen.
Den Link zu dem Video findet ihr hier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXJl6zD9gw
Weitere Informationen sowie eine Mailingliste finden Sie auf unserer Homepage.
https://www.khora.philo.at/
Danach ist im Café Gagarin reserviert.
Wir freuen uns auf euer Kommen!
Mit lieben Grüßen im Namen von Khôra
Sebastian Krach
Dear colleagues,
on behalf of Univ.-Prof. Angela Kallhoff and the Department of
Philosophy, I cordially invite you to a guest lecture titled
*"Humankind’s Common Cultural Heritage, Justice and Territorial Rights"*
by *Cecile Fabre *(All Souls College, Oxford).
Thu Dec. 14th, 2023, 6:30 p.m. in HS 3D (NIG)
For questions, contact sophie.kroiss(a)univie.ac.at
Abstract:
The thought that there are cultural landmarks which have universal value
is a familiar one. It is at the heart of UNESCO's and the World
Heritage's mission, and is affirmed in a number of international
declarations, not least the Convention Concerning the Protection of
World Cultural and Natural Heritage. For all its appeal, UNESCO's ideals
raise some deep concerns. In particular, it is not easy to articulate an
account of universal value; and it is not easy to show why we are under
moral obligations in respect of that heritage. Nevertheless, I attempt
to defend those ideals. I seek to show that the protection of
humankind's heritage, qua humankind's, not only is a moral imperative:
more strongly put, it is a duty of justice. I then address one of the
most important objections to it - namely that it undermines states’ and
their citizenries’ legitimate interest in deciding what to do with
landmarks which are located on their territory.
/Cecile Fabre a political philosopher, and currently Senior Research
Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. She is also Professor of Political
Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and affiliated with the Faculty
of Philosophy, the Department of Politics and International Relations,
and Nuffield College, Oxford. Her research interests are in theories of
distributive justice; the philosophy of democracy; just war theory; the
ethics of foreign policy, with particular focus on the ethics of
economic statecraft and the ethics of espionage.
She most recently published Spying Through a Glass Darkly: The Ethics of
Espionage and Counter-Intelligence (Oxford University Press 2022);
Economic Statecraft: Human Rights, Sanctions, and Conditionality
(Harvard University Press, 2018), preceded by (among others)
Cosmopolitan Peace (Oxford University Press, 2016), The Morality of
Defensive War, co-edited with Seth Lazar (Oxford University Press,
2014), Cosmopolitan War (Oxford University Press, 2012)./
https://kalender.univie.ac.at/einzelansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_univieevents_pi1…
/
/
Dear colleagues,
please find attached our call for contributions for the *Day of
Parliamentary Research 2024*. The conference takes place on June 20,
2024 in the premises of the Austrian Parliament. It is organized by the
Legal, Legislative and Research Services (RLW) of the Parliamentary
Administration of the Austrian Parliament and will bring together
scholars from various disciplines to discuss their research as well as
its potential contribution to parliamentary practice.
We invite academic *contributions from all disciplines* without any
restrictions on content or methodology. Details on thematic focus,
abstract submission, and organisational issues can be found in the
attachment.
Please inform yourself about all details concerning the abstract
submission and send your proposal for a presentation or a poster (in PDF
format) *by April 15, 2024 *to parlamentsforschung(a)parlament.gv.at
<mailto:parlamentsforschung@parlament.gv.at>.
We kindly ask you to *forward this call* to potentially interested
colleagues and look forward to receiving your submissions. If you have
any questions please contact us using the contact details below.
If you are interested in how last year’s – and first ever – Day of
Parliamentary Research went, please read the report on the website of
the Austrian Parliament at Tag der Parlamentsforschung 2023:
Tagungsbericht
<https://www.parlament.gv.at/fachinfos/rlw/Tag-der-Parlamentsforschung-2023-…>(in
German; including PDFs of the keynote-speech, presentations and posters
in English) or the Conference Report in the International Journal of
Parliamentary Studies
<https://brill.com/view/journals/parl/3/2/article-p309_007.xml>(in English).
Details on all initiatives of the Parliamentary Administration
concerning parliamentary research can be found at Research | Parliament
Austria <https://www.parlament.gv.at/en/research/>(in English) or
Parlamentsforschung | Parlament Österreich
<https://www.parlament.gv.at/fachinfos/rlw/parlamentsforschung/>(in German).
Kind regards on behalf of the project team,
Christoph Clar
*Research and Support in Parliamentary Matters*
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German) or Research | Parliament Austria
<https://www.parlament.gv.at/en/research/>(in English)
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about how the Parliamentary Administration processes your personal data.
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
die Einreichungsphase für die XI. Tagung für Praktische Philosophie hat
begonnen! Nach 10 Jahren in Salzburg zieht die Tagung um und wird am 19.
& 20. September 2024 zum ersten Mal an der Universität Passau stattfinden.
Dürften wir Sie bitten, den Call for Papers an Ihrem Institut und Ihrer
Universität zu verbreiten? Insbesondere würden wir uns freuen, wenn Sie
ihn an Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen und Promovierende weitergeben
könnten. Einreichungen für Einzelvorträge, Panels und Runde Tische sind
bis 15.4.2024 unter https://tagung-praktische-philosophie.org möglich.
Mit herzlichen Grüßen aus Passau
Johanna Sinn
--
Tagung für Praktische Philosophie
Universität Passau
https://www.tagung-praktische-philosophie.org/
<https://www.tagung-praktische-philosophie.org/>
tfpp(a)uni-passau.de <mailto:tfpp@uni-passau.de>
XI. Tagung für Praktische Philosophie:
19.-20.09.2024
Universität Passau
*Call for Papers *
*XI. Tagung für Praktische Philosophie *
*19./20. September 2024 *
*Universität Passau *
*Organisation: *Karoline Reinhardt (Passau)
in Kooperation mit Birgit Beck (TU Berlin)
sowie Gottfried Schweiger (Salzburg) und Michael Zichy (Bonn/Salzburg)
Die Tagung für Praktische Philosophie zieht nach 10 Jahren in Salzburg
um: Am 19. und 20. September 2024 findet die XI. Tagung für Praktische
Philosophie an der Universität Passau statt. Christian Seidel
(Karlsruhe) und Eva Weber-Guskar (Bochum) werden die Plenarvorträge
halten – die weiteren Beiträge werden noch gesucht. Wir laden daher alle
Interessierten, mit und ohne universitäre Anbindung, ein, *Vorschläge
für Vorträge, thematische Panels oder Runde Tische* einzureichen. Dabei
sind Vorträge aus dem gesamten Spektrum der praktischen Philosophie
(angewandte Philosophie, Sozialphilosophie, Ethik, Rechtsphilosophie,
politische Philosophie und Theorie, Handlungstheorie, sowohl in
analytisch-systematischer wie auch in historischer Tradition) und
verwandter Disziplinen willkommen. Für jeden Vortrag sind 20 Minuten
plus 10 Minuten Diskussion vorgesehen. Vorschläge für Vorträge sollten
einen Titel und eine Zusammenfassung des Vortrags (im Umfang von ca. 500
Wörtern) umfassen. Die Zusammenfassung darf keinen Hinweis auf den/die
Autor:in enthalten. Die Einreichung ist bis 15. April 2024 über die
Tagungswebsite möglich: www.tagung-praktische-philosophie.org
<http://www.tagung-praktische-philosophie.org>
Zum gesamten CfP und weiteren CfP für einzelne Panels:
https://www.tagung-praktische-philosophie.org/call-for-papers.html
Kristian Vstrup Madsen
"Good doesn't cut it: quality and quantity in the reception history of
Vermeer“
a Lecture on Monday, January 22nd, 7 pm
at University of Applied Arts, Vordere Zollamtsstr. 7, 5th Floor, SE 20
In the mid 18th century, the King of Saxony bought a Vermeer because he
was told it was a Rembrandt, and he believed it. A few decades on, the
King of France declined to buy a Vermeer because it was not a Rembrandt.
Vermeer has always been good – anyone could see that. But good doesn’t
cut it when you’re selling to kings, oil barons, financiers, and
rappers. His example tells us that, across art history, from Old Masters
to post-postmodernists, quality is not a given, but subject to trend and
capital. In this lecture, Kristian Vistrup Madsen traces how value was
attributed to Vermeer's paintings, and how value, over time, made us see
those paintings differently.
/*Kristian Vistrup Madsen* is a writer and art critic based in Berlin.
He has contributed to magazines such as Artforum, Harpers, The White
Review, and Kunstkritikk. Doing Time: Essays on Using People was
published by Floating Opera Press in 2021./
and
"The (Great) Kristian Vistrup Madsen Show. Contemporaneity in
Postmedieval Times"
an exhibition opening on Tuesday, January 23rd, 6 pm
at University of Applied Arts, Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2, Painting
Department, Studios 610 and 621
a cooperation with the departments Philosophy and Painting, in the
context of Kathrin Heinrich’s seminar „Art Criticism“.
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Eva Kernbauer
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien | University of Applied Arts Vienna
Abteilung Kunstgeschichte | Art History
A-1010 Wien| Vienna, Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2
Besuchsadresse: A-1030 Wien, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, Zimmer 444
fon +43-1-71133-2760
fax +43-1-71133-2769
eva.kernbauer(a)uni-ak.ac.at <mailto:sabine.eder@uni-ak.ac.at>
www.angewandtekunstgeschichte.net
<http://www.angewandtekunstgeschichte.net/>
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:
Vera Bühlmann (TU Vienna):
The Out-With and the With-Out, Or How to Think of the Digital in
Relation to a Philological "Ex Tempore"
Friday, January 26th 2024, 6-8pm, Hörsaal 2i (NIG), Department of
Philosophy (and online), Lecture and Discussion
Vera Bühlmann's recent book _The Digital, a Continent? Nature and
Poetics_ (Birkhäuser, 2024) presents a natural philosophy way of
thinking that draws from the optics and the sensibilities of New
Materialisms: Mathematical, poetical and rhetorical ideations help to
call, count, measure and proportion impersonal "thought" that "happens"
much like the weather does. It foregrounds thereby an agency as we
address it when we say "it rains", or "there is wind", or "a storm is
coming". The chapters of this book show how for the cunning reason of a
Mechanic in the old, artistic sense of the word (literally "one who
thinks and acts resourcefully") there is neither a necessity for
devotion nor humiliation involved when acknowledging that things _in the
first and last instance_ remain cryptic (dependent upon ciphering). For
what the mechanic's craft excels in and reveals objectively is how to
keep ideas and things moving and morphing, how to make them and render
them referential and graspable beyond a strict nature-culture
distinction. The knowledge the mechanic aims at conveying is how to
domesticate the meanwhile: How can we develop ideations of energy, form
and intellect in play together rationally and objectively, and yet in an
indefinite variety of ways and across many scales? Such sites of play
would have to be articulated and tuned by an architectonics for which
world and earth are neither synonymous nor subjected one to the other.
The chapters in this book explore the idea that we can better maintain
active relations to ourselves and to the currently emerging paradigm(s)
of planetary cultures, politics and economies when we study how there is
coding at work not only in the human domain but also in the natural
world too.
But how to think of such an idea of "coding", how to consider the
relations between method, poetics, technics and the arts? The talk will
explore resonances to Werner Hamacher's _95 Theses on Philology _(2009)_
_as well as his notion of "Ex Tempore" in _On the Brink. Language, Time,
History and Politics_ (2020).
Vera Bühlmann is Professor for Architecture Theory at Vienna University
of Technology TU, and director of the research group Architecture Theory
and Philosophy of Technics ATTP.
Registration for online participation or to get the referenced texts:
ralf.gisinger(a)univie.ac.at
Since 2021 the Reading Circle PS-GT-PA includes public events
additionally to the monthly readings. Lectures and workshops have been
held with Brian Massumi, Erin Manning, Avital Ronell, Didier Debaise,
Shomo Choudhury and Alexis Shotwell.
More information: poststrukturalismus.univie.ac.at [1]
For the organizing team of the Reading Circle,
Eva-Maria Aigner, Arno Böhler, Ralf Gisinger
Links:
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[1] http://poststrukturalismus.univie.ac.at
Dear all,
on behalf of the Anti-Racism Working Group we want to wish u a happy New
Year!
We are a group of students, Department staff and scholars who want to
create cultural change at the Department of Philosophy that is
conscious of and proactive in addressing issues around the many kinds
of racism endemic to our collective contexts.
In November, we organised for the first time a series of events
including talks, a film screening and workshops. U can find more infos
on our webpage:
https://antiracism-philosophy.univie.ac.at
For the next year, there is a lot more to come, and we are looking for
interested people to join us and collaborate with us! We hope
for your active participation, feedback, and suggestions.
Please do not hesitate to get in contact via
antiracism.philosophy(a)univie.ac.at
All the best,
your Anti-Racism Working Group
Dear All,
The "Wittgen=steine" series (organized by the Wittgenstein Research
Group) organizes a talk this Friday:
January 19th, 2024, 3-4:30pm, HS 3F (NIG):
Annette Langner-Pitschmann: „‚…und mein Spaten biegt sich zurück' (PU
§217). Zum Verhältnis zwischen Ideologie und Religion"
Everybody welcome!
Best wishes from the organizers,
Esther Heinrich
Anja Weiberg
Martin Kusch
Dear all,
this is a reminder for the first Trans*Formations event! Trans
Philosophy is one of the most exciting 'new' strands of philosophical
theorizing, and we are happy to host the first event on the topic at the
University of Vienna.
First, Luce deLire (formerly John Hopkins University,
https://getaphilosopher.com/) will give the talk "Can The Transsexual
Speak?".
Abstract: On September 14, 2021 Ella Nik Bayan set herself on fire at
Berlin Alexanderplatz, Germany. She died shortly after. On February 2,
2024, the German government will most probably pass a new
'Self-Determination Law' (Selbstbestimmungsgesetz) which promises to
simplify transition related changes of name and gender identity markers
in legal documents. In my talk, I use these two examples to present what
I call 'the transsexual contract': Trans and non-binary self
determination is (often violently) incapacitated by means of concrete
legal, political and epistemological arrangements. This is the case even
in left wing art, activism and allegedly 'progressive' legislation.
Allegedly, the transsexual contract protects cis people from trans
propaganda and from their own confusion. Yet in reality, its main goal
is the production and control of cis people. One is not born cis, but
becomes cis. With a post-colonial lens, I suggest queer hospitality as a
concrete practice to unlearn this toxic logic of protection.
After a Q&A with Luce deLire, we will watch the film "Die Räuberinnen"
(2023) by Austrian filmmaker Isa Schieche, who recently also received
the Goldene Medusa Award for this film.(More Info:
https://isaschieche.com/Die-Rauberinnen)
About the film: Three trans women meet in a country house to plan a
robbery. The trick of the heist is that, in order to create a false
trail, they disguise themselves as men. While they share everyday life
as a well-established team and lovers, they practice speaking in a deep
voice, walking manly and behaving in a masculine manner.
In this process, they reach their emotional and physical limits and
repeatedly fail to imitate male connoted behavior."Die Räuberinnen" is a
sociological analysis of male- and female-attributed behavior and
traits, shaking up binary role models in a swirl of radicalism and
activism.
The talk will be in English, the film is in German with English
subtitles.
There will be popcorn, snacks and drinks to round off the event!
When? Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 from 15:00 to 16:30
Where? HS 3F, Institute of Philosophy, NIG (Universitätsstraße 7, 1010
Vienna)
Looking forward to seeing you on January 16th!
Any sharing of the event is highly appreciated, and the poster for the
event is attached to this email.
Please do not hesitate to contact me concerning any accessibility needs
or questions!
With warm greetings,
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"!
CfP: ECPR General Conference 2024 | University College Dublin | Section
of the Standing Group on Kantian Political Thought
The ECPR Standing Group on Kantian Political Thought is delighted to
announce that its application for a section on "Kant, Science and
Politics" as part of the ECPR General Conference (University College
Dublin, 12-15 August 2024) has been successful, and 6 panels have been
allocated to the Section.
As a result, paper and panel proposals for the section "Kant, Science
and Politics" are now invited. Paper proposals may either be submitted
as part of one of the five suggested panels below or as part of a new
panel on a topic related to that of the section. The aim of this section
is to examine Kant's view of a practical metaphysics (both in ethics and
politico-juridical philosophy) that is on the secure path of science;
the following are suggested panel topics:
* The Relation Between Theoretical and Practical Cognitions
* Kant's Conception of Moral Theory as a Philosophical Science
* The "Land of Truth" - The Political Language of Scientific Truth
* Autonomy and the Moral Law
* Science and Racism - Kant's Anthropology and the Need for
Reorientation of Kant Scholarship
You may find further details on the section here: Kant, Science and
Politics (ecpr.eu) [1].
If you are interested, please submit your proposal here by 18 January
2024:
Propose a panel: Panel Proposal - ECPR General Conference 2024,
University College Dublin, 12 - 15 August 2024 [2]
Propose a paper: Panel Proposal - ECPR General Conference 2024,
University College Dublin, 12 - 15 August 2024 [2]
In case you have any questions, please contact jakob.rendl(a)univie.ac.at
or s.baiasu(a)keele.ac.uk.
All welcome!
Links:
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[1] https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/SectionDetails/1470
[2] https://ecpr.eu/MyEcpr/Forms/PanelProposalForm.aspx?EventID=251
Liebe alle,
ich darf euch herzlich zu einem Film Screening einladen, das nächste
Woche stattfindet.
Der sogenannte Transgender Tipping Point deutet auf eine nie dagewesene
Präsenz von trans_ Personen in medialen Darstellungen im Globalen Norden
hin, die, wenn auch seltener, auch für die Darstellung von inter* und
nicht-binären Personen, Lebensrealitäten und Aktivismen gilt. Die
Arbeitsgruppe Inter*Trans_Nonbinary der Österreichischen Gesellschaft
für Geschlechterforschung (ÖGGF), das Referat Genderforschung
(Universität Wien) und das Institut für Theater-, Film und
Medienwissenschaft (Universität Wien) laden zu einem Filmprogramm zu
emanzipatorischen Zugängen zu trans_inter*nichtbinären Lebensrealitäten
im österreichischen Kontext. In einem anschließenden Publikumsgespräch
mit einigen der beteiligten Filmemacher*innen/Aktivist*innen wird unter
anderem nach den Möglichkeiten und Unmöglichkeiten emanzipatorischer
Arbeit gefragt, und danach, welche Aspekte allzu oft zu kurz kommen.
Zeit: Freitag, 19. Jänner 2024, 18.30 Uhr, mit Snacks und Getränken im
Anschluss
Ort: Hörsaal 5 im UZA II, Josef-Holaubek-Platz, 1090 Wien
Informationen zu Zuwegen und zur Erreichbarkeit für
Rollstuhlfahrer*innen (mit Fotos): https://shorturl.at/fgK12
Sprachen: Die Filme Inter*Story und Trans*Phoria sind in deutscher
Lautsprache ohne Untertitel; der Film Trans*Gaze ist in deutscher und
englischer Lautsprache mit englischen Untertiteln. Die Diskussion wird
in deutscher/englischer Lautsprache stattfinden. Der Hörsaal verfügt
leider über keine Induktionsschleifen.
Programm:
Inter*Story – ein Stück Aktivismus (Djordje Čenić, Nicole Baïer,
Österreich 2023, 43 Min.; deutsche Version)
Trans*Gaze (Rosa Wiesauer, Österreich 2021, 20 Min.; deutsche/englische
Version mit englischen Untertiteln)
Trans*Phoria (weitere Informationen folgen)
Publikumsgespräch mit: Ruth Jenrbekova (Trans*Gaze), Magdalena Klein und
Tinou Ponzer (Inter*Story), safer*space Collective (GM.P., M.L.;
TRANS*PHORIA)
Weitere Informationen: https://gender.univie.ac.at/l/filmscreening
--
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,
I would like to cordially invite you to the first Trans*Formations
event!
Trans Philosophy is one of the most exciting 'new' strands of
philosophical theorizing, and we are happy to host the first event on
the topic at the University of Vienna, to be followed by more later this
year.
First, Luce deLire (formerly John Hopkins University,
https://getaphilosopher.com/) will give the talk "Can The Transsexual
Speak?".
Abstract:
On September 14, 2021 Ella Nik Bayan set herself on fire at Berlin
Alexanderplatz, Germany. She died shortly after. On February 2, 2024,
the German government will most probably pass a new 'Self-Determination
Law' (Selbstbestimmungsgesetz) which promises to simplify transition
related changes of name and gender identity markers in legal documents.
In my talk, I use these two examples to present what I call 'the
transsexual contract': Trans and non-binary self determination is (often
violently) incapacitated by means of concrete legal, political and
epistemological arrangements. This is the case even in left wing art,
activism and allegedly 'progressive' legislation. Allegedly, the
transsexual contract protects cis people from trans propaganda and from
their own confusion. Yet in reality, its main goal is the production and
control of cis people. One is not born cis, but becomes cis. With a
post-colonial lens, I suggest queer hospitality as a concrete practice
to unlearn this toxic logic of protection.
After a Q&A with Luce deLire, we will watch the film "Die Räuberinnen"
(2023) by Austrian filmmaker Isa Schieche, who recently also received
the Goldene Medusa Award for this film.(More Info:
https://isaschieche.com/Die-Rauberinnen)
The talk will be in English, the film is in German with English
subtitles.
There will be popcorn, snacks and drinks to round off the event!
When? Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 from 15:00 to 16:30
Where? HS 3F, Institute of Philosophy, NIG (Universitätsstraße 7, 1010
Vienna)
Looking forward to seeing you on January 16th!
Any sharing of the event is highly appreciated, and the poster for the
event is attached to this email.
Please do not hesitate to contact me concerning any accessibility needs
or questions!
With warm greetings,
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"!
Sehr geehrte Kolleg:innen,
ich möchte Sie im Namen von Khôra herzlich zum nächsten Colloquium einladen.
Termin: 11.01.2023, 18:30 - 20:00, HS 3F, Neues Institutsgebäude
Thema: "Über die Bedeutung des Vermittlungsbegriffs für die Medienphilosophie"
Ein kurzer Text von Leander Scholz ("Hegel und das leere Blatt Papier") dient uns als Ausgangspunkt für die weitere Diskussion. Auf Anfrage wird der Text gerne zugesendet.
Weitere Informationen sowie eine Mailingliste finden Sie auf unserer Homepage.
https://www.khora.philo.at/
Danach ist im Café Gagarin reserviert.
Wir freuen uns auf euch!
Liebe Grüße
Sebastian Krach
CfP: ECPR General Conference 2024 | University College Dublin | Section
of the Standing Group on Kantian Political Thought
The ECPR Standing Group on Kantian Political Thought is delighted to
announce that its application for a section on "Kant, Science and
Politics" as part of the ECPR General Conference (University College
Dublin, 12-15 August 2024) has been successful, and 6 panels have been
allocated to the Section.
As a result, paper and panel proposals for the section "Kant, Science
and Politics" are now invited. Paper proposals may either be submitted
as part of one of the five suggested panels below or as part of a new
panel on a topic related to that of the section. The aim of this section
is to examine Kant's view of a practical metaphysics (both in ethics and
politico-juridical philosophy) that is on the secure path of science;
the following are suggested panel topics:
* The Relation Between Theoretical and Practical Cognitions
* Kant's Conception of Moral Theory as a Philosophical Science
* The "Land of Truth" - The Political Language of Scientific Truth
* Autonomy and the Moral Law
* Science and Racism - Kant's Anthropology and the Need for
Reorientation of Kant Scholarship
You may find further details on the section here: Kant, Science and
Politics (ecpr.eu) [1].
If you are interested, please send an Expression of Interest with a
short outline of your paper (max. 500 words) or, if applicable, of the
proposed panel to jakob.rendl(a)univie.ac.at and s.baiasu(a)keele.ac.uk by
11 January 2024, or contact us for more information.
All welcome!
Links:
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[1] https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/SectionDetails/1470
Zoom Workshop: Affective and Mnemonic Injustice (January 30th and 31st, 2024)
In recent years, there’s been a growing interest in identifying the different ways in which a person or a group of persons can be a victim of injustice, as well as the psychological/subjective effects that the various types of injustice can have on people’s status as epistemic, affective and mnemonic agents, among others. Following this trend, the purpose of this workshop will be to investigate two distinctive types of injustice as well as their possible conceptual and empirical links: affective and mnemonic injustice.
The first seeks to capture kinds of injustices committed against individuals specifically in their capacities as affective agents, for example, by systematically provoking distressing experiences such as fear, sadness or despair, by manipulating others’ emotions in a way that might prove detrimental to their well-being, or by denying others opportunities to express and regulate their emotional responses. The latter seeks to capture how stereotypes can shape what we remember, so that accounts of fairness and social justice have to be taken into consideration in debates about different kinds of mnemonic capacities. These two kinds of injustices have obvious interconnections, as can be seen, for example, in the way that provoking a traumatic experience upon another person is a kind of injustice that has both an affective and a mnemonic component. We hope that the talks in this workshop, and the discussion that will follow them, will bring out these (and other) philosophical interconnections. As a result, we hope to show that the philosophy of memory and the philosophy of emotion are deeply political subject matters, something that is often overlooked within these disciplines. Far from being a marginal topic, the politics of memory and affectivity is at the heart of questions as to how memory and affective systems function, their purpose, and their role within our social spheres more broadly. We would thus like to invite everyone to join us in discussing and making these topics more visible in the philosophical community.
Programme:
January 30th 2024
2:30 PM (CET): Marina Trakas (Conicet): "Mnemonic Humility: An Antidote to Mnemonic Injustice?"
3:3O PM (CET): Francisco Gallegos (Wake Forest): "Authenticity, Zozobra and Affective Injustice"
January 31st 2024
2:30 PM (CET): Joel Krueger (Exeter): "An Ecological Approach to Affective Injustice"
3:30 PM (CET): Katherine Puddifoot (Durham): "Mnemonic Injustice and the Social Stance on Memory"
Registration (mandatory): <http://goog_82397027> https://forms.gle/k6EoLEjii7hd9RmN7
Abstracts: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eP9bQfSmj9BWnml58N7Zv-n0TM9yN72p/view?usp=…
PhilEvents: https://philevents.org/event/show/117621
Organisers: Nathália de Ávila (Universität Wien - IVC Fellow)
Felipe Carvalho (UFLA)
Em Walsh (Johns Hopkins)
Questions: Please, write to nferrei1(a)smail.uni-koeln.de<mailto:nferrei1@smail.uni-koeln.de>
Liebe Kolleg:innen,
gerne möchten wir Sie auf die Graduiertenkonferenz "DEN FINGER IN DIE
WUNDE LEGEN - Kritische Phänomenologien der Gewalt", die am 11./12.
Januar an unserem Institut stattfinden wird, aufmerksam machen. Die
Konferenz setzt es sich zur Aufgabe, zum einen die aktuell v. a. im
angloamerikanischen Raum sich intensivierende Debatte um die sog.
"critical phenomenology" mit Blick auf Phänomene der Gewalt zu erproben.
Darüber hinaus soll sie einen Ort des Austausches für junge
phänomenologische (Gewalt)Forschung am Institut für Philosophie in Wien
eröffnen. Anhand konkreter Phänomenanalysen soll gezeigt werden, wie
sich eine für soziale, politische und globale Problemlagen
sensibilisierende Phänomenologie mit deskriptiven, genealogischen und
kritischen Theorieelemente konstruktiv verbinden lässt und so neue
Einsichten für die Gewaltforschung zu eröffnen vermag.
Neben den Beiträgen von fortgeschrittenen Master- und
Doktoratsstudierenden unseres Instituts, die zu Phänomenen der Gewalt
forschen, freuen wir uns zudem auf folgende drei Keynotes:
(1) Claudia Brunner, Politikwissenschaftlerin und assoz. Professorin am
Zentrum für Friedensforschung und Friedensbildung, Institut für
Erziehungswissenschaft und Bildungsforschung der Universität Klagenfurt
mit dem Vortrag "Strukturell, symbolisch, normativ - und epistemisch:
Gewalt weiter denken in der kolonialen Moderne"
(2) Pascal Delhom, Senior Lecturer am Philosophischen Seminar der
Europa-Universität Flensburg, mit dem Vortrag "Erlittene Gewalt. Die
Frage des Zugangs zu den Phänomenen"
(3) Gerald Posselt, Senior Lecturer an unserem Institut, mit dem
Vortrag: "Zeichensprache der Verletzungen: Schnittstellen sprachlicher
und körperlicher Gewalt"
Ausführlichere Abstracts zu den Keynotes, den anderen Vorträgen, den
genauen Zeitablauf und Hintergrundlektüren zu den Keynotes finden Sie
hier:
https://phaenomenologie.univie.ac.at/forschung/graduiertenkonferenz-den-fin…
Mit den besten Grüßen und Wünschen für das neue Jahr,
Charlotte Bomert, Georg Harfensteller & Michael Staudigl
Dear all,
I would like to cordially invite you to the first Trans*Formations
event! Trans Philosophy is one of the most exciting 'new' strands of
philosophical theorizing, and we are happy to host the first event on
the topic at the University of Vienna.
First, Luce deLire (formerly John Hopkins University,
https://getaphilosopher.com/) will give the talk "Can The Transsexual
Speak?".
Abstract: On September 14, 2021 Ella Nik Bayan set herself on fire at
Berlin Alexanderplatz, Germany. She died shortly after. On February 2,
2024, the German government will most probably pass a new
'Self-Determination Law' (Selbstbestimmungsgesetz) which promises to
simplify transition related changes of name and gender identity markers
in legal documents. In my talk, I use these two examples to present what
I call 'the transsexual contract': Trans and non-binary self
determination is (often violently) incapacitated by means of concrete
legal, political and epistemological arrangements. This is the case even
in left wing art, activism and allegedly 'progressive' legislation.
Allegedly, the transsexual contract protects cis people from trans
propaganda and from their own confusion. Yet in reality, its main goal
is the production and control of cis people. One is not born cis, but
becomes cis. With a post-colonial lens, I suggest queer hospitality as a
concrete practice to unlearn this toxic logic of protection.
After a Q&A with Luce deLire, we will watch the film "Die Räuberinnen"
(2023) by Austrian filmmaker Isa Schieche, who recently also received
the Goldene Medusa Award for this film.(More Info:
https://isaschieche.com/Die-Rauberinnen)
The talk will be in English, the film is in German with English
subtitles.
There will be popcorn, snacks and drinks to round off the event!
When? Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 from 15:00 to 16:30
Where? HS 3F, Institute of Philosophy, NIG (Universitätsstraße 7, 1010
Vienna)
Looking forward to seeing you on January 16th!
Any sharing of the event is highly appreciated, and the poster for the
event is attached to this email.
Please do not hesitate to contact me concerning any accessibility needs
or questions!
With warm greetings,
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"!
-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
Betreff: Submit your project ideas for the "Research Year in
Parliament" 2024
Datum: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 09:02:16 +0000
Von: Parlamentsforschung <Parlamentsforschung(a)parlament.gv.at>
An: Parlamentsforschung <Parlamentsforschung(a)parlament.gv.at>
***** Deutschsprachige Version siehe unten ********
Dear colleagues,
we are pleased to inform you that, for the second time, the Legal,
Legislative and Scientific Service of the Parliamentary Administration
of the Austrian Parliament invites *representatives from all scientific
disciplines* to submit their *project ideas* for the "*Research Year in
Parliament*".
Within this initiative, the Scientific Advisory Board
<https://www.parlament.gv.at/en/research/research-year-in-parliament/>
selects a research project that deals with a parliament-related issue in
a particularly innovative way. A *contract for work and services worth a
total gross amount of EUR 16,000.00* will be awarded. In addition,
during the one-year term the project will receive support from experts
from the Parliamentary Administration and access to the knowledge
resources of the Austrian Parliament.
Please send your ideas including all required documents (in PDF format)
*by March 21, 2024 *to parlamentsforschung(a)parlament.gv.at
<mailto:parlamentsforschung@parlament.gv.at>.
Details on the submission and all other initiatives of the Parliamentary
Administration concerning parliamentary research can be found at
Research | Parliament Austria <https://www.parlament.gv.at/en/research/>.
We kindly ask you to *forward this call to potentially interested
colleagues* and look forward to receiving your submissions. If you have
any questions please contact us using the contact details below.
Kind regards and best wishes for the upcoming holidays - on behalf of
the project team,
Christoph Clar
**************
Sehr geehrte Kolleg:innen,
wir freuen uns, Sie darüber zu informieren, dass der Rechts-,
Legislativ- und Wissenschaftliche Dienst (RLW) der Parlamentsdirektion
des österreichischen Parlaments zum zweiten Mal *Vertreter:innen aus
allen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen* dazu einlädt, ihre *Projektideen*
für das „*Forschungsjahr im Parlament*“ einzureichen.
Im Rahmen dieser Initiative wählt der wissenschaftliche Beirat
<https://www.parlament.gv.at/fachinfos/rlw/parlamentsforschung/index.html#fo…>
ein Forschungsprojekt aus, das sich auf besonders innovative Weise mit
einer parlamentsbezogenen Fragestellung auseinandersetzt. Dafür wird ein
*Werkvertrag in der Höhe von insgesamt EUR 16.000,00 brutto* ausgelobt.
Darüber hinaus erhält das Projekt während der einjährigen Laufzeit
Unterstützung durch Expert:innen der Parlamentsdirektion sowie Zugang zu
den Wissensressourcen des österreichischen Parlaments.
Bitte senden Sie Ihre Ideen inklusive aller erforderlichen Unterlagen
(im PDF-Format) *bis zum 21. März 2024* an die E-Mail-Adresse
parlamentsforschung(a)parlament.gv.at.
Details zur Einreichung sowie zu allen weiteren Initiativen der
Parlamentsdirektion im Bereich der Parlamentsforschung finden Sie unter
Parlamentsforschung | Parlament Österreich
<https://www.parlament.gv.at/fachinfos/rlw/parlamentsforschung/>.
Wir bitten Sie um die *Weiterleitung an potenziell interessierte
Kolleg:innen* und freuen uns über Ihre Einreichungen. Für Rückfragen
sind wir unter den unten angeführten Kontaktdaten zur Verfügung.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen und den besten Wünschen für die bevorstehenden
Weihnachtsfeiertage – im Namen des Projektteams,
Christoph Clar
*Research and Support in Parliamentary Matters*
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>
> CfA: Biasing Mechanisms in Scientific Research
>
> Leibniz University Hannover
>
> May 31^st – June 1^st , 2024
>
> In the philosophy of science, recent work has led to an emerging
> consensus that science is not value-free, and that values, including
> social and political values, play different roles in the research
> process. It has also become clear that, values can have both a
> positive and a negative impact on science. Sometimes, values can
> contribute to science’s epistemic and social goals, while other times,
> they can have a detrimental effect on science’s epistemic goals, i.e.,
> biasing research results. With this framework in mind, the main goal
> of this workshop is to clarify the negative roles of values in
> scientific research, and in particular their sometimes-biasing
> effects. While it is well-known that biases impact scientific research
> results, we have a less clear understanding of the different types of
> biases, their mechanisms, and their scope. Current invited speakers
> include:
>
> * Heather Douglas (Michigan State University)
> * Jacob Stegenga (University of Cambridge)
> * David Teira (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)
> * Anke Büter (Aarhus University)
>
> We welcome submissions that seek to advance our understanding of
> negative biases and their effects in scientific research. Questions
> that might be addressed include (but are not limited to):
>
> * In which situations are biases most likely to occur?
> * Which mechanisms enable biases to interfere with scientific
> practice? Are these mechanisms intrinsic to scientific practices
> or can we debias scientific procedures to mitigate or eliminate
> them altogether?
> * What relationship(s) do biases have to values in science? Do
> negative biases have any special implications for the value-free
> ideal?
> * What relationship(s) do biases have to diversity in science?
> * How might we characterize ‘negative’ biases?
> * Are there different types of biases or biasing mechanisms in science?
>
> This workshop is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), as
> a part of the research project “A Philosophical Approach to Biasing
> Mechanisms in Scientific Research” and the SOCRATES
> <https://www.socrates.uni-hannover.de/en/> Centre for Advanced
> Studies. Abstracts should be a maximum of 800 words, in English, and
> submitted by January 15^th , 2024 at the latest. They can be submitted
> through the following Google form:
> https://forms.gle/zhHsp9XaUGwAzKCU9. We aim to give notifications of
> acceptance by mid to late February.
>
> Any questions or inquiries can be sent to Jamie Shaw
> (jamie.shaw(a)philos.uni-hannover.de).
>
> Warm wishes,
>
> Jamie Shaw, Manuela Fernandez-Pinto, and Torsten Wilholt (Organizing
> Committee)
> --
> Dr. Leonie Wiemeyer (sie/she)
> Koordinatorin | Coordinator
> Office days: Tuesdays and alternate Thursdays
>
> “SOCRATES – Social Credibility and Trustworthiness of Expert Knowledge and Science-Based Information”
> DFG-Kollegforschungsgruppe (KFG) 43, Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences
> Institut für Philosophie
> Leibniz Universität Hannover
> Lange Laube 32
> 30159 Hannover
> Germany
>
> E-Mail:leonie.wiemeyer@philos.uni-hannover.de
> Mobil: +49 (0)160 92470508
> Telefon: +49 (0)511 762-14541
> Find us online athttp://socrates.uni-hannover.de!
Dear colleagues,
please find in this mail an update on articles published in the Journal
of Didactics of Philosophy this year so far. (Further papers are
currently under review, but unlikely to be published this year.) Enjoy
reading!
* Critical Elucidation of Concepts as a Philosophical Competence, by
Alexander Broedner
https://ojs.ub.rub.de/index.php/JDPh/article/view/10638
* Teaching Ethics Without Confusing Questions. Illustrated by the
Example of Schopenhauer's Ethics, by Matthias Holweger
https://ojs.ub.rub.de/index.php/JDPh/article/view/10811
* On the Use of YouTube, Digital Games, Argument Maps, and Digital
Feedback in Teaching Philosophy, by Markus Bohlmann et al.
https://ojs.ub.rub.de/index.php/JDPh/article/view/9863
* Teaching Philosophy based on We-Experience: A New Approach and Four
Teaching Concepts, by Donata Romizi et al.
https://ojs.ub.rub.de/index.php/JDPh/article/view/10950
**** Please find more papers in the section Country Reports and Book
Reviews on the Journal's website:
https://ojs.ub.rub.de/index.php/JDPh/index
About the Journal
The Journal of Didactics of Philosophy (JDPh) is a peer-reviewed
academic journal devoted to research on the teaching and learning of
philosophy. Articles may be about any level of education, however the
main focus is on high school philosophy. All articles are published in
Open Access; there are no fees (Diamant/Platinum OA). We welcome work
with a philosophical or normative approach as well as reports of results
from empirical qualitative and quantitative research. The journal also
publishes reviews of books, textbooks and other educational material of
international interest as well as country reports about similarities and
differences in teaching philosophy in different countries. It is an aim
of the journal to promote the dialogue among researchers and practising
teachers across the world.
Please get in touch, if you have any suggestions or plans to submit a paper!
Best regards
Jonas Pfister and Philipp Richter
Call for Applications
(Deadline: April 1, 2024)
2ND EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
univie: summer school - Scientific World Conceptions (USS-SWC)
in cooperation with
EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS (ESPM)
https://philmath.eu/
Vienna, September 9-13, 2024
The second European Summer School on the Philosophy of Mathematics will
focus on different topics in the philosophy of mathematics, its
foundations, as well as on the philosophy of mathematical practice. We
are happy to invite abstract submissions by graduate students (MA and
PhD). The School will be hosted in person at the University of Vienna
and will include three tutorials by distinguished scholars as well as a
training unit on "Quantitative and qualitative empirical methods for
philosophers of mathematics" by Matthew Inglis and Deborah Kant
(provided by the CIPSH Chair DMRCP ("Diversity of Mathematical Research
Cultures and Practices").
The school aims to bring together Master and PhD students interested in
the connection between philosophy and mathematics, giving them the
opportunity to discuss related topics with leading scholars in the
field.
Topics will be selected reflecting participants' interests and may
include:
* Mathematical knowledge and mathematical understanding
* Justification and representation in mathematics
* Informal proofs and mathematical rigor
* The role of intuition and diagrams in mathematical reasoning
* Experimental mathematics and mathematical practice
* Mathematical ontology
Lecturers:
Jessica Carter (Aarhus University)
https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/jessica-maria-helena-grund-carter(5177…
Yacin Hamami (ETH Zurich)
https://www.yacinhamami.com [1]
Leon Horsten (University of Konstanz)
https://www.philosophie.uni-konstanz.de/en/ag-leon-horsten/leon-horsten/
The program is primarily directed at graduate students and junior
researchers in relevant fields, but the organizers also encourage
applications from people in all stages of their career.
Application form and further information:
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/
Find information about our exchange programme with Duke University
(North
Carolina) here:
https://international.univie.ac.at/en/international-cooperation/university-…
Inquiries:
Administrator:
Zarah Weiss
Institute Vienna Circle
Alserstraße 23/32
1080 Wien
summerschool.ivc(a)univie.ac.at
Scientific director:
Georg Schiemer
Institute Vienna Circle
Alserstraße 23/32
1080 Wien
georg.schiemer(a)univie.ac.at
Links:
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[1] https://www.yacinhamami.com/
CfP: ECPR General Conference 2024 | University College Dublin | Section
of the Standing Group on Kantian Political Thought
The ECPR Standing Group on Kantian Political Thought is delighted to
announce that its application for a section on "Kant, Science and
Politics" as part of the ECPR General Conference (University College
Dublin, 12-15 August 2024) has been successful, and 6 panels have been
allocated to the Section.
As a result, paper and panel proposals for the section "Kant, Science
and Politics" are now invited. Paper proposals may either be submitted
as part of one of the five suggested panels below or as part of a new
panel on a topic related to that of the section. The aim of this section
is to examine Kant's view of a practical metaphysics (both in ethics and
politico-juridical philosophy) that is on the secure path of science;
the following are suggested panel topics:
* The Relation Between Theoretical and Practical Cognitions
* Kant's Conception of Moral Theory as a Philosophical Science
* The "Land of Truth" - The Political Language of Scientific Truth
* Autonomy and the Moral Law
* Science and Racism - Kant's Anthropology and the Need for
Reorientation of Kant Scholarship
You may find further details on the section here: Kant, Science and
Politics (ecpr.eu) [1].
If you are interested, please send an Expression of Interest with a
short outline of your paper (max. 500 words) or, if applicable, of the
proposed panel to jakob.rendl(a)univie.ac.at and s.baiasu(a)keele.ac.uk by
11 January 2024, or contact us for more information.
All welcome!
Links:
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[1] https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/SectionDetails/1470
Dear all,
on behalf of the APSE Group (Applied Philosophy of Science and
Epistemology), I would like to remind you about the talk by Aleksandra
Derra (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland), which will
happen ONLINE tomorrow, December 14th, 2023 from 15:00 - 17:00.
Please find the abstract & link below!
Please also forward this invite to others who could be interested.
Title: Another Science is Possible. The Role of Feminist Theory in
Building Socially Responsible Scientific Knowledge
Londa Schiebinger, in her book entitled ‘Has Feminism Changed Science’
(2001), has shown how the growing number of female scientists gradually
transformed specific fields of science. Following her reasoning, I want
to point out how feminist theories influence the way we think about
science in the philosophy of science and science and technology studies
today, and additionally indicate how the critical feminist approach
affects the priorities, methodologies, and aims of the particular fields
of knowledge.
In the first step, following Janet Kourany, I will explain what a
socially responsible philosophy of science is. Then I will show what it
means to adopt a feminist perspective in science and to include a gender
perspective in research. Then, I will present research results that
indicate that science as an institution is entangled in broader cultural
processes that perpetuate stereotypes (e.g. Draw a Scientist experiment,
visualization of a female scientist, the role of material culture).
Finally, I will present two examples of building complementary, socially
responsible scientific knowledge, enriched with a critical feminist
perspective: neurofeminism and data feminism.
Link:
Thema: Talk Alsksandra Derra
Uhrzeit: 14.Dez. 2023 03:00 PM Wien
https://univienna.zoom.us/j/61822709658?pwd=MzgvRTJ4dUxwQitrR09FNVRGRXVWQT09
Meeting-ID: 618 2270 9658
Kenncode: 0000
All the beste on behalf of the APSE Group,
Flora
--
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,
on behalf of the APSE Group (Applied Philosophy of Science and
Epistemology), I would like to cordially invite you to the following
talk by Aleksandra Derra
(Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland), which will happen
ONLINE on December 14th, 2023 from 15:00 - 17:00. Please find the
abstract & link below!
Please also forward this invite to others who could be interested.
Title: Another Science is Possible. The Role of Feminist Theory in
Building Socially Responsible Scientific Knowledge
Londa Schiebinger, in her book entitled ‘Has Feminism Changed Science’
(2001), has shown how the growing number of female scientists gradually
transformed specific fields of science. Following her reasoning, I want
to point out how feminist theories influence the way we think about
science in the philosophy of science and science and technology studies
today, and additionally indicate how the critical feminist approach
affects the priorities, methodologies, and aims of the particular fields
of knowledge.
In the first step, following Janet Kourany, I will explain what a
socially responsible philosophy of science is. Then I will show what it
means to adopt a feminist perspective in science and to include a gender
perspective in research. Then, I will present research results that
indicate that science as an institution is entangled in broader cultural
processes that perpetuate stereotypes (e.g. Draw a Scientist experiment,
visualization of a female scientist, the role of material culture).
Finally, I will present two examples of building complementary, socially
responsible scientific knowledge, enriched with a critical feminist
perspective: neurofeminism and data feminism.
Link:
Thema: Talk Alsksandra Derra
Uhrzeit: 14.Dez. 2023 03:00 PM Wien
https://univienna.zoom.us/j/61822709658?pwd=MzgvRTJ4dUxwQitrR09FNVRGRXVWQT09
Meeting-ID: 618 2270 9658
Kenncode: 0000
All the beste on behalf of the APSE Group,
Flora
--
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"!
Studierenden-Werkstatt für Philosophie
Universität Würzburg
9.–10. April 2024
Call for Abstracts: Vortrag im Rahmen der 1. Würzburger
Studierenden-Werkstatt für Philosophie
Das Institut für Philosophie der Universität Würzburg lädt interessierte
Philosophie-Studierende in
fortgeschrittenen Semestern ein, ihre philosophischen Untersuchungen und
Forschungen im Rahmen
einer Studierenden-Werkstatt vorzustellen. Der Workshop soll
Studierenden der Philosophie
die Möglichkeit bieten, eigene Ideen vorzustellen, sich an einem
philosophischen Fachvortrag zu
versuchen und sich mit etablierten Forschenden im kollegialen Rahmen des
Würzburger Instituts
für Philosophie auszutauschen und zu vernetzen. Dies ermöglicht Ihnen,
ausgiebige Rückmeldungen
zu ihren Arbeiten von Würzburger Professor*innen und Mitarbeiter*innen
zu erhalten und mit
diesen in Dialog zu treten. Im Fokus steht die Einübung einer Praxis des
gemeinsamen philosophischen
Denkens.
Bei den vorgestellten Arbeiten kann es sich um Hausarbeiten,
Bachelorarbeiten, Essays oder andere
studentische Forschung, gerne auch laufende Projekte (Work in Progress),
handeln. Besonders willkommen
sind Beiträge, die sich mit den Schwerpunkten der Würzburger Forschung
befassen: Phänomenologie
und Post-Phänomenologie, antike, mittelalterliche und arabische
Philosophie. Weitere
Informationen zu Schwerpunktsetzungen des Würzburger Instituts finden
Sie hier:
https://www.philosophie.uni-wuerzburg.de/forschung/.
Die Veranstaltung ist darüber hinaus offen für Vortragsthemen in allen
Bereichen der Philosophie.
Die Vorträge sollen 15–20 Minuten lang sein, mit anschließend jeweils 10
Minuten Zeit für Diskussion,
Rückfragen und Feedback.
Die Studierenden-Werkstatt findet am 09.–10.04.2024 in den Räumen des
Instituts für Philosophie
in der Würzburger Residenz statt. Leider können Kosten für Anfahrt und
Übernachtung nicht übernommen
werden. Private Übernachtungsgelegenheiten können gegebenenfalls über
die Fachschaftsinitiative
Philosophie (https://www.hw.uni-wuerzburg.de/fsi-philosophie/)
organisiert werden.
Interessierte können sich bis zum 31.12.2023 mit einem Vortragstitel und
einem 250 Worte langen
Abstract (einer Kurzzusammenfassung des Vortrags) unter
studierendenwerkstatt-phil@uniwuerzburg.
de bewerben. Bitte geben Sie auch Ihre Studienfächer, Ihre Semesterzahl
und Ihre
Universität an. Zusagen bzw. Absagen werden im Januar 2024 verschickt
Mit freundlichen Grüßen auch im Namen des ganzen Organisationsteams,
Dr. Diego D'Angelo
Dr. Diego D'Angelo
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Lehrstuhl für praktische Philosophie
Universität Würzburg
Residenzplatz 2
97070 Würzburg
Sehr geehrte Kolleg:innen,
ich möchte Sie im Namen von Khôra herzlich zum nächsten Colloquium einladen.
Termin: 07.12.2023, 18:30 - 20:00, HS 3F, Neues Institutsgebäude
Thema: Seins-Verstrickungen. Über die Lebensphilosophie bei Ortega y Gasset
Ein kurzer Text von Ortega y Gasset dient uns als Ausgangspunkt für die weitere Diskussion. Auf Anfrage wird der Text gerne zugesendet.
Weitere Informationen sowie eine Mailingliste finden Sie auf unserer Homepage.
https://www.khora.philo.at/
Danach ist im Café Gagarin reserviert.
Wir freuen uns auf euch!
Liebe Grüße
Sebastian Krach
Dear Colleagues,
This is an email to remind you that the next presentations in the
Work-In-Progress series will be given by Bogdan Mićić and Philipp Quell
this coming Monday. Please see their titles and abstracts below.
"The ontological foundation of Pletho’s virtue ethics" by Bogdan Mićić
The short but dense treatise /Perì aretôn/ 'On Virtues' is not the only
work in which Pletho deals with moral-philosophical topics and
questions, but it is indeed the work in which Pletho presents and
develops his moral philosophy in the most systematic way. There is
surprising amount of literature which has been written and published
since the 1840s about Pletho's life and work. However, only a small part
of the otherwise relatively rich secondary literature is dedicated to
Plethonic ethics and an even smaller part wo the work /Perì aretôn/,
while the largest part is dealing with Pletho’s theology and
metaphysics. One reason (though, probably not the only one) for this is
that Pletho's (moral) philosophy, especially at first glance, hardly has
any originality. Further, it seems to be affected by a profound
eclecticism, which makes Plethon's ethics seem more like a disjointed
piecemeal: Different, sometimes even seemingly incompatible, thoughts of
various thinkers appear. A universal principle which could unify the
scattered thoughts seems to be lacking. In short, Pletho’s ethics, at
first glance, does not seem like a coherent theory. The eclectic
features of Pletho’s moral philosophy has led some researchers to accuse
Pletho of arbitrariness or a lack of critical reflection in advance.
This is wrong. I venture out to show that Pletho’s moral philosophy is
not a more or less arbitrary 'catalogue' of virtues collected without
adhering to an overarching principle and to show that this view is
short-sighted and excessive. To prove this, I will first show that the
Plethonic doctrine of virtue is thoroughly determined by a unifying
principle that underpins the theory. I will then identify this principle
as the ontological-metaphysical requirement for every being to adhere to
the specific ontological hierarchy. From this it will follow that it is
possible to draw conclusions about Pletho's ontology starting from his
doctrine of virtues (since the latter follows from the former). This
will prove that the relative neglect of treatise /Perì aretôn/ by
previous researchers is inappropriate not only in a historical respect
(/Perì aretôn/ was the most distributed and cited work out of Pletho’s
texts in his time), but also in a systematic respect: Because /Perì
aretôn/ provides remarkable insights in Pletho's ontology, Plethon's
doctrine of virtues should also be read and worked on also and
especially by people who are only interested in his theoretical philosophy.
In my talk, I will illustrate this by giving a detailed interpretation
of the first 14 lines of the text (/Peri aret/. A 1, 1.1–16).
"Aristotle’s Systematic Essentialism" by Philipp Quell:
Although many of Aristotle’s scientific findings are revised, for
example the geocentric thesis, his understanding of scientific
structures and the criteria for them to be able to discover truth is
still very similar to our scientific world. My thesis and argumentation
will focus on the Aristotelian system of sciences, mainly elaborated in
his logical writings. Within this argumentation one fundamental
difference will be found, too and I am excited to hear your opinon about
the fundamentality of this difference.
The presentation will take place in Hörsaal 3A (NIG, Universitätsstraße
7, 3.Stock) at 13:30and will last up to sixty minutes. All are invited
to join afterwards for refreshments and snacks before the Writing
Evening begins.
Please let us know (wip.philosophie(a)univie.ac.at
<mailto:wip.philosophie@univie.ac.at>) if you have any questions or if
you would like to present for the Work-in-Progress series yourself. You
can findcalendar and event information
at:https://vd-philosophy.univie.ac.at/phd-program/doctoral-training/wip-series/
<https://vd-philosophy.univie.ac.at/phd-program/doctoral-training/wip-series/>.
Best wishes and we hope to see all of you there!
The organizing team
Dear Colleagues,
The "Decolonizing" the Library lunchtime event has been rescheduled and
will take place on 18.1.2024 from 1 to 3 pm.
Birgit Athumani Hango from the African and Middle Eastern Studies
Library will shortly provide input (ca. 20 mins) about the Colonial
Contexts Working Group at the University Library followed by a moderated
discussion and reflections about how to apply the ideas and principles
to our own work.
Bring your lunch and join the discussion!
Sincerely,
Your Colleagues from the Antiracism Working Group
P.S. In case you missed it:
1. The Anti-Racism Working Group has created a Zotero reading list on
(Anti-)Racism, (De)colonization, and Philosophy. Most of these resources
are available via u:search.
To browse the list, as well as request to join the Zotero group, visit:
https://www.zotero.org/groups/5231402/anti-racism_working_group_at_uni_vien…
If you have a suggestion for the Zotero list, you can contact us with a
DOI/link to the item at: antiracism.philosophy(a)univie.ac.at
2. The Library of Philosophy and Psychology has designated a shelf in
the library that will house physical books related to these subjects.
The shelf features a QR-code that links to the Zotero list. So far, we
have requested 14 books to add to the Library's collection that were not
already available via u:search.
The library will be accepting purchasing requests from library users for
this shelf on an ongoing basis.
If you would like to suggest an item that is not already available via
u:search, you can do so via this link:
https://bibliothek.univie.ac.at/fb-philosophie-psychologie/ankaufsvorschlae…
--
Meghan Bohardt, M.A.
Academic and Library Information Specialist
Secretariat of the European Open Science Cloud Service Office Austria
University Library
University of Vienna
Mon, Weds-Fri 9:30-12:30
Tues 9:30-17:30
Administrative Assistant to Univ.-Prof. Tarja Knuuttila
Department of Philosophy
University of Vienna
Mon, Weds-Fri 13:30-17:30
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The Institute Vienna Circle and the Vienna Circle Society cordially
invite you to
6th Arthur Pap Lecture
What role do definitions play in axiomatics?
Paola Cantù (Université Aix-Marseille)
December 7, 2023
4 - 6 pm
Alte Kapelle am Campus, Yard 2, Entrance 2.8
Abstract
Right from its name, axiomatics focuses on the role of axioms as
starting points for deriving theorems. Definitions are introduced as
useful conventions, but not strictly necessary for a rigorous
presentation of theories. And yet the preeminent interest in definitions
in authors such as Peano and Pap suggests that the issue of definitions
cannot be eliminated as soon as one reflects on the epistemological role
of axiomatics. What role can axiomatics still play today and, within it,
what place should be reserved for definitions?
Please find further information on vcs.univie.ac.at or
https://wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/news-events/ . We are looking forward!
Yours sincerely
Zarah Weiss
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6. Arthur Pap Vorlesung
What role do definitions play in axiomatics?
Paola Cantù (Université Aix-Marseille)
7. Dezember 2023
16:00 - 18:00 Uhr
Alte Kapelle am Campus, Hof 2, Eingang 2.8
Abstract
Right from its name, axiomatics focuses on the role of axioms as
starting points for deriving theorems. Definitions are introduced as
useful conventions, but not strictly necessary for a rigorous
presentation of theories. And yet the preeminent interest in definitions
in authors such as Peano and Pap suggests that the issue of definitions
cannot be eliminated as soon as one reflects on the epistemological role
of axiomatics. What role can axiomatics still play today and, within it,
what place should be reserved for definitions?
Weitere Infos finden Sie unter vcs.univie.ac.at oder
https://wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/news-events/. Wir freuen uns sehr auf
Ihr Kommen!
Mit herzlichen Grüßen
Zarah Weiss
Dear all,
tomorrow, we will have the final event of the Anti-Racism Week at the
Department of Philosophy.
We will show the film "Edelweiss - A Critical Love Letter" at 16:45 at
HS 3C, NIG.
EDELWEISS is a documentary about the harrowing realities of People of
Color living in Austria. It depicts the perspectives of many People of
Color with varying connections to Austria— some who call it home, some
who have made it their home, and others who would never call it home.
Snacks and drinks will be provided :)
Looking forward to seeing you there!
All the best,
Flora in the name of the Anti Racism AG.
--
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"!
Call for Papers (Deadline November 30, 2023)
Paul Feyerabend and Austrian Philosophy - His Formative Years in Postwar Vienna
International Conference - July 5-6, 2024 - University of Vienna, Campus, Court 1
https://www.pkfcentennial.org/
Paul K. Feyerabend (1924-1994), one of the most stimulating and controversial figures of Twentieth-Century philosophy, spent most of his formative years in postwar Vienna (1946-1955). Born in Red Vienna, Feyerabend came of age at the time of the Nazi Anschluss and completed his philosophical apprenticeship at the University of Vienna during the Allied occupation. At the time of his university studies in philosophy and physics, Feyerabend animated the so-called “Third Vienna Circle” (1949-1953) around Viktor Kraft in the context of the Austrian College Society, and actively participated in the European Forum Alpbach and in the Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst. In addition, he served as a research assistant to Arthur Pap, who spent 1953/54 as a Fulbright visiting professor at the University of Vienna.
The international conference “Paul Feyerabend and Austrian Philosophy” aims at exploring the milieu which shaped Feyerabend’s intellectual development with a focus on his interaction with university teachers and intellectual figures such as members of the former Vienna Circle like Viktor Kraft, Philipp Frank, Herbert Feigl, and Rudolf Carnap, physicists like Felix Ehrenhaft and Walter Thirring, as well as with Walter Hollitscher and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Contacts continued throughout the 1950s and 1960s at the London School of Economics with Karl Popper and, later, with Imre Lakatos, and in Minneapolis, at Feigl’s Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, where Feyerabend published his pathbreaking “Against Method” for the first time in 1970.
A special symposium on the publication of Feyerabend’s Formative Years, edited by Matteo Collodel and Eric Oberheim (Springer Nature, two volumes) will be held as part of this conference.
The conference is organized by the Institute Vienna Circle (University of Vienna) and by the Vienna Circle Society. It is partnered with the subsequent HOPOS 2024, the Fifteenth International Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, University of Vienna, July 8-12, 2024, and it contributes to the Feyerabend 2024 Centennial celebrations.
Invited Speakers
Vasso Kindi (University of Athens)
Martin Kusch (University of Vienna)
Call for Abstracts
We invite abstracts of up to 400 words, excluding footnotes and bibliography.
Please format your abstract as a pdf file for anonymous review, excluding any personal and institutional information and submit it through EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pkf2024vienna> .
If your abstract is selected for the conference, you will not be required to submit a full paper.
Submission deadline: November 30, 2023
Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2024
There will be no registration fee.
Organizing Committee
Friedrich Stadler (University of Vienna)
Matteo Collodel (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Daniel Kuby (University of Konstanz)
Queries and Questions
matteo.collodel[at]unive.it <http://unive.it>
friedrich.stadler[at]univie.ac.at <http://univie.ac.at>
Sehr geehrte Kolleg:innen,
ich möchte Sie im Namen von Khôra herzlich zum nächsten Colloquium einladen.
Termin: 23.11.2023, 18:30 - 20:00, HS 3F, Neues Institutsgebäude
Thema: Philosophie des Films mit einem Input von Daniel Prem
24 Gedanken pro Sekunde: Das philosophische Potenzial des Kinos
Geschichten können seit je her philosophische Ideen beinhalten. Doch was ist mit der Form der Geschichte selbst? Erlauben uns diverse Medienformen neue philosophische Betrachtungen und Überlegungen, oder gar eine andere Art zu denken? Was ist das philosophische Potenzial, das sich zwischen den Schnitten eines Filmes versteckt?
Weitere Informationen sowie eine Mailingliste finden Sie auf unserer Homepage.
https://www.khora.philo.at/
Danach ist im Café Gagarin reserviert.
Wir freuen uns auf euch!
Liebe Grüße
Sebastian Krach
Dear All,
The Institute Vienna Circle and the APSE group are jointly organizing a
talk by ...
Prof. Anjan Chakravartty (University of Miami)
on
"Humanism and the Aim of Science: Past, Present, Future"
Time and Location:
Thursday, July 6th, 3-5pm, NIG HS 2G
Abstract: Humanism, conceived as a worldview, and science, conceived as
a form (or family of forms) of inquiry into the world, have been
entangled with one another across a long sweep of intellectual history.
I consider their co-evolution as a prelude to the present, briefly
reviewing formative aspects of Renaissance humanism and deepening
associations of values central to the Enlightenment with precursors to
modern science, en route to an arguably peculiar situation today. Where
past conceptions of the aim of science (natural philosophy, etc.) seem
intimately connected to the idea of fashioning a better world,
contemporary philosophy seems largely devoid of normative discussions of
what science itself is for, exactly. I conclude with some reflections on
a possible return to a humanist conception of the role and promise of
science.
Everyone welcome!
Best, Martin Kusch
Dear all,
unfortunately, due to a family emergency, Paul Giladi will not be able
to give the APSE talk that was planned for today at 15:00.
We will re-schedule for an online talk at some other point, and will
keep you posted.
All the best,
Flora on behalf of APSE
--
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"!
Liebe alle,
ich darf euch herzlich zum morgen stattfindenden APSE-Talk von Paul
Giladi (SOAS London) einladen.
Paul ist, wie ich, Teil des Critical Political Epistemology Network:
https://cpenetwork.editorx.io/home/
Wann: Donnerstag, 16. November 2023, 15:00 - 17:00
Wo: HS 3A, NIG
Titel: ‘The Last Dogma of Empiricism’: From Auto da Fé to Epistemic
Disobedience?"
Abstract:
In this chapter, I argue that the principal philosophic depth of Hilary
Putnam’s dissolution of the fact/value dichotomy (FVD) is neither
sourced in his argument that theory selection always presupposes values,
nor in his argument that there is entanglement of fact and value in our
use of thick ethical concepts. Rather, the principal philosophic depth
mainly resides in Putnam’s charge that mainstream analytic philosophical
circles often fetishize (scientific) naturalism. Putnam’s
anti-scientism, more so than either of his entanglement theses, provides
his readers with reason to regard FVD as a type of ideology. Because of
its status as an ideology, and as therefore in the business of hegemonic
sense-making, FVD is made sense of as a real threat to inquiry, insofar
as FVD renders inquiry undemocratic by valorizing simplicity over
complexity, cleanliness over messiness, dry deserts over lush
landscapes. Putnam’s own ‘post-analytic’ pragmatist position never
ostensibly espoused any critical theoretic attitude toward modernity –
let alone formulated Ideologiekritik. Nevertheless, I think his
21st-century articulations of his conceptual pluralism may be said to
display more resonance with the decolonial concept of epistemic
disobedience than with a ‘post-analytic’ tradition Putnam himself
explicitly endorsed in his final decade: liberal naturalism. I conclude
that even though Putnam’s anti-scientistic defence of mathematically
recalcitrant phenomena may be more radical than liberal naturalist
defences of such phenomena, Putnam should be viewed as ultimately more
epistemically mischievous than epistemically disobedient.
Ich freue mich darauf, viele von euch beim Vortrag zu sehen!
Alles Liebe,
Flora im Namen von APSE
--
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"!
Liebe Kolleg*innen,
im Anhang schicke ich Ihnen den Aushang für die kommende FÖP der DSPL43(
Philosophie) am Mittwoch, 29.11.2023 ab 13:30. Bitte beachten Sie, dass
die FÖP dieses Semester vor Ort im Hörsaal 3C (3. Stock, NIG) stattfindet.
Dear colleagues,
Please find attached the schedule for our next faculty-public
presentation (FÖP) of doctoral research projects on Wednesday,
29.11.2023 from 13.30 p.m. onwards. Participants are welcome! Please
note that this semester the FÖP will be held onsite in Hörsaal 3C (3.
Stock, NIG).
Mit besten Grüßen,
With best wishes,
Benjamin Schnieder, DSPL43
Dear colleagues,
on behalf of Angela Kallhoff, I cordially invite you to a guest lecture
titled
*"Protecting Humankind’s Common Cultural Heritage: The Problem of
Cultural Appropriation"*
by Cecile Fabre (All Souls College, Oxford).
Thu Dec. 14th, 2023, 6:30 p.m. in HS 3D (NIG)
For questions, contact sophie.kroiss(a)univie.ac.at
Abstract:
The thought that there are cultural landmarks which have universal value
is a familiar one. It is at the heart of UNESCO's and the World
Heritage's mission, and is affirmed in a number of international
declarations, not least the Convention Concerning the Protection of
World Cultural and Natural Heritage. For all its appeal, UNESCO's ideals
raise some deep concerns. In particular, it is not easy to articulate an
account of universal value; and it is not easy to show why we are under
moral obligations in respect of that heritage. Nevertheless, I attempt
to defend those ideals. I seek to show that the protection of
humankind's heritage, qua humankind's, not only is a moral imperative:
more strongly put, it is a duty of justice. I then address one of the
most important objections to it - namely that it undermines states’ and
their citizenries’ legitimate interest in deciding what to do with
landmarks which are located on their territory.
/Cecile Fabre a political philosopher, and currently Senior Research
Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. She is also Professor of Political
Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and affiliated with the Faculty
of Philosophy, the Department of Politics and International Relations,
and Nuffield College, Oxford. Her research interests are in theories of
distributive justice; the philosophy of democracy; just war theory; the
ethics of foreign policy, with particular focus on the ethics of
economic statecraft and the ethics of espionage.
She most recently published Spying Through a Glass Darkly: The Ethics of
Espionage and Counter-Intelligence (Oxford University Press 2022);
Economic Statecraft: Human Rights, Sanctions, and Conditionality
(Harvard University Press, 2018), preceded by (among others)
Cosmopolitan Peace (Oxford University Press, 2016), The Morality of
Defensive War, co-edited with Seth Lazar (Oxford University Press,
2014), Cosmopolitan War (Oxford University Press, 2012)./
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The Center for Religious Studies cordially invites you to a
Public Lecture by
*Dr.****Carlos Steel*
*“Malum metaphysicum. The Neoplatonic Antecedents”*
Vienna Campus
Quellenstrasse 51
Room : B-319 Senate Room
*Thursday, November 16, 2023, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm***
* *
This lecture examines whether the Neoplatonic explanation of evil can be
seen as an antecedent of the Leibnizian metaphysics of evil, as is often
claimed. The starting-point is Augustine’s distinction between “malum
culpae” and “malum poenae”, to which Leibniz is indebted. The concept of
metaphysical evil is needed to encompass instances of evil that do not
fall under that distinction.
*
*
*Carlos Steel* is emeritus Professor for ancient and medieval philosophy
at the University of Leuven. His main research is devoted to the study
of the Platonic tradition from Plato to Ficino, with a particular
emphasis on the philosophy of Proclus. He is also known for his critical
editions and translations of ancient and medieval philosophical texts.
External guests need to register for events by filling up this form
<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=E1nE2VN24kuSC72wOGOBhHA…> before
November 15th.
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/Events Coordinator/
/Center for Religious Studies/
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Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to the Anti-Racism Week
<https://antiracism-philosophy.univie.ac.at/news-events/>, a series of
events that will take place from 21-28 November 2023, organized by the
Anti-Racism Working Group <https://antiracism-philosophy.univie.ac.at/>*
at the Department of Philosophy and the Vienna Doctoral School of
Philosophy.
*21.11, 9:00-13:00, CTL Peer Seminar Room, 7th floor *
“How to Deal with Diversity in Teaching and Other Professional
Situations” <https://zara.or.at/de/training/detail/JqjWzcVSS>
Workshop with Zivilcourage & Anti-Rassissmus Arbeit (ZARA
<https://www.zara.or.at/de>)
This training examines the topics of identity, diversity, attributions
of self and others, and discrimination on an individual level.
Differences and prejudices will be reflected upon, and strategies for
dealing with diversity will be developed - without pointing fingers!
All Faculty and Staff are welcome to attend! Register at:
antiracism.philosophy(a)univie.ac.at
*22.11, 15:00-18:15, HS 3D *
Wrong Passport Stories
<https://antiracism-philosophy.univie.ac.at/news-events/detailsansicht/news/…>
Academic and Artistic Workshop
This artistic/academic workshop explores narratives of historical
injustices and global inequalities that limit the opportunities and
experiences of migrant researchers, particularly within European academia.
*23.11, 13:00-15:00, HS 3A *
“Decolonizing” the Library
<https://antiracism-philosophy.univie.ac.at/news-events/detailsansicht/news/…>
Lunchtime Presentation & Discussion (Bring your own lunch!)
with Birgit Athumani Hango of the Working Group, “Colonial Contexts in
the University of Vienna Library”
*23.11, 17:00-19:00, HS 2G *
Migration and Research
<https://antiracism-philosophy.univie.ac.at/news-events/detailsansicht/news/…>
Pragmatic Academic Series
This session will explore the challenges faced by immigrant researchers
and the need for policies to address them. Topics include integration
challenges, institutional support, barriers, and international
collaboration.
*28.11, 16:45, HS 3C *
Edelweiss: A Critical Love Letter to Austria (DE/EN)
<https://www.edelweissfilm.com/>
Film screening
EDELWEISS is a documentary about the harrowing realities of People of
Color living in Austria. It depicts the perspectives of many People of
Color with varying connections to Austria— some who call it home, some
who have made it their home, and others who would never call it home.
More information about the events can be found at
https://antiracism-philosophy.univie.ac.at/
* We define anti-racist action as raising awareness and dismantling
normalized racist structures, policies, and attitudes. Our goal at the
Department of Philosophy is to proactively address various forms of
racism, colonialism, xenophobia, and exclusion in our collective
contexts and to promote cultural change.
We look forward to enthusiastic engagement and fruitful discussions,
Your colleagues from the
The Anti-Racism Working Group
Dear all,
I am happy to invite you all to the next APSE (Applied Philosophy of
Science and Epistemology) talk!
When: Thursday, 15th of November 2023, 15:00 - 17:00
Where: HS 3A, NIG
We are excited to welcome as our next speaker Dr. Paul Giladi, Lecturer
in Philosophy at the School of History, Religions, and Philosophies,
SOAS University of London.
He will give a talk titled "Putnam on ‘The Last Dogma of Empiricism’:
From Auto da Fé to Epistemic Disobedience?"
Here is the abstract:
In this chapter, I argue that the principal philosophic depth of Hilary
Putnam’s dissolution of the fact/value dichotomy (FVD) is neither
sourced in his argument that theory selection always presupposes values,
nor in his argument that there is entanglement of fact and value in our
use of thick ethical concepts. Rather, the principal philosophic depth
mainly resides in Putnam’s charge that mainstream analytic philosophical
circles often fetishize (scientific) naturalism. Putnam’s
anti-scientism, more so than either of his entanglement theses, provides
his readers with reason to regard FVD as a type of ideology. Because of
its status as an ideology, and as therefore in the business of hegemonic
sense-making, FVD is made sense of as a real threat to inquiry, insofar
as FVD renders inquiry undemocratic by valorizing simplicity over
complexity, cleanliness over messiness, dry deserts over lush
landscapes. Putnam’s own ‘post-analytic’ pragmatist position never
ostensibly espoused any
critical theoretic attitude toward modernity – let alone formulated
Ideologiekritik. Nevertheless, I think his 21st-century articulations of
his conceptual pluralism may be said to display more resonance with the
decolonial concept of epistemic disobedience than with a ‘post-analytic’
tradition Putnam himself explicitly endorsed in
his final decade: liberal naturalism. I conclude that even though
Putnam’s anti-scientistic defence of mathematically recalcitrant
phenomena may be more radical than liberal naturalist defences of such
phenomena, Putnam should be viewed as ultimately more epistemically
mischievous than epistemically disobedient.
Looking forward to seeing you all at the talk!
Best,
Flora Löffelmann on behalf of the APSE team
--
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"!
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
START: 18:00
AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
THEATERSAAL
SONNENFELSGASSE 19
1010 VIENNA
DEMETRA SFENDONI-MENTZOU
Interdisciplinary Centre of Aristotle Studies, Aristotle University
Thessaloniki
WELCOME
Ulrike Diebold | Vice-President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Claudia Isep | Deputy Secretary General of the Austrian Commission for
UNESCO
Introduction and Moderation of Q&A:
Herta Nagl-Docekal | Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of
Vienna
Aristotle’s philosophy of nature has been underestimated for centuries. His
Physics was considered by the protagonists of the “Scientific Revolution” as
a sterile system; the idea that there is no place for an Aristotelian
perspective
in science was, subsequently, reinforced by the development of Newtonian
mechanics. Against this traditional view, the lecture seeks to show that
Aristotle’s conception of nature is one of his most fruitful ideas, and
that the
insights gained from Aristotle’s work are becoming increasingly relevant to
contemporary science. Furthermore, the lecture argues that, in the light
of the
impressive discoveries in numerous fields of science, especially in
physics, a
closer look at Aristotle’s work will reveal that the Stageirite has
elaborated a
dynamic model of nature, which is much closer than Newtonian physics to the
new scientific image of nature emerging today. At the same time, Aristotle’s
insights into the inter-relation of all disciplines and the unity of
knowledge can
respond to the growing need for a re-unification of the various sciences
through
an interdisciplinary approach.
Demetra Sfendoni-Mentzou is Professor Em. of Philosophy of Science, the
founding and current President of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Aristotle
Studies, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece, and Fellow of the
Charles
S. Peirce Society. She served as President of the Greek Philosophical
Society
(2006–08) and the Charles Sanders Peirce Society (2014–15). Her research
focus
on the importance of Aristotle’s thought for the current sciences is
documented
in her studies on Quantum Mechanics, Microphysics and the Bio-Sciences.
She edited Aristotle and Contemporary Science (two volumes, 2000/2001) and
Aristotle–Contemporary Perspectives on his Thought (2018). Furthermore, she
demonstrated how the philosophy of American Pragmatism relates to
Aristotle’s
thinking. As President of the C. S. Peirce Society she chaired the
“Charles S.
Peirce International Centennial Congress,” Lowell, Massachusetts (2014).
Most
importantly, she initiated, organized and chaired the “World Congress
Aristotle
2400 Years” Thessaloniki 2016, under the auspices of the President of
the Hellenic
Republic, and edited the Proceedings of that Congress (2019). Currently,
Prof.
Sfendoni-Mentzou is establishing a joint Greek-Chinese research program that
was initiated at the international “Aristotle-Confucius Symposium on
Ethics for
the 21st Century” that she co-organized in July 2023.
The Leibniz Lectures, as part of the Academy Lectures of the Austrian
Academy
of Sciences, refer to the fact that Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz presented
the first plans
for a „Society of Sciences in Vienna“ to the Emperor during his time in
Vienna
in 1712–1714. Lectures are given by scholars who have gained international
recognition not only in their own field, and whose research demonstrates the
differentiation potential of philosophy both for interdisciplinary
understanding,
and for dealing with publicly relevant issues of the present.
Please register at: www.oeaw.ac.at/anmeldung/akademievorlesungen
CONTACT: Andrea Windegger, Austrian Academy of Scienes,
andrea.windegger(a)oeaw.ac.at
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Dear colleagues,
since end of September, the documentation of the first “Day of
Parliamentary Research” (2023) is available online (currently only in
German) under: Tag der Parlamentsforschung 2023: Tagungsbericht |
Parlament Österreich
<https://www.parlament.gv.at/fachinfos/rlw/Tag-der-Parlamentsforschung-2023-…>.
It includes the presentation slides of keynote speaker Marc Geddes (see:
Tag-der-Parlamentsforschung-2023-Keynote-Marc-Geddes.pdf
<https://www.parlament.gv.at/dokument/fachinfos/parlamentsforschung/Tag-der-…>)
as well as almost all the other presentations and posters.
On this occasion, we are delighted to make the following announcements:
-The next “*Day of Parliamentary Research*” will take place on *20 June
2024*. The according call for contributions will probably be published
in January 2024.
-The call for applications for the annual “*Research Year in
Parliament*” is expected to be published in December 2023. The programme
*supports a one-year research project* with expertise and resources from
the Austrian Parliamentary Administration. Applications will be accepted
*in English and German*.
-Currently, *not* all contents about our initiatives concerning
parliamentary research are *available in English yet*. However, please
stay in touch and follow the constant development of the according
section on our website: Parlamentsforschung | Parlament Österreich
<https://www.parlament.gv.at/fachinfos/rlw/parlamentsforschung/>.
If you have any questions, please contact us via
parlamentsforschung(a)parlament.gv.at
<mailto:parlamentsforschung@parlament.gv.at>. We kindly ask you to
spread the information among interested colleagues and hope to see you
again next year in the Austrian Parliament.
Kind regards on behalf of the whole team,
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