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WIP Series 04.12.2023 Reminder (Monday) - "The ontological foundation of Pletho’s virtue ethics" by Bogdan Mićić - "Aristotle’s Systematic Essentialism" by Philipp Quell

by Adrian Fleisch

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

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SAVE THE DATE: "Decolonizing" the Library rescheduled for 18. January 2024 from 1 to 3 pm

by Institut für Philosophie

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 +431427764611 _______________________________________________ Hermes mailing list --hermes(a)lists.philo.at To unsubscribe send an email tohermes-leave(a)lists.philo.at

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Reminder: Invitation 6th Arthur Pap Lecture December 7 4pm

by Ivc

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 ---- 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

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Invitation: Screening "Edelweiss" - Tuesday 28th, 16:45, HS 3C

by Flora Löffelmann

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"!

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REMINDER: CfP: Feyerabend and Austrian Philosophy - His Formative Years in Postwar Vienna | Deadline Nov 30

by vcs＠univie.ac.at

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>

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Khôra Colloquium: Philosophie des Films, 23.11., 18:30, HS 3F

by Sebastian Krach

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

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APSE / IVC talk: Anjan Chakravartty: Thursday, July 6th, 3-5pm, 2G

by Martin Kusch

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

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Postponed: Talk Paul Giladi

by Flora Löffelmann

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"!

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Erinnerung: Einladung zum Talk von Paul Giladi

by Flora Löffelmann

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"!

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FÖP Aussendung DSPL43: FÖP 29.11.2023 ab 13:30 Uhr

by Institut für Philosophie

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

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