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CEU Department of Philosophy Upcoming Events

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Dear all you are warmly invited to join the CEU Department of Philosophy upcoming events: Gricy Fichte - Understanding the Structure and Phenomenology of the Summons<https://events.ceu.edu/2025-02-25/gricy-fichte-understanding-structure-and-…> Tobias Rosefeldt (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) Tuesday, February 25, 2025 - 3:40PM Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | QS D-001 Tiered A Further Step Towards Rediscovering Empedocles: The Fouad Papyrus inv. 218.<https://events.ceu.edu/2025-03-04/further-step-towards-rediscovering-empedo…> Nathan Carlig (Université de Liège) Tuesday, March 4, 2025 - 3:40PM Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | QS D-001 Tiered The Laws, the Past and the Consequence Argument<https://events.ceu.edu/2025-03-11/laws-past-and-consequence-argument> Andreas Hüttemann (Universität zu Köln) Tuesday, March 11, 2025 - 3:40PM Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | QS D-001 Tiered Does Causation Come in Degrees?<https://events.ceu.edu/2025-03-18/does-causation-come-degrees> Helen Beebee (University of Helsinki) Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 3:40PM Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | QS D-001 Tiered Rethinking Metaphysics Workshop<https://events.ceu.edu/2025-03-24/rethinking-metaphysics-workshop> Viktoria Knoll, Emilie Pagano, Matthew Simpson, Amie Thomasson, Alice Van't Hoff Monday, March 24, 2025 - 10:00AM Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | B319 Senate The Functions of Moral Language<https://events.ceu.edu/2025-03-25/functions-moral-language> Amie L. Thomasson (Dartmouth College) Tuesday, March 25, 2025 - 3:40PM Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | QS D-001 Tiered For more information about an event, please click on the event title. We look forward to welcoming you to CEU. Kind regards [cid:94e760f0-f63a-433d-96ec-bdd34b0999db]

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[Video] Conspiracy theorists and incels: a deeper look into Resentment - Leah Ritterfeld (VDP)

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Dear all, I am thrilled to share with you this new video that showcases the research of our doctoral candidate, Leah Ritterfeld. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ash4k8ivjY Best regards, Raphael Aybar -- MSc. Mag. Raphael Aybar, BA Scientific Coordinator Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7, B0301 1010 Wien +43-1-4277-46020 https://vd-philosophy.univie.ac.at/ vd.philosophy(a)univie.ac.at raphael.aybar(a)univie.ac.at

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WG: REMINDER: Ausschreibung: Roland Atefie-Preis der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2025

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Von: Kontny, Johannes <Johannes.Kontny(a)oeaw.ac.at> Gesendet: Montag, 17. Februar 2025 10:55 Betreff: REMINDER: Ausschreibung: Roland Atefie-Preis der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2025 Ausschreibung: Roland Atefie-Preis der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2025 Der Roland Atefie-Preis wird für eine hervorragende Dissertation aus den Fachbereichen Philosophie, Theologie oder Indologie vergeben, die an einer österreichischen Universität durchgeführt und max. zwei Jahre vor dem Einreichtermin abgeschlossen wurde. Bevorzugt werden Antragstellende, deren Dissertation zum Zeitpunkt der Einreichung bereits publiziert oder von einem Verlag zur Publikation angenommen wurde. Die Höhe des Preises beträgt 4.000,- Euro. Der nächste Einreichtermin ist der 3. März 2025. Alle weiteren Informationen finden Sie unter https://stipendien.oeaw.ac.at/preise/geisteswissenschaften/roland-atefie-pre is Dr. Johannes Kontny Stipendien & Preise | Fellowships & Awards Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | Austrian Academy of Sciences Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Wien, Österreich | Vienna, Austria T: +43 1 51581-1318 <mailto:johannes.kontny@oeaw.ac.at> johannes.kontny(a)oeaw.ac.at | <http://www.oeaw.ac.at/> www.oeaw.ac.at Follow us on <https://twitter.com/oeaw> Twitter.com/oeaw Like us on <https://www.facebook.com/oeaw.at/> Facebook.com/oeaw.at Find us on <https://www.instagram.com/oeaw.at/> Instagram.com/oeaw.at Visit us on <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY3rUdfN-VCjvfUWojWkayQ> Youtube.com/c/oeawvideo

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REMINDER: Deadline February 15: Call for Applications - Summer School on History and Epistemology of Econometrics - Vienna July 2025

by Zarah Weiss

Summer School Call for Applications (Deadline: February 15, 2025) 23rd univie: summer school Scientific World Conceptions (USS-SWC) The History and Epistemology of Econometrics Vienna, July 7-11, 2025 https://summerschool-ivc.univie.ac.at/ Course Description Models and their econometric estimation play an increasingly important role in modern economic and political life. From macroeconomic policy and financial regulation to public health and climate policy, models contribute to shaping policies. The generation of ever more data is likely to support the proliferation of models and econometrics. Research resources in academia focus on the theoretical foundations of the underlying model and on the statistical methods of econometrics; much less attention is devoted to the epistemological challenges of the underlying concepts, the normative challenges of the everyday work with econometrics, and the application of its results in policy decisions and evaluation. The objective of this program is to increase attention amongst philosophers of science, academic economists, and empirical economists in policy institutions (eg, central banks) to these issues. The course is also structured around a particular point of view namely, that economics is a science of models and that most of the main features of econometrics relate generally to the role of models in science. Topics will be selected reflecting participants interests and may include: * History of econometrics to frame the philosophical issues to be discussed in the course * The Vienna Circle and econometrics * Values and Ethical Pitfalls in econometric research * Key philosophical issues of how models relate to the world and how they relate to each other * Data: observation, classification, and measurement of economic variables from a modeling point of view * Conceptual issues related to modeling randomness * The identification problem: how possibly, if at all possible, to map descriptive relations onto theoretical variables? * Issues related to optional stopping, search methodologies, and the proper interpretation of results obtained through search * Different approaches to the nature of causation and different strategies of causal inference * The conceptual basis of graphical causal modeling and controlled, natural, and field experiments * The conceptual issues surrounding the problem of model uncertainty, as well as some of the strategies economists use to address it Main Lecturers: Kevin D. Hoover (Duke University) Kevin D. Hoover is Professor of Economics and Philosophy and Senior Fellow of the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University. He is the editor of the journal History of Political Economy and a past editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology. His current research addresses causality, causal inference in economics, the history of macroeconomics, philosophical issues related to the microfoundations of macroeconomics, and the engagement with economics of the American pragmatist philosopher Charles. S. Peirce. He is the author of The New Classical Macroeconomics, the Methodology of Empirical Macroeconomics, Causality in Macroeconomics, Applied Intermediate Macroeconomics, as well as many articles in monetary and macroeconomics, the history of economics, the philosophy of economics, and applied econometrics. Jennifer Jhun (Duke University) Jennifer Jhun is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Duke University, as well as a Senior Fellow of the Center for the History of Political Economy. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. Her main research interests are in the philosophy of science, especially philosophy of economics, but also in issues in other areas, such as psychology and physics. She is currently engaged on a project that investigates antitrust from a historical and philosophy-of-science perspective: Whats the Point of ceteris Paribus? or, How to Understand Supply and Demand Curves. Philosophy of Science 85, no. 2 (2018): 271-292; Economics, Equilibrium Methods, and Multi-scale Modeling. Erkenntnis 86, no. 2 (2021): 457-472; Multi-Model Reasoning in Economics: The Case of COMPASS. Philosophy of Science 90, no. 4 (2023): 836-854; Implied Market Shares and Antitrust Markets as Fuzzy Sets. Forthcoming at The Antitrust Bulletin. (Joint with Matthew Panhans, Federal Trade Commission) Guest Lecturer: Marcel Boumans (University of Utrecht) Marcel Boumans is historian and philosopher of science at Utrecht University. His main research focus is on understanding empirical research practices in science outside the lab from a philosophy of science-in-practice perspective. He is particularly interested in the practices of measurement and modelling and the role of mathematics in social science. The first step in these practices is to make sense of the available data. Visualisations play an important role in this. His current research project Vision and Visualisation is nearing completion with a book manuscript Shaping the Phenomena. The program is primarily directed at graduate students and junior researchers in philosophy of science and economics as well as empirical economists at policy institutions (eg, central banks) but the organizers also encourage applications from people in all stages of their career and from fields other than economics that apply advanced econometrics. Application form and further information: <https://summerschool-ivc.univie.ac.at/application/> https://summerschool-ivc.univie.ac.at/application/ USS-SWC operates under the academic supervision of an International Program Committee of distinguished philosophers, historians, and scientists. Its members represent the scientific fields in the scope of USS-SWC, make contact to their home universities and will also support acknowledgement of courses taken by the students. The annual summer school is organised by the Institute Vienna Circle of the University of Vienna. <https://wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/> https://wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/ Find information about our exchange programme with Duke University (North Carolina) here: <https://international.univie.ac.at/en/international-cooperation/university- wide-partnership-agreements/north-america/> https://international.univie.ac.at/en/international-cooperation/university-w ide-partnership-agreements/north-america/ Inquiries: Administrator: Zarah Weiss Institute Vienna Circle Alser Straße 23/32 1080 Wien <mailto:summerschool.ivc@univie.ac.at> summerschool.ivc(a)univie.ac.at Scientific director: Georg Schiemer Institute Vienna Circle Alser Straße 23/32 1080 Wien <mailto:georg.schiemer@univie.ac.at> georg.schiemer(a)univie.ac.at

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Scientist for Democracy

by Brigitta Keintzel

Dear all, Due to recent events, I would like to forward the appeal launched by Susanne Hochreiter, Gundula Ludwig and Birgit Sauer, and sorry for crosssposting: In view of the ongoing government negotiations with the FPÖ, we would like to make an urgent request to all those working in science in Austria: Please support the open letter entitled “Scientists for Democracy”. In our view, it is necessary and urgent for scientists to speak out actively and decisively against the threat to democracy. We are very grateful for your support. Here you will find the text in German and the opportunity to sign up: https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/CGcludOKByY3Nqt4yP3BhJqB/ <https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/CGcludOKByY3Nqt4yP3BhJqB/> Best regards, Brigitta Keintzel

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CFP - From Minds to Movements: Foresight in Cognition and Activism: Interdisciplinary graduate conference - May 2025

by Mariia Fedorova

Dear colleagues, We would like to announce the following graduate symposium on Future Thinking: From Minds to Movements: Foresight in Cognition and Activism Dates: May 8th 2025 - May 10th 2025 Venue: University of Vienna. Submissions are currently open. Submission Deadline: 10.03.2025 Notification of Acceptance: 11.04.2025 The more details can be found below and on the symposium landing page: https://mindstomovements.carrd.co/ Kind regards, The Organising Committee — From Minds to Movements: Foresight in Cognition and Activism Interdisciplinary graduate conference We are announcing a PhD symposium on Future Thinking on May 8th 2025 - May 10th 2025, in the University of Vienna. The 1st day of the conference will focus on theory, covering empirical and philosophical research on cognition and its interpretations. The 2nd day will focus on various political, social and epistemic issues considered through the lens of empirical research. On the 3rd day, the conference will be centered around future directions of research in cognitive science, and its broader implications, based on the work presented during the first two days. The conference will coincide with the Cognitive Science Hub’s Annual Lecture which will take place in the Großer Festsaal on one of the two nights of the symposium. The participants of the conference will also be invited to attend the lecture and the proceeding reception. Throughout the conference, we will cover the following topics: • Conceptual change • Predictive Processing • Anticipation and Perception • Uncertainty and Reasoning • Activism in Science • Epistemic Trust • Addressing Climate Change • The Erosion of Democracy We welcome submissions from PhD students as well as postdoctoral researchers at early stages of their career. Contributions need not be limited to empirical research and can address the aforementioned issues from broadly philosophical and political perspectives. However, we expect applicants from other disciplines to have a background or strong interest in cognitive science. Applications can be submitted here: https://forms.gle/qUa6iuYaQQwCMRsd6. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words, and must be prepared for anonymous review. The deadline for submission is 10.03.2025. We will notify applicants of our decision by 11.04.2025. For more information, please visit the symposium landing page: https://mindstomovements.carrd.co/ The conference is supported by the Vienna Cognitive Science Hub & Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft. The Organising Committee Ohan Hominis Maria Fedorova Xueyi Yao Bojin Zhu

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Call for Applications - VDP Summer School 2025 The Philosophy of Iris Murdoch - Vienna July 2025

by Mariia Fedorova

Dear colleagues, We invite applications for the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy Summer School 2025, 'The Philosophy of Iris Murdoch'. The details can be found below and on the summer school webpage: https://pace.phl.univie.ac.at/the-philosophy-of-iris-murdoch/. Instructors: Justin Broackes (Brown), Cathy Mason (CEU), Silvia Panizza (UCD/UPSE), Rachael Wiseman (Liverpool) Dates: July 14th-18th, 2025 Deadline for application: March 30th, 2025 Location: Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG), Universitätstrasse 7, 1010 Wien Overview of the Topic Although Iris Murdoch is still best known for her novels, her philosophical work is finally beginning to receive the recognition that it deserves. An Oxford philosopher, educated during the Second World War and later employed there as a lecturer, Murdoch’s philosophy marks a significant departure from the dominant analytic tradition of her place and time: a return to a philosophy deeply attuned to the human condition and to metaphysical thinking. Murdoch’s ideas began to develop with a critique of the prevailing approaches to language and thought, later evolving into a novel conception of ethics. Engaged with both analytic and continental traditions, she proposed vision as the basic category of evaluation and freedom as the ability to see the world rightly, rather than as detachment from it. As opposed to the amoral view of metaphysics, she sought to reanimate the concept of a world that finds meaning through “the Good”. She writes in dialogue with a diverse range of philosophers, including Plato, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, French existentialists, and Derrida, among others, and she has had a strong influence on some of today’s best-known philosophers, including Cora Diamond, John McDowell, Martha Nussbaum, and Charles Taylor. The summer school aims to bring together promising young philosophers with some of the leading experts on Murdoch’s philosophical work. Participants will have the chance to engage with her major themes, uncover less-explored aspects of her work, and contribute to the ongoing discussion of her ideas with their own research. Application & Fees We welcome applications from PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and advanced MA students in philosophy and related disciplines. To apply for participation, please send the following documents to Matt Dougherty (doughertym(a)ceu.edu): 1. Curriculum Vitae (max. 2 pages) 2. Statement of Purpose (no longer than 1 page), explaining the relevance of the summer school to your study, research, teaching and/or other professional work Statement of Financial Aid (optional). We can offer partial financial support (including the coverage of the school fees) to the participants whose home institutions cannot cover their expenses. We therefore ask the applicants who wish to be considered for funding to briefly describe their situation in the statement. 3. Abstract (optional; max. 250 words). If you would like to present your work at the summer school, please send us a short abstract of your presentation. Since the number of slots for student presentations is limited, this will help us decide on how to allocate them. The summer school fee is 75 Euros. The fee includes the student union fee of 25 Euros, which is required by Austrian law to register at the University of Vienna and to receive a certificate of completion of the summer school. Please, submit your application by March 30, 23.59 CET. Contact Email: doughertym(a)ceu.edu We will notify you of the decision by April 7, 23.59 CET. Diversity Statement: We strongly encourage applications from members of disadvantaged and underrepresented groups. Organizing Committee Paulina Sliwa Matt Dougherty Sebastian Aster Maria Fedorova Bojin Zhu The VDP Summer School 2025 is funded by the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy (University of Vienna).

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Colloquium on "Philosophy Of Evil And Some Applications"

by Caroline Zmeskal

Dear all, we cordially invite you to our final colloquium on "Philosophy Of Evil And Some Applications", as part of the course KU Philosophy of Evil led by Univ.-Prof.in Dr. Angela Kallhoff, in course of which the students will present their research. Date: Thursday, January 30, 2025 Time: 9:30 - 13:00 Place: Lecture Hall 2H, 2nd floor, Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG) There will be two short breaks including some refreshments. THE SCHEDULE (as you can also find it on the poster attached) 9:30 - 10:00 Fanaticism as a model of Evil. Patrick Prager, Veronika Fister & Anita Wallner 10:00 - 10:30 Getting rid of Evil by getting rid of people? Magdalena Andraschek & Luka Doneus 10:30 - 10:45 First break 10:45 - 11:15 Sade and Evil in conflicting moral systems. Mattis Stickler & Paul Klein 11:15 - 11:45 Klaasohm - An application of patriarchal Evil. Carina Witzani, Claudia Ploner, Maria Lahodny & Katharina Kreiner 11:45 - 12:00 Second break 12:00 - 12:30 Are capitalism and marriage just evil institutions? Jan Türk, Julia Müller, Maria Alvarez Ochoa & Mathias Richter 12:30 - 13:00 Is populism evil? Or Is the term "evil" populist? Nele Transfeld, Pauline de Ronde & Johanna Bürkle For organisational questions please contact me at caroline-chiara.zmeskal(a)univie.ac.at and feel free to share this invitation with anyone who might be interested! Kind regards, Caroline-Chiara Zmeskal -- Caroline-Chiara Zmeskal, BA Studienassistenz von Univ.-Prof.in Dr. Angela Kallhoff Institut für Philosophie Universität Wien Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien Mein Arbeitstag sieht möglicherweise anders aus als Ihr Arbeitstag. Bitte fühlen Sie sich nicht dazu verpflichtet, außerhalb Ihrer normalen Arbeitszeiten zu antworten.

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Invitation: APSE talk by Igor Grabovac & accompanying reading circle

by Ella Valerie Berger

Dear all, we warmly invite you to the next APSE (Applied Philosophy of Science and Epistemology) lecture and to the accompanying Reading Cycle. The talk will be held by Igor Grabovac (MedUni Wien). Title: From Pandoras Box to Pandoras Hope: Opening the Lid on Transdisciplinary Work in Public Health Date: Thursday, January 30th 2025 Reading Circle: 1pm - 3pm Talk: 3pm - 5 pm Location: Room 3A, NIG Abstract of the talk (3-5 PM): Climate change, armed conflicts, rising inequities, pandemics, and the displacement of large population groups constitute some of the most pressing current concerns for the discipline of Public Health. These complex issues require intersectional analyses and solutions--and a turn to transdisciplinary research. This need is commonly voiced in Public Health literature and increasingly enacted through funding calls and commissions. In this talk, I want to show how the over-reliance on biomedical knowledge and its accompanying reductionism has left Public Health not only "de-socialized," but current attempts to "add in" social science knowledge--as one pathway for transdisciplinarity--often fall short of the promise to transcend disciplinary boundaries and create more suitable types of knowledge. Starting with the work of John Ryle, Julius Tandler, and Andrija Stampar, I will provide a short overview of the historical development of Public Health and its separation from the field of Social Medicine. Using the examples of Michael Marmot and Camara Phyllis Jones on the "Social Determinants of Health," I will then present the changes in the field in its move towards structural explanations of health inequalities. Finally, I end on the work of Emily Yates-Doerr and her critique of the pervasive "determinants model," showcasing the potential, affordances, and demands of true transdisciplinarity in Public Health today. Reading Circle (1-3 PM): We will focus our discussion on a text by Paul Farmer (attached pdf): Farmer, P. (1996) 'On Suffering and Structural Violence: A View from Below', Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.), 125(1), pp. 261-283. As introduction to the field, we suggest: Farmer, P.E. et al. (2006) 'Structural violence and clinical medicine', PLoS medicine, 3(10), pp. 1686-1691. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030449. For further reading regarding the topic: Especially Research by Grabovac and colleagues: Carmichael, C. et al. (2023) 'Barriers and facilitators to health care access for people experiencing homelessness in four European countries: an exploratory qualitative study', International journal for equity in health, 22(1), pp. 1-206. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-023-02011-4. Chapter 11: "Making Up People" Ian Hacking (pp. 161-171): Biagioli, M. (1999) The science studies reader. New York, NY [u.a.]: Routledge. Jones, C. (2000) 'Levels of racism: a theoretic framework and a gardener's tale', American journal of public health (1971), 90(8), pp. 1212-1215. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.90.8.1212. Please send a quick message to vinzenz.fischer(a)univie.ac.at if you are planning to attend the Reading Cycle! Feel free to bring your lunch! Feel free to share this invitation with anyone who might be interested! Best wishes, Ella Berger (on behalf of the APSE unit) -- Ella Berger (she/her or they/them) Department of Philosophy University of Vienna

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Invitation to Writing Weeks in February

by Lisa Tragbar

Writing Weeks in February Are you planning on writing your dissertation/ Master's Thesis/ Bachelor's Thesis/ Seminar paper in February? Come join us! The Wiener Forum für Analytische Philosophie and the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy (VDP) are co-organising two writing weeks from Monday - Friday 17.02.-21.07.2024 and 24.02.-28.07.2024 in room 3A, NIG, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna. Schedule: 8:50-9:00 Welcome 9:00-9:50 1st writing period (50 min) 9:50-10:00 Break 10:00-11:30 2nd writing period (90 min) 11:30-12:00 Break 12:00-12:50 3rd writing period (50 min) 12:50-14:00 LUNCH BREAK 14:00-14:50 4th writing period (50 min) 14:50-15:00 Break 15:00-15:50 5th writing period (50 min) 15:50-16:00 Break 16:00-16:50 6th writing period (50 min) Information: * If you want to sleep in and join for the later sessions, or join only for the early sessions – no problem! But please join during the short breaks for the sake of our concentration. * No registration needed, but if you like to register, such that there is more commitment to coming, feel free to send an email to: lisa.tragbar(a)univie.ac.at * We will provide snacks, in case you want to share your favourite snack with us, feel free to bring! * Doctoral, Master and Bachelor students welcome! Looking forward to seeing you there! Veronika Lassl (WFAP) & Vinzenz Fischer (MA EST) Eva Liedauer & Lisa Tragbar (VDP) -- Lisa Tragbar, BA BA MA Universitätsassistentin an der Professur für Ethik mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von angewandter Ethik Fakultät für Philosophie und Bildungswissenschaft der Universität Wien Universitätsstraße 7 (NIG, Zi. A 0308) A-1010 Wien lisa.tragbar(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:lisa.tragbar@univie.ac.at>

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