Dear All,
The Institute Vienna Circle and the Unit for Applied Philosophy of Science
and Epistemology are together organizing a workshop on 'Moral and Political
Philosophy in the German-Speaking Lands around 1900'. The dates are June
24th and 25th.
EVERYBODY WELCOME! The event is 'in person' only.
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG), lecture halls 3A and 3D
Friday, June 24
Lecture hall 3A
9:00-9.15 Welcoming Remarks & Coffee
Moral Philosophy, Psychology, and Physiology
9.15-10.25 'Old is New: The Example of Emil du Bois-Reymond'
Gabriel Finkelstein (University of Colorado)
10.25-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-11.40 'Fechner and Wundt: Conservation of Energy and Free Will in
19th
Century Physiological Psychology'
Chiara Russo Kraus (Università "Federico II" di Napoli)
11.40-11.50 Coffee Break
Moral Philosophy and the Social Sciences
11.50-13.00 'Dilthey on Normativity and Values in the
Geisteswissenschaften'
Henriikka Hannula (University of Vienna)
13.00-15.00 Lunch
15.00-16.10 'Simmel on Freedom'
Martin Kusch (University of Vienna)
16.10-16.20 Coffee Break (10 min)
Moral Philosophy and Judaism
16.20-17.30 'Trust in Dialogue and the Inclusion of the Stranger in the
German-
Jewish Context of the 19th and 20th Century' (HYBRID)
Sabine Sander (McMaster University)
Saturday, June 25
Lecture hall 3D
9:00-9.15 Coffee
Moral and Political Philosophy
9.15-10.25 'Luxemburgs Critique of Bourgeois Ethics'
Christoph Schuringa (New College of the Humanities, London)
10.25-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-11.40 'Cohens Kant-Inspired Critique of Exploitation'
'Elisabeth Widmer (University of Vienna)
11.40-11.50 Coffee Break
11.50-13.00 'Vienna Activism: The Ethics and Politics of Social Reform
in Fin-de-Siècle Austria'
Bastian Stoppelkamp (University of Vienna)
13.00-15.00 Lunch
Moral Philosophy and The Vienna Circle
15.00-16.10 'Avenarius Criticism of the Substance Concept and
Anti-Metaphysics'
Lucas Baccarat (University of Sao Paulo) (HYBRID)
16.10-16.20 Coffee Break
16.20-17.30 'Max Webers Value Philosophy and its Impact on Logical
Empiricism'
Christian Damböck (University of Vienna)
See you there!
Best wishes,
Christian Damboeck
Henriikka Hannula
Martin Kusch
Elisabeth Widmer