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Invitation: Talk on Opium for the Earth at the expense of nonhuman animals? A non-anthropocentric perspective on Geoengineering

by Leonie Bossert

Dear colleagues, You are cordially invited to the Winter Lecture Series of the Vienna Animal Studies Group, which starts next Wednesday (Sept. 10) with a talk on a non-anthropocentric ethics of geoengineering. When: September 10th at 5:00 pm Where: NIG Hörsaal 3D What: Talk by Leonie Bossert on "Opium for the Earth at the expense of nonhuman animals? A non-anthropocentric perspective on Geoengineering" For more information on this and the upcoming events, please visit https://www.viennaanimalstudies.com/event-list With best wishes on behalf of the VAS team, Leonie Bossert -- Dr. Leonie N. Bossert Post-Doctoral University Assistant Chair for Philosophy of Media and Technology University of Vienna Latest publications: "Why the carbon footprint of generative large language models alone will not help us assess their sustainability." Nature Machine Intelligence 2025 (7), 164-165, with Wulf Loh. "On the values of microbes: An ethical investigation of relational values associated with the microbial world." People and Nature 2025 (7/4), 804-814, with Davina Höll.

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Workshop: Rethinking European Modernity in a Global Context, 26.-27.09.2025, Universität Wien

by Gerald Posselt

Workshop Rethinking European Modernity in a Global Context: A Conversation with Hans Schelkshorn Fri 26-09-2025 & Sat 27-09-2025 Meeting Room at the Deanery of the Faculty of Catholic Theology (Dekanatssitzungssaal KTF) University of Vienna, and online ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PD Dr. Gerald Posselt Department of Philosophy |University of Vienna Universitätsstr. 7 | 1010 Vienna +43-1-4277-46452 gerald.posselt(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:gerald.posselt@univie.ac.at> Language and Violence / Critical Theories Network<https://language.univie.ac.at/> Recent publications: "Politik und Aphasie: Zur Polarität von Metapher und Metonymie", in: Zeitschrift für Praktische Philosophie 12 (1), 2025, 369-398. https://doi.org/10.22613/zfpp/12.1.16 "Aporias of Truth and Politics: Arendt, Foucault, and the Practice of Truth-Telling." Genealogy+Critique 11 (1), 2025, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.16995/gc.17038

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AI in Academia Workshop - Efficiency, Transparency and Responsibility - 13-15 Oct.

by Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy

Dear all, The Vienna Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies is inviting PhD students and Postdocs to register to the following workshop: AI in Academia Workshop - Efficiency, Transparency and Responsibility You can find a full description of the workshop and register at: https://urise.univie.ac.at/mod/booking/optionview.php?optionid=1363&cmid=28… Best wishes, Raphael Aybar

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CFA: Central European Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy - UniWien. Deadline: 30.09.2025

by Raphael Gustavo Aybar Valdivia

Dear All, We are happy to share that we are inviting submissions for the 5th Central European Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy! 🗓️ 8–10 October 2026 | Universität Wien 📌 Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2025 Keynotes: ✨ Prof. Katerina Ierodiakonou (University of Geneva; NKUA) ✨ Dr. Robert Roreitner (Charles University, Prague) PhD candidates & early-career researchers working on Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy or its reception in the Arabic tradition are warmly invited to apply. 📩 Please send 500–1000 word abstracts (PDF, anonymous) to cegcap5vienna(a)gmail.com. We look forward to your submissions! Best Regards, Bishakha Dutta, Nikolina Kamzola, and Máté Héthelyi

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Symposium "Wisdom and Contemplation", Kyoto University, 2-3 September 2025.

by Solmeng Hirschi

*** Apologies for cross-posting*** ***German below*** Dear all, Please find below and attached the programme for the upcoming symposium we are organising, which is taking place next week on the 2nd and 3rd of September 2025 at the Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters, Basement Conference Room (Yoshidahonmachi, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, 606-8317, Japan). Do join if you can! To register, please send an email to smart-we.office(a)bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Please note that this is an in-person only event. Wisdom and Contemplation: A Comparative Approach to Perception and Knowledge-Production in Ancient Conceptions of Sagehood _Across ancient traditions, "contemplation" and "wisdom" emerge as central and somehow connected ideals. In Greek philosophy, the contemplative life was often presented as the highest form of existence, though the exact meaning of contemplation (theōria) remained ambiguous-- ranging from active observation to passive understanding, from the pursuit of knowledge to the assimilation of self with the cosmos. Similar debates surface in Mediterranean wisdom as well as Buddhist and Confucian sources and indeed whenever 'philosophy' is understood to have practical consequences for its practitioners. _ _The symposium sets out to investigate several traditions comparatively, focusing on three dimensions: the semantics of terms used to describe the philosopher-sage, the epistemological role of contemplation as a bridge between perception and inference, and the ethical and social implications of wisdom as a guide for life. By bringing together scholars of diverse fields, we aim to illuminate how ancient cultures conceived of contemplation as a way of coping with uncertainty, fostering virtue, and cultivating flourishing._ Programme (all time are JST) 02.09.2025 09:30 Opening Remarks || Yasuo Deguchi 09:35 _Epicurus on Theôria_ || Solmeng-Jonas Hirschi 10:40 _How Wisdom Makes Us Free: Stoic and Platonic Perspectives_ || Tomohiko Kondo _Lunch Break_ 13:00 _Eyes that See, Eyes that Make Visible: Sages, Pseudo-sages and Human Agency in the Xici 繫辭 and the Zhuangzi 莊子_ || Flaminia Pischedda 14:10 _The Three Kinds of Wisdom Inherited in the Vedas, the Ancient Religious Texts of India_ || Kyoko Amano 15:30 _Aristotle on Why a Life of Contemplation is a Happy Life_ || George Karamanolis 16:40 _We-turn and Aristotle_ || Yasuo Deguchi _Symposium Dinner_ 03.09.2025 09:30 _How Easily Can One Attain Ultimate Happiness? Monk Scholars of Pure Land Buddhism, Who Sought to Break Away from the Orthodox Framework of Wisdom and Contemplation_ || Seiji Kumagai 10:40 _Wisdom and Mystical Knowledge in Iamblichus_ || Andreea-Maria Lemnaru Espuna 13:00 _Plato on Definition and Systematisation of Technē_ || Atsushi Hayase 14:00 Closing Remarks || George Karamanolis This conference is made possible and co-hosted by the University of Vienna (Prof. Karamanolis) and Kyoto University (Prof. Yasuo Deguchi) thanks to a Strategic Partnership Grant between the two universities. Solmeng-Jonas Hirschi & George Karamanolis *** Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, anbei sowie untenstehend finden Sie das Programm für das kommende Symposium, das nächste Woche am 2. und 3. September 2025 an der Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters, Basement Conference Room (Yoshidahonmachi, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, 606-8317, Japan) stattfinden wird. Wir freuen uns über Ihre Teilnahme! Zur Anmeldung senden Sie bitte eine E-Mail an smart-we.office(a)bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Bitte beachten Sie, dass es sich ausschließlich um eine Präsenzveranstaltung handelt. Wisdom and Contemplation: A Comparative Approach to Perception and Knowledge-Production in Ancient Conceptions of Sagehood _In den antiken Traditionen treten „Kontemplation/Anschauung" und „Weisheit" als zentrale und in gewisser Weise verbundene Ideale hervor. In der griechischen Philosophie wurde das kontemplative Leben oft als die höchste Daseinsform dargestellt, wenngleich die genaue Bedeutung von theōria mehrdeutig blieb - sie reicht von aktiver Beobachtung bis zu passivem Verstehen, von der Wissenssuche bis zur Assimilation des Selbst an den Kosmos. Ähnliche Debatten finden sich in der mediterranen Weisheitstradition ebenso wie in buddhistischen und konfuzianischen Quellen - und überhaupt anscheinend häufig dann, wenn „Philosophie" als eine Praxis verstanden wird, die konkrete Konsequenzen für ihre Ausübenden hat._ _Das Symposium widmet sich einem vergleichenden Zugang zu mehreren Traditionen mit Schwerpunkt auf drei Dimensionen: den Semantiken der Begriffe, mit denen der Philosophen-Weise beschrieben wird; der epistemologischen Rolle der Kontemplation als Brücke zwischen Wahrnehmung und Schlussfolgerung; sowie den ethischen und sozialen Implikationen der Weisheit als Lebensführung. Durch den Austausch zwischen Fachleuten aus unterschiedlichen Bereichen wollen wir erhellen, wie antike Kulturen Kontemplation als Mittel zum Umgang mit Unsicherheit, zur Förderung der Tugend und zur Entfaltung von Lebensglück verstanden haben._ PROGRAMM (ALLE ZEITEN JST) 02.09.2025 09:30 Opening Remarks || Yasuo Deguchi 09:35 _Epicurus on Theôria_ || Solmeng-Jonas Hirschi 10:40 _How Wisdom Makes Us Free: Stoic and Platonic Perspectives_ || Tomohiko Kondo _Mittagessen_ 13:00 _Eyes that See, Eyes that Make Visible: Sages, Pseudo-sages and Human Agency in the Xici 繫辭 and the Zhuangzi 莊子_ || Flaminia Pischedda 14:10 _The Three Kinds of Wisdom Inherited in the Vedas, the Ancient Religious Texts of India_ || Kyoko Amano 15:30 _Aristotle on Why a Life of Contemplation is a Happy Life_ || George Karamanolis 16:40 _We-turn and Aristotle_ || Yasuo Deguchi _Abendessen_ 03.09.2025 09:30 _How Easily Can One Attain Ultimate Happiness? Monk Scholars of Pure Land Buddhism, Who Sought to Break Away from the Orthodox Framework of Wisdom and Contemplation_ || Seiji Kumagai 10:40 _Wisdom and Mystical Knowledge in Iamblichus_ || Andreea-Maria Lemnaru Espuna 13:00 _Plato on Definition and Systematisation of Technê_ || Atsushi Hayase 14:00 Closing Remarks || George Karamanolis Diese Tagung wird durch die Universität Wien (Prof. Karamanolis) und die Kyoto University (Prof. Yasuo Deguchi) im Rahmen eines Strategic Partnership Grant zwischen den beiden Universitäten ermöglicht und gemeinsam ausgerichtet. Solmeng-Jonas Hirschi & George Karamanolis -- Solmeng-Jonas Hirschi, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher in Ancient Philosophy and Classics FWF-Projekt: "_Magna Moralia: Critical Edition, Translation and Commentary_" Department of Philosophy, Universitätsstraße 7 (NIG), 1010 Wien solmeng.hirschi(a)univie.ac.at https://antikephilosophie.univie.ac.at/forschungsprojekte/

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Ausschreibung: Universitätsassistent*in Postdoc, im Forschungsbereich Antike Philosophie (4367) -I- Job advertisement: University Assistant postdoctoral, in the research area of Ancient Philosophy (4367)

by Philosophie

Guten Tag! wir möchten Sie über folgende aktuelle Jobausschreibung am Institut für Philosophie der Universität Wien informieren: Universitätsassistent*in Postdoc, im Forschungsbereich Antike Philosophie (4367) Link zur Ausschreibung: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/4367/ Wir laden alle Interessierten herzlich dazu ein, sich für diese Position zu bewerben. Bitte leiten Sie diese Information auch an potenziell interessierte Personen in Ihrem Umfeld weiter. Vielen Dank im Voraus für Ihre Unterstützung! Mit freundlichen Grüßen Katherina Krobath -- Dear Sir or Madam, We would like to inform you about the following current job opening at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna: University Assistant postdoctoral, in the research area of Ancient Philosophy (4367) Link to the job posting: <https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/4367/> https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/4367/ We warmly invite all interested individuals to apply for this position. We would also greatly appreciate it if you could share this information with potentially interested individuals in your network. Thank you in advance for your support! Kind regards, Katherina Krobath ---- Institutskoordination Dipl.-Ing. Katherina Geneviève Krobath, BEd Andreas Wintersperger, MA <mailto:philosophie@univie.ac.at> philosophie(a)univie.ac.at +43(1)4277 46401 Institut für Philosophie Universitätsstraße 7, Raum A316 1010 Wien <https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/> https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/

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Invitation: Workshop “From Disappointment to Bitterness and Back” (27–29 August 2025, University of Vienna)

by Leah Ritterfeld

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce our upcoming workshop “From Disappointment to Bitterness and Back”, which will take place from 27–29 August 2025 at the University of Vienna. The workshop will bring together scholars exploring disappointment and bitterness in moral and social philosophy. We are delighted to welcome the following keynote speakers: Prof. Michael Brady (University of Glasgow) Prof. Íngrid Vendrell-Ferran (Philipps Universität Marburg) Assoc. Prof. Thomas Brudholm (University of Copenhagen) More information can be found at: https://philevents.org/event/show/130614 https://philevents.org/event/show/130618 For the full schedule, please see attached document. If you would like to join, please register as soon as possible by sending an email to leah.ritterfeld(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:leah.ritterfeld@univie.ac.at>. We warmly invite you to participate and look forward to engaging discussions. Kind regards, Prof. Hans Bernhard Schmid, Dr. Niels de Haan, and Leah Ritterfeld

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Ausschreibung: Universitätsassistent*in Praedoc, im Forschungsbereich Wissenschaftsphilosophie (4375) -I- Job advertisement: University assistant predoctoral, in the research area of Philosophy of Science (4375)

by Philosophie

Guten Tag! wir möchten Sie über folgende aktuelle Jobausschreibung am Institut für Philosophie der Universität Wien informieren: Universitätsassistent*in Praedoc, im Forschungsbereich Wissenschaftsphilosophie (4375) Link zur Ausschreibung: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/4375/ Wir laden alle Interessierten herzlich dazu ein, sich für diese Position zu bewerben. Bitte leiten Sie diese Information auch an potenziell interessierte Personen in Ihrem Umfeld weiter. Vielen Dank im Voraus für Ihre Unterstützung! Mit freundlichen Grüßen Katherina Krobath -- Dear Sir or Madam, We would like to inform you about the following current job opening at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna: University Assistant Praedoc, University assistant predoctoral, in the research area of Philosophy of Science (4375) Link to the job posting: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/4375/ We warmly invite all interested individuals to apply for this position. We would also greatly appreciate it if you could share this information with potentially interested individuals in your network. Thank you in advance for your support! Kind regards, Katherina Krobath ---- Institutskoordination Dipl.-Ing. Katherina Geneviève Krobath, BEd Andreas Wintersperger, MA <mailto:philosophie@univie.ac.at> philosophie(a)univie.ac.at +43(1)4277 46401 Institut für Philosophie Universitätsstraße 7, Raum A316 1010 Wien <https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/> https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/

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Invitation - Talk by Kelli Barr on August 19th - "The Material Theory of Values in Science"

by Veronika Lassl

Dear all, the WFAP warmly invites you to join a talk to be held by Kelli R. Barr (PhD) from the University of California, Davis, in two weeks. The title of the talk is "The Material Theory of Values in Science". When? Tuesday, 19.08.2025, 4:45pm - 6:15pm Where? Room 3C, NIG Universitätsstaße 7, 1010 Wien Please send an e-mail to veronika.lassl(a)univie.ac.at for the Zoom link, should you wish to listen in online. Abstract How are we to understand situations where science fails on its own terms? For example, Scientists have blamed perverse incentives for systematic epistemic failures like non-replicability and publication bias, but the exact relationship remains an open question. Let's assume they are right to blame the (social) system. This paper presents a novel framework for understanding how features of the social organization of science are implicated in collective epistemic failures: the material theory of values in science (MTV). This project is inspired by and follows in the tradition of feminist philosophers of science who have called attention to the need for explanations of systemic, specifically antifeminist, biases in science and for embodied models of scientists as epistemic agents. In the first part, I discuss the replication crisis as involving a particular type of collective action problem: a no-win standoff. The next part introduces the MTV and the explanation it supplies for this phenomenon. In the third section, the MTV is compared to several alternative explanatory strategies, including from the contemporary literature values in science and social epistemology, specifically agent-based computational models. I argue for why my approach is preferable and describe an important revision it entails for the general Mertonian sociological picture invoked in discussions of incentives in science. Kind regards, Veronika Lassl Chairperson - Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy wfap.philo.at

8 months, 1 week

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History of Economic Thought and Methodology: A Joint Workshop at the University of Vienna (05.09.2025)

by Dahyun Lee

This pluralistic joint seminar is organized by the University of Vienna, Johannes Kepler University Linz, and Doshisha University (Kyoto, Japan). It aims to foster meaningful intellectual exchange among scholars, master's, and PhD students across national and disciplinary borders. By bringing together students and scholars from the Philosophy and Economics program in Vienna and the Faculty of Economics at Doshisha, the seminar provides a platform for critical engagement with a plurality of methodologies in the history of political economy. By exploring differences in economic and philosophical ideas, the seminar encourages dialogue that bridges different academic traditions and perspectives. This joint seminar particularly investigates pluralism in the history of economic thought, economic methodology, and philosophy of science. Guests are welcome. Date: Friday 05.09.2025 Time: 09:00 – 18:10 Place: University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 2nd floor, Seminarraum 13 (in person) Organisers: Dahyun Lee, Alexander Linsbichler, Karl Milford Keynote Speakers: Takato Kasai (Doshisha University, Kyoto), Julian Reiss (Johannes Kepler University Linz) Further Speakers: Lara Brühl, Vinzenz Fischer, Jakob Gschwandtner, Dahyun Lee, Alexander Linsbichler, Taiki Nakao, Pauline Paulik, Shintaro Wada https://homepage.univie.ac.at/alexander.linsbichler/ Kind regards, Dahyun Lee MA Philosophy and Economics, University of Vienna

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