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Trans*Formations: Upcoming Workshop and Talk with Prof. Emma Heaney (NYU)

by Flora Löffelmann

Dear all, I am excited to invite you to the next installments of the Trans*Formations series at the Department of Philosophy! This series of talks and workshops, supported by the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy, provides insights into recent developments in trans theorizing. This time, we will be joined by Prof. Emma Heaney, who is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Faculty Advisor for Experimental Writing at New York University (US). She will give both a workshop (25 participants, booking required) and a public talk that everyone is welcome to! Please find all the info below and in the flyers attached to this mail, and disseminate to all who might be interested! Trans*Formations Workshop: On the Cisness of the Bourgeoisie: A Workshop with Professor Emma Heaney 25.6.2025, 18:00 - 19:30, HS 3A (NIG, 3rd Floor) This workshop will consider recently published and forthcoming work by American scholar of Trans Studies and Comparative Literature: Emma Heaney. Participants will read the introduction to Heaney's recently published edited collection,_ Feminism Against Cisness_ [1], an interview [2] with feminist theorist Sophie Lewis (_Full Surrogacy Now_, _Abolish the Family_, _Enemy Feminisms_), and a forthcoming interview that addresses questions of historical and linguistic translation in decentering Anglophone texts (and histories of Western Europe and the United States) in queer and trans theory. The historical focus on this workshop is tracing the itinerary of transness and cisness in medicalization of sex and sexuality from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. Theoretical questions focus on the definition of sex, the status of the feminine in regard to sex distinctions in the foliations of the twentieth century, and the imposition of cisness as an ideology that obfuscates the understanding of sex on both the experiential and the political level. To join the workshop, please sign up via e-mail to flora.loeffelmann(a)univie.ac.at. You will then be sent the workshop material! Participants are expected to read the material before the workshop so a productive discussion can be ensured. Thanks to the support of queer@hochschulen [3], there is a also a limited number of travel stipends available for university students from other Austrian universities. Please indicate in your sign-up mail if you would like to apply for one! The workshop will be in English with ÖGS translation. Trans*Formations Talk: Provincializing Cisness 26.6.2025, 19:30 - 21:00, HS 3A (NIG, 3rd Floor) Most examinations of sex and gender in the academy take bourgeois national histories of North America and Western Europe as their frame of reference. In the histories of Germany, the UK, France, and the United States, doctors and state bureaucracies incorporated sexual and gendered social practices into a taxonomy of identities (or even species, as Foucault puts it,) beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. However, in many sex-gender systems, including those of the proletarian neighborhoods of these nations' metropoles, the assumptions that formed expert orderings did not apply. This lecture surveys the non-cis vernacular categories that ordered these sex-gender systems. The relation between race/class and cisness means that there is no absolute geography to this story. Drawing on source material from Indigenous Americas to the South Asian subcontinent and from the working-class neighborhoods of Kansas City to the courts of Nigerian nobility, the talk will be attuned to a range of sex-gender systems that do not accord with the categories produced by the Euro- American bourgeois in order to, as the title suggests, reveal the provincial status of cisness. The talk will be in English with ÖGS translation. I want to thank the VDP [4], the Culture & Equality Unit [5] of the University of Vienna, queer@hochschulen [3], and ACCESTECH / TU Wien [6] for their financial support. Bio: Emma Heaney is a scholar and teacher of feminist theory, comparative literature, and trans studies. Her first book, _The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory _(Northwestern 2017) is a study of the prominence of the medicalized figure of trans femininity in works of twentieth-century literature and philosophy. Her edited collection _Feminism Against Cisness _(Duke 2024) gathers essays that demonstrate the nature and potential of feminist thought unobscured by the counterrevolutionary mystification of assigned sex. _This Watery Place: Four Essays on Gestation --- _a political and phenomenological report from the gestational sensorium against cisness, capital, and genocide --- is forthcoming from Pluto Press in November 2025. Her current book project is a sequel edited collection that draws on the work of scholars from many disciplines and areas of geographical and historical focus to reveal the provincial nature of the ideology of cisness. Forthcoming essays theorize the emergence of the trans-gay distinction in the twentieth century via literary representations. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the XE program at New York University, where she serves as faculty advisor for the Advanced Certificate in Experimental Writing. With all the best wishes and hoping to see many of you at the events, Flora Löffelmann, MA MA Pronouns: they/them (for more info see: https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why/) Happy about a gender neutral "hello"! Department of Philosophy at University of Vienna Links: ------ [1] https://www.dukeupress.edu/feminism-against-cisness [2] https://pinko.online/web/on-the-cisness-of-the-bourgeoisie [3] https://queer-at-hochschulen.org/ [4] https://vd-philosophy.univie.ac.at/ [5] https://personalwesen.univie.ac.at/en/culture-equality/ [6] https://www.experiencing-access.eu/de/news/

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Bonitz Lecture 2025

by Philosophie

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, am Donnerstag den 15.5.2025 um 17.00 Uhr findet die Bonitz Lecture dieses Jahres im HS21 des Hauptgebäudes der Universität Wien. Vortragender ist Professor Lindsay Judson (Oxford). Im Anhang finden Sie das Plakat und das Handout seines Vortrags. Am Freitag den 16.5.2025 um 10.00 haltet Prof. Judson ein Seminar zu Platons Euthyphron an der Bibliothek des Instituts für Klassische Philologie. Alle sind herzlich willkommen! Dear colleagues, this is to remind you of the Bonitz Lecture that will take place on Thursday the 15.5.2025 at 17.00 o'clock in Room 21 of the University's main building. The speaker this year is Professor Lindsay Judson (Oxford). I attach the poster and the handout of the event. On Friday the 16.5.2025 at 10.00 Professor Judson will hold a seminar on Plato's Euthyphro in the library of the Department of Classics in the University's main building. You are all very welcome! George Karamanolis ____ -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. George Karamanolis Institut für Philosophie Vizedekan für Lehre, Fakultät für Philosophie und Bildungswissenschaft Zimmer: D0308 1010 Wien, Universitätsstraße 7 (NIG) T: +43-1-4277-46476 eFax: +43-1-4277-846476 https://antikephilosophie.univie.ac.at

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Wittgen=Steine Talk, Friday, 3pm: Charles Travis

by Martin Kusch

Dear All, The "Wittgen=Steine" group organizes a talk this week Friday: May 16th, 2025, 15.00-16.30h, HS 3D Charles Travis (U of Porto): "After the Fall (Russell's Puzzle)" Abstract: In 1929, the _Tractatus_ collapsed before Wittgenstein's eyes. By December 1931 he had come to see it as dogmatic, and worse yet, shot through with the idea that there was an (uncompleted) research agenda in full swing, and it was only a matter of time until details were filled in. By 1931 he had ceased to believe any of this. As I now read the _Investigations_, the first 79 paragraphs are devoted to diagnosing what went so thoroughly wrong with the _Tractatus_, and outlining, not what a fix for _it_ would be, but how the problems raised should in fact be handled. Russell, especially of 1918, is a convenient foil for Wittgenstein in carrying out these aims. First, Russell placed a _very_ strong demand on truly singular thought. (Though not such an unnatural one considering the history of philosophy, or philosophical logic, from 1893 on). Second, to satisfy this demand (not unreasonably given what the demand was), Russell relied on a very minimalist conception of an item susceptible to being the object of a singular thought. It paralleled, in obvious ways, the demand on being an object of _sensory_ awareness placed by familiar sense-datum theory. And in both cases the demand was strong enough to condemn the would-be solution to a problem to failure. In that beginning section of the _Investigations_, there are three prominent ideas. One is that of a language game, another, related, of family resemblance (a rope of many strands with no one running all the way through), and a certain conception of the world-involvingness of representing centring on something like a notion of _supposition_ (and, incidentally, spelled out both by Leibniz and by Putnam, the latter in terms of the idea he called _cluster concept_. On reflection it is not surprising that things would take this turn for Wittgenstein. But in the present talk I will try to make the key ingredients more transparent. (I expect in advance that my success, if any, will certainly be far less than total.) All welcome! Best wishes from the organizers, Esther Ramharter Anja Weiberg Martin Kusch --------------------------------------- Prof. Martin Kusch Univ. of Vienna, Dpt. of Philosophy https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/institut/

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[Logik Café]: Emils Zavelis (Universität Wien): "Metalogical pluralism", Monday, 12.05.2025, 16:30-18:00

by Georg Schiemer

Dear all, This is a reminder for today's talk in the Logik Café colloquium: Monday, 12.05.2025, 16:30-18:00, Emils Zavelis (Universität Wien) <https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/person.html?id=1014435>: "Metalogical pluralism" Raum 3B (B0315), 3. Stock am Institut für Philosophie <https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_philosophie/Orient…> The meeting will be held form 16:30-18:00 in seminar room (3B (B0315) <https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_philosophie/Orient…>; 3rd floor) at the Department of Philosophy, Universitätsstrasse 7. Best wishes, Esther Heinrich Georg Schiemer

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CFR: Workshop "From Permanence to Open-endedness”, University of Vienna, May 19-20, 2025

by Georg Schiemer

Workshop “From Permanence to Open-endedness” Place: May 19-20, 2025, Department of Philosophy, Lecture Room 3A (Room D0312, 3rd floor) Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna Organized by: Richard Lawrence (FWF Project: "Frege Among the Formalists"), Iulian D. Toader ( <>FWF Project: "The Principle of Permanence of Forms"), and Georg Schiemer (ERC Consolidator Grant, FORMALISM, 101044114, “The Formal Turn - The Emergence of Formalism in Twentieth-Century Thought”) Day 1 Monday | May 19, 2025 Chair: Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna) 10:00 (s.t.) – 10:15 Opening 10:15 – 11:15 Gabriel Sandu (University of Helsinki) “Natural logic and the completeness ideal” 11:15 – 11:30 Tea/Coffee 11:30 – 12:30 Jennifer Whyte (Duke University, IVC Fellow) “Formal and Practical in William Kingdon Clifford” 12:30 – 14:30 Lunch Chair: Richard Lawrence (University of Vienna) 14:30 – 15:30 Iulian Toader (University of Vienna) “Conservatism and the unprovability of outer consistency” 15:30 – 15:45 Tea/Coffee 15:45 – 16:45 Brett Topey (University of Salzburg) “If the omega rule is a solution, what was the problem?” 16:45 – 17:00 Tea/Coffee Logik Café talk in room 3B, NIG 17:00 – 18:00 Constantin Brincus (University of Bucharest, IVC Fellow) “Categoricity by Inferential Conservativity” 19:00 Conference Dinner Day 2 Tuesday | May 20, 2025 Chair: Iulian D. Toader (University of Vienna) 9:30 – 10:30 Danielle Macbeth (Haverford College) “Thinking about Numbers: From Objects to Inquiry” 10:30 – 10:45 Tea/Coffee 10:45 – 11:45 Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna) “How to eliminate ideal elements” 11:45 – 12:00 Tea/Coffee 12:00 – 13:00 Richard Lawrence (University of Vienna) “Domain extension: Hankel and the power of formal mathematics” Registration: Participation is free and open to everyone. Please register by sending an email to: florian.kolowrat(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:florian.kolowrat@univie.ac.at> For further information visit: https://formalism.phl.univie.ac.at/

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VAS public lecture invitation

by camenzind

Dear all The Vienna Animal Studies Group (VAS) is delighted to announce the upcoming talk Genetic Pain Surgery with Molecular Scissors? Animal Disenhancement in the Context of Genome Editing from Dr Samuel Camenzind Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 – 19:00, NIG, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, Austria (room 2H) Dr Samuel Camenzind’s lecture will address the current state of research on the breeding of pain-free animals. It will explore biotechnological, philosophical, and ethical issues that have not received sufficient attention in the current debate on GPD. Please register here: https://www.viennaanimalstudies.com/event-list <https://www.viennaanimalstudies.com/event-list> Looking forward to seeing you at the talk! Best, Samuel Upcoming VAS talks: 11 June 2025, Dr Carlo Salzani From Zoopticon to Democratic Spectacle: Foucault Goes to the (Schönbrunn) Zoo” by (Neues Institutsgebäude, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, 17:00-19:00) Homepage: https://www.viennaanimalstudies.com/ <https://www.viennaanimalstudies.com/> Lecture series: https://www.viennaanimalstudies.com/event-list <https://www.viennaanimalstudies.com/event-list> Samuel Camenzind, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher APART-GSK Fellow (ÖAW) Department of Philosophy University of Vienna Sensengasse 8, 1090 Vienna www.samuelcamenzind.com -------------------------------------- Recently published: Camenzind, S.: Xenotransplantation in the Age of Genome Editing: Results From the Expert Report for the Federal Ethics Committee on Nonhuman Biotechnology With a Special Focus on Animal Ethics. In: Xenotransplantation vol 31, nr. 6, 2024. Open access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/13993089

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Talk by Quassim Cassam on May 21st - "How To Be A Political Epistemologist"

by Veronika Lassl

Dear all, the Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy warmly invites you to join a talk to be held by Quassim Cassam from the University of Warwick in two weeks. The title of the talk is "How To Be A Political Epistemologist". When? Wednesday, 21.05.2025, 01:00 - 2:30 pm Where? Lecture room 3A, NIG Universitätsstaße 7, 1010 Wien Abstract One of the fastest growing areas of philosophy today is political epistemology. In my lecture, I will discuss the extent to which its leading figures operate in an epistemic bubble or echo chamber. I will draw on Kusch's conception of a sociology of philosophical knowledge to investigate the background assumptions, concerns, ideologies, and master narratives of mainstream political epistemologists. I will propose a class-based analysis of political epistemology and explore the suggestion that this field's major preoccupations are essentially the preoccupations of what Musa Al-Gharbi calls 'symbolic capitalists'. I will conclude with a plea for a more diverse and self-critical approach to political epistemology. Quassim Cassam has kindly recommended the following texts as preparatory reading: * Kusch, M. (1995). Psychologism: The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203983898 [1] [read chapter 2] * al-Gharbi, M. (2024). We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite. Princeton University Press. [read introduction and chapter 1] The WFAP will discuss them as part of its discussion session at 06:30 pm on Friday, May 16th in lecture hall 2i, NIG. You can find the recommended reading attached to this e-mail. Anyone is welcome to join! Kind regards, Veronika Lassl Acting-Chair - Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy wfap.philo.at Links: ------ [1] https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203983898

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Demokratie denken aus intersektionaler Perspektive: Diagnose – Analyse - Utopien

by Carina Wurzinger

Liebe Kolleg*innen, im Anhang ist eine Einladung zur Tagung der SWIP AUSTRIA Society for Women in Philosophy für alle Interessierten. Liebe Grüße Carina Wurzinger

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Reminder: KIC Conference on Misinformation and Disinformation

by Keith Harris

Hi everyone, This is a quick reminder about our upcoming conference on Misinformation and Disinformation, organized by the Knowledge in Crisis cluster. The conference will take place at CEU on 19-20 May. We'll have talks from the following speakers: Sacha Altay: Rethinking the problem of misinformation and generative AI Verena Wagner: TBA Justin McBrayer: What’s so bad about fake news? Anne Meylan: If you ask yourself a question, seek the answer! Keith Harris: Misinformation, mistrust, and immersive fantasy Jessica Pepp: Not even wrong? LLMs, meaning, and misinformation Dan Williams: The Misinformation Dilemma: Balancing Objectivity and Explanation Quassim Cassam: The problem with ‘misinformation’ To register to attend either online or in person, please fill out (by May 15) the form here: https://forms.office.com/e/f9ukKr1Mh5. You can also find out more about the conference on the conference's PhilEvents page: https://philevents.org/event/show/135437 Best wishes, Keith

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Wiederherstellung Ihrer E-Mail-Adresse I Restoring your email address

by Philosophie

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, [See below for the English version] wir möchten Sie darüber informieren, dass es am 06.05.2025 in unserem System zu einem Vorfall gekommen ist, bei dem einige E-Mail-Adressen unbeabsichtigt ausgetragen wurden. Der Vorfall wurde inzwischen behoben, und wir konnten alle betroffenen E-Mail-Adressen, die sich nicht eigenständig erneut registriert haben, erfolgreich aus einer Sicherung wiederherstellen. Um sicherzustellen, dass alle relevanten Informationen bei Ihnen ankommen, werden wir im Anschluss an diese E-Mail die Nachrichten, die im betroffenen Zeitraum versendet wurden, erneut verschicken. Bitte beachten Sie, dass dies dazu führen kann, dass einige Personen diese Mitteilungen doppelt erhalten. Wir entschuldigen uns aufrichtig für die entstandenen Unannehmlichkeiten und danken Ihnen für Ihr Verständnis. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Katherina Krobath -- Dear Sir or Madam, We would like to inform you that on May 6, 2025, an incident occurred in our system in which some email addresses were unintentionally deleted. The incident has now been resolved, and we have successfully restored all affected email addresses that were not re-registered independently from a backup. To ensure that you receive all relevant information, we will resend the messages that were sent during the affected period following this email. Please note that this may result in some individuals receiving these messages twice. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding. 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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Einladung / Invitation: Faculty Public Presentation of Dissertation Projects (FöP) – 7. Mai / May 7, 2025

by vdsphilo20

Liebe alle, wir laden herzlich zur nächsten Fakultätsöffentlichen Präsentation von Dissertationskonzepten der Philosophie (FöP) ein. Am Mittwoch, den 7. Mai 2025, um 13:15 Uhr im Hörsaal 2G (NIG, 2. Stock) präsentieren drei Kandidat*innen ihre Dissertationsvorhaben. Im Anschluss an die Präsentationen laden wir zu einem Austausch bei Sekt und Sushi ein. Programm: 13:15 Uhr Peihong Xie, BA BA MA Conceptually Engineering Grounding Betreuung: Univ.-Prof. Max Kölbel, MA MPhil PhD Univ.-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Schnieder, M.A. 13:45 Uhr Noemi Call, BA MA Landschaft als gastlicher Raum des Imaginären bei Hans-Dieter Bahr: Erforschung einer künstlerischen Denkweise Betreuung: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Mag. Mag. Dr. Dr. Kurt Appel Assoz. Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Dr. Helmut Jakob Deibl, Privatdoz. 14:15 Uhr Dr. Sebastian Horvat On logic and its autonomy from the empirical Betreuung: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Georg Schiemer Wir freuen uns sehr auf Ihre Teilnahme! Mit herzlichen Grüßen Univ.-Prof. Dr. Arne Holger Moritz Studienprogrammleitung Doktoratsstudium Philosophie (SPL 43) *** Dear all, We cordially invite you to the upcoming Faculty Public Presentation of Dissertation Projects in Philosophy (FöP). On Wednesday, 7 May 2025, at 1:15 PM in Lecture Hall 2G (NIG, 2nd floor), three doctoral candidates will present their dissertation proposals. Following the presentations, we invite you to join us for discussion over sparkling wine and sushi. Programme: 1:15 PM Peihong Xie, BA BA MA Conceptually Engineering Grounding Supervisors: Univ.-Prof. Max Kölbel, MA MPhil PhD Univ.-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Schnieder, M.A. 1:45 PM Noemi Call, BA MA Landschaft als gastlicher Raum des Imaginären bei Hans-Dieter Bahr: Erforschung einer künstlerischen Denkweise Supervisors: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Mag. Mag. Dr. Dr. Kurt Appel Assoz. Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Dr. Helmut Jakob Deibl, Privatdoz. 2:15 PM Dr. Sebastian Horvat On logic and its autonomy from the empirical Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Mag. Dr. Georg Schiemer We are very much looking forward to your participation! With best wishes, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Arne Holger Moritz Directorate of the Doctoral Programme in Philosophy (SPL 43)

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IVC Talk: William Agay-Beajon (IVC Fellow) on "Tracing the Polysemy of “Enlightenment” within the Viennese Late Enlightenment, around the Vienna Circle", May 8, 4.45pm

by Zarah Weiss

Dear all, our next speaker in the Philosophy of Science Colloquium organized by the Institute Vienna Circle is William Agay-Beaujon (IVC Fellow), who will give a talk on May 8, 4.45-6.15 pm. All are welcome! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Philosophy of Science Colloquium TALK: William Agay-Beaujon (IVC Fellow) TRACING THE POLYSEMY OF “ENLIGHTENMENT” WITHIN THE VIENNESE LATE ENLIGHTENMENT, AROUND THE VIENNA CIRCLE Philosophy of Science Colloquium The Institute Vienna Circle holds a Philosophy of Science Colloquium with talks by our present fellows. Date: 08/05/2025 Time: 16h45 Venue: New Institute Building (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, HS 3A Abstract: Enlightenment features can be found in most groups associated with Late Enlightenment currents in the Viennese interwar period. Beyond each group's particularities, a few key meanings can be identified: "popularization" through knowledge, a singular structure of ideas behind a visual metaphor, a self-positioning tool, and a critical-emancipatory embodied scientific attitude. This talk will attempt to sketch these intertwined meanings, and then seek to understand their links with historical Enlightenment figures such as Voltaire and Rousseau. To do so, I will focus on the journals of the monists and freethinkers, writings of Josef Popper-Lynkeus, and the book series "Der Aufstieg" from Anzengruber-Verlag (Suschitzky brothers).

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Einladung zum Workshop „Erreichbarer Frieden“ – 13. Juni 2025

by Carina Wurzinger

*Erreichbarer Frieden – Eine interdisziplinäre Annäherung* Friedenskonzeptionen unterscheiden sich in der Art und Weise, wie sie Frieden begreifen: Philosophische Ansätze diskutieren einerseits ideale Vorstellungen von Frieden, andererseits konkrete Handlungsnormen, wie etwa in der Tradition des gerechten Krieges. In der Soziologie wird erreichbarer Frieden als ein messbarer Zustand der Konfliktbewältigung verstanden. Politisch könnten wir ihn als Ausgestaltung von Machtverhältnissen oder die verhandlungsgeleitete, praktische Umsetzbarkeit eines Nicht-Kriegszustands verstehen. Der Workshop zielt darauf ab, diese Perspektiven miteinander ins Gespräch zu bringen. Im Zeitalter der Wiederaufrüstung Europas stellen sich moralische, politische und institutionelle Fragen nach der Erreichbarkeit von Frieden: Was macht einen erreichbaren Frieden aus? Wie können wir ihn disziplinübergreifend begreifen? Macht ein erreichbarer Frieden den Diskurs über idealisierte Friedensvorstellungen obsolet? Wie lässt sich ein solcher Friedensbegriff in unser Denken darüber integrieren, was im Hier und Jetzt getan werden sollte? *Datum:*Freitag, 13. Juni 2025 *Zeit:* 9:00 – 17:00 Uhr (inkl. Mittagspause von 12:30 – 13:30 Uhr) *Ort:* Institut für Philosophie, Seminarraum 3A, Universitätsstraße 7, 3. Stock, 1010 Wien *Vortragende*: * Max Haller (Universität Graz) * Georg Kunovjanek (Theresianische Militärakademie) * Stephanie Fenkart (International Institute for Peace, IIP) * Angela Kallhoff (Universität Wien) * Lisa Tragbar (Universität Wien) * Andreas Oberprantacher (Universität Innsbruck) Der Workshop ist kostenlos, aber die Plätze vor Ort sind begrenzt. Ich bitte daher um eine formlose Anmeldung an lisa.tragbar(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:lisa.tragbar@univie.ac.at>. Eine Online-Teilnahme über Zoom ist möglich. Nach Anmeldung schicken wir Ihnen gern einen Link zu.

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[Logik Café]: Carolin Antos (Universität Konstanz): "(Anti)-Exceptionalism about Mathematics", Monday, 05.05.2025, 16:30-18:00

by Georg Schiemer

Dear all, This is a reminder for next week's talk in the Logik Café colloquium: Monday, 05.05.2025, 16:30-18:00, Carolin Antos (Universität Konstanz): <https://www.uni-konstanz.de/adilt/das-adilt-team/jun-prof-dr-carolin-antos-…> "(Anti)-Exceptionalism about Mathematics" Raum 3B (B0315), 3. Stock am Institut für Philosophie <https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_philosophie/Orient…> The meeting will be held form 16:30-18:00 in seminar room (3B (B0315) <https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_philosophie/Orient…>; 3rd floor) at the Department of Philosophy, Universitätsstrasse 7. Best wishes, Esther Heinrich Georg Schiemer

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Andreas Hüttemann on Emergence and Reduction 30.4., 11am, NIG 2G

by Rami Koskinen

Dear all, We cordially invite all of you to a talk by Prof. Dr. AndreasHüttemann (University of Cologne) on Emergence, Reduction and Non-Reductive Physicalism. The talk will take place tomorrow 30.4., 11:00 am, Room 2G, 2nd floor NIG. The talk is organized by the John Templeton project Pushing the Boundaries: Agency, Evolution and the Dynamic Emergence of Expanding Possibilities. Web: https://www.expandingpossibilities.org/ Abstract: The concept of emergence is often used to characterise macroscopic phenomena that depend (in some way) on microscopic phenomena while being at the same time (in some sense) autonomous. I will explore whether dependence and autonomy can be spelled out coherently. Prof. Dr. Andreas Hüttemann (University of Cologne) Chair for Early Modern to Contemporary Theoretical Philosophy Best wishes, Rami Koskinen -- Dr. Rami Koskinen Department of Philosophy University of Vienna -- Avast-virustorjuntaohjelmisto on tarkastanut tämän sähköpostin virusten varalta. www.avast.com

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Pragmatic Academic Series: Organizing Academic Events - 19 May 2025 - 09:45-11:15

by Raphael Gustavo Aybar Valdivia

Dear all, the Vienna Doctoral School together with the Vienna Doctoral School of Theology and Research on Religion, and the Research Center "Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society" are organizing a workshop on how to organize academic events, such as conferences, symposia, or workshops with a focus on the humanities. Here is a brief description of the event: Pragmatic Academic Series: Organizing Academic Events 19 May 2025 - 09:45-11:15 Dekanatssaal, Katholische Fakultät, Hauptgebäude, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien Join us for "Organizing Academic Events," a practical session on how to plan and run successful academic events. We’ll explore different event formats, steps for smooth organization, and share best practices and real-world experiences. Whether you're new to event planning or looking to sharpen your skills, this session will give you the tools and inspiration to organize successful events. In order to attend the event, we ask that you register via u:rise. You can log in with your uniwien user at https://urise.univie.ac.at/mod/booking/optionview.php?optionid=981&cmid=292… -- 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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"How Words Help Us Think" – Nancy Salay – 30.05

by Joshua Bergamin

Dear colleagues, I’m happy to invite you to this lecture by Associate Professor Nancy Salay (Queen’s University, Canada) on her new book How Words Help Us Think: An Externalist Account of Representational Intentionality (Bloomsbury, 2025). When: Friday 30 May 2025, 15:00-16:30 Where: Hörsaal 2I (NIG) All welcome. Registration is not necessary, but let me know if you’d like to join us for an apéritif at Café Eiles after the talk, so that I can book a table. Abstract There is general agreement that a capacity to act for reasons is a mark of intentionality. Views differ widely, however, on how ‘acting for reasons’ unpacks. According to the cognitivist tradition in which individuals are the central units of investigation, intentional agents make sense of their world via internal representations variously construed as neural, mental, or, on some reductive accounts, both. On these views, to act for a reason is to be responsive to some representation of the how the world is, was, or could be. How behaviour is guided by explicit use of representations—e.g., deliberation between whether to pick answer A or B on a multiple-choice exam—is taken to be continuous with the way that implicitly representational processes such as perception guide behavior. For 4E theorists, in contrast, intentional agents are not individuals so much as they are continually shifting agent-situation couplings to and from which responses develop, often reciprocally. Intentional agents learn to cope within their world as they move and act within it; their needs and wants develop in accordance with their capacity to skillfully “operate” within ongoing situation landscapes. To ‘act for a reason’ here is to be agentive and responsive in a codeveloping agent-situation. In the context of a comprehensive account of cognition, both views offer important insights. The representational approach brings attention to the cognitive power of explicitly deliberative activity but 4E views explain how operative intentionality grounds actions. In How Words Help Us Think, the book on which this talk is based, these insights are merged. Representations do have a powerful role to play in deliberative processes but not as internal structures that agents “recur” on; rather, they are external tools for spatiotemporally extending the ongoing situations in which intentional agents are always embedded. On this view, a deliberative capacity, what I will be calling “representational intentionality,” is a strongly scaffolded skill rather than a fundamental capacity: while neural activity plays a critical role here, the development of representational intentionality requires in addition a certain kind of environment—one in which there are language practices—and a particular skill with it. My task in this book is to give an account of how representational intentionality develops when the requisite endogenous and exogenous factors are present. In this talk, I will present the arc of the view along with some of the key arguments that support it. -- Dr Joshua Bergamin Co-PI (Musical) Improvisation & Ethics Department of Philosophy University of Vienna www.improv-ethics.net <http://www.improv-ethics.net/>

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Ausschreibung: Universitätsassistent*in Praedoc, im Forschungsbereich Praktische Philosophie (3923) -I- Job advertisement: University Assistant Praedoc, in the research area of Practical Philosophy (3923)

by Philosophie

Guten Tag! wir möchten Sie über folgende aktuelle Jobausschreibung am Institut für Philosophie der Universität Wien informieren: Universitätsassistent*in Praedoc, im Forschungsbereich Praktische Philosophie (3923) Link zur Ausschreibung: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/3923/ 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, in the research area of Practical Philosophy (3923) Link to the job posting: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/3923/ 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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Ausschreibung: Senior Lecturer für Wissenschafts- und Technikphilosophie (3941) -I- Job advertisement: Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and Technology (3941)

by Philosophie

Guten Tag! wir möchten Sie über folgende aktuelle Jobausschreibung am Institut für Philosophie der Universität Wien informieren: Senior Lecturer für Wissenschafts- und Technikphilosophie (3941) Link zur Ausschreibung: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/3941/ 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: Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and Technology (3941) Link to the job posting: <https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/3941/> https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/3941/ 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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Herzliche Einladung zur Buchpräsentation "Kafka als Patient : Stationen in Wien und Kierling" am 28.04.2025 um 18h an der FB Philosophie und Psychologie

by Sonja Fiala

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren! Herzliche Einladung zur Buchpräsentation "Kafka als Patient : Stationen in Wien und Kierling" am 28.04.2025 um 18.00 Uhr an der Fachbereichsbibliothek Philosophie und Psychologie https://bibliothek.univie.ac.at/events/008289.html https://bibliothek.univie.ac.at/fb-philosophie-psychologie/files/Einladung_… [cid:image001.png@01DBB373.0AAD1D90] Der heute weltbekannte Autor Franz Kafka litt bereits früh unter vegetativen Beschwerden und war seit 1917 schwer an Tuberkulose erkrankt. Sein Leidensweg als Patient zog sich über fast sieben Jahre. Dieses Buch zeichnet Kafkas Begegnungen mit den Ärzten und Ärztinnen in Wien nach, die seine letzten Lebenswochen begleiteten. Kafka war ein gesundheits- wie kostenbewusster Patient Franz Kafka unterzog sich im Laufe seines Lebens vielen ärztlichen Untersuchungen, wandte sich dabei aber immer mehr von der Schulmedizin ab. Er legte großen Wert auf eine naturnahe Lebensführung, bevorzugte vegetarische Speisen und bewegte sich viel im Grünen. Zudem kurte er häufig. Für die schwache gesundheitliche Konstitution haben Kafkas Biografen dessen Beziehungen und familiäre Krisen verantwortlich gemacht. Leistungsdruck, eine erfolglose Partnersuche oder materielle Erwartungen der Eltern hatten daran ihren Anteil. Als bei ihm 1917 Lungen-Tbc diagnostiziert wurde, setzte er weiterhin auf den bereits eingeschlagenen Weg, ohne die Krankheit selbst behandeln zu lassen. Erst am Rande der Auszehrung zog er einen Krankenhausaufenthalt in Wien in Betracht, was ihm zuvor immer als zu teuer erschienen war. Nach zehntägigem Aufenthalt in der laryngologisch-rhinologischen Universitätsklinik übersiedelte er in das Sanatorium Hoffmann in Kierling. Kafkas Ärzte in Wien am Ende seines Lebens Im Mittelpunkt dieses Buches stehen Kafkas Begegnungen mit den Ärzten in Wien, die seine letzten Lebenswochen begleiteten. Erstmals in Buchform wurden, soweit möglich, zu diesen Ärzten biografische Hintergrundinformationen ergänzt, zumal sich unter Kafkas Behandlern einige damals namhafte HNO-Ärzte und Internisten befanden. Ihre Lebensgeschichten, aber auch die Darstellung von Kafkas Behandlungen in seinen letzten Lebenswochen bieten einen interessanten Einblick in die Geschichte der Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie in Wien sowie in die Medizin zur Zeit der Ersten Republik, als größtenteils zugewanderte Mediziner aus den peripheren Gebieten der untergegangenen K-.u.-K.- Monarchie in Wien wirkten. (Verlagstext) Liebe Grüße Sonja Fiala OR Mag. Sonja Fiala Leiterin der Fachbereichsbibliothek Philosophie und Psychologie Fachreferentin für Philosophie Universität Wien Universitätsbibliothek Fachbereichsbibliothek Philosophie und Psychologie Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien T: +43-1-4277-15079 sonja.fiala(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:sonja.fiala@univie.ac.at> https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/person.html?id=15366 https://bibliothek.univie.ac.at/fb-philosophie-psychologie/ https://bibliothek.univie.ac.at/fb-philosophie-psychologie/fb_in_medien.html https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5492-8934 Vorsitzende der Arbeitsgruppe Informationsethik der Vereinigung österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare https://voeb-b.at/voeb-kommissionen/ag-informationsethik/ [cid:image002.png@01DBB373.0AAD1D90]

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