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
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
*** 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/
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/
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/130614https://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

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/
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
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
Liebe Alle,
Frantz Fanon wäre im Juli 100 Jahre alt geworden. Dies haben wir (der
Forschungskreis Phänomenologie) zum Anlass für einen Lektüre-Workshop
genommen, am *Montag, 21.07., 16:45 im HS 3D* des NIG. Wir besprechen zwei
Aufsätze mit sprechenden Titeln aus der
Textsammlung "Für eine afrikanische Revolution": nämlich "Rassimus und
Kultur" (16 Seiten) und "Die Haltung der französischen Intellektuellen
und Demokraten zur algerischen Revolution" (19 Seiten).
HIER <https://phaenomenologie.univie.ac.at/forschung/lw-fanon/> geht es zu
den Texten, oder gerne auch einfach eine kurze Mail an
georg.harfensteller(a)univie.ac.at
Wir freuen uns auf einen regen Austausch in der Sommerpause.
Alles Liebe,
Michael Zangerl und Georg Harfensteller
Dear all,
our next speaker in the Philosophy of Science Colloquium organized by
the Institute Vienna Circle is Luana Poliseli (IVC Fellow), who will
give a talk on July 3, 4.45-6.15 pm.
All are welcome!
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Philosophy of Science Colloquium TALK: Luana Poliseli (IVC Fellow)
THE LEFT VIENNA CIRCLE, DEMOCRATIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE EPISTEMIC
FUNCTIONS OF AESTHETICS
Philosophy of Science Colloquium
The Institute Vienna Circle holds a Philosophy of Science Colloquium
with talks by our present fellows.
Date: 03/07/2025
Time: 16h45
Venue: New Institute Building (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, HS
3A
Abstract:
Aesthetics is traditionally associated with the appreciation of beauty.
In science, beauty is traditionally and largely related to the success
of a theory or an experiment (McAllister 1996). However, recent debates
on the aesthetics of science have indicated that the scientists'
aesthetics arsenal is far more diverse and epistemically advantageous
than traditionally conceived (see Ivanova & French 2020; Ivanova &
Murphy 2023). I undertake these debates to argue against the traditional
oversimplification as it does not represent the complexity of aesthetic
values and experiences used in contemporary science to explain and
understand the world. By expanding the philosophical account of
aesthetics in science, this project challenges reductive views of
science as purely logical or objective. I second the Left Vienna Circle
on the ambiguities and lack of homogeneity in knowledge, and the
recognition of the limited resources of human cognitive capacities.
Acknowledging the plurality and vagueness of our cognitive endeavours
make us conscious of the limitations, gaps and ambiguities existent in
scientific practices. As such, I will emphasize that scientific
knowledge is not only shaped by empirical and theoretical considerations
but also by the sensuous, affective, and interpretive dimensions of
aesthetic experiences. Ultimately, by unboxing unorthodox methods
underlying scientific decisions, I reposition aesthetics as central to
reflections of scientific practice and knowledge production, enabling
philosophers to reconceptualize the epistemic functions of aesthetics as
a means of enriching scientific resources. If science, as a social and
cultural phenomenon, seeks to make sense of a world that is chaotic,
political, diffuse, emotional, ephemeral and transient, then it must
begin to embrace and engage with non-traditional methods and values that
reflect this diversity. By doing so, it can foster the creation of
spaces for development and dissemination that are more democratic and
inclusive.