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APSE talk by Veli Mitova (University of Johannesburg) + reading group on Thursday, May 22, 2025

by Ella Valerie Berger

Dear all, we warmly invite you to the next APSE (Applied Philosophy of Science and Epistemology) Talk and Reading Circle. The talk will be held by Veli Mitova (University of Johannesburg). Talk: When: Thursday, 22.05.2025, 15:00 - 17:00 Where: HS 3A, NIG (Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien) Hermeneutical Reparations and the Right to be Known According to an increasingly influential view in social epistemology, we owe victims of gross human rights violations not only economic and social reparations, but also reparations for the distinctively epistemic wrongs that attend such violations (Lackey 2022). One type of epistemic reparation is honouring victims' 'right to be known' (_ibid._)--their right to have their true story known. This talk has two aims. First, I argue that the right to be known cannot be successfully exercised in hermeneutically unjust environments, i.e., environments in which the explanatory and epistemic resources of the oppressed do not feature in the mainstream knowledge economy (Dotson 2012, Fricker 2007). Thus, the successful exercise of the right to be known requires what I call hermeneutical reparations. The second aim of the talk is to sketch three distinct kinds of hermeneutical reparations. If the arguments work, we will have put into dialogue two bodies of scholarship that have, curiously, not yet talked to each other. The dialogue will not only be of mutual theoretical benefit to both, but will also up our chances of attaining epistemic justice. Speaker Bio Veli Mitova is Professor in Philosophy and Director of the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science [1] at the University of Johannesburg. She works at the intersection of epistemology, ethics, and social epistemology. She is the author of _Believable Evidence_ [2](CUP 2017), and the editor of _Epistemic Reparations and the Right to Be Known_ [3] (forthcoming SI of _Philosophical Studies_), _Epistemic Decolonisation_ [4](2020) and of _The Factive Turn in Epistemology_ [5] (CUP 2018). Before joining the University of Johannesburg in 2015, Veli taught and researched at Universität Wien, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, Rhodes University (her alma mater), and Cambridge (where she obtained her PhD). Reading Circle: When: Thursday, 22.05.2025, 13:00 - 15:00 Where: HS 3A, NIG (Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien) We will focus our discussion on a forthcoming article by Veli Mitova (attached pdf): Mitova, V. (2025). Decolonial Epistemic-Authority Reparations. _Episteme_. DOI: 10.1017/epi.2025.2 As introduction to Epistemic Reparations, Veli Mitova suggests the following article: Lackey J. (2022). 'Epistemic Reparations and the Right to Be Known.' _Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association_ 96, 54-89. As introduction to Hermeneutical Injustice: Fricker, M. (2007). Chapter 7: Hermeneutical Injustice. _Epistemic injustice: Power and the ethics of knowing_. New York: Oxford University Press. Introducing the concept of Contributory Injustice: Dotson, K. (2012). A cautionary tale: on limiting epistemic oppression. _Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies_ (1): 24-47. And the latest reading, distinguishing 3 kinds of Hermeneutical Injustice: Catala, A. (2025). Chapter 3: Deliberative Impasses, White Ignoring, and Hermeneutical Domination. _The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice: Situating Epistemic Power and Agency. _New York: Oxford University Press. All the Best, Ella Berger and Vinzenz Fischer Links: ------ [1] https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/humanities/departments-2/philosophy/philosop… [2] http://www.cambridge.org/9781107188600 [3] https://link.springer.com/collections/jhbeccifed [4] https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rppa20/49/2?nav=tocList [5] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/factive-turn-in-epistemology/A12342A58…

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WG: Invitation/Einladung | Mateusz Salwa: Landscape Aesthetics and Environmental Virtue Ethics | Di., 27.5., 9:45, UniWien

by philosophie＠univie.ac.at

Liebe Kolleg*innen, untenstehend für Sie zur Information. Mit besten Grüßen, ---- Institutskoordination Dipl.-Ing. Katherina Geneviève Krobath, BEd Andreas Wintersperger, MA philosophie(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:philosophie@univie.ac.at> +43(1)4277 46401 Institut für Philosophie Universitätsstraße 7, Raum A316 1010 Wien https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/ Das Institut für Philosophie, die Polnische Akademie der Wissenschaften und die Wiener Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Philosophie laden zum Gastvortrag Landscape Aesthetics and Environmental Virtue Ethics Mateusz Salwa Dienstag, 27. Mai 2025 9:45-11:15 Uhr Institut für Philosophie Hörsaal 3C Universitätsstraße 7 1010 Wien Abstract: Although landscape is defined differently in contemporary humanities, and often in a way that avoids association with aesthetic values, in philosophy, landscape is almost invariably associated with aesthetics. In all its complexity and diversity, the experience of landscape appears as an aesthetic experience. At the same time, attention has recently been drawn to the fact that landscape also has an ethical dimension – landscape ethics has begun to complement landscape aesthetics. Landscape ethics is often equated with the question of the right to landscape, which entails the obligation to relate to landscape in the right way. If one wants to preserve the aesthetic sense of landscape, one way to combine aesthetics and ethics is the recently proposed concept of environmental virtue aesthetics, a modification of environmental virtue ethics. The aim of my talk is to discuss the relationship between landscape aesthetics and landscape ethics, and to point out the glories and shadows of the virtue-oriented approach. Dr. habil. Mateusz Salwa is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw.

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Mini Workshop on AI and Computing TODAY, 17:00 - 19:15, NIG 3D

by Alexander Gschwendtner

Dear all, The Philosophy of Science Group at the Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to this mini workshop, taking place *today, 17:00 - 19:15 at NIG, Room 3D*. You can also join via Zoom: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/61325403480?pwd=csc5Ipp2tkz9MjwbvFioVELyphZW6u.1 *Mini workshop on AI and computing — 20.05.2025* Lecture Room 3D (Room D0316, 3rd floor) Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna Organized by: Univ.-Prof. Tarja Knuuttila 17:00 -18:00 Dr. Nick Wiggershaus (University of Lille) * * *Computational Artifacts and the Problem of Creation* As computer science integrates principles from logic, engineering, and physics, the ontological status of its core entities, such as computer programs, remains contested. Programs are often characterized as hybrids that have a “dual nature.” In attempts to untangle such hybrids, philosophers of computing have applied the concept of ‘technical artifact’ (combining teleological function and physical structure) to computing. While productive, it overlooks a notorious problem from the philosophy of art: the /Problem of Creation/, which asks how abstract objects like musical works or novels can be brought into existence through concrete human activity. I argue that, like repeatable artworks, computational artifacts have different representational modes (e.g., symbolic, mathematical, diagrammatic) and implementational media (e.g., ink on paper, chalk on a whiteboard, electrical signals, punched cards, etc.). Just as a novel or a musical work is not identical to any one performance or copy, a computer program persists across implementations. This invites a philosophical conundrum: How can programmers /create /abstract objects that are not located in space or time? By appropriating solutions to the Problem of Creation, we gain alternative ways to characterize the ontological status of programs and other computing objects. I conclude by exploring whether we can understand computational artifacts as /abstract /technical artifacts. 18:15-19:15 Dr. Laura Savolainen (University of Helsinki) *Emperor’s New Crowds: “Untrustworthy” Workers and “Ground Truth”* Ground-truth datasets are supposed to nail down facts about the “world” represented by data, so that machine learning models trained on them will behave reliably in that same world. Yet when annotation is outsourced to platform workers whom engineers do not know, and often mistrust, how is such reliability achieved or even imagined? Based on 27 interviews with machine learning researchers and practitioners, this paper investigates how ground-truth datasets are stabilised when 1) annotators are positioned as unreliable non-experts, 2) recognised domain experts are prohibitively expensive, and 3) the platform architecture itself suppresses deliberation, feedback, and learning. Given these constraints, I illustrate ground-truthing as a canny, iterative practice shaped by task design choices, aggregation methods, disciplinary conventions, and the affective politics of trusting data supplied by unknown workers. Rather than reflecting the world, the resulting datasets operationalize narrowly bounded problem formulations that satisfy performance goals ‘well enough’ for downstream modelling. By analysing the epistemic hierarchies, organizational constraints and judgment calls embedded in these pipelines, the discussion offers a concrete case for re-evaluating realist assumptions about data, evidence, and representation in contemporary AI research. Moreover, the analysis opens normative space for re-imagining data pipelines around more transparent authority structures and richer human feedback for more reliable processes and outputs. -- Alexander Gschwendtner Universität Wien Institut für Philosophie Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien – Raum A0322 https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/person.html?id=1009319

9 months, 2 weeks

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[REMINDER] Talk by Quassim Cassam this Wednesday (1pm - 2.30pm) in HS 3A, NIG

by Veronika Lassl

Dear all, this is to remind you that Quassim Cassim is giving a talk entitled "How To Be a Political Epistemologist" to which the WFAP warmly invites you. When? This Wednesday, 1pm - 2.30pm Where? HS 3A, NIG, Universitätsstraße 1, 1010 Vienna 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. We are looking forward to seeing you there! Best, Veronika Lassl Acting Chair - Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy (WFAP) wfap.philo.at

9 months, 2 weeks

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Conference "Free Will: New Perspectives from Philosophy, Biology and Neuroscience", 11-12 June 2025, & CfP

by Anne Sophie Meincke

Dear colleagues, You are cordially invited to the interdisciplinary conference "Free Will: New Perspectives from Philosophy, Biology and Neuroscience", taking place on 11th & 12th June 2025 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna, Austria, and ONLINE. Organiser: Dr. Anne Sophie Meincke (anne.sophie.meincke(a)univie.ac.at), PI of the Elise Richter research project "Bio-Agency and Natural Freedom" (Austrian Science Fund, grant DOI 10.55776/V714) Description: In everyday life, we naturally assume that it is up to us how we act, and that we are therefore responsible for our actions. However, free will in this strong, ‘libertarian’ sense – involving a choice between alternatives – is increasingly being questioned by philosophers and scientists. While traditional concerns were predicated on the deterministic laws of classical physics, today sceptics also cite biology and neuroscience. We are told that our genes or our brains, not we, decide what we want and how we act. This conference gathers leading experts in philosophy, biology and neuroscience who argue the opposite. Cutting-edge research into the biological and neural basis of human and animal agency challenges deterministic assumptions, adding to doubts from quantum physics and pointing to non-reductionist views of agency and action causation. At the same time, recent advances in the philosophy of biology and metaphysics offer new conceptual resources for understanding agency and free will under indeterminism. The conference explores the resulting prospects for a scientifically grounded, ontologically robust concept of ‘libertarian’ free will, breaking new ground in interdisciplinary research on free will. Invited Speakers: Björn Brembs (University of Regensburg), John Dupré (University of Exeter), Geert Keil (Humboldt University of Berlin), Christian List (LMU Munich), Anne Sophie Meincke (University of Vienna), Alfred R. Mele (Florida State University), Kevin Mitchell (with Henry Potter; both Trinity College Dublin), Stephen Mumford (Durham University), Helen Steward (University of Leeds), Peter U. Tse (Dartmouth College). Concluding Reflections: Johannes Jaeger (University of Vienna), Josef Quitterer (University of Innsbruck) For more details please see the attached conference programme and visit https://www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/veranstaltung/der-freie-wille-im-fokus-von-ph… To attend in person, please register free of charge via https://www.oeaw.ac.at/veranstaltungen/anmeldung/free-will-new-perspectives… Or follow the event via live stream: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/veranstaltungen/live The conference will be preceded by a Young Academy Distinguished Lecture by Alfred R. Mele (Florida State University) and Anne Sophie Meincke (University of Vienna & Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) on the question “Can Biology Help Us Defend Free Will?” on 10th June 2025 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, see https://www.oeaw.ac.at/junge-akademie/jours-fixes/1/news-details/young-acad… We look forward to seeing you in Vienna or online. Please also note the associated Call for Papers for a Topical Collection in the journal "Synthese", entitled "Agency and Free Will in an Indeterministic Universe: New Perspectives from Philosophy, Biology and Neuroscience", see https://link.springer.com/collections/cjjciagiei . Best wishes, Dr. Anne Sophie Meincke -- Recent publications: "Continuant Processes or Processual Continuants? Towards an Analytic Process Metaphysics", in: Objects and Properties: New Essays in Metaphysics, ed. by A. Moran & C. Rossi, Oxford University Press, forthcoming "Emergent Properties", in: The Routledge Handbook of Properties, ed. by A. Fisher & A.-S. Maurin (pp.347-357), Routledge 2024 "The Metaphysics of Development and Evolution: From Thing Ontology to Process Ontology", Human Development 67, 5-6 (2023), 233-256: https://doi.org/10.1159/000534421 "The Metaphysics of Living Consciousness: Metabolism, Agency and Purposiveness", Biosemiotics 16 (2023), 281–290: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12304-023-09531-0 www.annesophiemeincke.com Elise Richter Research Fellow Institute of Philosophy University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 1010 Vienna, Austria

9 months, 2 weeks

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Distinguished Lecture "Can Biology Help Us Defend Free Will? An Emerging Debate in Philosophy", 10 June 2025, 17:00 (CEST)

by Anne Sophie Meincke

Dear colleagues, You are cordially invited to the Young Academy Distinguished Lecture "Can Biology Help Us Defend Free Will? An Emerging Debate in Philosophy", 10 June 2025, 17:00 (CEST). Venue: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Johannessaal, Dr. Ignaz Seipel Platz 2, 1010 Vienna, Austria, and online Organiser: Dr. Anne Sophie Meincke (University of Vienna & Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) Description: Humans – members of the biological species homo sapiens – are products of evolution. Therefore, if we have free will, it is plausible to assume that our free will is also a product of evolution. But do we actually have free will? Is it – at least sometimes – up to us what we decide to do? Strikingly, philosophers have long ignored biology when it comes to answering these questions. Instead, they have quibbled about whether and how free will might fit into a supposedly deterministic universe as studied by (classical) physics. Only recently has the debate about free will begun to open up to biological considerations – so far, however, mostly with sceptical results. We are told that it is not we but our brains that decide what we want and how we act, or that our genes determine our decisions, or other biological factors beyond our control. In this Young Academy Distinguished Lecture, Alfred R. Mele, Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University, and Anne Sophie Meincke, member of the Young Academy and philosopher at the University of Vienna, will take an overdue fresh look at the relationship between free will and biology: Can biology help us understand and perhaps even defend free will? If so, how? If not, why not? To make progress here, it is necessary to critically analyse the arguments put forward against free will in the name of biology. Do these sceptical arguments really show what they claim to show? If not, then there is room to explore what constructive role biology could play in an attempt to defend free will against scepticism. Perhaps the common conception of a biological organism as some kind of deterministic machine is not accurate after all? How should we understand organisms instead? What biological function could free will serve? Taking evolution seriously also suggests considering the possibility that free will may not be a privilege of human organisms. First Lecture: Alfred R. Mele: "Free Will and Neurobiology" Second Lecture: Anne Sophie Meincke: "Free Will Is Real and Biology Helps Us Understand Why" Join us for an inspiring and controversial discussion, which will be moderated by Alice Auersperg, cognitive biologist at the Messerli Research Institute, Vienna, and member of the Young Academy. The Young Academy Distinguished Lecture Series brings cutting-edge scientific topics to the public, presented by distinguished experts and members of the Young Academy. The present two lectures kick off the interdisciplinary conference "Free Will: New Perspectives from Philosophy, Biology and Neuroscience", organised by Anne Sophie Meincke and taking place at the Austrian Academy of Sciences on 11 and 12 June 2025, see https://www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/veranstaltung/der-freie-wille-im-fokus-von-ph…. More information is to be found in the attached programme and at https://www.oeaw.ac.at/detail/veranstaltung/willensfreiheit-und-biologie. To attend in person, please register free of charge at https://www.oeaw.ac.at/veranstaltungen/anmeldung/young-academy-distinguishe…. On-site childcare is available upon request. Please indicate your interest when registering (by 2nd June). Or follow the event via live stream at https://www.oeaw.ac.at/veranstaltungen/live. We are looking forward to seeing you. Best wishes, Dr Anne Sophie Meincke -- Recent publications: "Continuant Processes or Processual Continuants? Towards an Analytic Process Metaphysics", in: Objects and Properties: New Essays in Metaphysics, ed. by A. Moran & C. Rossi, Oxford University Press, forthcoming "Emergent Properties", in: The Routledge Handbook of Properties, ed. by A. Fisher & A.-S. Maurin (pp.347-357), Routledge 2024 "The Metaphysics of Development and Evolution: From Thing Ontology to Process Ontology", Human Development 67, 5-6 (2023), 233-256: https://doi.org/10.1159/000534421 "The Metaphysics of Living Consciousness: Metabolism, Agency and Purposiveness", Biosemiotics 16 (2023), 281–290: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12304-023-09531-0 www.annesophiemeincke.com Elise Richter Research Fellow Institute of Philosophy University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 1010 Vienna, Austria

9 months, 2 weeks

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Diversifying Syllabi Workshop 21.5.2025 9-11:30 - with Veli Mitova

by Sophie Juliane Veigl

Dear all, Diversifying syllabi is a growing demand in academic philosophy. As a department, I am sure many have individual experiences and expertise in including the voices of women, gender-non-conforming, BiPOCs, and dis/abled philosophers in their teaching. This workshop aims at "collectivizing" these experiences and to provide knowledge & tools for those who aim at diversifying their syllabi for upcoming teaching. When: 21.5.2025 9-11:30 Where: HS3A The workshop will be run by Veli Mitova, Professor in Philosophy and Director of the African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg. The workshop will build on sharing experiences, ressources and "how to"s but also sets aside enough time for participants to work on their syllabi: 09:00 - 09:45 Veli Mitova: Decolonising Philosophy: Lessons from South Africa 09:45 - 11:00 Workshopping - Time to work on individual Syllabi (e.g., for WS25) 11:00 - 11:30 Closing Reflections, Feedback, Input If you are interested in attending, please sign up via email: sophie.juliane.veigl(a)univie.ac.at Everyone is welcome! Best, Sophie (Veigl) -- Dr. Sophie Juliane Veigl, BSc., BA., MSc., MA. Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg E-Mail: sophie.juliane.veigl(a)univie.ac.at my pronouns are she/her

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Ausschreibung: Universitätsassistent*in Praedoc, im Forschungsbereich Antike Philosophie (3932) -I- Job advertisement: University Assistant Praedoc, in the research area of Ancient Philosophy (3932)

by Philosophie

Guten Tag! wir möchten Sie über folgende aktuelle Jobausschreibung am Institut für Philosophie der Universität Wien informieren: Universitätsassistent*in Praedoc, im Forschungsbereich Antike Philosophie (3932) Link zur Ausschreibung: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/3932/ 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 Ancient Philosophy (3932) Link to the job posting: <https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/3932/> https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job-invite/3932/ 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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Mini workshop on AI and computing 20.05. 17:00 - 19:15, NIG 3D

by Raphael Gustavo Aybar Valdivia

The Philosophy of Science Group at the Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to this mini workshop. (Please note that the order of the presentations has changed.) Best, Tarja Knuuttila * * *Mini workshop on AI and computing — 20.05.2025* Lecture Room 3D (Room D0316, 3rd floor) Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna Organized by: Univ.-Prof. Tarja Knuuttila 17:00 -18:00 Dr. Nick Wiggershaus (University of Lille) * * *Computational Artifacts and the Problem of Creation* As computer science integrates principles from logic, engineering, and physics, the ontological status of its core entities, such as computer programs, remains contested. Programs are often characterized as hybrids that have a “dual nature.” In attempts to untangle such hybrids, philosophers of computing have applied the concept of ‘technical artifact’ (combining teleological function and physical structure) to computing. While productive, it overlooks a notorious problem from the philosophy of art: the /Problem of Creation/, which asks how abstract objects like musical works or novels can be brought into existence through concrete human activity. I argue that, like repeatable artworks, computational artifacts have different representational modes (e.g., symbolic, mathematical, diagrammatic) and implementational media (e.g., ink on paper, chalk on a whiteboard, electrical signals, punched cards, etc.). Just as a novel or a musical work is not identical to any one performance or copy, a computer program persists across implementations. This invites a philosophical conundrum: How can programmers /create /abstract objects that are not located in space or time? By appropriating solutions to the Problem of Creation, we gain alternative ways to characterize the ontological status of programs and other computing objects. I conclude by exploring whether we can understand computational artifacts as /abstract /technical artifacts. 18:15-19:15 Dr. Laura Savolainen (University of Helsinki) *Emperor’s New Crowds: “Untrustworthy” Workers and “Ground Truth”* Ground-truth datasets are supposed to nail down facts about the “world” represented by data, so that machine learning models trained on them will behave reliably in that same world. Yet when annotation is outsourced to platform workers whom engineers do not know, and often mistrust, how is such reliability achieved or even imagined? Based on 27 interviews with machine learning researchers and practitioners, this paper investigates how ground-truth datasets are stabilised when 1) annotators are positioned as unreliable non-experts, 2) recognised domain experts are prohibitively expensive, and 3) the platform architecture itself suppresses deliberation, feedback, and learning. Given these constraints, I illustrate ground-truthing as a canny, iterative practice shaped by task design choices, aggregation methods, disciplinary conventions, and the affective politics of trusting data supplied by unknown workers. Rather than reflecting the world, the resulting datasets operationalize narrowly bounded problem formulations that satisfy performance goals ‘well enough’ for downstream modelling. By analysing the epistemic hierarchies, organizational constraints and judgment calls embedded in these pipelines, the discussion offers a concrete case for re-evaluating realist assumptions about data, evidence, and representation in contemporary AI research. Moreover, the analysis opens normative space for re-imagining data pipelines around more transparent authority structures and richer human feedback for more reliable processes and outputs.

9 months, 2 weeks

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[Logik Café]: Workshop "From Permanence to Open-endedness”, University of Vienna, May 19-20, 2025

by Georg Schiemer

Dear all, We would like to invite you to the following workshop next week: 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/ Best wishes, Esther Heinrich Georg Schiemer

9 months, 3 weeks

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