6 Feb
2026
6 Feb
'26
6:48 p.m.
Dear all,
we are very glad to announce the workshop “Abstraction, Structures and Proofs” that will
take place at the Department of Philosophy – University of Vienna, Lecture Room 3D (D0316)
3rd floor at the, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna, from 9th to 11th February.
Confirmed speakers:
Rachel Boddy <https://www.iusspavia.it/en/contacts/rachel-boddy> (IUSS Pavia)
Michele Contente
<https://logika.flu.cas.cz/en/about-us/people/27-people/615-michele-contente> (Czech
Academy of Sciences)
Fiona Doherty <https://fionatdoherty.wixsite.com/ftdoherty> (University of Notre
Dame)
Fernando Ferreira
<https://webpages.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/~fjferreira/index_english.html> (University of
Lisboa)
Salvatore Florio
<https://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/people/aca/philosophy/tenured/salvatf/>
(University of Oslo)
Leon Horsten
<https://www.philosophie.uni-konstanz.de/en/ag-leon-horsten/leon-horsten/>
(University of Konstanz)
Nils Kürbis <https://nilskurbis.weebly.com/> (Ruhr University of Bochum)
Richard Lawrence <https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/persons/richard-lawrence/>
(University of Wien)
Matteo Pascucci <https://people.ceu.edu/matteo_pascucci> (Central European
University)
Alexander Paseau <https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/people/alexander-paseau>
(University of Oxford)
Mario Piazza <https://www.sns.it/it/persona/mario-piazza> (Scuola Normale Superiore
of Pisa)
Antonio Piccolomini d'Aragona <https://sites.google.com/site/piccdarag>
(University of Tübingen)
Michael Potter <https://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/people/teaching-research-pages/potter>
(University of Cambridge)
Andrea Sereni <http://iusspavia.it/it/rubrica/andrea-sereni> (IUSS Pavia)
Georg Schiemer <https://sites.google.com/site/georgschiemeracademic/home>
(University of Wien)
Emelia Stanley <https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/persons/emelia-stanley/>
(University of Vienna)
Jan von Plato <https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/jan-von-plato/>
(University of Helsinki)
Daiana Zavate
<https://www.philosophie.uni-konstanz.de/horsten/mitglieder-der-ag-horsten/hilfskraefte-und-tutorinnen/daiana-zavate/>
(University of Konstanz)
Remote attendance will be made available on zoom. In case you are interested in attending,
either in-person or on-line, please write to ludovica.conti(a)univie.ac.at
<mailto:ludovica.conti@univie.ac.at> or antpiccdarag(a)gmail.com
<mailto:antpiccdarag@gmail.com> .
This the first of a series of events jointly organised by the University of Wien (Ludovica
Conti, Georg Schiemer) and the University of Tübingen (Antonio Piccolomini d'Aragona).
More information can be found on the web-page of the project, available at this link:
https://sites.google.com/view/wientuebingen/wien .
The Workshop is organised by the following projects: ERC Project: “The Formal Turn - The
Emergence of Formalism in Twentieth-Century Thought”, P.I. Georg Schiemer (University of
Vienna); ESPRIT Program, Austrian Science Fund (FWF) DOI:10.55776/ESP210, “The logic of
Abstraction”, P.I. Ludovica Conti (University of Vienna), DFG project "Revolutions
and paradigms in logic: the case of proof-theoretic semantics" PI 1965/1-1), P.I.
Antonio Piccolomini d’Aragona (Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center of the University of
Tübingen).
The workshop also received a financial support from Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft
- ÖFG (program “Internationale Kommunikation”) and from the DLMPST - Division of Logic,
Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology.
The event is held under the auspices of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy - SIFA
(https://sifaphilosophy.eu <https://sifaphilosophy.eu/>).
Best regards,
Antonio, Georg and Ludovica