Dear friends and colleagues,

for those of you interested in the acitivies of the Vienna Circle Society, please find attached this year’s program, which lists our events and publications, once again organized in close cooperation with the Institute Vienna Circle: https://wienerkreis.univie.ac.at/. The brochure is also available on our website: https://vcs.univie.ac.at.

 A particular highlight of 2026 will be our 35^th anniversary conference:

The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism – Research and Historiography
Organizers: Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna, and Vienna Circle Society

Programme Committee: Esther Heinrich-Ramharter, Martin Kusch, Elisabeth Nemeth, Georg Schiemer (Co-Chair), Friedrich Stadler (Co-Chair)

Date: October 19-21, 2026

Location: Aula and Old Chapel, Campus of the University of Vienna, Court 1

In addition to eight sections and three workshops, the conference will feature a poster exhibition. The call for posters is available here: https://vcs.univie.ac.at/VC+LE2026CfP.pdf (deadline: March 31, 2026!).

The annual Vienna Circle Lecture and the Arthur Pap Lecture will take place as part of this conference: Juliet Floyd (Boston) will deliver the 9th Arthur Pap Lecture, and Jan von Plato (Helsinki) will present the 34th Vienna Circle Lecture. In 2026, we will also inaugurate the Michael Friedman Memorial Lecture, to be given by Alan Richardson (Vancouver).

On June 22, we will hold a memorial workshop marking the 90th anniversary of Moritz Schlick’s death.

Until April, you will still have the opportunity to visit the exhibition Knowledge for Everyone – Isotype. The Picture Language from Vienna (curated by Günther Sandner, Susanne Winkler, and Werner Schwarz) at the Wien Museum.

In addition to this, our exhibition Orte des Wiener Kreises. Wien und die Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung (Wienbibliothek im Rathaus) is now available online as a web exhibition: You can visit it here: https://online-ausstellungen.wienbibliothek.at/wiener-kreis/de/startseite/

These are only a few highlights besides many talks during the year. The full program is attached and available online. We warmly invite you to join us for our events and look forward to another exciting year of lectures, conferences, and book presentations.

 

With our best wishes and greetings, also on behalf of the secretary general, Zarah Weiss,

Friedrich Stadler

(President/Director of the VCS, Permanent Fellow of the IVC)