Dear Doctoral Candidates, First of all, I would like to wish you a happy and productive summer term. The purpose of this message is to inform you of the following: 1. New PhD Researchers 2. Interim Director - Prof. Arne Moritz 3. Steering Committee Meetings 4. New ECTs rules 5. Spaces for non-salaried students 6. Student Assembly 7. Profiles (Webpage) 8. Writing Afternoons 9. Summer School 10. Completion contracts/completion fellowship --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. New PhD Researchers that joined the VDP during 2024-25 are: Eric Archambault Aristotle, metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, logic, a01563564(a)unet.univie.ac.at Sebastian Aster Action Theory, Metaethics, Ethics, Social Ontology sebastian.aster(a)univie.ac.at Pedro Almeida Brandão Philosophy of science; model transfer; applicability of mathematics; Mathematics pedro.almeida.brandao(a)univie.ac.at Noemi Call Phenomenology, Ontology, Artistic Research noemi.call(a)univie.ac.at Isis Daras Phenomenology, Existentialism, Patočka a12438473(a)unet.univie.ac.at Michał Maczuga Phenomenology, violence studies, Husserl a12242122(a)unet.univie.ac.at Kasper Nowak Social, Political and Cultural Philosophy, Psychoanalytic Theory, Philosophy of Time, Historiography kasper.nowak(a)gmail.com Ralph Pöchtrager Marx(ism) and critical theories, social and political philosophy, theory and history of capitalism ralph.poechtrager(a)univie.ac.at Mani Rashtipour Philosophy of language, Formal Semantics, Generics mani.rashtipour(a)univie.ac.at Valentin Schwab History of Philosophy, Idealist systems; Kant, Fichte, Hegel valentin.schwab(a)univie.ac.at Alexander Strupp Philosophy of Life, Philosophy of Culture, Philosophical Anthropology, Ortega y Gasset alexander.strupp(a)univie.ac.at Eric Wallace Philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, metaphilosophy eric.wallace(a)univie.ac.at Emils Zavelis Philosophy of logic and mathematics emils.zavelis(a)univie.ac.at You may find it useful to contact them, depending on whether they work on issues related to yours. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Interim Director - Prof. Arne Moritz: During Prof. Benjamin Schneider's sabbatical this semester, Prof. Arne Moritz [arne.holger.moritz(a)univie.ac.at] will take over as Director of the VDP. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Steering Committee Meetings: Our Steering Committee will be meeting twice this semester, at the beginning of April and mid-June. If you wish to bring topics to their agenda, please contact your student representatives, Lisa Tragbar [lisa.tragbar(a)univie.ac.at] or Mira Magdalena Sickinger [mira.magdalena.sickinger(a)univie.ac.at] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. New ECTs rules: There are new rules for the distribution of the compulsory 24 ECTS credits in your programme. The rule that doctoral students must complete 15 ECTs in doctoral seminars has been removed, and the distribution of the 24 ECTs will be decided between you and your supervisor in the Doctoral Agreement, and modified through the Annual Progress Reports. The Director of Studies will approve the proposed distribution, taking into account whether or not it is beneficial either to your PhD project or to your training and career. Please read the whole new entry of the SSC Philosophy on this topic: https://ssc-phil.univie.ac.at/en/degree-programmes/doctoral-programme/facul… --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Spaces for non salaried students: You can register for the pilot for hot desks for non-salaried students. See attachment. You have time to register until Friday 7 March. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Student Assembly: Please save the date for our student assembly. The Student Assembly of the Summer Semester 2025, which will take place on Monday, 17 March from 18:30 to 20:00 in Room 2i, NIG (2nd floor, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna). Your student representatives will be contacting you soon on this. After the assembly, there will be time for networking over pizza and drinks. In order to calculate our needs, we kindly ask you to register your attendance by emailing mira.magdalena.sickinger(a)univie.ac.at. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Profiles (Webpage): Let me kindly remind you to send your profile information so it can be added to our webpage. See samples at https://vd-philosophy.univie.ac.at/members/phd-researchers/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. Writing afternoons: The schedule for the writing afternoons this semester is at https://vd-philosophy.univie.ac.at/events/details/news/vdp-writing-afternoo… --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. Summer School: Please notice that the call for applications for our summer school on Iris Murdoch is open: https://philosophie.univie.ac.at/news-events/nachrichten-news-events/detail… --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10- Completion contracts/completion fellowship: Please notice that the call for the completion contracts and completion fellowship is open: https://vd-philosophy.univie.ac.at/admission/open-positions/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information on the Pragmatic Academic Series for this semester will be coming soon. I hope to seeing some of you later at the semester academic writing workshop. Finally, please do not hesitate to contact my office if you are experiencing any problems with your supervision or if you have any concerns about your PhD. Best, Raphael Aybar