The Vienna Circle - History and Legacy - September 25th-27th 2023

Day 1, 25. September

9:00 (s.t.) – 09:15   Opening by Friedrich Stadler and Georg Schiemer
09:15 – 10:15      Martin Kusch (University of Vienna) “Relativism in Logical Empiricism: The Cases of Frank and Neurath”
10:15 – 10:30    Tea/Coffee
10:30 – 11:30    Adam Tamas Tuboly (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) “Micro and Macro Sociology of Science: Reconsidering Philipp Frank and Thomas S. Kuhn”
11:30 – 11:45    Tea/Coffee
11:45 – 12:45    Alexander Linsbichler (Johannes Kepler University Linz) “The Fact/Value Dichotomy as a Thought-Stopper: How Carnap Could Have Replied to Putnam”
12:45 – 15:00    Lunch
15:00 – 16:00    Marta Sznajder (University of Vienna)  “The Invisible Links: Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum's Place in Early History of Inductive Logic and Confirmation Theory”
16:00 – 16:15    Tea/Coffee
16:15 – 17:15    Alexander Reutlinger (LMU Munich) “Debunking Strategic Science Skepticism. Or: Renewing Neurath’s Philosophy of Scientific Expertise for the 21st Century”




Day 2, 26. September

09:00 – 10:00      Sander Verhaegh (Tilburg University)  “The American Reception of Logical Empiricism: A Tale of Three Departments”
10:00 – 10:15    Tea/Coffee
10:15 – 11:15    Günther Sandner (LMU Munich) “History and Legacy of Isotype”
11:15 – 11:30    Tea/Coffee
11:30 – 12:30    Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau (University of Graz) “Carnap and Waismann on Logical Syntax”
12:30 – 15:00    Lunch
15:00 – 16:00    Iulian Toader (University of Vienna) “What Carnap Wanted Us to Learn From Quantum Mechanics”
16:00 – 16:15    Tea/Coffee
16:15 – 17:15    Sebastian Lutz (Uppsala University)  “On Hempel on Hempel”
17:15 – 17:30    Tea/Coffee
17:30 – 18:30    Pierre Wagner (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) “The Reception of Carnap's Semantics in the 1940s”
 

Day 3, 27. September

09:00 – 10:00      Anne Siegetsleitner (University of Innsbruck)  “Cognitivism and Noncognitivism Within the Limits of Ethical and Political Attitudes in the Vienna Circle”
10:00 – 10:15    Tea/Coffee
10:15 – 11:15    Christian Damböck (University of Vienna) “Logical Empiricism and Democracy”
11:15 – 11:30    Tea/Coffee
11:30 – 12:30    Donata Romizi (University of Vienna) “Zilsel's ‘Rationalization’ as an Example of Politically Engaged Philosophy of Science”
12:30 – 15:00    Lunch
15:00 – 16:00    Silke Körber (University of Vienna) “Scientific Humanism in Practice: Stebbing and Neurath”
16:00 – 16:15    Tea/Coffee
16:15 – 17:15    Elisabeth Nemeth (University of Vienna) "Acting on the Basis of Provisional Knowledge. Neurath on a Sociological-psychological Problem With Political Consequences“