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Activities 2023

Documentation of 30 years Institute Vienna Circle / Vienna Circle Society
Bibliography publications 1991–2021



ANTON ZEILINGER - NOBEL LAUREATE FOR PHYSICS 2022
We heartily congratulate Anton Zeilinger for being awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2022 (together with Alain Aspect and John F. Clauser). We are feeling proud and honored and are grateful that from the beginning of the Institute Vienna Circle Anton Zeilinger served as member of its Scientific Advisory Board and published himself in our book series. We wish him and his team further on a long, successful and happy life in good health!
Anton Zeilingers publications in the "Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook" and the "Publications of the Institute Vienna Circle"


Obituary Roger Stuewer (1934-2022)

Obituary Peter Weibel (1944-2023)


Call for Applications
Summer School on Climate Science
July 10-19, 2023
Deadline March 15, 2023


Call for Papers
44th INTERNATIONAL WITTGENSTEIN SYMPOSIUM 2023, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, August 6–12, 2023
100 Years of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – 70 Years after Wittgenstein’s Death: A Critical Assessment
Deadline March 31, 2023


Discussion and Book Presentation
Dialogic - Individual und Collective in Philosophy and Science. The Example Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle
May 16, 2023, Wienbibliothek, Town Hall
In cooperation with the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Wiener Zeitung
On the occasion of the book publication: "Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle. 100 Years After the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" (Ed. Friedrich Stadler, Springer)


Conference and Book Presentation
International Planning for Freedom. Otto Neurath's Democratic Planning Theory in the Context of the Current Climate Crisis.
June 12-13, 2023, Chamber of Labor and University of Vienna
With book presentation on the occasion of the publication of Neurath's Gesammelte Schriften in 8 Bänden, extended new edition, ed. Friedrich Stadler, LIT Verlag Vienna


31st Vienna Circle Lecture
Jordi Cat (Indiana University, Bloomington
November 9, 2023, 4pm


6th Arthur Pap Lecture
Sandra Lapointe (McMaster University, Hamilton)
December 14, 2023, 4pm



Past Events

Workshop with Book Presentation
Edgar Zilsel: Philosopher, Historian, Sociologist
Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook 27. Eds: Donata Romizi, Monika Wulz, Elisabeth Nemeth. Springer 2022.
March 10, 2023, Institute for Science and Art
Program


Travelling exhibition "The Vienna Circle" | BERLIN
Opening at Humboldt University January 10, 2023
January 10 to February 20, 2023
Program of the opening and the collateral symposium
Further cities: Spring Paris, Fall Helsinki
CENTRAL Network


30th Vienna Circle Lecture
Flavia Padovani (Drexel University, Philadelphia
December 15, 2022


5th Arthur Pap Lecture
James C. Klagge (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg)
November 10, 2022
Book presentation after the talk: "Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle - 100 Years After the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"


Workshop Invitation: Vienna Circle and Vienna Group
October 20-21, 2022, Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst, 1090 Wien Berggasse 17
Program


Lending library of the Vienna Circle Society and the library of philosophy of science (Paul Weingartner) to the University Library Vienna (Philosophy and Psychology Library)
Opening on October 20, 2022, Philosophy and Psychology Library
Invitation to the opening
Virtual tour of the exhibition
Posters of the exhibition: Introduction, Eugene Gadol, Herta Blaukopf, Hilde Zaloscer, Kurt Blaukopf, Kurt Fischer, Paul Weingartner


Invitation Panel Discussion
„Das Ganze ist mehr als die Summe seiner Teile“. Der Neubeginn der Philosophie und Psychologie 1922 mit Moritz Schlick, Charlotte und Karl Bühler in seiner Gegenwartsbedeutung
Dialogic: Eine Diskussionsreihe der Wiener Zeitung, der Österreichischen Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft und der Wienbibliothek im Rathaus.
Date: October 11, 2022, 6:30 – 8.00 pm, Venue: Wienbibliothek im Rathaus, entry Lichtenfelsgasse, Stiege 6, 1. floor, 1010 Wien Livestream www.wienerzeitung.at/dialogic
Recording of the event


Travelling exhibition "The Vienna Circle" | BELGRADE
Opening September 15, 2022
Program


Univie Summer School – Scientific World Conceptions (USS-SWC) 2022
Organised by the Institute Vienna Circle
July 4-13, 2022


Invitation to a lecture with book presentation
Michael Wiescher: Arthur E. Haas: Ein verborgener Pionier der modernen Physik
June 21, 2022, 5 pm | Erwin Schrödinger Institut für Mathematik und Physik


Austrian Philosophy and Viennese Fin de Siècle
International Conference on the occassion of the 100th birthday of KURT R. FISCHER (1922-2014)
May 12, 2022, Auditorium at the Campus of the University of Vienna, Yard 1
Obituary Kurt R. Fischer


Rationale Argumente und Sachlichkeit gegen Personenkult und Genieverehrung
Dialogic: A discussion series of the „Wiener Zeitung“, the Ludwig Wittgenstein Society und Vienna City Library in the Town Hall.
May 3, 2022, 6.30-8.00 pm, Wiener Zeitung and YouTube recording


Online Workshop "The Vienna Circle and the Lvov-Warsaw School"
February 12-13, 2022
Program
Online Workshop in the History of Logic and Analytic Philosophy


Travelling exhibition "The Vienna Circle" | CENTRAL in Warsaw
January 28 - February 28, 2022
Opening January 28, 2022, 10am
University of Warsaw
Report on the Opening


29th Vienna Circle Lecture
Alisa Bokulich
C.S. Peirce, Gravity Measurements, & the Philosophy of Metrology
December 10, 2021, 4 pm
Online:
https://univienna.zoom.us/j/95738643015?pwd=UFFsKzFxaHJVUEtWc1dPWEFrWmxyUT09


Die Aktualität des „Wiener Kreises“
9. November 2021, 18:30 bis 20:00
Format: Livestream aus der Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
https://www.wienbibliothek.at/veranstaltungen-ausstellungen/veranstaltungskalender/dialogic-aktualitaet-wiener-kreises
Video recording


Book presentation
Journey to the Edge of Reason. The life of Kurt Gödel
18. Oktober 2021, 18.30 Uhr


„Die Zeit der Unkultur“ – Ludwig Wittgenstein im Österreich der Zwischenkriegszeit
October 14 and 15, 2021
Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst
Berggasse 17/1
1090 Wien
Together with: Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst (IWK), Wien


Symposium
Isotype and beyond
Vienna, 27 & 28 October 2021
Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum


Vienna Circle Exhibition in Prague – Wiener Kreis Ausstellung in Prag
Oct. 5–Nov. 12, 2021

Book presentation
Franz Brentano and Austrian Philosophy
October 29, 2021, 2:00 pm
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Theatersaal
Sonnenfelsgasse 19, 1010 Wien


Joint Statement Regarding Hans Jürgen Wendel's Public Support for the German Far-Right “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) Party


Recent publications

Chapters from Gödel's Unfinished Book on Foundational Research in Mathematics Jan von Plato (Ed.)
Logical Empiricism, Life Reform, and the German Youth Movement Christian Damböck, Günther Sandner, Meike Werner (Eds.)
Edgar Zilsel: Philosopher, Historian, Sociologist Donata Romizi, Monika Wulz, Elisabeth Nemeth (Eds.)
The Vienna Circle and Religion Esther Ramharter (Ed.)
The Socio-Ethical Dimension of Knowledge. The Mission of Logical Empiricism Christian Damböck, Adam T. Tuboly (Eds.)
Der junge Carnap in historischem Kontext: 1918–1935 / Young Carnap in an historical Context: 1918–1935 Christian Damböck and Gereon Wolters (Eds.)
Otto Neurath, Gesammelte ökonomische, soziologische und sozialpolitische Schriften Band 1 und 2.
Otto Neurath, Gesammelte philosophische und methodologische Schriften. Band 1 und 2.
Otto Neurath, Gesammelte ökonomische, soziologische und sozialpolitische Schriften
Otto Neurath, Gesammelte bildpädagogische Schriften
Otto Neurath liest Stefan Zweigs „Die Welt von Gestern“. Arturo Larcati, Friedrich Stadler (Hg.) Review
Franz Brentano and Austrian Philosophy. Editors: Fisette, Denis; Fréchette, Guillaume; Stadler, Friedrich


International Conference
Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle  – After 100 Years
Vienna, June 10–12, 2021
On the occasion of the 30th resp. 10th anniversaries of the existence of the Vienna Circle Society and the Institute Vienna Circle
Wiener Vorlesungen as part of the conference: Marjorie Perloff: Die verschwundene Austromoderne nach 1938.


Online Conference:
Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy – SSHAP2021
Annual Meeting at the University of Vienna, July 14-16, 2021
Live-Stream
Sprache und Welt: Wittgensteins Bedeutung in der Mediengesellschaft
April 27, 2021 6:30 p.m.
With Elisabeth Nemeth, Friedrich Stadler and Norbert Christian Wolf
Livestream: www.wienerzeitung.at/dialogic


Online book presentation
Otto Neurath liest Stefan Zweigs "Die Welt von Gestern" Zwei Intellektuelle der Wiener Moderne im Exil
May 6, 2021
6:30 p.m.
Togethter with the Stefan Zweig Zentrum Salzburg, the Wienbibliothek and the LIT Verlag
Link can be found on the Website


Online-Symposium
Einheit oder Vielheit? Über Methode und Gegenstand in der Geschichte und Philosophie der Wissenschaften
March 11–13, 2021


4th Arthur Pap-Lecture 2021 (online)
Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto)
Pragmatism and the A Priori: C.I. Lewis, Ramsey, and Carnap
January 21, 2021
3 p.m.


International Conferences
Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle  – After 100 Years
Vienna, June 10–12, 2021


International Conferences
Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle  – After 100 Years
Vienna, June 10-12, 2021


Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy - SSHAP2021
July 14–16, 2021
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien
Together with the Institute of Philosophy


Meeting
Universalsprachen, Kunstsprachen, Plansprachen:
Träume und Utopien von einer Welt ohne Übersetzung

November 18–20, 2020
The conference takes place as a live meeting via Zoom, the links for each day can be found in the schedule


3rd Arthur Pap Lecture 2020 (online)
Sanford Shieh (Wesleyan University)
Returns of Modality: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and Arthur Pap
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
5 p.m.
Link:
https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/c8cdeaacf66140a5994605d5fff5cf25


28. Vienna Circle Lecture (online)
Janet Kourany (University of Notre Dame)
The Present Plight of Science, and Our Plight
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
5 p.m.
Link: Link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/c8cdeaacf66140a5994605d5fff5cf25



Book presentation with lectures / Buchpräsentation mit Vorträgen (online)
Zur Aktualität der Mach-Forschung
On the Topicality of Mach Research

October 28, 2020
2 pm to 5.30 pm
Livestream:
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/veranstaltungen/live/


Exhibition
The Vienna Circle – Exact Thinking in Demented Times, Vienna 2015
ZKM Karlsruhe, April 24 to Sept. 4, 2016
Charles University Prague: Oct.5 to Nov. 12, 2021


Lecture Series Logik Cafe




  Dept. of Philosophy          HPS          Institute Vienna Circle

 
 
  Research Projects
    Early Carnap in Context. Three Case Studies and the Diaries
    Wilhelm Dilthey and Rudolf Carnap. A Historical and Systematic Study
    Moritz Schlick-Project (MSP)
    Otto Neurath: An Intellectual and Political Biography

 
Vienna Circle Lectures
    29. Alisa Bokulich (Boston University): C.S. Peirce, Gravity Measurements, & the Philosophy of Metrology. December 10, 2021
    28. Janet Kourany (University of Notre Dame): The Present Plight of Science, and Our Plight. December 9, 2020
    27. Juliet Floyd (Boston University): In and Out of Mind: Wittgenstein and Gödel, Post and Turing. July 25, 2019
    26. David Chalmers (NYU): The Lewis-Carnap Aufbau. How Carnap and Lewis might have constructed the world again. June 19, 2018
    25. Thomas Uebel (University of Manchester): Intentionality in the Vienna Circle. June 1, 2017
    24. Thomas Oberdan (Clemson University): ‘Our Common Method’ in Logik, Sprache, Philosophie. September 16, 2016
    23. Peter Schöttler (Freie Universität Berlin): Von Comte zu Carnap. Zur Rezeption des Wiener Kreises in Frankreich. November 30, 2015
    22. Michael Beaney (University of York): Susan Stebbing and the early reception of logical empiricism in Britain, December 12, 2014
    21. Ilkka Niiniluoto (Helsinki): Eino Kaila and the Vienna Circle, November 7, 2013
    20. Don Howard (Notre Dame): Einstein and the Vienna Circle, December 13, 2012
    19. Hans Jürgen Wendel (Rostock): Moritz Schlick und die Metaphysik, December 5, 2011
    18. Dagfinn Føllesdal (Stanford and Oslo)): Edmund Husserl und Kurt Gödel, November 16, 2010
    17. Peter Galison (Harvard, USA): The Assassin of Relativity. Friedrich Adler and Albert Einstein, July 16, 2009
    16. Gerald Holton (Harvard, USA ): Einheit und Vielheit der Wissenschaften, June 23, 2008
    15. Keith Lehrer (University of Arizona): Consensus in Art and Science, July 24, 2007
    14. Rainer Hegselmann (Bayreuth): Truth and Cognitive Division of Labor, July 25, 2006
    13. Maria Carla Galavotti (Bologna): Probability and its Interpretations, July 26, 2005
    12. Helen Longino (Minneapolis): Philosophy of Science after the Social Turn, 20. July, 2004
    11. Die geplante Wiener Kreis Vorlesung 2003 von Donald Davidson entfiel aufgrund dessen Ableben.
    10. Anton Zeilinger (Wien): Observer and Reality in Quantum Physics, 16. Juli 2002
    9. Hubert Schleichert (Konstanz): Moritz Schlick and the Idea of Social Contract, 12.Juli 2001
    8. Michael Friedmann (Indiana University): On the Idea of a Scientific Philosophy?, 6.Juli 2000
    7. Adolf Grünbaum (Pittsburgh): Physical Cosmology and Theory, 7.Juni 1999
    6. Abner Shimony (Boston): Philosophical and Experimental Perspectives of Quantum Physics, 3. September 1998
    5. Walter Thirring (Wien): Grenzen des Reduktionismus in der Physik, 1. Dezember 1997
    4. Carl Djerassi (Stanford/USA): Science-in-fiction ist nicht Science Fiction: Ist es Autobiographie?, 21. Juni 1996
    3. Marie Jahoda (Sussex): Sozialwissenschaft und soziale Realität - Ein persönliches Plädoyer, 7.Juni 1995
    2. Hans Sluga (Berkeley): Macht und Ohnmacht der Analytischen Philosophie, 13. Juni 1994
    1. Saul A. Kripke (Princeton): Carnap's Modal Logic of Individual Concepts, 29. Juni 1993


  Arthur Pap Lectures
    4. Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto): Pragmatism and the A Priori: Lewis (C.I.), Ramsey, and Carnap. January 21, 2021
    3. Sanford Shieh (Wesleyan University): Returns of Modality: Wittgenstein's Tractatus and Arthur Pap. December 2, 2020
    2. Scott Soames (USC Dornsife): Viennese Lessons: Wittgenstein, Schlick, and Carnap. May 10, 2019
    1. David J. Stump (San Francisco): Arthur Pap’s Analytic Philosophy. June 27, 2018

 
Archives
    Arthur Pap Archives
      Catalogue
    Robert S. Cohen Archives
    Estate and exile library of Karl and Charlotte Bühler. Complete catalogue for a research project


Obituaries
Eugene T. Gadol (1920–2000)
Robert S. Cohen (1923–2017)
Adolf Grünbaum (1923–2018)
Renate Lotz-Rimbach (1944–2021)
Werner DePauli-Schimanovich (1942–2021)

Permanent Cooperations
    Network Helsinki Tübingen Vienna
    University of Vienna

 
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