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Friedrich Stadler

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ACTIVITIES 2024

Documentation of 30 years Institute Vienna Circle / Vienna Circle Society

Bibliography publications 1991–2021

Publications 2024
Feyerabend’s Formative Years. Volume 2. Feyerabend on Logical Empiricism, Bohm & Kuhn Matteo Collodel and Eric Oberheim (Eds.)
Portrait of Young Gödel. Education, First Steps in Logic, the Problem of Completeness Jan von Plato
Franz Roh 1890-1965. Kunstkritiker, Vorkämpfer der Kultur-Moderne. Eine Kollektivbiographie Hans-Joachim Dahms (Ed.)
Ways of Scientific World-Conception. Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath Christian Damböck, Johannes Friedl, and Ulf Höfer (Eds.)
Vertriebene Vernunft. Emigration und Exil österreichischer Wissenschaft 1930-1940. Open Access-Ausgabe mit neuem Vorwort (Vol. 2 starting at page 588) Friedrich Stadler (Ed.)

Friedrich Stadler has been elected as Foreign Member, Turin Academy of Sciences - Announcement on the website of the University of Vienna

With deep sadness, we say goodbye to Marjorie Perloff (1931-2024) - Obituary in the New York Times

CURRENT EVENTS

International Conference
Philosophy of Science – Past, Present and Future
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October 17-19, 2024

Congress
Wissenschaftsskepsis und Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit in historischer und philosophischer Perspektive
KGPW, October 23-25, 2024 (with lectures by Martin Kusch, Elisabeth Nemeth, Alexander Reutlinger), in cooperation with ÖAW

Opening und Talks
"Waismann's Time in Vienna", Unveiling of a plaque and talks
November 27, 2024, 6pm, Reading Room of the Philosophy and Psychology Library

Workshop
On Moritz Schlick's Philosophy of Science, Nature, Culture, and History. Talks about two book projects by Julia Franke-Reddig and Friedrich Stadler
November 28, 2024, 10am

32nd Vienna Circle Lecture
Massimo Ferrari (University of Turin)
November 28, 2024, 5pm

7th Arthur Pap Lecture
Francesca Biagioli
March 27, 2025, 5pm

PAST EVENTS

22nd univie: summer school - Scientific World Conceptions
European Summer School on the Philosophy of Mathematics
September 9-13, 2024, in cooperation with Institute Vienna Circle and European Society for the Philosophy of Mathematics (ESPM)

International Workshop
Philosophy, Psychology and Logic at the Turn of the 20th Century
September 20-21 2024, New Institute Building, University of Vienna

International Conference
HOPOS 2024
15th International Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
July 9-12 2024, University of Vienna, NIG

International Conference
Paul Feyerabend and Austrian Philosophy. His Formative Years in Postwar Vienna
July 5-6, 2024, University of Vienna, Campus, Yard 1
Centennial Website
Program
Abstracts

Wiener Vorlesung
Panel Discussion on the occassion of the centennial of the Vienna Circle (Schlick Circle) and Paul Feyerabend
July 4, 2024, Town Hall, 5pm
(Panel: Helga Nowotny, Elisabeth Nemeth, Karl Sigmund, Friedrich Stadler)
Photos of the event
Video recording of the event
Short report on W24

History of/and Philosophy of Science Colloquium: Seminar for Doctoral Students of Philosophy and History
every Friday, 2-3.30pm, Vienna Circle Society
Registration required

Book Presentation
Johann Dvorak: Edgar Zilsel und die Einheit der Erkenntnis
Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst, March 7, 2024, 16 Uhr
Program

Travelling exhibition "The Vienna Circle" | HELSINKI
October 19 - December 31, 2023
National Library of Finland
Pictures of the Exhibition

Travelling exhibition "The Vienna Circle" | PARIS
September 1 - December 22, 2023
Bibliothèque des Grands Moulins d’Université Paris Cité
Finissage December 7, 2023
About the exhibition (Circle U.)

6th Arthur Pap Lecture
Paola Cantù (Université Aix-Marseille)
December 7, 2023, 4pm

International Symposium
Eine Wiener Schule in Berlin 1900-1933
November 22-24, 2023, Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften | Kunstuniversität Linz in Wien

Workshop
Rudolf Brunngraber und das 20. Jahrhundert
November 16-17, 2023, Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst

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

Lecture
The Georg Henrik von Wright Lecture
Friedrich Stadler: "Georg Henrik von Wright and Austrian Philosophy – Personal and Intellectual Encounters with Family Resemblances"
October 20, 2023, 15.15 pm, Tieteiden talo, University of Helsinki
As part of the exhibition "The Vienna Circle"
Poster with Abstract
Handout and Video Recording
Pictures of the Lecture

International Conference
The Vienna Circle – History and Legacy
September 25-27, 2023
In cooperation with the Institute Vienna Circle

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
Schedule
Abstracts
Cultural Program

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
Program
Review and Stream

Workshop
The Vienna Circle and Beyond: A Workshop Inspired by the Work of Thomas Uebel
May 24, 2023, University of Manchester, 9-6pm
In person and online via zoom, registration required
Program

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, 6.30pm
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)
Review by Wiener Zeitung

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

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Our series with Springer and LIT Verlag

Vertriebene Vernunft. Emigration und Exil österreichischer Wissenschaft 1930-1940. Open Access-Ausgabe mit neuem Vorwort Friedrich Stadler (Ed.)
Feyerabend’s Formative Years. Volume 2. Feyerabend on Logical Empiricism, Bohm & Kuhn Matteo Collodel and Eric Oberheim (Eds.)
Portrait of Young Gödel. Education, First Steps in Logic, the Problem of Completeness Jan von Plato
Die Visualisierung von Wissen im „Jahrhundert des Auges“: Otto Neurath, Isotype und Adprint Silke Körber
Logic, Epistemology, and Scientific Theories - From Peano to the Vienna Circle Paola Cantù and Georg Schiemer (Eds.)
Edgar Zilsel und die Einheit der Erkenntnis. Aktualisierte Neuauflage Johann Dvorák
Logical Empiricism and Naturalism. Neurath and Carnap’s Metatheory of Science Joseph Bentley
Realism, Value, and Transcendental Arguments between Neopragmatism and Analytic Philosophy Sami Pihlström
Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle. 100 Years After the "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" Friedrich Stadler (Ed.)
Otto Neurath, Gesammelte ökonomische, soziologische und sozialpolitische Schriften, Vol. 7 Rudolf Haller and Ulf Höfer (Eds.)
Otto Neurath, Gesammelte ökonomische, soziologische und sozialpolitische Schriften, Vol. 6 Rudolf Haller and Ulf Höfer (Eds.)
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 Schriften. Ed. by Rudolf Haller and Friedrich Stadler
Review of the series by Max Beck (Jena)
Review Essay by Alexander Linsbichler in German and English
Review Essay by Adam Tamas Tuboly about the Neurath edition

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
Sociologica, International Journal for Sociological Debate offers some Neurath translations open access:
Introduction to Otto Neurath’s “Bourgeois Marxism” (1930) and “Worldview and Marxism” (1931) | Sociologica (unibo.it)
Bourgeois Marxism. A Review Essay on Karl Mannheim, Ideologie und Utopie (original edition in 1930, translated from German by Alan Scott) | Sociologica (unibo.it)
Worldview and Marxism (original edition in 1931, translated from German by Alan Scott) | Sociologica (unibo.it)

Other thematically related publications by (former) colleagues

Franz Roh 1890-1965. Kunstkritiker, Vorkämpfer der Kultur-Moderne. Eine Kollektivbiographie Hans-Joachim Dahms (Ed.)
Ways of Scientific World-Conception. Rudolf Carnap and Otto Neurath Christian Damböck, Johannes Friedl, and Ulf Höfer (Eds.)

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 Eckehart (Kay) Köhler (1939-2023)

Obituary Peter Weibel (1944-2023)

Obituary Roger Stuewer (1934-2022)

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
University of Warsaw: January 28 - February 28, 2022
University of Belgrad: September 15, 2022
Humboldt University Berlin: January 10 - February 20, 2023

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 31. Jordi Cat (Indiana University, Bloomington): Money and Philosophy in Vienna: Otto Neurath and Ludwig Wittgenstein. November 9, 2023 30. Flavia Padovani (Drexel University, Philadelphia): Constitutive Principles in Science: Between Contingency and Constraint. December 15, 2022 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 6. Paola Cantù (Université Aix-Marseille): What Role Do Definitions Play in Axiomatics? December 7, 2023 5. James C. Klagge (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg): Is Wittgenstein still an Analytic Philosopher? November 10, 2022 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) Roger Stuewer (1934-2022) Eckehart (Kay) Köhler (1939-2023) Peter Weibel (1944-2023) Juha Manninen (1945-2023) Juha Manninen (1945-2023)

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