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VISU and Vienna
General Information
2011
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2001
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Applied Science
Lecturers
Main Lecturers:
Martin Carrier
Rose-Mary Sargent
Peter Weingart
Guest Lecturer:
William Butz
General Daily Framework:
9:00-10:20 Lecture
10:20-10:40 Break
10:40-12:00 Discussion of Lecture
12:00-14:00 Break
14:00-15:20 Lecture
15:20-15:40 Break
15:40-17:00 Discussion of Lecture
Preliminary Detailed Plan
Sunday July 1
2 p.m. Guided Cultural Tour
7 p.m. Social Gathering
Monday July 2
Morning:
Opening ceremony: Christa Schnabl (Vice Rector of the University of Vienna) and Friedrich Stadler (Head and Scientific Director of the Institute Vienna Circle)
Introductory session. Three short presentations that give an overview of
what is to be achieved (20 to 25 minutes)
Afternoon Lecture: Francis Bacon, The Royal Society, and Experimental Reform. 1620–1750 (Sargent)
Tuesday July 3
Morning Lecture: Nationalism, Commercialism, and Popularization. 1750–1840 ( Sargent)
Afternoon Lecture: Positivism, Utilitarianism, and Victorian Society. 1840–1900 (Sargent)
Wednesday July 4
Morning Lecture: The Professionalization of Science, Logical Empiricism, and the
Rhetoric of Pure Science.1900–1950 (Sargent)
1-5 p.m. Guided tour through the “philosophical” Vienna (optional)
Thursday July 5
Morning Lecture: Values and Objectivity in Science: Value-ladenness, Pluralism and
the Epistemic Attitude (Carrier)
Afternoon Lecture: Science in the Grip of the Economy? Conditions of
application-oriented research (Carrier)
Friday July 6
Morning Lecture: Theories for Use: The conceptual structure of research in the
context of application (Carrier)
Afternoon Lecture: National Politics and the Commodification of Science. 1950–2000 (Sargent)
Monday July 9
Morning Lecture: Institutional patterns for basic and applied research/The
self-referential direction of research (Weingart)
Afternoon Lecture: Origins of the linear model and the innovation paradigm (Weingart)
Tuesday July 10
Morning Lecture: Epistemic and Social Conditions of Scientific Expertise (Carrier)
Afternoon: Presentation of projects of the participants
6 p.m. Evening Lecture and Discussion: Science Applied. American Triumphs and Trainwrecks (Butz)
Wednesday July 11
Morning Lecture: Knowledge, Politics and Commerce (Carrier)
Afternoon is free
Thursday July 12
Morning Lecture: National Innovation Systems – the concept, comparative perspective (Weingart)
Afternoon Lecture: Science funding or innovation policy? (Weingart)
Friday July 13
Morning: Concluding discussion
Afternoon: Closing Plenary Session
Closing Remarks by Friedrich Stadler / Certificates are issued
7 p.m. "Heuriger" for Participants and Lecturers
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