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Call for Applications - Extended Deadline: February 15, 2013
13th VISU: Climate Studies
July 1 - 12, 2013; University Campus Vienna
Main Lecturers: Jim Fleming, Roman Frigg, Wendy Parker
Guest Lecturer: Angela Kallhoff

Brochure: 20 Jahre Institut Wiener Kreis
The Vienna Circle Manifest. Reprint in five languages


AKTIVITÄTEN / ACTIVITIES 2013


New: The Arthur Pap Collection
Philosophy of Science Lecture Series
Philosophy of Science Colloquium




Dept. of Philosophy          HPS          Dept. of Contemporary History


  Activities 2013
    Workshop: Beyond the 'Two Cultures' Debate Helsinki February 1-2, 2013
    Workshop: ISOTYPE 26. Jänner 2013
    Workshop: Wilhelm Dilthey as a philosopher of science June 3 and 4, 2013
    Workshop: Influences on the Aufbau Munich, July 1-3, 2013.

  Activities 2012
    20th Vienna Circle Lecture Don Howard: Einstein and the Vienna Circle 13. Dezember 2012
    Lecture Ian Hacking: The Lure of Pythagoras April 18, 2012
    Lecture Jeffrey A. Barrett: On the Empirical Adequacy of Pure Wave Mechanics April 16, 2012
    Desiderata Neukantianismus-Forschung III Wissenschaftsphilosophie im Neukantianismus 29. November 2012 – 01. Dezember 2012
    A PSE-CRASSH Joint Workshop Philosophy and the Sciences – Old Visions, New Directions Cambridge 30. November 2012 – 01. Dezember 2012

  Preview 2014
    5th Conference on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (&HPS5), June 26-29, 2014

  Preview 2015
    Cooperation with the Kant Congress Vienna 2015

  Research Projects
    Wilhelm Dilthey and Rudolf Carnap. A Historical and Systematic Study
    Moritz Schlick-Project (MSP)
    History of Science and/or Philosophy of Science?
    Philosophy and String Physics
    Otto Neurath: An Intellectual and Political Biography

New Publications
    Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism
    Anna Brozek - Kazimierz Twardowski
    Der Wiener Kreis in Ungarn
    Friedrich Stadler: El Círculo de Viena. Empirismo lógico, ciencia, cultura y política
    Vertreibung, Transformation und Rückkehr der Wissenschaftstheorie
    The Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science
    The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries. Networks and Transformations of Logical Empiricism
    Logischer Empirismus, Werte und Moral
    Ernst Mach - Edition
          Die Analyse der Empfindungen
          Erkenntnis und Irrtum
          Die Mechanik in ihrer Entwicklung
    Moritz Schlick Kritische Gesamtausgabe
          Abteilung I, Band 1 Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre
          Abteilung I, Band 2 Über die Reflexion des Lichtes / Raum und Zeit in der gegenwärtigen Physik
          Abteilung I, Band 3 Lebensweisheit / Fragen der Ethik
          Abteilung I, Band 5 Rostock, Kiel, Wien
          Abteilung I, Band 6 Die Wiener Zeit. Aufsätze, Beiträge, Rezensionen 1926-1936

 
Vienna Circle Lectures
    20. Don Howard (Notre Dame): Einstein and the Vienna Circle, 13. Dezember 2012
    19. Hans Jürgen Wendel (Rostock): Moritz Schlick und die Metaphysik, 5. Dezember 2011
    18. Dagfinn Føllesdal (Stanford and Oslo)): Edmund Husserl und Kurt Gödel, 16. November 2010
    17. Peter Galison (Harvard, USA): The Assassin of Relativity. Friedrich Adler and Albert Einstein, 16. Juli 2009
    16. Gerald Holton (Harvard, USA ): Einheit und Vielheit der Wissenschaften, 23. Juni 2008
    15. Keith Lehrer (University of Arizona): Consensus in Art and Science, 24. Juli 2007
    14. Rainer Hegselmann (Bayreuth): Truth and Cognitive Division of Labor, 25. Juli 2006
    13. Maria Carla Galavotti (Bologna): Probability and its Interpretations, 26. July 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

  Obituaries
    Elisabeth Leinfellner (1938-2010) and Werner Leinfellner (1921-2010)
 
Publications
    Logischer Empirismus, Werte und Moral
    Ernst Mach: Die Analyse der Empfindungen
    Moritz Schlick-Edition
          Vol. 1 Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre
          Vol. 2 Über die Reflexion des Lichtes / Raum und Zeit in der gegenwärtigen Physik
          Vol. 3 Lebensweisheit / Fragen der Ethik
          Vol. 6 Die Wiener Zeit. Aufsätze, Beiträge, Rezensionen 1926-1936
 
Archives
    Robert S. Cohen Archives
    In preparation: Adolf Grünbaum Archives
    In preparation: Documentation of the Paul Neurath Estates of Picture Aided Social Education

  Research Projects
    Moritz Schlick Project
    The Banishment and Return of the Philosophy of Science
    Scientific World Conception and Art

Permanent Cooperations
    University of Vienna
    Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna
    CIRESS Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca in Epistemologia e Storia delle Scienze

 
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