Programme
Our Preliminary Programme
Monday, October 19
9:00-9.30: Opening: Georg Schiemer, Friedrich Stadler
9.30-10.10: Hannes Leitgeb (Munich), Reviving Logical Empiricism
10.15.-10.55: Anna Brozek (Warsaw), Women of the Lvov-Warsaw School and the Relations with the Vienna Circle
10.55-11.15: Coffee break
11.15-11.55: Sander Verhaegh (Tilburg), Logical Empiricism’s Americal Legacy
12.00-12.40: Àdám T. Tuboly (Pecs), Philipp Frank, Ernest Nagel, and the Public Faces of Logical Empiricism
12.40-14.00: Lunch break
14.00-14.40: Maria Carla Galavotti (Bologna), Ramsey, Probability, and the Vienna Circle
14.45-15.25: David Edmonds (London), Miss Simpson’s Children
15.25-15.45: Coffee break
15.45-17.10: Poster Session and Art Installation (Old Chapel / Alte Kapelle)
Posters: William Agay-Beaujon (Montpellier), Sabato Danzilli (Heidelberg), Samuele Fasol (Trento), Noah Friedman-Biglin (San José), Georg Gangl (Ostrava), Michael Bennett McNulty (Minneapolis), Lukas Reichert (Jena), Ties van Gemert (Tilburg), Reinhold Schwenzer (Jena), Raffael Velloso (Campinas), Yasmina Volberg (Stuttgart), Lefteris Zacharioudakis (Rotterdam).
Art Installation: Walter Bortolossi (Udine)
17.10-17.30: Coffee break
17.30-18.10: Karl Sigmund (Vienna), Stud.phil. Kurt Gödel
18.15-18.55: Eva-Maria Engelen (Berlin), Kurt Gödel as Philosopher. The Edition of his Philosophical Notebooks
19.00-20.15: Jan von Plato - 34th Vienna Circle Lecture
The Transfiguration of Logic: Wittgenstein to Gödel
Tuesday, October 20
9.00-9.40: Anne Siegetsleitner (Innsbruck), The Literary Vienna Circle: Literary Styles in Contributions on Morality and Ethics
9.45-10.25: Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau (Vienna), The Left/Right Divide in the Vienna Circle. A Historiographic Consideration
10.25-10.45: Coffee break
10.45-11.25: Janette Friedrich (Geneva), Die Karl Bühler Schule im Wien der 1920er/1930er Jahre: die Bedeutung des Lokalen
11.30-12.10: Veronika Hofer (Vienna), The Impact of Schlick, Carnap, and Frank on Bertalanffy’s Theoretical Biology
12.10-13.30: Lunch break
13.30-14.10: Hans-Joachim Dahms (Berlin), The Difficulties of Functionalism in the Vienna Circle
14.15-14.55: Matthias Neuber (Mainz), Instrumentalism in the Theory of Science: Dewey, Reichenbach, and Carnap
15.00-15.20: Coffee break
15.20-16.00: Flavia Padovani (Philadelphia), Formalism and Fallibilism: Two Paths in Early Logical Empiricist Methodology
16.05-16.45: Michael Stöltzner (Columbia, SC), Logical Empiricism and Logical Positivism. Two Modes to Name a Movement
16.45-17.05: Coffee break
17.05-17.45: Martin Lemke (Rostock), Moritz Schlick und die Brücke des Verstehens / Moritz Schlick and the Bridge of Understanding
17.50-18.30: Ulf Höfer (Graz), Rudolf Haller über Logischen Empirismus
19.00-20.15: Juliet Floyd - 9th Arthur Pap Lecture
Susanne K. Langer, Necessity, and Arthur Pap: Research and Historiography
Wednesday, October 21
9.00-9.40: Bastian Stoppelkamp (Vienna) / William Agay-Beaujon (Montpellier), “Freethought as a New Worldview”. Otto Neurath and the Political Origins of the Ernst Mach Society
9.45-10.25: Günther Sandner (Vienna), Was Otto Neurath’s Vienna Method Misused? Pictorial Statistics in Austrofascism and National Socialism
10.25-10.45: Coffee break
10.45-11.25: Antonia Soulez (Paris), The Contribution of Semantic Tradition to the Vienna Circle’s Critique of Language (About Jan Sebestik’s Expression of ‘Prehistory’ of the Vienna Circle
11.30-12.10: Pierre Wagner (Paris), History of a Distorted Representation. The View from France in the Second Half of the 20th Century
12.10-13.30: Lunch break
13.30-14.10: Johannes Friedl (Graz), Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism in Neurath
14.15-14.55: Alexander Linsbichler (Linz), Hans Hahn as a Pioneer of Logical Tolerance
15.00-15.20: Coffee break
15.20-16.00: Francesca Biagioli (Turin), Different Kinds of Implicit Definitions: Schlick, Carnap, and the History of Modern Axiomatics
16.05-16.45: Thomas Uebel (London), How Many carnaps Does it Take to Change an Aufbau? Carnap’s Controversial Recollections in the Light of Revisionist Interpretations
16.45-17.05: Coffee break
17.05-17.45: Christoph Schuringa (London), The Unity of Science in Red Vienna
17.50-18.30: Christian Damböck (Vienna), Lenin Debunked: What a Socialism Grounded in Logical Empiricism Might Look Like
19.00-20.15: Alan Richardson - 1st Michael Friedman Memorial Lecture
The Logical, the Methodological, and the Epistemological: Structural Objectivity and its After-Images in Reichenbach and Carnap