The Institute Vienna Circle and the Unit for Applied Philosophy of Science and Epistemology are together organizing a workshop on 'Moral and Political Philosophy in the German-Speaking Lands around 1900'. The dates are June 24th and 25th.
EVERYBODY WELCOME! The event is 'in person' only.
Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG), lecture halls 3A and 3D
Friday, June 24
Lecture hall 3A
9:00-9.15 Welcoming Remarks & Coffee
Moral Philosophy, Psychology, and Physiology
9.15-10.25 'Old is New: The Example of Emil du Bois-Reymond'
Gabriel Finkelstein (University of Colorado)
10.25-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-11.40 'Fechner and Wundt: Conservation of Energy and Free Will in 19th Century Physiological Psychology'
Chiara Russo Kraus (Università "Federico II" di Napoli)
11.40-11.50 Coffee Break
Moral Philosophy and the Social Sciences
11.50-13.00 'Dilthey on Normativity and Values in the Geisteswissenschaften'
Henriikka Hannula (University of Vienna)
13.00-15.00 Lunch
15.00-16.10 'Simmel on Freedom'
Martin Kusch (University of Vienna)
16.10-16.20 Coffee Break (10 min)
Moral Philosophy and Judaism
16.20-17.30 'Trust in Dialogue and the Inclusion of the Stranger in the German-Jewish Context of the 19th and 20th Century' (HYBRID)
Sabine Sander (McMaster University)
Saturday, June 25
Lecture hall 3D
9:00-9.15 Coffee
Moral and Political Philosophy
9.15-10.25 'Luxemburg’s Critique of Bourgeois Ethics'
Christoph Schuringa (New College of the Humanities, London)
10.25-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-11.40 'Cohen’s Kant-Inspired Critique of Exploitation'
'Elisabeth Widmer (University of Vienna)
11.40-11.50 Coffee Break
11.50-13.00 'Vienna Activism: The Ethics and Politics of Social Reform in Fin-de-Siècle Austria'
Bastian Stoppelkamp (University of Vienna)
13.00-15.00 Lunch
Moral Philosophy and The Vienna Circle
15.00-16.10 'Avenarius’ Criticism of the Substance Concept and Anti-Metaphysics'
Lucas Baccarat (University of Sao Paulo) (HYBRID)
16.10-16.20 Coffee Break
16.20-17.30 'Max Weber’s Value Philosophy and its Impact on Logical Empiricism'
Christian Damböck (University of Vienna)