Workshop: Invariance and Objectivity

June 28-29, 2023

Venue: Room 3A (D0312), 3rd floor, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna

Organized by: Alexander Reutlinger (LMU Munich) and Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna)

Funded by ERC Project: "The Formal Turn - The Emergence of Formalism in Twentieth-Century Thought" (GA No 101044114).

Workshop Program:

Day 1    Wednesday | June 28, 2023

  • 10:15 – 10:30  Opening
  • 10:30 – 11:30  Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki) "Unifying the Notion of Objectivity"
  • 11:30 – 11:45  Tea/Coffee, Room 3A (D0312)
  • 11:45 – 12:45  Alexander Reutlinger (LMU Munich) "Articulating Invariantism. Objectivity as Independence Revisited"
  • 12:45 – 15:00  Lunch
  • 15:00 – 16:00  Sophie Juliane Veigl (University of Vienna) "50 Shades of Objectivity in Feminist Philosophies of Science"
  • 16:00 – 16:15  Tea/Coffee, Room 3A (D0312)
  • 16:15 – 17:15  Martin Kusch (University of Vienna) "Objective Spirit, Objective Culture, Objective Knowledge: From Hegel to Popper (via Steinthal and Simmel)"
  • 19:00        Workshop Dinner


Day 2    Thursday | June 29, 2023

  • 9:00 – 10:00  Gila Sher (University of California San Diego) "Brute Facts and Strong Invariances: Objectivity, Necessity, and Laws"
  • 10:00 – 10:15 Tea/Coffee, Room 3A (D0312)
  • 10:15 – 11:15 Gil Sagi (University of Haifa) "Logicality and Invariance in Natural Language"
  • 11:15 – 11:30 Tea/Coffee, Room 3A (D0312)
  • 11:30 – 12:30 Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna) "What is Implicit Structure?"
  • 12:30 – 15:00 Lunch
  • 15:00 – 16:00 Iulian Toader (University of Vienna) "Perspective-Sensitive Invariantism"
  • 16:00 – 16:15 Tea/Coffee, Room 3A (D0312)
  • 16:15 – 17:15 Neil Dewar (University of Cambridge) "Against "Perspicuity""

For further information visit:
https://formalism.phl.univie.ac.at/

https://www.mcmp.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/events/workshops/container/objectivity_2023/