Universität Wien

180175 VO-L Philosophy Lectures (2013W)

Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Social Ontology

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 18 - Philosophie

PHILOSOPHY LECTURES - EPISTEMOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, SOCIAL ONTOLOGY

Donnerstag: 17-19 Uhr, NIG 2.Stock, HS 2i

3. October 2013: Claudine Tiercelin (Paris),Some Reflections about the

Concept of Metaphysical Knowledge

17. October 2013: Léna Soler (Nancy), Could the Contents of our Science

have been Different? Remarks on the Issue of Contingency versus

Inevitability in the Philosophy of Science

31. October 2013: Olivier Morin (Budapest), What would Social Life Look

like without Commitment, without Shared Rules, and without a Distinct

Ontology?

7. November 2013: Ilkka Niiniluoto (Helsinki), Eino Kaila and the Vienna

Circle" (21th Vienna Circle Lecture). Location: Senatssitzungssaal, Hauptgebäude am Universitätsring der Universität Wien. Opening Lecture of the conference Logical

Empiricism and Pragmatism": http://www.univie.ac.at/ivc/LE_Pragmatism.pdf

14. November 2013: Sami Pihlström (Helsinki), Naturalizing the

Transcendental Self?

21. November 2013: Stanley Paulson (St. Louis), Das Ende der reinen

Rechtslehre: Zum Umbruch im Werk Hans Kelsens

28. November 2013: Arthur Ripstein (Toronto): Not on the Merits: Kant and

the Law of War. Joint Lecture with the conference Freedom and Coercion.

Kant's Legal and Political Philosoph", Vienna, Nov. 28-30, 2013,

organized by the ERC-Project "Distortions of Normativity, program:

http://distortions.univie.ac.at/

5. December 2013: Simon Schaffer (Cambridge), Finitism and Orientalist

Natural History

12. December 2013: Stephen Butterfill (Warwick), Collective Intentionality

and Social Intelligence

16. January 2014 Mark Sprevak (Edinburgh), Predictive Coding

23. January 2014: Cristina Becchio (Turin), Intention in Action

30. January 2014: Eerik Lagerspetz (Turku), What is the Philosophical

Significance of the Social Choice Impossibility Results?

Details

Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes

Currently no class schedule is known.

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This lecture course offers an overview over central issues in epistemology, social ontology as well as history and philosophy of science. Languages of instruction are German and English.

Assessment and permitted materials

(1) Summaries of six out of all lectures. Each summary must be between 600 and 1200 words. Please include a word count.
(2) An essay on one of the lectures. The essay must be between 4000 and
5500 words. Please include a word count. The first deadline for the six
summaries and the essay is March 7, 2014. Please
submit your manuscripts in electronic format (.doc, .rtf or .wpd) by
sending them as email attachments to hans.bernhard.schmid@univie.ac.at and
friedrich.stadler@univie.ac.at

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Orientation and survey on contemporary trends and issues in the fields of epistemology, social ontology, and philosophy of science. Ciritcal analysis of ongoing debates and related publications.

Examination topics

Lectures and discussions. Independent study.

Reading list

Will be provided by the lecturers

Association in the course directory

MA M 1 Theoretische Philosophie
M3 A. Erkenntistheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Technik- u. Medienphilosophie
MA M 1 Geist-Welt-Sprache
MA M 3 Philosophie der Gegenwart
MA 4 HPS
MA M 3 A
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