VC100 Program

Friday (May 16, 2025)


Aula (Collegium Humanicum, pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4)

Chair: Artur Koterski
10:20 Introduction

10:30–11:15 Thomas Uebel (University of Manchester)
Pragmatism and the Vienna Circle, 1928-1932: A Cautionary Tale

11:20–12:05 Christian Damböck (University of Vienna)
The Development of Otto Neurath’s Views on Democracy

12:05–12:25 Coffee break

Chair: Ulrich Arnswald
12:25–12:55 Başak Aray (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi)
Vienna Circle in the International Auxiliary Language Movement

13:00–13:45 Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau (University of Vienna)
Waismann on Open Texture and the Nature of Concepts

13:45–14:00 Coffee break

Chair:Georg Schiemer
14:00–14:45 Matteo Collodel (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
Feyerabend and the Alleged Conservatism of Logical Empiricism

14:50–15:10 Artur Koterski (UMCS)
Eckehart Köhler (1939–2023) in memoriam                                                

Saturday (May 17, 2025)


Room 4 (Collegium Humanicum, pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4)

Chair: Thomas Uebel
10:30–11:15 Jan Woleński (WSIiZ Rzeszów)
The Reception of the Vienna Circle in Poland / Online talk (Zoom)

11:20–12:05 Anna Brożek (University of Warsaw)
Interpersonal and Intertextual Connections between the Vienna Circle and the Lvov‑Warsaw School: The Current Stage of Research

12:0512:25 Coffee break

Chair: Christian Damböck
12:25–13:10 Friedrich Stadler (University of Vienna)
New Light on Schlick / Online talk (Zoom)

13:15–13:45 Ulrich Arnswald (University of Innsbruck / University of Kaiserslautern-Landau / Oles Honchar Dnipro National University)
»The Whole Modern Conception of the World is Founded on the Illusion That the So-called Laws of Nature are the Explanations of Natural Phenomena.« (TLP 6.371) – The Core of the Debate Between Ludwig Wittgensteinand the Vienna Circle

13:45–14:00 Coffee break

Chair: Marcin Wolski
14:00–14:45
Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna)
From Hilbert’s Program to Carnap’s Wissenschaftslogik

14:50–15:20 Paweł Kawalec (KUL)
Carnap and Conceptual Re-engineering