The Vienna Circle – Currentness in Science and Art

Fri, July 01 – Sat, July 02, 2016

A man lying on a mountaintop, in the background you can see a mountain panorama

Location: Cube

Even now, the stimuli of the Vienna Circle are not just pervasive in modern exact sciences, such as physics, mathematics, information technology and engineering. They have also defined disciplines such as economy, architecture, psychology and literature. The influence of the Vienna Circle goes beyond social progressive movements into modern art. On the occasion of the »Vienna Circle. Exact Thinking on the Edge of Doom« exhibition at the Center for Art and Media, the Institute Vienna Circle of the University of Vienna, the Institute of Philosophy and the Institute of Technological Impact Assessment (ITAS) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) are jointly hosting a two-day symposium about the impact and impact history of the Circle from the short period of its existence to the present day.

Schedule Fri, July 1, 2016
Schedule Sat, July, 2016

Friday, July 1, 2016

The Vienna Circle – Retrospectives & relevance to the present day
Section management: Friedrich Stadler, Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna

10:00-10:15	Welcome
10:15-11:00	Friedrich Stadler (University of Vienna): The Vienna Circle – The present day relevance of an interdisciplinary and global »scientific world view«
11:00-11:45	Stefan Scherer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): The Vienna Circle and German literature of the interwar and post-war period
12:00-12:45	Károly Kokai (University of Vienna): Aesthetics and logical empiricism – The cultural environment of the Vienna Circle
12:45-13:30	Johan Hartle (Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design): Museum educational service and pictorial statistics. Otto Neurath’s policy of visibility
13:30-15:00	Lunch break

The influence of the Vienna Circle on modern natural and technical sciences
Section management: Rafaela Hillerbrand, Institute of Technological Impact Assessment / Institute of Philosophy, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

15:00-15:45	Michael Stöltzner (University of South Carolina): Modern physics and its philosophy: The demand of the Vienna Circle in times of LHC and string theory
16:00-16:45	Volker Peckhaus (University of Paderborn): Logic in logical empiricism
17:00-17:45	Veronika Hofer (Bielefeld University): About the biological system theory of the Vienna Circle
18:00-18:45	Thomas van Clarmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): The Viennese, the Berliners and the climate

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Political philosophy, economy and mathematics as the subject of the Vienna Circle
Section management: Ulrich Arnswald, Institute of Philosophy, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

9:00-9:45	Ulrich Arnswald (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): The connection of utopianism from Mach to the Vienna Circle
10:00-10:45	Martin Lemke (University of Rostock): Schlick as a political philosopher – politics as technology
11:00-11:45	Karl Sigmund (University of Vienna): The Vienna Circle and its mathematical parallel
12:00-12:45	Clemens Puppe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): John von Neumann, Oskar Morgenstern and the origins of modern economic game theory in the Vienna Circle
12:45-14:00	Lunch break
14:00-14:45	Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau (University of Vienna): The internationalisation of logical empiricism and its public impact

The Vienna Circle as the inspiration for art, architecture, media and aesthetics
Section management: Peter Weibel, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

15:00-15:45	Peter Weibel (Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe): The Vienna Circle, from Ernst Mach to Ludwig Wittgenstein, and their aesthetic consequences
16:00-16:45	Romana Karla Schuler (University of Applied Arts Vienna): Ernst Mach and the avant-garde of the present
17:00-17:45	Jochen Hörisch (University of Mannheim): The logical empiricism of »graphic« media: Photography – phonography – cinematography
18:00-18:45	Georg Vrachliotis (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): Architecture and the Vienna Circle
18:45-19:30	Concluding panel
Presented by:	Rafaela Hillerbrand (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Panel participants:	Hermann Czech (Vienna) Hans Lenk (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) Karl Sigmund (University of Vienna) Friedrich Stadler (University of Vienna) Georg Vrachliotis (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): Peter Weibel (Center of Art and Media Karlsruhe)