[PHILOS-L] KLI Colloquium on 14 Oct Tuesday 3PM: Vienna, the Laboratory of Modernity

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Dear friends and colleagues, A gentle reminder for the KLI Colloquium tomorrow (14th Oct, Tuesday) at 3PM. We kindly invite you to participate in our next KLI Colloquium on 14th Oct (Tuesday), free & open to the public via Zoom. https://www.kli.ac.at/content/colloquia KLI HYBRID COLLOQUIUM Speaker: Dr Richard Cockett  Topic description / abstract: I will be talking about how Vienna became a centre of scientific progress in the late 19th century/early 2th century, and how this impacted on many aspects of the city's cultural, artistic and intellectual life. This led to the development of the "Scientific World View" espoused by the Vienna Circle of philosophers during 1920s, a hallmark of Vienna's contribution to Western intellectual life. I argue that the vitality and importance of this tradition in part explains why the Nazis did their utmost to obliterate Vienna' scientific culture during the 1930s and after. But Vienna also led other centres of scientific excellence in applying theory and ideas to entirely new areas of human endeavour, thus creating the modern "knowledge economy". Appropriately, this was a term coined and popularised by two Viennese, Peter Drucker, the founder of management studies, and the economist Fritz Machlup. Like these two, many Viennese were forced to emigrate from the city in the late 1930s, taking the early building building blocks of the knowledge economy, and the scientific methodology, with them. Thus, in very profound ways, the Viennese world view helped to shape the West during the 20th century. Biographical note: Dr Richard Cockett is a historian, writer and journalist. He is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; a senior editor of The Economist; and the author of "Vienna: How the City of Ideas created the Modern World", published by Yale University Press in 2023. Previously a lecturer in history and politics at the University of London, for The Economist he has reported from Latin America, African and South and South-East Asia. He has written several books on British history and also world affairs. "Vienna" won the Bruno Kreisky prize for political book of the year in 2024, and was also runner-up as Austria's science book of the year in a poll of readers.        https://www.kli.ac.at/content/colloquia Get in contact! The KLI is an independent center of advanced studies in the life and sustainability sciences. The mission of the institute is to enable scientific reasoning that can contribute to understanding and sustaining life on Earth in its biological, cognitive, social, and cultural diversity.   The KLI supports research focusing on evolutionary theory, especially in its relation to development, cognition, and sustainability science, as well as on the history, philosophy, and social studies of science.

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