Talk at Vienna, Charlotte Baumann, March 11th, 2021, at 3pm (CET)

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From: Martin Kusch <martin...@univie.ac.at>

CORRECTION:

The body of the text says "January 11th". It should be "March 11th", as 
in the Subject line.


On 03.03.2021 15:44, Martin Kusch wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> The Institute Vienna Circle and the Unit for Applied Philosophy of
> Science and Epistemology (of the Department of Philosophy of the Univ.
> of Vienna) are jointly organising a series of talks this term.
> 
> The next talk will take place on January 11th, 3-5pm (CET).
> 
> The speaker will be Dr. Charlotte Baumann (Technische Universität
> Berlin). The title of her talk will be:
> 
> "Hermann Cohen and the problem of the (empirical) object of knowledge"
> (abstract and bio below).
> 
> (Further speakers will be: 17 March: Mauricio Suarez; 25 March:
> Jaroslav Peregrin; 15 April: Michael Hannon; 22 April: Caterina Sisti;
> 29 April: Sander Verhaegh; 6 May: Linda Alcoff; 20 May: Heidi
> Grasswick; 27 May: Adrian Currie; 10 June: Patricia Blanchette; 17
> June: Gaile Pohlhaus; 24 June: Marta Sznajder.)
> 
> The meeting will be online via ZOOM:
> 
> https://univienna.zoom.us/j/98767758229?pwd=ZkswaEh4TFNNSzkybDk4RmZOOXh3QT09
> 
> You can also log into our meetings through the Zoom application
> (rather than by clicking the link above), by using the following
> credentials:
> 
> Meeting-ID: 987 6775 8229
> Password: IVC-APSE
> 
> Abstract:
> 
> Natural science is supposed to be true about nature. This may seem
> evident and simple, but, for the neo-Kantian Hermann Cohen in 1885, it
> is actually a hard problem that only exacerbates the general problem
> of knowledge. Nature, or the object of knowledge, is meant to exist
> independently of or, in the very least, be distinguishable from the
> theories about it. This is not only an assumption that most scientists
> hold as a matter of fact. It is also a necessary requirement for the
> validation of theories and claims to truth: Only if there is an
> independent object can you verify a theory with reference to it;
> otherwise you can only say that a theory is internally consistent, but
> neither that it is true or false about the object, nor that is better
> than any other consistent theory. And you have not even started
> thinking about sensible and logical aspects of objects and how
> sensations can help verify scientific theories. In her talk, Charlotte
> Baumann will explore two solutions to the problem of the (empirical)
> objects of knowledge that Cohen discusses in his 1885 Kant's Theory of
> Experience.
> 
> Bio:
> Charlotte Baumann, PhD, is a researcher at Technische Universität
> Berlin, about to start her Humboldt Fellowship at University of
> Sussex, UK. She has published on Kant, Hegel, neo-kantians, Marx and
> Adorno in outlets like the European Journal of Philosophy, Journal of
> the History of Philosophy, British Journal for the HIStory of
> Philosophy and the Oxford Handbook on Adorno. She has been a
> researcher at University College London and teaches in the outreach
> program of Bard College Berlin. (For more information see:
> http://www.drcharlottebaumann.com/)
> 
> On behalf of the organizers,
> Iulian Toader
> Martin Kusch
> 
> 
> Prof. Martin Kusch (he/they); University of Vienna
> Institute Vienna Circle & Department of Philosophy
> https://martinkusch.wixsite.com/website

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Prof. Martin Kusch (he/they); University of Vienna
Institute Vienna Circle & Department of Philosophy
https://martinkusch.wixsite.com/website