Rethinking Leadership

We are organizing a small two-day workshop on the philosophy of leadership, in Vienna, for late July.

We want to focus on exploring leadership through the lens of analytic philosophy.  Anyone with any training can participate, as long as you’re ready to use that lens for two days.  No papers will be presented; all materials will be distributed and read in advance.

We plan to have up to eight sessions.  If you want us to discuss your work, please send us an abstract for approval. 

Dates: 

• July 30 and 31, 2025
• June 25, send abstract for quick yes/no
• July 16, send draft for pre-reading (enough for basis of 90-minute philosophical conversation)
• July 19, receive link to all reading materials

Place: 

• Webster Vienna Private University, Palais Wenkheim, Praterstrass 23, 1020, Wien.  This is immediately adjacent to the first district;  many hotels are within a five minute walk.

Sponsors:

• Curtin Centre for Applied Ethics, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
• Webster Vienna Private University, Vienna, Austria

Organizers/Contact Information:

• Jacqueline Boaks, Curriculum Lead, Curtin Centre for Applied Ethics, Faculty of Business and Law, Curtin University
• [email protected]
• David Carl Wilson, Professor of Philosophy, Webster University and WVPU
• [email protected]

Registration:

• Free.  Please email Jacqui or David by June 25 if possible, indicating whether you would like to submit work or merely participate.

Examples of topics (if we do not get six proposals):

• Republic, book 7, leadership implications of the myth of the cave?
• The Prince, chapter 17, fear over love in both political and corporate settings?
• Does Zaleznik’s classic HBR article stand up to scrutiny?
• Is Audi right to claim that the character trait of leadership is the basic concept?