CFP: Hermeneutics of Science and Technology - A Reconsideration

Submission deadline: May 5, 2013

Conference date(s):
July 28, 2013 - August 3, 2013

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Conference Venue:

International Society for Hermeneutics and Science
Vienna, Austria

Topic areas

Details

We cordially invite you to participate in the conference and to contribute to the discussion on the role of hermeneutics in the understanding general and specific problems of the sciences and technologies and its related fields. The main topics of the conference: Science, Technology, Hermeneutics, Hermeneutics of Science and Technology in Different Contexts and Perspectives. Papers in this topic and any related topics are very welcome.

Topics are included, but not limited, to:

Hermeneutics, science, technology
Hermeneutics of science and technology
Hermeneutics as a philosophy of science and philosophy of technology
Comparative analyses of hermeneutic and analytic, constructivist, etc views on science and technology
Phenomenology and hermeneutics
Hermeneutics and phenomenology in the last two decades
Heidegger's views on science and technology
Philosophy of cognition
Social cognition
Philosophy of information
Philosophy of communication
Is there any role of wisdom in sciences?
Contexts and perspectives in philosophy of specific sciences

Final deadline for abstracts: 5 May, 2013

Please send the title and a - less than 1 page long - abstract of your contribution to the following address:[email protected]

Notification of acceptance: continuously, normally several days after arrival (final: 6 May 2013)

Registration: please register to the conference on the website: http://ishs.hu/registration

Background

The International Society for Hermeneutics and Science (ISHS) was established in 1993 to develop an understanding of the role of hermeneutics in natural sciences (and technology) through, among other activities, organizing meetings, and facilitate discussions.

http://www.ishs.hu/

The first ISHS conference was organized twenty years ago, in September 1993 in Hungary and the last one was held in August 2010 in Austria. In between we had many meetings, conferences, workshops, etc. as you can consult our webpage:

http://www.ishs.hu/meetings

In these decades there happened some essential changes in the intellectual environment of the studies on science and technology - and perhaps some parts of them was influenced by activities of the society.

On the 2013 - twentieth anniversary - conference of the ISHS we would like to consider these changes: to understand in a better and clearer way the specificity of this approach to the philosophy of science and technology, to enumerate the contributions of this view to the understanding of nature, of science, of technology, of human being, of society, and so on, moreover to reconsider the possibilities of the hermeneutic views on science, technology, and the related fields in the recent cultural and intellectual environment.

To support this possibility we figured out a special structure of our 2013 conference: the context change will be included into the structure of the conference in a way. The conference starts in Vienna, Austria and after two conference days we will take a ship to travel along the river Danube to Budapest, Hungary, where the conference will be finished with two another conference days. It is probably unnecessary to emphasize the significance and the complexity of this Austrian/Hungarian context change – even in the case of conferencing and in many more points of view. Hopefully you will have some personal experience on them in August.

General plan of the conference

Part One: Vienna

28 July 2013, Sunday, Vienna
Arrival at Vienna
Evening: Informal meeting at the Hotel bar

29-30 July 2013 Monday & Tuesday, Vienna
Lectures

29 July 2013, Monday, Vienna
Evening: Bus travel to Pfaffstatten visiting a Heurigen

30 July 2013, Tuesday, Vienna
Evening: free for Vienna sight seeing etc.

Part Two: Vienna-Danube-Budapest

31 July 2013, Wednesday, Vienna-Danube-Budapest
7.45h: Bus transfer to the Danube ship station in Vienna
Ship starts at 9.00h and arrives in Budapest at 14.30h.
Free time for Budapest

Part Three: Budapest

1-2 August 2013, Thursday & Friday, Budapest
Lectures

1 August 2013, Thursday, Budapest
Evening: free time

2 August 2013, Friday, Budapest
Evening: Farewell Party in Budapest

3 August 2013, Saturday, Budapest
Ship goes back to Vienna at 9.00h and arrives in Vienna at 15.30h.

The venues

Vienna: We are so lucky that in Vienna the conference (lectures and accommodations) is accommodated in a very nice Castle-Hotel: the Hotel Wilheminenberg. Here you can see it: http://www.austria-trend.at/Hotel-Schloss-Wilhelminenberg/en/

Budapest: the lectures will be held on the Lagymanyos Campus of the Eotvos University (here you can see it:http://ttk.elte.hu/)

Accommodations

Vienna: We would propose the above mentioned Hotel Wilheminenberg. Number of room available till May 5, double rooms for individual use (this means, that the double rooms can be used as single rooms) in a relatively good price. Costs for hotel room and breakfast for one day: Euro 115,- (all taxes are included).

If you choice this, please reserve your accommodation directly at the Hotel Wilhemienberg latest by May 5. Important: All participants have to use special reservation code of the conference when booking: ISHS CONFERENCE 2013
Contact for reservation: Mrs. Nicole Gedlicka +43 1 4858503 555.
Reservations should be made to the following e-mail address:
 [email protected]

Budapest: A list of hotels in different categories close to the campus will be offered soon on the webpage of the conference: http://www.ishs.hu/accommodation2013

Financial information

The conference fee will be Euro 350,-

Conference materials, conference rooms, coffee breaks & 2 lunches in Vienna and in Budapest as well as the fee of the Farewell Party in Budapest are included in the conference fee. Accommodation and travel to Budapest and back, and the Heurigen in Pfaffstatten is not included.

Travel options: The price for ship ticket (Vienna-Budapest-Vienna): Euro 125,-  Alternative if you do not like shipping: there are frequent trains from Vienna to Budapest and back for Euro 80,- If you like it a bus travel to Pfaffstatten, visiting a Heurigen will be payed Euro 25,-.

Schedule and important dates

  • as soon as you can decide please send a message to Laszlo Ropolyi ([email protected]) about your interest in the conference and please offer a title, and a - less than 1 page long - abstract of your presentation  (not later than 5 May 2013).
  • the review of your contribution will be done in continuously, so you will normally get the notification about the acceptance of your contribution within several days; but not later than 6 May 2013.
  • please register to the conference on the website: http://ishs.hu/registration
  • to validate your registration please transfer your registration fee. The financial information you can find at the webpage: http://www.ishs.hu/program2013
  • before 7 May 2013 please book your room at the Hotel Wilhemienberg if you select this (suggested) hotel
  • to support the successful discussions all abstracts will be published on the webpage of the ISHS from the middle of May
  • until 7 May please send an information about your choice between ship and train in the Vienna-Budapest-Vienna relation
  • until 7 May please reserve your accommodation in Budapest (the list of suggested hotels are coming soon ion the webpage of the conference: http://www.ishs.hu/accommodation2013)
  • from the middle of May all the relevant information, the program, the abstracts, etc. you can find the webpage of the conference: http://www.ishs.hu/
  • 28 July 2013 conference opening

We would be really happy to meet you on the conference. If you need any additional information do not hesitate to contact one of the organizers:


Guenther Fleck
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
[email protected]

Paul Ertl
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
[email protected]

Olga Kiss
Corvinus University
Budapest, Hungary
[email protected]

Laszlo Ropolyi
Eotvos University
Budapest, Hungary
[email protected]

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