20th Anniversary Conference of the International Society for Hermeneutics & Science:
Vienna, Austria – Budapest, Hungary
28 July – 3 August 2013
Call for Paper
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to call your contributions to the conference
Hermeneutics of Science and Technology – A Reconsideration.
This will be the Twentieth Anniversary Conference of the International Society for Hermeneutics and Science, and will be held between 28 July – 3 August 2013 in Vienna, Austria, and in Budapest, Hungary.
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
ABSTRACTS
Final deadline for abstracts: 1 May, 2013
(One can send an abstract after 1st of May too, but after 31st of May we cannot make it sure, that there will be place in the program to present, and after 30th June we cannot make it sure to include it into the Book of Abstracts.
Anyway, it can be “presented” as a poster paper, and can be included into the Proceedings of the Conference.)
Please send the title and a – less than 1 page long – abstract of your contribution to the following address: ropolyi@caesar.elte.hu
Notification of acceptance: continuously, normally several days after arrival (final: 5 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.
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:
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.
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/)
Calendar
Schedule and important dates
- as soon as you can decide please send a message to Laszlo Ropolyi ( ropolyi@caesar.elte.hu) 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 1 May 2013).
- NEW One can send an abstract after 1st of May too, but after 31st of May we cannot make it sure, that there will be place in the program to present, and after 30th June we cannot make it sure to include it into the Book of Abstracts.
Anyway, it can be “presented” as a poster paper, and can be included into the Proceedings of the Conference. - 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 5 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 5 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 5 May please send an information about your choice between ship and train in the Vienna-Budapest-Vienna relation
- until 5 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
Program
Preliminary Program
Part One: in Vienna (28-31 July 2013)
28 July 2013, Sunday, Vienna
Arrival at Vienna
Registration in the lobby of the Hotel Schloss Wilhelminenberg from 6 pm.
Evening: Informal Meeting at the Hotel Bar
29 July 2013 Monday, Vienna
9.00 – 10:00 Registration in the lobby of the Hotel Schloss Wilhelminenberg
10:00 – 10:15 Opening
10.15 – 10.45 Ragnar Fjelland: From Democratization of Knowledge to Democratization of Ignorance – and the Importance of Hermeneutics
10.45 – 11:15 Andreas Beinsteiner: Das Wesen der Technik: Relating Heidegger’s Philosophy of Technology to Media Studies
11:15 – 11:45 Barbara Zahnen: Nature in Geography and the Oblivion of Geography
11.45 – 12:15 Coffee break
12.15 – 13:15 Keynote address: Tihamér Margitay: How is Complex and Science Compatible Ontology Possible?
13:15 – 15:00 Lunch break
15.00 – 15:30 Jeremy Jager: The Question of the Meaning of Being and the Geometry of Interaction
15:30 – 16:00 László Székely: Melchior Palágyi and the Four-Dimensional Space-Time: a Philosophico-Hemeneutic Theory of Time and Space-Time by a Philosopher from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy at the Turn of the 19th-20th Century
16.00 – 16: 30 Coffee break
18:30 Bus travel to Pfaffstätten visiting a Heurigen
30 July 2013 Tuesday, Vienna
10:00 – 10:30 Guenther Fleck: Toward New Solutions Concerning Scientific Problems: Transcending Contextual Constraints via Systematic Self-Reflection
10.30 – 11.00 Chandrima Christiansen: Technology and Hermeneutics of Identity
11.00 – 11:30 Josette Jacobs: Lewis Mumford’s Megamachines and Gadamerian Hermeneutics
11.30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 13:00 Keynote address: David Weberman: A Question Unanswered by Gadamer
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
14.30 – 15:00 Rainer Born and Eva Gatarik: A New Kind of „Hermeneutics of Knowledge“ (The Stepping in of an Ecology of Innovation)
15:00 – 15:30 Michael Funk: Hermeneutics and Perspectivism in Classical Music and Genetics – Embodied Technics Upside Down and Downside Up
15.30 – 16:00 Paul Ertl: Progressus Theory and Hermeneutics: Transcending Intersubjective Constraints
16.00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30 Roundtable on the last 20 years of the ISHS. Chair: Reinhard Schulz
Evening: free for Vienna sightseeing etc.
Part Two: Vienna – Danube – Budapest (31 July 2013)
31 July, on the Danube
7:45 Bus transfer from the conference hotel to the Danube ship station in Vienna
Ship starts at 9:00 and arrives in Budapest at 14:30
Afternoon/evening: free time for Budapest
Part Three: Budapest (1 August – 3 August 2013)
1 August 2013, Thursday, Budapest
9.00 – 10:00 Registration on the ground floor of the South Building of the Lágymányos campus of the Eötvös University
10:00 – 10:30 Gábor Kutrovátz: Interpreting Boundary Phenomena in Science
10.30 – 11.00 Abigail Klassen: Social Constructionism and Emancipation: A Covertly Aporetic Relationship
11.00 – 11:30 Ágnes Kovács: The Philosophy of Science of Georg Lukács
11.30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 13:00 Keynote address: Trish Glazebrook: Science and Development: Perspectives from the Global South
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
14.30 – 15:00 Makoto Katsumori: A Critical Viewpoint on the ‘Eastern’ Conception of Nature
15:00 – 15:30 Oscar Diamante: The Hermeneutics of Information in the Contex of Information Technology
15.30 – 16:00: László Ropolyi: Interpretation, Information, Internet
16.00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00 Gábor Forgács: Martin Eger Memorial Lecture
2 August 2013, Friday, Budapest
10:00 – 10:30 Reinhard Schulz: Hermeneutics of the Self in Science Education
10.30 – 11.00 Daniel Golden: Hermeneutical Praxis and the Growth of Knowledge in Lakatos’ Imaginary Classroom
11.00 – 11:30 Olga Kiss: If Socrates were a Coach
11.30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 13:00 Keynote address: Bart Gremmen: Just Do It: the Interpretation of Instrumental Action
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
14.30 – 15:00 Koray Karaca: The Data-Selection process of the ATLAS Experiment as a Distributed Cognitive System
15:00 – 15:30 Éva Gedő/Tibor Schwendtner: tba
15.30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16.00 – 16:30 Closing Address
19:00: Farewell party
3 August 2013, Saturday, Budapest
Ship goes back to Vienna at 9:00 and arrives in Vienna at 15:30
Accommodation
Vienna
The first part of the conference (28-31 July 2013) will be held in the Castle Hotel Wilhelminenberg:
http://www.austria-trend.at/Hotel-Schloss-Wilhelminenberg/en/
It is relatively far from the city (but has and amazing view), so we suggest you to book your room as early as you can.
We have a contract with the hotel to save 30 rooms for the participants of the conference until 2 April 2013.
After that date we cannot ensure you can have a place close to the venue of the conference.
We would propose the above mentioned Hotel Wilheminenberg. Number of room available till April 3, 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).
Please reserve your accommodation directly at the Hotel Wilhemienberg latest by April 3.
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: reservierung.schloss.wilhelminenberg@austria-trend.at
Budapest
Budapest (31 July-2 August 2013):
A list of hotels in different categories close to the campus:
- BME Professor Guesthaus
- Hotel Peregrinus (with special rate if you book before 04.30.2013.)
- Mercure Budapest Buda Hotel
- Mercure Budapest City Centre Hotel
- Danubius Hotel Gellért
Contact
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
guenther.fleck@univie.ac.at
Paul Ertl
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
paul.ertl@meduniwien.ac.at
Olga Kiss
Corvinus University
Budapest, Hungary
kissolga@uni-corvinus.hu
Laszlo Ropolyi
Eotvos University
Budapest, Hungary
ropolyi@caesar.elte.hu
Abstracts of the 2013 Vienna-Budapest Conference of ISHS
- A Critical Viewpoint on the ‘Eastern’ Conception of Nature
by Makoto Katsumori - A New Kind of „Hermeneutics of Knowledge“ (The Stepping in of an Ecology of Innovation)
by Rainer Born & Eva Gatarik - A philosophico-hermeneutic theory of space-time>from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy at the turn of the 19th-20th century.
by László Székely - Das Wesen der Technik: Relating Heidegger’s Philosophy of Technology to Media Studies
by Andreas Beinsteiner - From democratization of knowledge to democratization of ignorance – and the importance of hermeneutics
by Ragnar Fjelland - Georg Lukács’ Philosophy of Science
byÁgnes Kovács - Hermeneutical Praxis and the Growth of Knowledge in Lakatos’ Imaginary Classroom by
Daniel L. Golden - Hermeneutics and Perspectivism in Classical Music and Genetics – Embodied Technics upside down and downside up byMichael Funk (Research Assistant in Philosophy of Technology, TU Dresden, Germany)
- Hermeneutics of the Self in Science Education byReinhard Schulz
- How is Complex and Science Compatible Ontology Possible?Emergence and Fundamental Ontologyby
Tihamér Margitay - If Socrates were a Coach by
Olga Kiss - Interpreting boundary phenomena in science byGábor Kutrovátz
- Lewis Mumford’s megamachines and Gadamerian Hermeneutics byJosette Jacobs
- Nature in geography and the oblivion of geography byBarbara Zahnen
- Progressus Theory and Hermeneutics: Transcending Intersubjective Constraintsby Paul Ertl
- Social constructionism and emancipation: A covertly aporetic relationship byby Abigail Klassen
- Technology and the Hermeneutics of Identity by
Chandrima Christiansen - The data-selection process of the ATLAS experiment as a distributed cognitive system by
Koray Karaca - The Hermeneutics of Information in the context of Information Technology by
OSCAR R. DIAMANTE - Toward New Solutions Concerning Scientific Problems: Transcending Contextual Constraints via Systematic Self-Reflectionby Günther Fleck