19th-20th C. Austrian Thought and Its Legacy

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• (1) Barry Smtih, University at Buffalo, (2) Peter Simons, Trinity College, (3) Wolfgang Grassl, St. Norbert's College, (4) Joaquin Fuster, UCLA, and (5) Rolf George, University of Waterloo
• Thursday 01 November 2012, 09:00-18:00
• Department of Philosophy and Humanities, University of Texas at Arlington, USA.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact gloria.zunigaypostigo.

Abstracts due by August 31, 2012 (Dates of Conference Nov 1-3, 2012)

Department of Philosophy and Humanities University of Texas at Arlington

Call for Papers Austrian Thought at the Turn of the 20th Century November 1-3, 2012

Deadline for Submissions: August 31, 2012

We invite contributions for a conference on Austrian Thought at the turn of the 20th Century. Philosophers of this period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire—led by Franz Brentano—advanced myriad areas of philosophy and innovative psychological research (e.g., Gestalt theory, the Graz School of experimental psychology). Additionally, economists—led by Carl Menger—set forth the theory of subjective value, which prepared the ground for a new conceptual framework for economics. Together, Austrian philosophers and economists collaborated on applications of the notion of intentionality, value theoretical investigations, and the description of social and psychological phenomena.

We seek innovative contributions that draw from or deepen our understanding of the legacy of Austrian philosophy, Austrian economics, or Austrian psychology and, preferably, show the interdisciplinary links that connect the different subject matters that belong to the Brentanian and Mengerian traditions. For the purposes of this conference, we are demarcating the Brentanian tradition as that which starts with Brentano and culminates in the work of the students of his students, such as Stein, Reinach, Ingarden, Witasek, Leśniewski, Łukasiewicz. Similarly, for the purposes of this conference we are demarcating the Mengerian tradition as that which starts with Menger and culminates in the contributions of the last generation of economists of this School who are Austrian nationals.

Suggested categories for papers are:

• The Austrian tradition of psychology and philosophy of mind (e.g., Brentano, intentionality, idea, feeling, and desire, Gestalt, experimental psychology, apriorism, inner consciousness, Hayek’s theory of memory and the emergence of mind) and their influence in later developments in philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience
• Social objects (e.g., law, music, literary works of art, fiction, value, Reinach, Meinong, Menger, Hayek)
• Stein and her description of empathy, and corroborating findings in science, including research in neuroethics and neurophenomenology
• Phenomenology (e.g., Husserl, mereology, intersubjectivity, constitution, the Göttingen Circle)
• Aesthetics (e.g., Musil, Kafka, Ingarden)
• Polish philosophy and the Lvov-Warsaw School (e.g., Twardowski and his students, semantics and truth)
• The social ontology of the Austrian School of economics (e.g., Menger, Hayek, apriorism, spontaneous orders)
• Relations between the Brentano School (or the Austrian School of economics) and the Vienna Circle
• Relations between the Brentano School (or the Austrian School of economics) and Wittgenstein
• Relations between the Brentano School (or the Austrian School of economics) and Freud

Details at http://www.uta.edu/philosophy/ATC.html Please send questions to Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo (gloria.zunigaypostigo@uta.edu).

This talk is part of the Call for Papers: Austrian Thought at the Turn of the 20th Century series.

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