Thursday, February 26
08:30 Registration
Morning session chair: Radek Schuster (RCTHS)
10:00 Radek Schuster (RCTHS)
Opening: The Vienna Circle in Pilsen
10:30 Friedrich Stadler (IVC)
IT: Vienna – Prague – Vienna: A Re-evaluation of the Intellectual Networks from Mach to the Vienna Circle
11:30 Coffee break
12:00 Jan Šebestík (Paris)
IT: How Philosophers in the Czech Lands Broke Ground for the Vienna Circle (Bolzano, Mach and Masaryk)
13:00 Lunch break (lunches are on your own)
Afternoon session chair: Stefanie Dach (RCTHS)
14:30 Michael Stöltzner (University of South Carolina/Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)
IT: Fluctuations and Their Philosophy
15:30 Veronika Hofer (University of Bielefeld)
IT: Philipp Frank’s Networking in Prague with Philosophers, Physicists and Biologists
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 Jiří Langer (Charles University)
RT: The Vienna Circle and Space-time
17:45 Jakub Mácha and Jan Zouhar (Masaryk University)
RT: Arnošt Kolman’s Critique of Mathematical Fetishism
19:00 Conference dinner at the Pilsner Urquell Brewery
Friday, February 27
Morning session chair: Christoph Limbeck (IVC)
10:00 Jaroslav Peregrin (Czech Academy of Sciences/University of Hradec Králové)
IT: Carnap’s Inferentialism
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Georg Schiemer (University of Vienna)
RT: Carnap’s Early Metatheory
12:15 Ondřej Beran (RCTHS)
RT: Husserl in Prague: Phenomenological Criticisms on Carnap & Co.
13:00 Lunch break (lunches are on your own)
Afternoon session chair: Tomáš Marvan (RCTHS)
14:30 Tomáš Hoskovec (Cercle linguistique de Prague/Masaryk University)
RT: The Wiener Kreis and The Cercle Linguistique de Prague: (k)eine Wahlverwandtschaft?
15:15 Marek Nagy and Michal Kříž (Palacký University Olomouc)
RT: Tensions and Paradoxes: The Relation Between the Prague Linguistic Circle and the Vienna Circle
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Tomáš Hříbek (Czech Academy of Sciences)
RT: Minimum Dwellings: Otto Neurath and Karel Teige on Architecture
18:00 Guided tour of 2 Adolf Loos’s interiors (Klatovská 12, Bendova 10)
20:00 Informal social gathering in a typical Pilsner pub (Restaurant 12, Kopeckého sady 8)
Saturday, February 28
Morning session chair: Stefanie Dach (RCTHS)
10:00 Dieter Hoffmann (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
IT: Prague and the Emigration of German Scientists After 1933
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Juraj Hvorecký (Czech Academy of Sciences)
RT: Hrušovský on Social Sciences
12:00 Miloš Kratochvíl (RCTHS)
RT: Why Czech Positivism Did Not Become Logical
12:45 Closing ceremony
13:00 Have lunch and open up your Pilsen! (Brewery/Underground/Galleries/Museums)
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IT: Invited talk – 45min, 15min discussion. RT: Regular talk – 30min, 15min discussion