June 16-18, 2016, University of Vienna
Ernst Mach (1838-1916) – Life, Work, and Influence: An International Conference, University of Vienna and Austrian Academy of Sciences. The Call for Papers and other information is available at: http://www.univie.ac.at/ivc/MachCentenaryED.pdf
Questions can be directed to the local organizer Friedrich Stadler: Friedrich.Stadler@univie.ac.at
Mach’s reputation as a preeminent physicist, historian and philosopher needs no elaboration. Unfortunately Mach’s sterling and insightful work as an educator, both a theorist and practitioner, is not as well-known in the Anglo-American community as it deserves to be. He was one of the foremost contributors to the Enlightenment Tradition in education, and more specifically in science education; however if known at all, his work is often dismissed in the more general trite dismissal of all things positivist.
Conference papers will be in the following sections:
- Ernst Mach’s Life and Work in Context
- Mach as a Physicist and the Physicists of his Time: Planck, Boltzmann, Einstein …
- Mach, Biology, and the Life Sciences: Darwinism, Lamarckism, Theory of Evolution
- Mach and Physiology, Psychology, Psychoanalysis
- Mach and the Medical Sciences, esp. the Vienna School of Medicine
- Mach and the History and Philosophy of Science (HPS, Historical Epistemology)
- Mach, Didactics, and Pedagogy: Textbooks, Genetic Theory of Learning
- Mach and „Austrian Philosophy“: F. Brentano, E. Husserl, L. Wittgenstein, K. Popper
- Mach and the Vienna Circle/Ernst Mach Society, esp. M. Schlick (1882-1936).
- Mach and Pragmatism: Ch.S. Peirce, W. James, J. Dewey and The Monist
- Mach, the Social Sciences, and Politics (W.I. Lenin, F. Adler and Austro-Marxism)
- Mach, Literature, Music, and the Arts (Impressionism, „Jung Wien”, R. Musil etc.)
- Open Section: Topics not covered above
Special Symposium: “E. Mach, P. Duhem and French Philosophy of Science. On the Occasion of the Centenary of Pierre Duhem’s Death (1861-1916)”
Posted: January 13, 2016