Life and Work: On writing About Philosopher’s Lives

13-14 June 2025

Neues Institutsgebäude, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien

Friday, 13 June
NIG, Room 3D

9:45 Welcome and introduction
10:00 -11:00 Christian Damböck, Rudolf Carnap in Chicago. The transformation of antimetaphysics
11:30 – 12:30 Patricia Grill, “Revered Miss”: Otto Neurath’s Early Letters and Reflections on Ellen Key

NIG, Room 2G
14:30 – 15:30 Matteo Collodel, False Memories and True Lies: Personal, institutional and philosophical issues in intellectual biography writing – The case of Paul K. Feyerabend
16:00 – 17:00 Zofia Hałęza, Philosophy beyond the text: women as architects of intellectual space

Saturday, 14 June
NIG, Room 3A
10:00 – 11:00 Sophia Connell, Early analytic women philosophers in Cambridge
11:30 – 12:30 Alan Richardson, When is biography philosophical? Lessons from the life of Hans Reichenbach
14:30 – 15:30 Cheryl Misak, Incorporating Technical Material in an Intellectual Biography
16:00 – 18:00 Marta Sznajder, From a bag of facts to a narrative – Workshopping the biography of Janina Hosiason-Lindenbaum

19:00 Workshop dinner