Program

Thursday, 26th of August

Icebreaker Party 19.30 o’clock

Sala Terrena, National Defence Academy, Vienna

Friday, 27th of August

09.00 Opening Ceremony and Welcome

09.30-11.00 – Dasein

• Archana Barua: An Attempt at Understanding Heideggerian Dasein
• Andreas Beinsteiner: Heidegger’s History of Being – Between Hermeneutics and Technodeterminism
• Éva Gedő: Heidegger’s Phenomenology and Daseinsanalysis

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-13.00 – History and Culture

• Chandrima Christiansen: Technology and Culture Transfer: Hermeneutics and Philosophy of History
• Friedrich von Petersdorff: Uncertainty within History and Historiography
• Wan Fariza Alyati Wan Zakaria: Hermeneutics, Tafsīr and the Future of Theological Interpretation

13.00-14.30 Lunch 

14.30-16.00 – Technology

• April Elisabeth Pierce: Representation, Concealment, and Techne: 21st Century Reimaginings of Heidegger’s Work
• Arun Kumar Tripathi: Culture of Embodied Skills in Human-Computer Interaction How Embodied Users deal with Embedded Computers
• Michele Rapoport: Domestic Hybrids: ‘Smart Homes’ At The Juncture Of Man And Technology

16.00-16.30 Coffee Break 

16.30-18.00 – Cognition

• Günther Fleck: Scientific Thinking and its Mental Infrastructure
• Ananya Barua: Disembodied Thinking and its Critics
• Péter Érdi: The Schizophrenic Brain: A Broken Hermeneutic Circle

18.30-19.20 Keynote Address by Patrick Heelan: Hermeneutic Consciousness, Perception and Natural Science

Saturday, 28th of August

09.00-09.50 Keynote Address by Dimitri Ginev:
Critical Aspects of the Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science (the Politics of Hermeneutic Realism)

Parallel Session 1

10.00-11.30 – Hermeneutics and Science

• Alexander Nesterow: Wissenschaftliche Hermeneutik: zwischen Verstehen und Interpretieren
• Roberto Wu: Perspectives about Hermeneutics, World and Science
• Duane J. Lacey: Hermeneutics of the Graeco-Arabic ’Translation Movement

Parallel Session 2

10.00-11.30 – Realism

• Jeff Kochan: Why Heidegger Was Not a Robust Realist: A Response to Dreyfus and Spinosa
• Roberto Di Letizia: Radical Embodied Realism: A Nonrepresentational Ontology
• Daniel Golden: Epistemology, Hermeneutics and Richard Rorty

11.30-12.00 Coffee Break 

Parallel Session 1

12.00-13.30- Society

• Shahzad Shafqat: Interpreting Notions of Extremism – When the Search for Certainty Leads to More Uncertainty
• Abolfazl Gaeini: A Search into Meaningfulness of Employees’ Behaviors
• Paul Ertl: Hermeneutics and Ethics: Open and Closed world-concepts as Generators of Applied Ethics

Parallel Session 2

12.00-13.30. – History of Philosophy

• Balázs Mezei: Husserl Platonicus
• Dana Zahan: Discourse and Dialogue in Seneca

13.30-15.00 Lunch

15.00-23.00 – Social Program

Includes the Keynote Address by Dagmar Eigner: Hermeneutics of Shamanism

Sunday, 29th of August

09.00-09.50 Keynote Address by Babette Babich: Towards a Critical Philosophy of Science

10.00-11.30 – Hermeneutics and Science

• Simon Glynn: The Double Hermeneutic of the Natural Sciences: From Perception and Description, to Prediction, Explanation and Understanding
• Hans Diebner and Werner Pabst: Systems Theory as Touchstone for Hermeneutics and Arts in Science
• László Ropolyi: Contextualizing the Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science

11.30-12.00 Coffee Break 

12.00-13.30 Hermeneutics, Science and Technology

• Peter Bujňak: Hyperlinked Knowledge
• Bart Gremmen: No Future: the Ethics of Emergent Science and Technology
• Barbara Zahnen: Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Physical Geography and Risks

13.30-15.00 Lunch

15.00-16.30 – Hermeneutics of Sciences

• Makoto Katsumori: Heisenberg’s Approach to Complementarity and the Order of Reality
• László Székely: Einstein's Time in Heidegger's Context
• Olga Kiss: Plato, Rényi, Lakatos: Dialogues on Mathematics

16.30-17.00 Coffee Break 

17.00-18.30 Round Table on the Future Activity of the ISHS

18.45 Closing Ceremony