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Inbegriff

Geneva Seminar for Austro-German Philosophy

Inbegriff is a research group devoted to understanding and evaluating Austro-German philosophy.

The Austro-German tradition originates in the works of Bernard Bolzano and, above all, Franz Brentano. Putting description, scientific method and a concern for clarity at the core of his philosophical and psychological inquiries, Brentano’s thought was explicitly directed against the dominant, speculative philosophical stance in the German-speaking world, post-Kantian idealisms, and a variety of naturalisms. The first layer of the Austro-German tradition is made up of Brentano’s earliest students, Carl Stumpf, Anton Marty, Christian von Ehrenfels, Alexius Meinong, Edmund Husserl and Kazimierz Twardowski. Under their influence, Brentano’s seminal views in the philosophy of mind and language, logic, ontology, ethics and value theory spread out over Central Europe, in Germany, thanks to Stumpf and Husserl, and in Prague, Graz and Lvov, thanks to Marty, Meinong and Twardowski. The students and other heirs of these philosophers include the Gestalt-psychologists in Graz, Berlin and Vienna, the early phenomenologists in Germany, and many other thinkers. Besides, thanks to Twardowski and Husserl, Bolzano’s “Anti-Kantian” philosophy slowly began to become known, a process which continues apace.

Inbegriff aims to understand the history of Austro-German philosophy by studying the works of individual authors and by identifying common positions and disagreements, notably in descriptive psychology, semantics, formal ontology and the theory of value.

Inbegriff also aims to evaluate philosophically Austro-German philosophies and contribute to current debates, which can often be traced back to earlier Austro-German discussions, such as the theory of intentionality, the analysis of different types of mental acts and states, the relation between pragmatics and semantics, the ontology of relations, tropes and states of affairs, and value theory.

The main activities of the research group will be the organization of an Annual Conference on Austro-German Philosophy, the organization of a series of workshops, the teaching of a yearly course at the AV¶ÌÊÓƵ, and the constitution of a reading group, which brings together students and scholars from Geneva and elsewhere. Moreover, Inbegriff will host national and international research projects on Austro-German philosophy.
 

Current Research Projects

Past Research Projects

• Realisms: Universals, Relations, and States of Affairs in the Austro-German and Medieval Traditions (SNF)
• (SNF - ANR)
• Meaning and Intentionality in Anton Marty (SNF)

Current Activities
Upcoming Events:

April 9, 14:15-16:00

OCET Meeting
Some Remarks on Benno Kerry’s ‘Ueber Anschauung und ihre psychische Verarbeitung’
Romain Büchi (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ)
Philosophes 201 (Bd des Philosophes 22)

April 30, 14:15-16:00
OCET Lectures and Workshop Series
Wittgenstein’s Later Perspective on Tractarian Nonsense
Christoph C. Pfisterer (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Zürich)
Colladon, Room C1/C2

May 7, 16:15-19:00

OCET Meeting

• Bruno Poli (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ)

Philosophes 002 (Bd des Philosophes 22)

May 28, 9:00-19:00
OCET Lectures and Workshop Series

The Intentionality of Emotions: Themes from Austro-German Philosophy

• Bruno Poli (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ)
• Ingrid Vendrell Ferran (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Marburg)
• Jean Moritz Müller (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Tübingen)
• Philipp Schmidt-Boddy (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Heidelberg)

Colladon, Room C1/C2

June 11–13
Inbegriff 10th Anniversary Conference

• Arkadiusz Chrudzimski (Jagiellonian AV¶ÌÊÓƵ in Krakow)
• Johannes Brandl (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Salzburg)
• Julia Franke-Reddig (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ)
• Kevin Mulligan (Università Della Svizzera Italiana / AV¶ÌÊÓƵ)
• Maria van der Schaar (Leiden AV¶ÌÊÓƵ)
• Olivier Massin (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Neuchâtel)
• Peter Simons (Trinity College, Dublin)
• Wolgang Huemer (AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Parma)

Philosophes 211 (Bd des Philosophes 22)

July 21, 9:00–19:00
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Remarks and its Phenomenological Grammar. Workshop with Mauro Engelmann

• Colin Guthrie King (Providence College/AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Basel)
• Jonathan Gombin (Bordeaux AV¶ÌÊÓƵ)
• Mauro Engelmann (Federal AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Minas Gerais)
• Sébastien Gandon (Université Clermont Auvergne)

Colladon, Room C1/C2

REGULAR EVENTS:

• The Meinong Study Group. Fortnightly on Thursdays, 3-4.30 pm CET. Please contact Guillaume Fréchette or Colin King to register
• , one Friday per month, 4.15 pm CET (November 2020 - July 2021), as part of the  - see website for the programme.

Past Activities

Conferences and lectures

• The Historiography of Philosophy in the 20th Century: Problems and Prospects. September 11-13, Phil 211

• Austro-German Philosophy: Between Bolzano and the Vienna Circle, OCET Workshop.

• Franz Brentano Centenary. Conferences and Summer School, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, AV¶ÌÊÓƵ of Vienna, May 27-June 3, 2017.

Courses

2016-2017:
– "" (Autumn 2016)
– (Spring 2017)

2015-2016:
– "" (Autumn 2015)
– (Spring 2016)

Reading Groups
– Spring Semester 2017:
Reading of Ch. v. Ehrenfels' "Über 'Gestaltqualitäten'".
Ch. v. Ehrenfels, "Über 'Gestaltqualitäten'", Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Philosophie 14 (1890), pp. 249-292. Reading in French: Ch. v. Ehrenfels, "Sur les 'qualités de forme'", in D. Fisette & G. Fréchette (2007), A l'école de Brentano. De Würzbourg à Vienne, Paris: Vrin, pp. 225-259.
Meetings: 25/4, 9/5, from 6pm to 8pm, AV¶ÌÊÓƵ, Department of Philosophy, 5 rue de Candolle, 3rd floor, Meeting Room.

– Autumn Semester 2016:
Reading of A. Meinong's "Über Gegenstände höherer Ordnung".
A. Meinong, "Über Gegenstände höherer Ordnung und deren Verhältnis zur inneren Wahrnehmung", Zeitschrift für Psychologie und Physiologie der Sinnesorgane 21 (1899), pp. 182-272. Reading in French: A. Meinong, "Sur les objets d'ordre supérieur et leur rapport à la perception interne", in D. Fisette & G. Fréchette (2007), A l'école de Brentano. De Würzbourg à Vienne, Paris: Vrin, pp. 261-341.
Meetings: 25/10, 23/11, 28/11, from 6pm to 8pm, AV¶ÌÊÓƵ, Department of Philosophy, 5 rue de Candolle, 3rd floor, Meeting Room.

– Spring Semester 2016:
Reading of the 1st Logical Investigation of E. Husserl ("Ausdruck und Bedeutung").
E. Husserl (1913/1984), Logische Untersuchungen. Zweiter Band, Untersuchungen zur Phänomenologie und Theorie der Erkenntnis, 1. Teil, ed. U. Panzer, Husserliana 19, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. Reading in French: E. Husserl (1961), Recherches logiques, 2, 1ère partie, trad. Hubert Elie, Arion L. Kelkel, René Schérer, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
Meetings: 02/03, 16/03, 06/04, 27/04, 04/05, 25/05, from 6pm to 8pm, AV¶ÌÊÓƵ, Bastions, B002.

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