Philosopher Günther Witzany was recently interviewed by Salzburger Nachrichten. He is an expert as to the place of viruses on Earth and he was asked also about COVID-19. This crisis – so Witzany – reminds mankind of taking an ecological…
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Based upon a project on Society After Money – A Simulation, funded by Volkswagen Foundation, the interdisciplinary research group will hold an online workshop on “envisioning post-capitalist societies via simulation“. The workshop will be held on 18-19 February, 2021, and…
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GSIS Member Yurii Mielkov’s paper From sustainable development to degrowth: philosophical and educational strategies for sustainability has now been published in the Ukrainian journal Philosophy of Education, 2020, 26 (1), 37-53. Yurii’s abstract is as follows: The article is dedicated…
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Christian Stary and Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski published an article in Leibniz Online 41 (2020) in which they argue for a new, constructive realism without which human-centred design of IT is not feasible. They write: It seems to be particularly important in…
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Under this very title, our Emergent Systems Group calls for papers to be presented at an online workshop at the online International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) 2021 Summit that will be held 12-19 September 2021. The link…
After the first wave, Peter Fleissner has been simulating the second wave of COVID-19 in Austria in his modelling project. With data from 1 June 2020 until 15 December 2020, the simulation yields a forecast of a third wave. The…
The book project with that title ended, eventually, in the book release. Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Hans-Jörg Kreowski edited this volume. It contains 15 chapters organised into four parts concerning philosophical, military, technological and sociological aspects of transhumanism. The project was…
Günther Witzany, independent philosopher in Salzburg, Austria, has become friends with GSIS. He runs a website on Biocommunication and Natural Genome Editing. “Biocommunication” is the term Witzany coined to label his approach for which he found evidence through many research…
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GSIS joins as partner the new campaign of the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR). This campaign will recall the theses Edgar Morin formulated in the 1990s for the new millennium and will culminate in next year’s…
Julian Nida-Rümelin, philosopher and political theorist at the LMU (University of Munich), author of Digitaler Humanismus 2018 together with his wife, literary scholar and film theorist Nathalie Weidenfeld, is the speaker at the next DigHum Lectures on 15 December 2020,…
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