On into 2023!
“It is 100 seconds to midnight.”* Concerned scientists had set the doomsday clock at that time even before the hostilities in Ukraine escalated into one of the hot spots of “World War III” – as Pope Francis used to call…
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Chinese papers voicing ethical problems with Artificial Intelligence and robots
Our Member, Liang Wang, Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P.R. China, deals with ethics concerning robots and Artificial Intelligence. Recently he published a paper in a Chinese journal in which he argues in favour of virtue ethics over…
Climate-friendly living, II
On 28 November 2022, the APCC Special Report on Structures for climate-friendly living was presented in a press conference by Karl Steininger (Uni Graz) and Andreas Novy (WU Wien), featuring Leonore Gewessler, Federal Minister for Climate Action, and Martin Kocher, Federal…
On the sociogenesis of norms
Franz Ofner, retired professor at University of Klagenfurt, Austria (also known as Alpen-Adria-Universität), sociologist, Member of our Institute, did research on the emergence of norms following George Herbert Mead (see here) and Jürgen Habermas. His latest article has been published…
The Logic of the Third: A Paradigm Shift to a Shared Future for Humanity
The book is out. Find it here. Let me announce it: I finished the manuscript of my book before the new cold war turned hot, pushing humanity to the brink of a World War III. The heating of the planet,…
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Alliance with nature/technology for alliance: Bloch in Leipzig
The befriended Ernst-Bloch-Assoziation held an open conference on the topic of Bloch’s “Naturallianz/Allianztechnik”. Philosopher Bloch coined these terms to call for a new relationship of humans with nature to be practised by a new kind of technology. The venue was…
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Climate friendly living
End of July 2022, our project to contribute to the APCC Special Report on Structures for climate-friendly living terminated successfully. The final version of Chapter 20 on Media discourses and media structures was delivered to the Austrian Panel on Climate…
Together for peace, environment and climate protection – abolish nuclear weapons
Under this title, some 160 people gathered on 19 June 2022 in Vienna for a peace conference that was convoked to accompany the TPNW (Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons) activities at the UN (see the announcement here). Spiritus…
Give Peace a Chance!
On 19 June 2022, a peace event will accompany the 1st UN Conference of the Partner States of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Vienna. This event is organised by the International Peace Bureau (IPB), the Aktionsbündnis…
Bringing about transdisciplinarity
Our project glossaLAB organises an international workshop in Spain, 23-31 May 2022. See the programme here. Besides the project leaders Teresa Guarda and José María Díaz Nafría, our Members Tomáš Sigmund and Modestos Stavrakis are planned with several inputs. Sigmund…