Date: Monday, January 19, 2026
Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: Online, Zoom
The Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists is pleased to announce the next session of its regular Research Colloquium, featuring Patricia Grill (University of Vienna).
In this talk, Patricia Grill will present her current research on Olga Hahn-Neurath, a philosopher whose contributions to the intellectual world of the Vienna Circle have long remained in the shadow of her male colleagues. Like other women associated with the Neurath Circle – including Rose Rand – Hahn-Neurath has often been remembered, if at all, primarily in relational terms: as a wife, assistant, or companion, rather than as an intellectual in her own right. Drawing on recent work by Connell & Janssen-Lauret (2022), Beaney (2023), and Fricker (2023), Grill analyses this historical marginalisation as a case of epistemic injustice and as part of what Connell and Janssen-Lauret describe as a “feedback loop of exclusion” in the writing of philosophy’s history.
Rather than merely supplementing the canon with biographical details, this lecture aims to critically reflect on the epistemological and canon-forming assumptions that determine what counts as philosophical relevance. In doing so, it contributes to an ongoing feminist revision of the history of analytic philosophy.
Everyone is welcome to attend!
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