Year: 2023 (page 1 of 2)
CFA: 13th Annual Conference of the Nordic Wittgenstein Society
WITTGENSTEIN: ASPECTS AND INTERPRETATIONS
Helsinki, Finland, June 17–18 2024
Questions related to aspect-seeing and interpretation occupied Ludwig Wittgenstein throughout his philosophical career – all the way from the Necker cube of the Tractatus to the duck-rabbit of the “Philosophy of Psychology – A Fragment”, previously known as Part II of the Philosophical Investigations. In the latter, Wittgenstein asks, “Do I really see something different each time, or do I only interpret what I see in a different way?” (PPF §248.) The purpose of the 13th Annual Conference of the Nordic Wittgenstein Society, Wittgenstein: Aspects and Interpretations, is to provide a platform for philosophers to discuss this and related questions in Wittgenstein’s work. The title of the conference may also be read as pointing to different aspects and interpretations of Wittgenstein’s philosophy itself, which is notoriously difficult to decipher and has given rise to a number of interpretative traditions. Topics to be discussed may thus include but are not limited to:
aspects, aspect-seeing, and aspect-blindness
perception and the role of concepts therein
method of projection
interpretation and its limits
rule-following
interpretative reception of Wittgenstein
influences of different philosophical traditions in Wittgenstein’s work.
The keynote speakers of the conference are
Annalisa Coliva (University of California Irvine)
David Stern (University of Iowa)
We welcome paper proposals for the conference to be held in Helsinki, Finland, on June 17–18 2024. Abstracts up to 500 words should be submitted by email to hanne.appelqvist[at]helsinki.fi. Please title your email: NWS Conference Proposal. Abstracts should include the author’s name, affiliation, contact information, and the title of the paper. Accepted proposals will be given a presentation time of 40 minutes (25 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for discussion). The deadline for proposals is Friday December 15 2023. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by January 15.
There is no conference fee. However, selected speakers should be prepared to pay for their own travel and accommodation. The organizers are grateful to Emil Aaltonen Foundation and the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies for supporting the event.
Organizing committee:
Hanne Appelqvist (University of Helsinki)
Martin Gustafsson (Åbo Akademi)
Lassi Jakola (The Finnish Institute at Athens)
For further information, please contact hanne.appelqvist[at]helsinki.fi.
45th INTERNATIONAL WITTGENSTEIN SYMPOSIUM 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS
45th INTERNATIONAL WITTGENSTEIN SYMPOSIUM 2024
Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, August 11–17, 2024
FACETS OF REALITY – Contemporary Debates
Scientific Organisers:
Asya Passinsky (Vienna), Julio De Rizzo (Vienna) & Benjamin Schnieder (Vienna)
SECTIONS:
1. Reality and Cognate Notions
Appearance, Existence, Essence, Reality
2. The Structure of Reality
Dependence, Grounding, Fundamentality
3. Acting on Reality
Agency, Freedom, Norms
4. Social Reality
Gender, Race, Social Construction
5. New Realities
Fictional, Virtual, Digital
6. Wittgenstein
LIST OF INVITED SPEAKERS:
Ásta (Durham)
Rami Ali (Tucson)
Singa Behrens (Bielefeld)
Karen Bennett (New Brunswick)
Sarah Bernstein (Notre Dame)
Paul Boghossian (New York)
Niels de Haan (Vienna)
Esa Diáz León (Barcelona)
Matt Dougherty (Vienna)
Matti Eklund (Uppsala)
Brian Epstein (Medford)
Maegan Fairchild (Michigan)
Katharina Felka (Graz)
Martin Glazier (Geneva)
Verónica Gómez Sánchez (Berkeley)
Eve Kitsik (Vienna)
John Litland (Austin)
Antonella Mallozzi (Providence)
Alissa Ney (Davis)
Daniel Nolan (Notre Dame)
Kevin Richardson (Durham)
Sonia Roca-Royes (Stirling)
Gideon Rosen (Princeton)
Carolina Sartorio (New Brunswick)
Jonathan Schaffer (New Brunswick)
Erica Shumener (Syracuse)
Olla Solomyak (Jerusalem)
Amie Thomasson (Hanover)
Anand Vaidyia (San Jose)
Barbara Vetter (Berlin)
Lisa Vogt (Berlin and Lucerne)
Michael Wallner (Graz and Klagenfurt)
Nathan Wildman (Tilburg)
Tim Williamson (Oxford)
Charlotte Witt (Durham)
Papers (to section 1–6) may be submitted via our online platform until March 1st, 2024
Instructions for authors: https://www.alws.at/iws_organization/instructions-for-authors/
Students and early career researchers are especially encouraged to submit a presentation.
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Antecedent to the 45th International Wittgenstein Symposium:
15th Ludwig Wittgenstein Summer School, August 5–10, 2024
organised by ILWI in cooperation with the Universi
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Wittgenstein-Studien
The yearbook Wittgenstein-Studien (published by de Gruyter) offers a forum for articles and materials on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy, his Nachlass and life as well as his philosophical and cultural environment. We welcome contributions from both traditional and contemporary approaches.
What we offer to our authors:
– All submitted articles are peer-reviewed and indexed to Scopus and Web of Science.
– Each article is assigned a DOI.
– Authors will be informed about the decision on acceptance (potentially with revision) or rejection of the submitted article usually within 6 to 8 weeks.
– In case that changes or improvements of the article are requested by the reviewers, the authors will receive profound/detailed feedback which helps them improving the article. Feedback is also provided in case of rejection.
– Continuous submission: The yearbook does not have any specific deadlines. However, if you want to ensure that your contribution (in case of acceptance) will be included in the next volume, you should submit your text by the end of October in order to complete the review process in time.
Articles should be prepared according to the journal’s author guidelines (https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/wgst/html?lang=de) and sent to the Editor-in-chief, Ass.Prof. Dr. Anja Weiberg, at anja.weiberg@univie.ac.at.
Book review proposals can be sent to the Book Review Editor, Prof. Dr. Nuno Venturinha, at nventurinha.ifl@fcsh.unl.pt.
For more information about Wittgenstein-Studien, please visit: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/WGST/html
Interpreting Human Nature and the Mind
Description
Advancing our understanding of one of the most influential 20th-century philosophers, Robert Vinten brings together an international lineup of scholars to consider the relevance of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ideas to the cognitive science of religion. Wittgenstein’s claims ranged from the rejection of the idea that psychology is a ‘young science’ in comparison to physics to challenges to scientistic and intellectualist accounts of religion in the work of past anthropologists.
Chapters explore whether these remarks about psychology and religion undermine the frameworks and practices of cognitive scientists of religion. Employing philosophical tools as well as drawing on case studies, contributions not only illuminate psychological experiments, anthropological observations and neurophysiological research relevant to understanding religious phenomena, they allow cognitive scientists to either heed or clarify their position in relation to Wittgenstein’s objections. By developing and responding to his criticisms, Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Science of Religion offers novel perspectives on his philosophy in relation to religion, human nature, and the mind.
VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-FOLKqL034
Die Familie Wittgenstein: Rekonstruktion eines Phänomens
with English subtitles
Georg Gaugusch, Wolf-Erich Eckstein
Leopold Museum, 26. April 2023
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influential thinker who rejuvenated moral philosophy in the postwar period.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001n1yy
CONTRIBUTORS
Roger Teichmann of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford
Rachael Wiseman of the University of Liverpool
Constantine Sandis of the University of Hertfordshire and Director of Lex Academic
