Author: BWS Vice-President (page 21 of 24)

June 28, 2016

New issue of Nordic Wittgenstein Review available on Open Access

Volume 5 / Number 1 (Jun 2016),
eds. Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen, Martin Gustafsson, Yrsa Neuman
http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/issue/view/NWR%205%20%28No%201%29%202016

Note from the Editors 5-7

INVITED PAPER
Thinking about Animals: James, Wittgenstein, Hearne
Russell B. Goodman 9-29

ARTICLES
Wittgenstein and Family Concepts
Odai Al Zoubi 31-54

Cora Diamond and the Moral Imagination
Christopher Cordner, Andrew Gleeson 55-77

Wittgenstein on Perspicuous Presentations and Grammatical Self-Knowledge
Christian Georg Martin 79-105

On a Philosophical Motivation for Mutilating Truth Tables
Marcos Silva 107-128

BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral Thought by Alice Crary
Stina Bäckström 129-136

Review of Representation and Reality in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus by J.C. Zalabardo
Silver Bronzo 137-142

Review of Formen des Klärens by Christian Erbacher
Tea Jankovic 143-147

NWR is on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/NordicWittgensteinReview/

Nordic Wittgenstein Review publishes original contributions on all aspects of Wittgenstein’s thought and work – exegetical studies as well as papers drawing on Wittgensteinian themes and ideas in discussions of contemporary philosophical problems.

The journal is interdisciplinary in character, and publishes contributions in the subject areas of philosophy and other human and social studies including philology, linguistics, cognitive science, and others. Each issue includes an invited paper, an interview, a peer-reviewed articles section, a section in which seminal works are re-published or where previously unpublished archive materials are presented, as well as a book review section.

The journal is published by the Nordic Wittgenstein Society (NWS).

May 30, 2016

Prototractatus Tools

Wittgenstein Source continues to publish new editions other than the Wittgenstein Archives’ own Bergen Nachlass Edition. Recent editions included:

Moore’s notes of Wittgenstein’s lectures by David Stern, Brian Rogers, and Gabriel Citron from the University of Iowa in the Wittgenstein Source “Facsimile Edition of Moore’s Notes of Wittgenstein’s Lectures”;
the edition of the “Tractatus publication materials” by Alfred Schmidt from the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB).

Wittgenstein Source is now delighted to announce the publication of Martin Pilch’s “Prototractatus Tools” (PTT).

PTT gives access to prepared new transcriptions of Wittgenstein Nachlass item Ms-104, the so-called “Prototractatus”.

The editor, Martin Pilch prepared these highly sophisticated transcriptions with the aim of providing the best possible textual basis for facilitating the reconstruction of the composition process of the Tractatus text. PTT utilizes a multiplicity of representation formats and colour schemes in order to make various aspects of the Tractatus text genesis visible. An extension of the site is planned, and transcriptions of the Tractatus typescript Ts-202 are already in preparation.

Check PTT out on Wittgenstein Source!

May 27, 2016

von Wright exhibition at the Helsinki National Library.
http://www.helsinki.fi/wwa/von_Wright_exhibition.pdf

May 12, 2016

Doing Ethics after Wittgenstein Conference Videos now available

Video (external link)

May 4, 2016

The Philosophy Department at the University of Hertfordshire is delighted to invite you to the annual Francis Bacon lecture delivered this year by Professor Raimond Gaita on Thursday 19 May at 19:00. Professor Gaita will speak on ‘The Fragility of the Idea of a Common Humanity’. See below for further details, and to register your attendance to the lecture.

Please also note that the lecture will be preceded by a philosophy workshop on some themes in Professor Gaita’s work, in his presence. If you would like to attend the workshop, kindly send a separate email to Daniele Moyal-Sharrock: d.moyal-sharrock@herts.ac.uk.

We are delighted to invite you to the Francis Bacon annual lecture 2016 which is part of the philosophy public lecture series

The Fragility of the Idea of a Common Humanity
with guest speaker eminent philosopher Professor Raimond Gaita

Thursday 19 May, 18:30 – 20:00

N001, de Havilland Campus

This lecture is free of charge and open to all.
Pre-registration is required.

Book online or contact the Events Team by email events@herts.ac.uk or call 01707 284121

Speaker’s Abstract:
Ethically-inflected ways of speaking of humanity – as when we speak of seeing or failing to see the full humanity of others, of dehumanisation and of the common humanity of all the peoples of the earth – often go together with talk of universal human rights and sometimes with talk of the Dignity of persons or humanity. This is apparent in some of the preambles to important instruments of international law. Many philosophers believe that the concept of human rights contributes to the acknowledgement, by all peoples of the earth, of a common humanity. Some philosophers believe that the idea of the Dignity of persons (some speak of the ‘inalienable dignity’ of persons to which an unconditional respect is owed) rationally underpins the concept of universal human rights. In this lecture I shall argue that when our ways of speaking of human rights and the Dignity of persons cease to be ethically-inflected ways of speaking of humanity, they lose contact with the only vocabulary in which their importance can be made manifest.

About the speaker:
Over the past thirty years Raimond Gaita has developed an original, powerful and sometimes controversial conception of the nature of morality and ethical thought. He has made an outstanding contribution to contemporary analytic moral philosophy, not least for his distinctive vision of the nature of moral philosophy as an academic discipline.

Professor Gaita believes that it is generally a good thing for philosophers to address an educated and hard-thinking lay audience as well as their colleagues and thus he has contributed extensively to public discussion about reconciliation, collective responsibility, the role of moral considerations in politics, the Holocaust, genocide, crimes against humanity, education.

The University is proud to host the Francis Bacon lecture series alongside the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
These free public lectures aim to spotlight the valuable contribution and impact that philosophy makes to society. More information about the Francis Bacon Lecture series

Further information:
Light refreshments will be served from 18:30, lecture starts at 19:00
Confirmation of your booking and a parking permit will be sent electronically shortly before the event

University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB

May 2, 2016

Wittgenstein and Norway Symposium

VIDEO Wittgenstein and Norway

April 9, 2016

CALL FOR PAPERS 39th INTERNATIONAL WITTGENSTEIN SYMPOSIUM 2016

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March 26, 2016

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosopher, Poet And Patron

Grillparzerhaus, Johannesgasse 6, 1010 Wien

Talks at the Grillparzerhaus

A co-operation of the WITTGENSTEIN INITIATIVE and the FRITT ORD FOUNDATION

12 and 13 April 2016

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is recognised as the most influential philosopher of the 20th century. His impact continues to be strong not only in philosophy, but also in literature, aesthetics, economics and social sciences. Born and educated in Vienna into one of the most affluent and culturally active families of the Habsburg Empire, Wittgenstein spent the most productive and happy periods in his life in Norway, where he produced some of his major writings. Wittgenstein was influenced by Norwegian culture already in the family circle in Vienna – Ibsen was a beloved author of the Wittgensteins. What Ludwig inherited from them and it remained deeply rooted in him throughout his life, was the feeling of duty towards cultural values and social responsibility. As his father had financed the Vienna Secession and the Academy of Sciences, so Ludwig Wittgenstein made in 1914 a large financial contribution to artists in need, among them Rainer Maria Rilke, Adolf Loos and Georg Trakl.

In this symposium, a major emphasis will be put for the first time in Vienna on Wittgenstein’s connection with Norway and the recent Norwegian contributions to Wittgenstein research – in general education, as well as at the Wittgenstein Archives in Bergen. Leading Norwegian intellectuals will debate his relevance today, thus setting an example in his city of birth.

An emphasis will be put also on the tradition of Wittgenstein’s family as patrons of modern art, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s own example highlighted, and parallels will be drawn between his time and cultural funding in today’s world. In addition the Literature Museum in Vienna will contribute towards Wittgenstein’s importance as a writer and a representative of Modernism.

http://wittgenstein-initiative.com/2016/03/25/ludwig-wittgenstein-philosoph-dichter-und-mazen/

WITTGENSTEIN and NORWAY

http://wittgenstein-initiative.com/2016/03/24/wittgenstein-und-norwegen/

Knut Olav Åmås (Stiftung Fritt Ord, Moderation)
Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University)
Alois Pichler (Wittgenstein Archiv, Universität Bergen)
Kjetil Trædal Thorsen (Snøhetta Architektur)

Ludwig Wittgenstein spent some of his most important and productive periods in Skjolden in the Norwegian Sognefjord between 1913 and 1950. What did he find and accomplish there? And why did one of the most important thinkers of the last century chose, on several occasions, to leave privileged circles in Vienna and Cambridge and to live in rural parts of Austria, Ireland, and Norway? Was Wittgenstein a philosopher in exile? How would such a person be regarded today? Would he ever get a position at a university?

CULTURE and SCIENCE FUNDING TODAY

http://wittgenstein-initiative.com/2016/02/11/kultur-und-wissenschaftsforderung-heute/

Knut Olav Åmås (Stiftung Fritt Ord, Moderation)
Steven Beller (Washington DC, Historiker)
Ilyas Khan (Stanhill Foundation)
Eva Nowotny (Österreichische Kommission für UNESCO)
Bjørn Øiulfstad (Norwegischer Stiftungsverband)
Christian Witt-Dörring (Neue Galerie New York)

In what ways are arts, culture and science/research funded today? And how do the different funding models influence the activities and results? The relation between public and private funding is quite different from country to country. What is the situation today in Scandinavia/Norway, Austria, Great Britain, and the United States? And what can we learn from the philanthropists today and the last hundred years?

WITTGENSTEIN and MODERNITY

http://wittgenstein-initiative.com/2016/02/11/wittgenstein-und-die-moderne/

James Conant (University of Chicago)
Ray Monk (University of Southampton)
Alfred Schmidt (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Moderation)

In the early twentieth century, Vienna’s artistic and cultural landscape experienced an unprecedented shift toward modernity: Adolf Loos and the Secession movement, Arnold Schönberg, Jung Wien and Karl Kraus, Sigmund Freud, Ernst Mach and the Vienna Circle—just to mention the most important names. Proceeding from Janik’s and Toulmin’s thesis in Wittgenstein’s Vienna, the question will be explored regarding to what extent Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical work is deeply rooted in this very specific culture of Viennese modernity.

PHILOSOPHY and LITERATURE

http://wittgenstein-initiative.com/2016/02/11/philosophie-und-literatur/

In co-operation with the Literaturmuseum of the Austrian National Library and Der Standard

Isolde Charim (Moderation)
László F. Földényi
Allan Janik (Brenner Archiv)
Robert Menasse
Marjorie Perloff (Stanford University)

„Philosophie dürfte man eigentlich nur dichten“
(Wittgenstein: Vermischte Bemerkungen / Culture and Value, 12.12.1933)

What is the connection between poetry and philosophy? What do literary and philosophical texts have in common? —Representatives from science and literature will be discussing the reciprocal relationships between literature and philosophy.

Secretary General
Wittgenstein Initiative
Kriehubergasse 15/23, 1050 Wien
Tel: +43 699 19238373
www.wittgenstein-initiative.com

March 14, 2016

Wittgenstein in Linz and Birmingham: Art Project

Upcoming international artist exchange programme between qujOchÖ artist collective based in Linz, Austria and A3 Project Space & BOM Birmingham, UK. More details.

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All photos: Thomas Phillipp

PROJECT OUTLINE

From 1903 to 1906 Wittgenstein attended the technically oriented K.u.k. Realschule in Linz, a small state school with 300 pupils in Upper Austria. Afterwards he began to study at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg, moved further to the Victoria University of Manchester and finally visited the University of Cambridge to study under Russell from 1911 to 1913. During this time it is widely regarded that Wittgenstein has fallen in love with David Hume Pinsent, a descendant of the philosopher David Hume.

In 1913 the Lordswood House in 44 Lordswood, Birmingham, was the family home of Pinsent. On the eve of his self-imposed exile to Norway and just after a holiday there with Pinsent, Wittgenstein stayed with the Pinsent family to say his goodbyes. The last time they saw each other was at a Birmingham railway station on 8 October 1913, when they said goodbye before Wittgenstein left to live in Norway.

GOODBYE WITTGENSTEIN wants to take this short little story as a starting point for an exchange program between Linz and Birmingham. The basic idea is to dig deeper into this story and to find real or fictive connections between Linz and Birmingham, based on the life of Wittgenstein. The main aim is to pay tribute to one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century and revive his life in Birmingham and Linz.

Following an invitation from A3 Project Space and Birmingham Open Media, the Austrian art collective qujOchÖ from Linz will visit Birmingham between 25 July and 7 August 2016 to enact a series of philosophical set pieces in response to Wittgenstein’s writings, in particular his early work on “Notes on Logic”. During their stay three members of qujOchÖ, Verena Henetmayr, Thomas Philipp and Andre Zogholy, will undertake a series of artistic interventions in public spaces throughout the city. They will also present their ideas as part of a discussion and networking event at BOM on August 1 and participate in the monthly art event Digbeth First Friday on August 4 2016.

Following this visit, five artists from Birmingham, Pete Ashton, Mike Johnston, Trevor Pitt, Emily Warner and Clare Thornton will participate in a four week residency at Atelierhaus Salzamt Linz in November 2016. During their residency the artists will explore the trails of Wittgenstein in Linz and develop the beginnings of new works that make connections between art and philosophy based on “Notes on Logic”.

March 11, 2016

“Wittgenstein and His Literary Executors”

Volume 4.3 of The Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy is now online. It features an article by Christian Erbacher entitled “Wittgenstein and His Literary Executors”.

It also contains a review of Mauro Engelmann’s Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Development, by Alois Pichler, and a review of Maria van der Schaar’s G. F. Stout and the Psychological Origins of Analytic Philosophy by Consuelo Preti.

Here is an abstract of Erbacher’s article:

Rush Rhees, Georg Henrik von Wright and Elizabeth Anscombe are well known as the literary executors who made Ludwig Wittgenstein’s later philosophy available to all interested readers. Their editions of Wittgenstein’s writings have become an integral part of the modern philosophical canon. However, surprisingly little is known about the circumstances and reasons that made Wittgenstein choose them to edit and publish his papers. This essay sheds light on these questions by presenting the story of their personal relationships—relationships that, on the one hand, gave Rhees, von Wright and Anscombe distinct insights into Wittgenstein’s philosophizing; and, on the other hand, let Wittgenstein assume that these three former students, and later colleagues and friends, were the most capable of preparing his work for publication. Using hitherto unpublished archival material as well as information from published recollections, the essay sketches the development of the personal and philosophical bonds from which the literary heirs’ distinct ways of handling Wittgenstein’s unpublished writings grew in later years.