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Online talk by Sorin Bangu (University of Bergen): “Wittgenstein on irrationals” (joint work with Jeffrey Schatz)

June 30, at 11 am CEST, IHPST, Paris, France

Abstract:
This talk has two goals. First, we reconstruct Wittgenstein’s views on what counts as a legitimate irrational — since, as he repeatedly suggests, and in agreement with mathematicians such as Emile Borel, not just every infinite string of digits qualifies as one. Once his conception (‘full-blooded intensionalism’) is sketched out, and its specificity is highlighted by comparing it with two other cognate views (‘extensionalism’ and ‘quasi-intensionalism’), our second objective is to examine how his type of intensionalism impacts his attitude towards Cantor’s theorem. In this regard, the more general claim we argue for is that, despite appearances to the contrary, Wittgenstein was not a revisionist about set-theoretical practice. 

Zoom link:

https://zoom.univ-paris1.fr/j/98973808434?pwd=L1J3SW43T3FZZ00zM3NBdWxyTDZJQT09
Meeting ID: 989 7380 8434
Passcode: 178700

Organizers: Marianna Antonutti and Vincent Ardourel

IHPST, Paris, France

Wittgenstein Abecedarium is an experimental documentary film about the Austrian philosopher, architect, engineer, school teacher, gardener, and inventor, Ludwig Wittgenstein.  It premieres at Storey’s Field Center in Cambridge, UK on June 30th, 2022 at 7:30 PM (reception at 7 PM)

https://www.avantgaragestudio.com

Wittgenstein’s newly translated notebooks, covering God, integrity and sex

By Ian Ground

Please note this article is paywalled.

The 12th annual conference of the Nordic Wittgenstein Society, ”The Tractatus after 100 Years” marks the 100th anniversary of the pubication of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus logico-philosophicus.  The conference will be held May 29th to May 31st, 2022, in Skjolden, Norway, and it is arranged by the Wittgenstein research group at the University of Bergen.
The full program of the conference can be found here:https://www.uib.no/fof/153942/tractatus-centennial-conference-skjolden

It will be possible to attend the conference on zoom, by joining this zoom meeting:
Topic: Tractatus centennial conference, SkjoldenJoin Zoom Meeting (recommended)
https://uib.zoom.us/j/68759558355?pwd=dXpMcTg1L3BUKzNmRkMwYWJxY0c4Zz09

3^rd Hinge Epistemology Conference: Hinge Epistemology and Religious Belief

NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities – IFILNOVA

in collaboration with University of California, Irvine and University of Hertfordshire 

PROGRAM

7 June 2022, CAN A224

9:30-10:00 – Welcome and Introduction 

João Constâncio, Director of IFILNOVA

Nuno Venturinha, PI of the Project “Epistemology of Religious Belief: Wittgenstein, Grammar and the Contemporary World”

10:00-10:15 – Opening Address: Hinges and Religious Beliefs

Danièle Moyal-Sharrock (University of Hertfordshire, President of the British Wittgenstein Society)

10:15-11:00 – You just believe that because … it’s a hinge

Annalisa Coliva (University of California, Irvine)

11:00-11:30 – Coffee Break

11:30-12:00 – Wittgenstein on the Difficulties of Beginning at the Beginning

Jakub Mácha (Masaryk University)

12:00-12:30 – A Stereotypical Hinge Framework

Rena Beatrice Goldstein (University of California, Irvine)

12:30-13:00 – Religious Exclusivism: the one real hinge versus the many fictitious ones

Cheung Wai Lok (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) online

13:00-14:30 – Lunch                                         

14:30-15:00 – Hinge Epistemology and the Problem of Evil 

Michael Wilby (Anglia Ruskin University)

15:00-15:30 – Wittgenstein, Deep Disagreements and Hinge Epistemology

Jordi Fairhurst (University of the Balearic Islands)

15:30-16:00 – Evidential Support under Hinges 

Luís Rosa (University of Cologne)

16:00-16:30 – Coffee Break                                           

16:30-17:15 – ‘Making it a Question of Science’: Wittgenstein’s Critique of Father O’Hara and Scientism in Religion

Genia Schönbaumsfeld (University of Southampton) online

17:15-18:00 – Moral Certainties: subjective – objective – objectionable?

Hans-Johann Glock (University of Zurich)

19:30 – Dinner

Registration for the 11th British Wittgenstein Society (BWS) conference, dedicated to the theme of Wittgenstein and AI, is now open. The conference will be held in London, at the New College of the Humanities (Devon House), from the 29th to the 31st of July 2022, and will feature symposia, contributed papers, and keynote addresses from Anthony Grayling (NCH), Juliet Floyd (Boston), Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Northeastern), and Paula Sweeney (Aberdeen). For further information, and to register, please visit the Conference website.

MODERNISM 1922 * CELEBRATING DISTINCTIONS

14-17 September 2022 / free online event

Call for Registration

Hi all, 

The conference Modernism1922: Celebrating Distinctions honours 1922 as annus mirabilis for modernism, from many different perspectives. It aims to uncover new views on what set the 1922 modernist events apart, but also on how they compare and impacted each other, e.g., with regard to art ideology, aesthetics, philosophy, religion,… Keynote speakers are:

• Clare Hutton, Loughborough University: Women and the Making of Ulysses
• James C. Klagge, Virginia Tech. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and the Great War
• Philomeen Lelieveldt, Netherlands Music Institute Ido Eyl’s visit to the French musical avantgarde
• Michael North, UCLA 1922: A Centenary Dismemberment

A detailed schedule can be found on the website modernism.nl. To participate in this event please register. To do so, fill out the form here.  Once registered, you’ll receive the links to take part in the webinar in due time. We look forward to your participation in what promises to be a lively event!

As a modest gift for all who are interested in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy, the Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies (MCCS) published online one of the copies of MCCS Book Collection – Ludwig Wittgenstein’s autograph comments and corrections in an offprint of Ludwig Hänsel’s essay ‘Wertgefühl und Wert’ (Sense of Value and Value). It is one of the main sources of direct statements of later Wittgenstein on the philosophy of value (Wertphilosophie). Although this document has already been studied (see Christian Paul Berger’s “Wittgensteins Kritik an Hänsels Aufsatz Wertgefühl und Wert”), it is published in the open access for the first time, and we hope that it would be a valuable source for many researchers for whom it was unavailable until now.
Direct link: https://hardproblem.ru/en/posts/Books/ludwig-wittgenstein-s-autograph/
Please, feel free to use it and to spread the information about its publication to everyone who can be interested in it.
Best wishes
Andrew Mertsalov,
editor,
Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies