Event Detail

Fri Apr 5, 2019–Sat Apr 6, 2019
201 Moses Hall
9:30 AM–4:50 PM
Conference
Wittgenstein in the 21st Century

Program

Friday, April 5

9:30-10:50 David Stern, The University of Iowa

The Availability of Wittgenstein’s Early Philosophy

11:00-12:20 Hans Sluga, UC Berkeley

Wittgenstein on the Description of the World

2:30-3:50 Kevin Cahill, University of Bergen, Norway

The Grammar of Conflict

4:00-5:20 Han Linhe, Peking University, China

Guo Xiang and Wittgenstein

Saturday, April 6

10:00-11:20 Romain Büchi, University of Zurich, Switzerland

How Whitehead Influenced Wittgenstein’s Thinking on Mathematics

11:30-1:00 Sorin Bangu, University of Bergen, Norway

Later Wittgenstein and the Genealogy of Mathematical Necessity

2:00-3:30 Hannah Ginsborg, UC Berkeley

Wittgenstein on Going on

3:30-4:50 Rupert Read, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

Liberatory Philosophy

Co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and the Institute of European Studies