Ludwig Wittgenstein – Workshop-Series:
WU Vienna University of Economics, Vienna AT
WU Vienna University of Economics, Vienna AT
FRIDAY -16TH OF DECEMBER – SATURDAY 17TH OF DECEMBER 2011
The philosophy division of the WU Wien is very happy to host the international workshop “Wittgenstein on Concept-Formation and the Limits of the Empirical” with Danièle Moyal-Sharrock
Program:
FRIDAY, 16th of DECEMBER 2011: 4.00 – 6.00
4.00 – 4.15
Welcome Address
Gabriele M. Mras (WU)
4.15. – 5.15
KEYNOTE: There are Facts and there are Facts: Wittgenstein versus Searle
Danièle Moyal-Sharrock
(President of the British Wittgenstein Society, University of Hertfordshire)
5.15 – 6.00
Discussion
Location: WU University of Economics, Vienna,
H.2.19 (UZA 1/2nd floor/A)
SATURDAY, 17th of DECEMBER 2011 : 10.45 - 05.20
10.45 – 11.25
Concepts, Facts and Problems
Richard Raatzsch (EBS Wiesbaden)
11.35 – 12.15
Thought Experiments and Ordinary Situations
Nenad Miscevic (CEU Budapest, University of Maribor)
12.35 – 1.15
‘Reddish Green’ – Wittgenstein on Concepts and Limits of the Arbitrariness
Bernhard Ritter (University of Klagenfurt)
Session Chair: Gabriele M. Mras
2.30 – 3.10
Ordinary Language and the Collapse of the Fact-Value Dichotomy?
Eckehart Köhler (University of Vienna)
3.20 – 4.00
Wittgenstein on Concept Formation and the Significance of Imagining Alternative Forms of Life
Gabriele M. Mras (WU)
4.10 – 4.50
Stroud on Logical Necessity and General Facts of Nature
Frederik Gierlinger (WU)
5.00 – 5.20
Final Discussion
Session Chair: Bernhard Ritter, Stefan Riegelnik
Location: WU University of Economics, Vienna: Large Conference Room (UZA 1/2nd floor/D)
more information is to be found at
https://www.wu.ac.at/geschichte/philo/conwandl
Anyone interested in participating is very welcome but we would ask for registration
by sending an email to bettina.gerdenich@wu.ac.at (+43-1-31336-4166)
The event is supported by the Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien, the WU, and Conceptus - Verein zur Förderung Analytischer Philosophie
