August 11 - 16, 2025
Conference Website
For information regarding the 46th International Wittgenstein Symposium: https://www.alws.at/
Location
Elementary school
Markt 300
A-2880 Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria
August 6 - 9, 2025
Summer School Website
For information regarding the 16th Ludwig Wittgenstein Summer School: https://www.alws.at/16th-ludwig-wittgenstein-summerschool/
Location
Elementary school
Markt 300
A-2880 Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria
July 31 - August 2, 2025
Workshop Poster
Course Website & Description
Location
The University of Klagenfurt
July 23 - 26, 2025
Conference Website
Organizer
The annual meeting is locally organized by Tabea Rohr (tabea.rohr@uni-jena.de).
Location
The conference will take place in the Rosensäle, Fürstengraben 27, in the center of Jena.
July 21 - 22, 2025
Conference Program & Poster
Conference Papers
To access the papers, please click here.
Organizers
Adrian Haddock (adrian.haddock@uni-leipzig.de) and Jonas Held (jonas.held82@gmail.com)
Location
University of Leipzig (Vortragssaal Albertina)
Theoretische Philosophie
Beethovenstraße 15
04107 Leipzig
July 17 - 19, 2025
Workshop Website
Workshop Program & Poster
Organizers
Location
Felix Klein Lecture Hall, Paulinum, Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig
July 14-15, 2025
Workshop Website
Location
University of Potsdam
Haus 8, Raum, 0.58
Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam
July 10 - 12, 2025
Conference Website
Conference Program & Poster
Organizers
Holmer Steinfath (holmer.steinfath@phil.uni-goettingen.de) & James Conant (jconant@uchicago.edu)
Location
The University of Göttingen
Humboldt Allee 19, room PH 0.133
July 9, 2025
Event Website
Organizers
This talk is organized by Volkbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz & The New Institute: Centre for Social Critique at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Please be aware that you must have a ticket in order to attend this event. Tickets can be purchased at the following website: https://www.volksbuehne.berlin/#/de/spielplan
Location
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Roter Salon
Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin
July 6 - 8, 2025
Conference Website
Conference Program & Poster
Organizers
The Doctoral School in the Humanities
Jagiellonian University Kraków
Location
The University of Kraków
July 2 - 3, 2025
Conference Website
Conference Program
Location
The University of Stuttgart
Kollegiengebäude IV (1.OG)
Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 24d
70174 Stuttgart
June 30 - July 2, 2025
Conference Website
Conference Program & Poster
Organizers
Sebastian Bürkle, James Conant, Christian Martin, & Marco-Lorenz Seikel
Location
The University of Stuttgart
MONDAY & TUESDAY: Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 24 D Raum: Casino
WEDNESDAY: Azenbergstr. 12 Raum: M12.01
June 28 - 29, 2025
Conference Poster
Invited Speakers
- Agata Bielik-Robson (Nottingham/Warsaw)
- James Conant (Chicago)
- Juliet Floyd (Boston)
- Martin Gustafsson (Turku)
- Adam Lipszyc (Warsaw)
- Alice Morelli (Venice)
- Marcin Poręba (Warsaw)
- Vincent Vincke (Brussels)
Location
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 3, Room 4
June 26 - 27, 2025
Conference Poster & Website
Participants
Brian O’Connor, Peter Dews, Alain Ehrenberg, Eli Friedlander, Veronica Galfione, Thomas Khurana, Luca Illetterati, Karen Ng, Terry Pinkard, Francesca Raimondi, Jörg Schaub, Vladimir Safatle, Isabel Sickenberger, Natalie Stoljar
Organizers
Isabel Sickenberger & Alexey Weißmüller
Location
University of Potsdam
Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam
Event Description
In their joint presentation “Being Known to Each Other”, James Conant (Chicago) and Matthias Haase (Chicago) will argue that the fundamental case of the second person relation between persons partakes of a logically distinctive form. In the recent literature, skepticism about other minds is often treated on analogy with skepticism about knowledge of the external world. In this paper Conant and Haase argue that this is mistaken: knowledge of other minds differs from knowledge of external objects not merely in content, but also in form. This formal difference is due to the former kind of knowledge involving a relation between persons. Τhe fundamental form of this relation exhibits logical features not present in knowledge of a mere thing, including mutual acknowledgement and reciprocal address. The latter two features are particularly emphasized in the work of Stanley Cavell. Following his lead, Conant and Haase seek to elucidate several deep asymmetries between skepticism about the external world and skepticism about other minds. Not least of these is that the latter, unlike the former, can be lived—and hence is a form of skepticism partaking of an irreducibly existential aspect.
Organizers
Christian Martin (christian.georg.martin@gmail.com)
Location
The University of Stuttgart
Institute of Philosophy, Room M17.15
June 24, 2025
Event Program
Organizers
Christian Martin und David Wörner
Time & Location
Institutskolloquium des Instituts für Philosophie im Sommersemester 2025
Dienstag, 18:15-19:45 Uhr in Raum M11.32
June 23, 2025
Article Link
Please note that this workshop is read ahead. You can access the article here.
Organizers
Jonathan Beere (jonathan.beere@hu-berlin.de)
Time & Location
The Workshop will take place from 14-16 hr; It will be at the Center for Human Abilities. Schönhauser Allee 9 (near Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz). If the front door doesn’t open, ring a HU buzzer to the right. When you go in, head to your right and find the elevators. Go up to the 4th floor (German counting). We will be in room 4.17.
June 19 - 21, 2025
Conference Program
Conference Poster & Blog
To view the conference blog page, click on the following link: https://loecentenary.blogspot.com/
Organizers
Location
The University of Potsdam, Campus am Neuen Palais, Room 1.08.0.56
Here is a Map.
June 10 - 12, 2025
Conference Program & Poster
Organizers
James Conant & Costas Pagondiotis
Location
Conference and Cultural Center of the University of Patras, Rooms II9, I.5
June 6, 2025
Conference Poster
Organizer
Irmena Tsankova (tsankova_irmena@phd.ceu.edu)
Location
Institute of Philosophy of the University of Vienna
Hörsaal 2i, Neue Institutsgebäude (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010, Wien
June 4, 2025
Event Description (in German)
Professor James Conant (University of Chicago) veranstaltet am 4.6.2025, von 14-16 Uhr, im Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv ein Seminar zum Thema »Wir kennen uns.« Grundlage des Seminars ist eine Arbeit, die er mit seinem Kollegen Matthias Haase (University of Chicago) geschriebenen hat. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Überlegungen von Ludwig Wittgenstein und Stanley Cavell zum Wissen von dem Bewusstsein anderer Personen. In der zeitgenössischen analytischen Philosophie wird Skeptizismus über die Möglichkeit des Wissens von Fremdpsychischen zumeist parallel zum Skeptizismus über die Möglichkeit des Wissens von der Außenwelt behandelt. Nach Wittgenstein und Cavell ist dies jedoch ein Fehler: Wissen vom Fremdpsychischen und Wissen von der Außenwelt unterscheiden sich nicht nur in ihrem Inhalt, sondern auch in ihrer Form. Der formale Unterschied besteht genau darin, dass letzteres Wissen ein zwischenmenschliches Verhältnis betrifft. Der paradigmatische Fall des Wissens von Anderen ist das reziproke Verhältnis zweier Personen, die einander kennen. Das Thema des Seminars ist die Untersuchung der unterschiedlichen Dimensionen dieser Asymmetrie zwischen Wissen von anderen Personen und Wissen von Gegenständen in der Welt.
Seminar Poster (in German)
Location
Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv
Universität Innsbruck
Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
June 3, 2025
Event Description (in German)
Professor James Conant (University of Chicago) und Professor Christoph König (Universität Osnabrücke / Berlin) veranstalten am 3.6.2025, von 14-16 Uhr, im Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv ein Seminar zum Thema »Sagen und Zeigen bei Wittgenstein: Dichtung, Logik und Philosophie«. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Ludwig Wittgensteins Bemerkungen im Jahr 1917 Paul Engelmann gegenüber, die sich auf Ludwig Uhlands Gedicht ›Graf Eberhards Weißdorn‹ beziehen, und das Gedicht selbst. Indem Wittgenstein in diesen Bemerkungen die Begriffe Sagen, Zeigen und Unaussprechliches verwendet, die in seinem großen ersten Werk ›Tractatus logico-philosophicus‹ (1918 abgeschlossen) zentral sind, wird von den Bemerkungen über Uhlands Gedicht her der ›Tractatus‹ selbst zum Gegenstand. Es wird sich zeigen, dass die Standardauffassung, Wittgenstein wolle sagen, das Unaussprechliche sei jenseits der Sprache, seine Auffassung nicht trifft, sondern dass das nötige Zeigen vielmehr dem Sagen intern sei.
Seminar Poster (in German)
Location
Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv
Universität Innsbruck
Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
May 13 - 15, 2025
Conference Poster
Conference Website & Program
The conference website can be accessed here: https://helgavarden.com/kant-the-isms-conference/
The conference program can be accessed here: https://helgavarden.com/conference-program/
Location
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Room 210 (General Lounge) Illini Union.
April 28, 2025
Workshop Poster
Organizer Information
John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought
For those interested in attending the workshop, you must reach out to Karl von der Luft (kvdluft@uchicago.edu) to request a spot. There are a limited number of spots remaining.
April 11, 2025
Forum Poster
Speakers & Registration Information
Robert B. Pippin (Social Thought & Philosophy, University of Chicago)
Respondents
Mark Alznauer (Philosophy, Northwestern University)
Peter E. Gordon (History, Philosophy, German Studies, Harvard University)
Andreja Novakovic (Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley)
The forum is over Zoom on April 11th, 2025 (10 a.m. – 12 p.m.). To register: https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/Vni8R9BfQTK7JAHWFkdm3A
Organizers
The Center of Global Culture and Communication (An interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University’s School of Communication) & the Center for Transcultural Studies initiative of Northwestern University’s School of Communication
Workshop Flyer
Location
DePaul University (Lincoln Park Campus), Richardson Libary, Room 300
February 21 - 22, 2025
Workshop Program
Friday, February 21
9am – 10.30am: Glenda Satne (Wollongong)
11am – 12.30pm: Matt Dougherty (CEU)
Lunch break
1.30pm – 3pm: Mikayla Kelley (UChicago)
3.15pm – 4.45pm: Niels de Haan (Vienna)
5pm – 6.30pm: Anton Ford (UChicago)
Saturday, February 22
9am – 10.30am: Megan Hyska (Northwestern)
11am – 12.30pm: Ben Laurence (UChicago)
Lunch break
1.30pm – 3pm: Cathy Mason (CEU)
3.30pm – 5pm: Hans Bernhard Schmid (Vienna)
Workshop Poster
Location
The University of Chicago, Wieboldt 408