Upcoming Conferences and Workshops

Course Website

This year’s Klagenfurt Workshop will examine Wittgenstein’s treatment of rule following from a fresh perspective by considering how it is intertwined with three further topics: (1) the relation of sign to symbol, (2) the logical character of human expression, (3) the second person. After a first session in which we will briefly discuss some of Saul Kripke’s proposals for how to understand this region of Wittgenstein’s thought—which forms the background of most of the articles we will read—we will turn our attention in the first half of the workshop to a series of debates on how to read (and how not to read) Wittgenstein on rule following that may be understood to pit John McDowell and Cora Diamond against Robert Brandom and Crispin Wright. In the second half of the workshop, we will study some comparatively neglected articles (by Elizabeth Anscombe, David Finkelstein, Elek Lane, and Edward Minar, among others) that home in on one or another aspect of topics (1) – (3).

You can access the workshop poster here.

The University of Klagenfurt

Summer School Website

Possibly no topic has received more attention in the secondary literature on Wittgenstein than that of rule following. In this year’s Kirchberg Summer School, we aim to examine this topic from a fresh perspective by considering how Wittgenstein’s treatment of it is intertwined with three further topics: (1) the relation of sign to symbol, (2) the logical character of human expression, (3) the second person. A treatment of (1) precedes the stretch of sections in Philosophical Investigations standardly singled out as containing the “rule following considerations”—namely, §§185 – 201. (2) is often thought only first to come in for detailed examination in the stretch of sections in Philosophical Investigations standardly singled out as containing the “private language argument”—namely, §§243 – 305. That (3) is central to any portion of the book often goes completely unnoticed. Where helpful and appropriate, we will supplement our readings from the Investigations with brief excerpts from the Blue and Brown Books, Zettel, Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, and Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology.

Summer School Poster

Kirchberg am Weschel

Symposium Schedule

Symposium Abstracts

Christian Kanzian (Innsbruck)
Volker Munz (Klagenfurt)
Joseph Wang-Kathrein (Innsbruck)
Anja Weiberg (Vienna)

Elementary School
Markt 300
A-2880 Kirchberg am Wechsel
Austria

The University of Göttingen