Please join us this Friday January 30 for a workshop with Prof. James Shaw (University of Pittsburgh), discussing his paper “Agreement and Circumstance in the Philosophical Investigations”.
As background for the meeting, Prof. Shaw proposes we look into the first part of his short, two-part monograph on the role of human agreement in the Philosophical Investigations. At the workshop he will discuss a few different ideas and themes drawn from this material (basically, chapters 1-5).
The text is available here.
Since this is a lot to read, Prof. Shaw notes the following:
Ideally, I would have loved to say that readers can just skip through the intermediary chapters to get to the important bits (chapter 5 in particular). But reading, and rereading, I doubt that’s really a helpful thing to do. So I would say that readers who can’t make it all the way should just read as far as they feel comfortable. Anyone who makes it to the end of chapter 4, for example, will have a very good idea of what I’m up to. And truly, even if readers don’t even get that far, I’ll do my best at the beginning of the session to give a succinct summary, the rough outlines of which one should be able to follow with relatively little background. That’s my hope at any rate.
