Welcome to the 2016-2017 Wittgenstein Workshop!
Please see the schedule for details about all the talks this year.
Welcome to the 2016-2017 Wittgenstein Workshop!
Please see the schedule for details about all the talks this year.
Join us this Friday, May 20, for a workshop with Claire Kirwin (Chicago), who will be presenting her paper “Pulling Oneself Up by the Hair: Understanding Nietzsche on the Freedom of the Will.”
The paper is available here; reading it in advance is optional.
As usual, we meet 1:30-4:20pm in Wieboldt 408.
Join us on Friday, May 13 (note the new date!), for a workshop with Gilad Nir (Chicago) on his paper “A Modus Ponens Represented in Signs: Wittgenstein on Inference.”
The paper is accessible here (password protected)
As usual, we meet 1:30-4:20pm in Wieboldt 408.
From Friday, April 29 to Saturday, April 30, the University of Chicago will be hosting the third annual Chicagoland Graduate Philosophy Conference. You can find the schedule here.
Join us this Friday, April 22, for a workshop with Dawn Eschenauer Chow (Chicago) on her paper “Analogy, Similarity, and Polysemy: On the Irrelevance of ‘Words Said in Different Senses’ in Accounts of Religious Language.”
The paper is available here.
As usual, we meet 1:30-4:20pm in Wieboldt 408.
Join us on Friday, April 8, for a workshop with Avner Baz (Tufts) on his paper “Motivational Indeterminacy.”
Please read the paper in advance; you can download it here.
As usual, we meet 1:30-4:20pm in Wieboldt 408.
Join us on Friday, March 11, for a workshop with Barry Stroud (Berkeley) on his paper “Davidson and Wittgenstein on Meaning and Understanding.”
The paper is not being circulated in advance.
As usual, we meet 1:30-4:20pm in Wieboldt 408.
Join us on Friday, March 4, for a workshop with Sebastian Rödl (Leipzig) on his paper “Truth at an Index.”
The paper is available here.
As usual, we meet 1:30-4:20pm in Wieboldt 408.
Join us on Friday, February 26, for a workshop with Andrea Kern (Leipzig) on her paper “Cognitive Capacities, Self-Constitution and Practice.”
The paper is not being circulated in advance.
As usual, we meet 1:30-4:20pm in Wieboldt 408.
Join us on Friday, January 29, for a workshop with Andy Werner (Chicago) on his paper “Our Shared Animality: Why McDowell Needs Hegel’s Idea of a Logical Progression.”
The paper can be found here.
As usual, we meet 1:30-4:20pm in Wieboldt 408.