30th International Wittgenstein Symposium
Kirchberg am Wechsel, Lower Austria,
Sunday, 5 August 2007 - Saturday, 11 August 2007
Its general theme will be:
Philosophy of the Information Society
Sections
1. Wittgenstein
2. Wittgenstein and the digital turn
3. Information science, text theory and hermeneutics in the digital context
4. Philosophy of media
5. Philosophy of the Internet
6. Ethics and political economy of the information society
Workshop: Electronic philosophy resources and Open Source
Information:
http://www.alws.at/wittgenstein07.htm
Philosophers work on texts employing genres that have been familiar for hundreds of years: essays, reference works, lectures etc. Modern information and communication technologies now challenge such endeavour with a hitherto unimagined field of possibilities, while the Internet has expanded the spectrum still further. It is not just a matter of “transporting texts across the web”. Email, chats, virtual communities, interactive text production and multimedia presentations all confront traditional philosophy with barely explored forms of expression and professional activity. The knowledge society is founded on digital techniques that also imply a transformation of the instruments used in knowledge work. The consequences reach as far as the most elementary forms of communication within the humanities. Starting out from a consideration of the role that Wittgenstein and Wittgenstein research could and do already play in this context, “Philosophy of the Information Society” will form the subject of six sections and of a workshop as also a panel debate.
Invited Speakers include:
Daniel Apollon (Bergen)
Barbara Becker (Paderborn)
Anat Biletzki (Tel-Aviv)
Gregory Chaitin (New York)
Chris Chesher (Sydney)
James Conant (Chicago)
Wolfgang Coy (Berlin)
Jos de Mul (Rotterdam)
Paolo D’Iorio (Paris)
Fred Dretske (Stanford)
Charles Ess (Springfield)
Maurizio Ferraris (Turin)
Luciano Floridi (Bari/Oxford)
Juliet Floyd (Boston)
Dominique Foray (Lausanne)
Rishab A. Ghosh (Maastricht)
Cynthia Haynes (Clemson)
Michael Heim (Long Beach)
Claus Huitfeldt (Bergen)
Cameron McEwen (Charlottesville)
Katalin Neumer (Budapest)
Helen F. Nissenbaum (New York)
Kristof Nyíri (Budapest)
Claus Pias (Wien)
Allen Renear (Urbana-Champaign)
Siegfried J. Schmidt (Münster)
David G. Stern (Iowa)
Luis M. Valdés-Villanueva (Oviedo).