Wittgensteinian Approaches to Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture

26.3.2009 till 28.3.2009

Wittgensteinian Approaches to Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture
March 26 - 28, 2009
Nordic Network for Wittgenstein Research
DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION MARCH 12th 2009
Further information, program changes etc.:
http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/filosofi/Research/nnwr/

Program

Thursday 26 March
Arken, Åbo Akademi University, Auditorium Armfelt (Fabriksgatan 2)
14.45 - 15.00 Opening of the symposium
15.00 - 16.00 Olli Lagerspetz, Åbo Akademi University
Dirt and Cleanliness, and the Dialectic between Facts and Practices
16.00 - 16.15 Coffee

Gadolinia, Åbo Akademi, Auditorium A, first floor (Biskopsgatan 14)
16.15 - 17.30 Duncan Richter, Virginia Military Institute
Wittgenstein, Bentham, Derrida: Ethics, Nonsense, Metaphysics, and Rights
17.30 - 18.45 Don Levi, University of Oregon
    The Omniscient Being Knows
20.00 Reception (Arken)

Friday 27 (Arken, Armfelt)
10.15 - 11.30 Tove Österman, Uppsala University
          Understanding Otherness
11.45 - 13.00  Lars Hertzberg, Åbo Akademi University
           On Knowing Right from Wrong
13.00 - 14.15 Lunch (Arken)
14.15 - 15.30 Alice Crary, The New School for Social Research, New York
            Ethics and the Logic of Life
15.30 - 15.45 Coffee
15.45 - 17.00 Joel Backström, Åbo Akademi University
            Making the Unconscious Conscious in Wittgenstein and Freud
17.15 - 18.30 Sergio Benvenuto, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and
Technologies, Rome
        Ethics, Wonder and the Real in Wittgenstein
19.30 Conference dinner (Teini, pre-ordered)

Saturday 28 (Arken, Armfelt)
10.15 - 11.30 Anniken Greve, University of Tromsø:
    The Holocaust and the Ethics of Remembering
11.45 - 13.00 Mikel Burley, University of Leeds:
    Wittgenstein, Religion, and the Rejection of Metaphysics
13.00 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.30 Ranjit Chatterjee, University of Maryland:
    Wittgenstein and Humour
15.30 - 15.45 Coffee
15.45 - 17.00 Pär Segerdahl, Uppsala University
        Gender, Language and Philosophical Reconciliation

17.15–18.15 Konstituerande möte för Nordiska Wittgensteinsällskapet – Constituting meeting of the Nordic Wittgenstein Society.