The Nordic Network for Wittgenstein Research
Workshop 2009, March 26 - 28. at Åbo Akademi University
Wittgensteinian Approaches to Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture
Thursday 26
14.00 - 14.15 Opening of the symposium
14.15 - 15.30 Olli Lagerspetz, Åbo Akademi University
Dirt and Cleanliness, and the Dialectic between Facts and Practices
15.30 - 15.45 Coffee
15.45 - 17.00 Duncan Richter, Virginia Military Institute
Wittgenstein, Bentham, Derrida: Ethics, Nonsense, Metaphysics, and Rights
19.00 Reception
Friday 27
10.15 - 11.30 Tove Österman, Uppsala University
To be announced later
11.45 - 13.00 Lars Hertzberg, Åbo Akademi University
On Knowing Right from Wrong
13.00 - 14.15 Lunch
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
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
Saturday 28
10.15 - 11.30 Anniken Greve, University of Tromsø:
The Holocaust and the Ethics of Remembering
11.45 - 13.00 Cora Diamond
To be announced later
13.00 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.30 Carolyn Wilde
The Intersubjectivity of Aesthetic Judgment
15.30 - 15.45 Coffee
15.45 - 17.00 Pär Segerdahl, Uppsala universitet
Gender, language and philosophical forgiveness
More info or program changes:
http://nnwr.net/nnwr-program.html