Wittgensteinian Approaches to Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture
March 26 - 28, 2009
Nordic Network for Wittgenstein Research
at Åbo Akademi University, Arken, Lecture hall: Armfelt
Fabriksgatan 2/Tehtaankatu 2, Åbo/Turku
DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION MARCH 12th 2009
Program
Thursday 26 March
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
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
Friday 27
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
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
Saturday 28
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 Carolyn Wilde, University of Bristol
The Intersubjectivity of Aesthetic Judgment
15.30 - 15.45 Coffee
15.45 - 17.00 Pär Segerdahl, Uppsala University
Gender, Language and Philosophical Forgiveness
More information and registration here:
http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/filosofi/Research/nnwr/