BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260606T090650Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20120502T170000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20120502T190000 SUMMARY:On a Certain Blindness in Wittgenstein UID:20260611T185914Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:La Trobe University\, Bundoora\, Australia DESCRIPTION:

After 1946\, Wittgenstein made a surprising number of references to blindness. He talks about blindness and colour-blindness\, as well as more arcane concepts like 'aspect-blindness' and 'meaning-blindness'. The latter concepts are increasingly discussed in the literature\; the former\, comparatively infrequently. Despite the fact that Wittgenstein invites a comparison between these varieties of blindness\, this effort has not been attempted. I will make a case for reading these remarks as instantiating a conceptual analytic technique aimed at elucidating the concepts of experience. Although the various discussions of blindness have different purposes\, they share a structure and a strategy\, especially in tracing the usefulness of the idea of a 'language-game'. We will also see how these remarks problematise a naive reading of Wittgenstein as equating meaning with use.

ORGANIZER;CN=Richard Sebold;CN=Aaron Harrison: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR