Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Symposium

The symposium is organised by UCD School of Philosophy to commemorate Wittgenstein’s birth on April 26 1889 and his connections with Ireland.

10.00 - Opening Address

“To live in the world in which you are”

Maria Baghramian

University College Dublin

11.00 - “On Certainty paragraphs 306-8, 369-70:

Wittgenstein’s Refutation of Scepticism”

Andy Hamilton

Durham University

Lunch

1.30  "Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic"

Peter Simons

Trinity College Dublin

3.00 Graduate Sessions

(i) “Regress and reductio arguments in the Philosophical Investigations'


Tom McNally (Trinity College Dublin)

(ii)"Wittgenstein, Rorty, and Cultural Relativism"

John Dillon (University of Notre Dame)

(iii) “Cavell and how to read with Wittgenstein”

Fergal McHugh (University College Dublin)

3.30 Coffee break

4.00 “Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Criticism”

Hans-Johann Glock

University of Zürich

All Welcome

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