Language and Mathematics in Wittgenstein

Programme

Seminar, 4 June

16:00-18:00

Conference, 5 June

9:45-10:00 – Nuno Venturinha, Project Coordinator: Welcome and Introduction

10:00-11:15 – Joachim Schulte (Zurich): The Notion of a Rule

11:15-11:30 – Coffee Break

11:30-12:45 – Michel Le Du (Strasbourg): Other-Mindedness: An Enduring Anthropological Challenge in the Philosophical Investigations

12:45-14:15 – Lunch Break

14:15-15:00 – Alberto Arruda (Lisbon): Transparency and Receptivity in Rule-Following

15:00-16:15 – Nuno Venturinha (Lisbon): Logicism and Psychologism

16:15-16:45 – Coffee Break

16:45-18:00 – Severin Schroeder (Reading): Rule-Following in Mathematics and Language

6 June

10:00-11:15 – Charles Travis (London): The Rules of the Game

11:15-11:30 – Coffee Break

11:30-12:45 – Jesús Padilla Gálvez (Toledo): Proof and Truth of Mathematical Propositions

12:45-14:15 – Lunch Break

14:15-15:00 – Ana Falcato (Lisbon): How far goes Wittgenstein with the Context Principle?

15:00-16:15 – António Marques (Lisbon): “Der Waage, auf der man die Eindrücke wägt, ist nicht der Eindruck von einer Waage” (PI 259)

16:15-16:45 – Coffee Break

16:45-18:00 – P. M. S. Hacker (Oxford): Wittgenstein on Mathematical Proof

18:00 – António Marques, Director of IFL: Closing Remarks

This conference is part of the project “Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: Re-Evaluating a Project”, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

A seminar with P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte will also take place on 4 June in connection with the conference. The theme of the seminar is P. M. S. Hacker’s article “Wittgenstein on Grammar, Theses and Dogmatism”, recently published in Philosophical Investigations (Volume 35, Issue 1, January 2012, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9205.2011.01460.x/abstract). There is no registration fee for these events.

Enquiries relating to any subject should be sent to Dr Nuno Venturinha ([email protected]). For information about the project and how to get to the Faculty, please visit: