Mathematics, Logic and Language in Schopenhauer

December 7, 2017 - December 8, 2017
Institut für Philosophie, FernUniversität in Hagen

KSW 4+5
Universitätstr. 33
Hagen 58084
Germany

Sponsor(s):

  • Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft e.V.
  • FernUniversität in Hagen

Speakers:

Michael Bevan
(unaffiliated)
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Dieter Birnbacher
(unaffiliated)
Jason Costanzo
(unaffiliated)
Daniel Elon
(unaffiliated)
Hans-Johann Glock
University of Zürich
Anna-Sophie Heinemann
(unaffiliated)
(unaffiliated)
Werner Kirsch
(unaffiliated)
Matthias Koßler
(unaffiliated)
Jens Lemanski
FernUniversität in Hagen
Amirouche Moktefi
Tallinn University of Technology
(unaffiliated)
Thomas Regehly
(unaffiliated)
Severin Schroeder
University of Reading
Daniel Schubbe
(unaffiliated)

Organisers:

Jens Lemanski
FernUniversität in Hagen

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The conference is motivated by the growing interest in Schopenhauer’s logic, mathematics and philosophy of language. Until a few years ago, it was hardly known that Schopenhauer was intensively concerned with mathematical evidence, logic diagrams, and problems of semantics. Both the focus on conceptual theories, hermeneutics, and Euler diagrams in Schopenhauer’s books and lectures (The Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, The World as Will and Idea, Philosophical Lectures), as well as their link with modern research areas such as “proof without words movement” and diagrammatic reasoning have shown the currency of Schopenhauer’s ideas in recent years. Particularly his criticism of Euclid’s “mouse-trap proofs”, his question about the justification of deductive reasoning, as well as Schopenhauer’s relation to Wittgenstein’s theories of meaning are controversial in current research.

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December 6, 2017, 10:00am CET

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