Alþjóðleg ráðstefna – „Í fótspor Wittgensteins“ – 14.-16. sept.

Dagana 14.-16. september nk. verður alþjóðleg ráðstefna – er nefnist „Í fótspor Wittgensteins“ – haldin í tilefni af því að hundrað ár eru liðin frá því Ludwig Wittgenstein og David Pinsent heimsóttu Ísland.

Ráðstefnan, sem er haldin við Háskóla Íslands á vegum námsbrautar í heimspeki og Heimspekistofnunar, er ókeypis og öllum opin. Allir fyrirlestrar verða fluttir á ensku.

Ráðstefnan hefst föstudaginn 14. september með kvölddagskrá kl. 18-20 í stofu 101 í Lögbergi. Laugardaginn 15. og sunnudaginn 16. fer ráðstefnan fram frá kl. 9 í Lögbergi 101 og Odda 101.

Dagskrá:

Föstudagur, 14. september 2012

18:00-18:15     Mikael M. Karlsson, Háskóla Íslands:
Wittgenstein Walks Again In Iceland

Lögberg 101
18:15-19:15     David Connearn, Skjolden House Conservation Project:
„Wittgenstein’s Peregrinations and the Current Conservation of the Skjolden House“

Lögberg 101
19:15-20:00     Halldór Thorsteinsson, H.F.Securities:
„Wittgenstein in Iceland, 1912“

Lögberg 101

Laugardagur, 15. september 2012

9:00-9:45     Alice Crary, New School for Social Research: „Wittgenstein on How Minds Do (but Aren’t) Matter“

Lögberg 101
9:45-10:00 Hlé     Samhliða fyrirlestraröð A – Lögberg 101     Samhliða fyrirlestraröð B –
Oddi 101
10:00-10:45     Laurence Goldstein, University of Kent:
„An Exceptional Logic“		     Mikel Burley, University of Leeds:
„Wittgenstein and Atheism“
10:45-11:30     Kai Büttner, University of Zurich:
„Surveyability and Infinity“		     Alexander George, Amherst College:
„Too Big a Blunder: Wittgenstein, Hume, and Religious Belief“
11:30-13:00 Matur    
13:00-13:45     Max Weiss, University of British Columbia:
„Naming and Simplicity“		     Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen, University of Southern Denmark:
„Ethical Grammar: A Wittgensteinian Reevaluation of Ethical Theories“
13:45-14:30     Michael R. Smith, Jr., Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts: „Wittgenstein and the Problem of Metaphysics“     Tracy Bowell, University of Waikato: „Objectivity Humanly Speaking: Wittgenstein, Moral Objectivism and Certainty“
14:30-14:45 Hlé    
14:45-15:30     Elmar Geir Unnsteinsson, University of Iceland & CUNY Graduate Center:
„Wittgenstein on Intention and Interpretation“		     Duncan Richter, Virginia Military Institute:
„Wittgenstein’s Ethics“
15:30-16:15     Ed Witherspoon, Colgate University:
„Wittgenstein Against Knowledge by Description“		     Patrick Quinn, All Hallows College, Dublin City University:
„Belief, Love and Hope in the Writings of Wittgenstein“
16:15-16:30 Hlé    
16:30-17:15     Mikael M. Karlsson, University of Iceland:
„The Tractarian Wittgenstein and Ancient Chinese Skepticism“		     Höskuldur Ólafsson, University of Iceland:
„On the Rules of Art and the A-causality of Aesthetic Reactions“

Sunnudagur, 16. september 2012

9:00-9:45     Bill Child, University of Oxford: „Wittgenstein, Phenomenal Concepts, and Knowing What It’s Like“

Lögberg 101
9:45-10:00 Hlé     Samhliða fyrirlestraröð A – Lögberg 101     Samhliða fyrirlestraröð B –
Oddi 101
10:00-10:45     Lynda Burns, Latrobe University:
„Wittgenstein and Zombies“		     Anna Boncompagni, University of Roma Tre:
„Elucidating Forms of Life“
10:45-11:30     Jordan Rodger, King’s College, London:
„What Is It Like To Be a Conscious Green Cloud from Outer Space?“		     Hili Razinsky, Ben-Gurion University:
„A Live Language: Concreteness, Openness, Ambivalence“
11:30-13:00 Matur    
13:00-13:45     Hiroshi Ohtani, Musashino University:
„The Character of Hinges: Transcending Dichotomy in Interpretation“		     William James DeAngelis, Northeastern University:
„Wittgenstein on Religious Expression“
13:45-14:30     William Max Knorpp, James Madison University:
„The Rule-Following Considerations, The Solitary Language Argument, and Strong-Program Relitavism in the Sociology of Knowledge“		     Bhaskar Bhattacharyya, Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University :
„Some Reflections of Wittgenstein’s Concept of Religion: An Analytical Approach“
14:30-14:45 Hlé    
14:45-15:30     Carlo Penco, University of Genoa:
„Wittgenstein’s Thought Experiments and Relativity Theory“		     Lars Hertzberg, Åbo Academy:
„Wittgenstein and Attention“
15:30-16:15     Dewi Trebaul, University of Aix-Marseille:
„Wittgenstein’s Account of Truth in the Light of his Criticism of Frege“		     William Day, Le Moyne College:
„Aspect-Seeing and the Nature of Experience“
16:15-16:30 Hlé    
16:30-17:15     Reshef Agam-Segal, Virginia Military Institute:
„Aspect-Perception as a Philosophical Method“		     Eran Guter, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College:
„The Good, the Bad and the Vacuous: Wittgenstein’s Case Against Modern
Music“