has invited a group of scholars of Wittgenstein's work, especially, Spain, Brazil, Italy and France. Some of the exhibitors are:
The set of presentations and discussions that make up the American-European Second Conference on Science and Philosophy "Science, Religion and Civilization. Wittgenstein against the excesses of the Project of Modernity and Enlightenment "/ Second Conference on Philosophical Analysis, Legal and Political Speech, Political Realism and Pure Theory of Law. Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Law ", will clarify concerns about how to obtain a critical image of modern science (in its various internal tasks and commitments to the environment), an overview of the Christian religion is not based on a priori its disagreement with the aforementioned science and an approach to the civilization that we live and not to grant privileges motivated by our membership in one or another culture. It will be our main reference books and notes of Ludwig Wittgenstein, logical, philosopher and cultural critic (usually associated with scientistic, Kierkegaard, Zen Buddhism or avant-garde art, conceptual, and on whose life and writings-novels are constructed so delusional as to exemplify wisely, films, Jarman, or conceptual art exhibits Kosuth).
university
The general public may, therefore, test answers to both technical and multidisciplinary interest (even on the Theory and Philosophy of Law and Political Theology) and extra-academic concerns, suddenly more psychologically and sociologically key (the future of the Technocracy, the presence of Christianity and war as a possibility).
has decided to have Wittgenstein as a reference for addressing the problem of the status of science, the place of religion (Christianity) and the dimensions of civilization because, in a long list of good reasons, he, in spite of what they want to imagine continental philosophers (especially the very decadent postmodern accent) and Continental philosophers (in its most naive), provides a picture of science, philosophical about the trade and daily life in general, quite enlightening. Thus, critical to their immediate community by stating, in his posthumous Cuadernos Azul y Marrón, that "[t] he philosophers have constantly before their eyes the method of science and feel an irresistible temptation to ask and answer questions the same way science does. This trend is the real source of metaphysics and leads the philosopher to complete darkness. "Hue did not differ when present, in his only book published in his lifetime Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, science in connection with what he considered our core issues (the meaning of life not good, the beautiful, God, the world), asserting that "even when all possible scientific questions have received answers, our problems is vital not [had] touched at all." What a specimen so rare that Wittgenstein, suggesting such things in Austria (and England) and not a little scientistic desacralizing!
Those who still lacked, so to speak, Wittgenstein's research profile (who may remember as we mentioned), should know that it is no exaggeration when it is represented as the major creditor of much of demystifying scientific knowledge, penetrating philosophical analysis and everyday knowledge in so far their first notes (1913 approx.) to the current vigorous international debate on its texts, and other posthumous. Debtors are not simply-as if it were little, what was your stage of university education, employed in Engineering (Berlin), (foundations of) mathematics (Manchester) or Philosophy of Language, Logic and Mind (Cambridge). Although this process is already rich in brooding and deliverables (in Semantics, Logic, Epistemology and, indirectly, Theology), and one which Frege and Russell as well as its partners include prominent English in Economics, Mathematics and History (Keynes, Whitehead, Strachey), our debt is still to a higher amount and is necessarily attached to the set of influences that Wittgenstein himself, in his controversial Aphorisms. Culture and Value, appropriated for when, as now, we would highlight your credit. Modestly (or simple ruse fails to discern the real value of their services elucidatorios borrow who does not deserve), states: "[c] defendant never I invented a movement of thought, but I always was given by someone else. The only thing I did was take it immediately with enthusiasm for my work of clarification. So Boltzsman have influenced me, Hertz, Schopenhauer, Frege, Russell, Kraus, Loos, Weininger, Spengler, Sraffa. " Two physicists, a metaphysician, a logical, a logician, philosopher and cultural critic, a cultural critic, satirist, an architect, a philosopher (of sexuality), a historian, an economist: all in Wittgenstein. Experienced contact with each of them directly or indirectly, differs in degree, time and manner and, of course, how and how much influence subsequently resulted in revenues for traditional cognitive, field or discipline of origin: the physical science took a model and, interestingly, a conception of philosophy and language as the solution of problems and as contained, respectively, of the logicians, the metaphysical, the satirist and the architect, the raw material to articulate-in form and substance-first philosophy, cultural critics, the architect and historian (but also the philosopher of sexuality), the minimum components to set a sensitivity critical of the decadence of the modern world supported by, among others, the ornament, the usual handling journalistic language and moral coward's own labored false eternity, and finally, perhaps the most critical sources, the philosopher of sexuality - again! - and economist, took the ideas of purity and ethical rigor religious commitment with oneself, and interpolating the example that does make one give up beliefs that had been considered untouchable-final and the case is glaring Tractatus his resignation to embrace the suggestion in his book Philosophical Investigations. (Besides the above, figures of science and the arts should also enlist as revolving around their thinking and nurturing, are: Moore, Mauthner, Shoenberg, Klimt, Tolstoy, Freud, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Kafka, Lichtenberg, Dostoyesky, St. Augustine and the pragmatist James, among others.)
Continuing the metaphor, we can, to clarify the extent current debt, continue taking accounts. Let's do some disciplines demonstrates what we already have and what some others may owe to Wittgenstein's philosophy, especially late. Physics, since less empiricist, reduction or representation is more flexible on how to interact usefully with the Theory of Action, to distinguish both between causes, motives and reasons, and philosophy, to make you understand this, especially continental tradition, which could obsolete by a conceptual model drawn from this analysis and that, to get rid of some metaphysical bias emphasizes descriptive, quietist. Mathematics and logic have been released from a Platonism, after the dismantling of what they supposed notions as a whole, theorem, infinite expansion, testing, most general, calculation, evidence, algebraic formula, need, therefore, proposition, etc.. and have done so far to speak respectfully and with great care and Ethnomathematics Fuzzy logic. Teachers (not to lose sight of that Wittgenstein left Cambridge to work as a teacher school in the most miserable places in Lower Austria), historians and sociologists have reported similarly benefited from the introduction of the notions of Wittgensteinian language game, airs family and lifestyles, and, from understanding of these, the modern vocabulary review: progress, historical law, development, etc.
Ethology has refined its biologism and has hermeneutizado, with developments Wittgensteinians Lichtenberg and Weininger, experiments on animals to understand. Architecture, Visual Arts and Literary Theory have been enraptured by minimalism, research on color and problematic meanings to imagine, write and read. (Including all the good substantive argumentation theories already in Wittgenstein.) Anthropology, Psychology and Linguistics, however, are what Wittgenstein has made the most intelligent and productive academic excuse to deal with their problems successfully. With its findings to as naturalism relativism, anthropologists have validated its epistemological status and nothing more and nothing less than the study of categorization of colors (we are thinking in Berlin) have cooperated decisively to the installation of cognitive approach Social Sciences, whose immediate consequence will be felt within Psychology (example is Rosch and his team). This not only alludes to above, has carried out self cardinal to take seriously Wittgenstein's criticisms of Psychoanalysis, their contributions to the Gestalt and the questioning of behaviorism showing desencaminadotes uses mental status, behavior, intelligence, mind, subconscious, brain, perception, thinking, observing that reaches the eliminativist of materialist neuroscience. (Indeed, among those who took advantage of Wittgenstein as an excuse, but do not know if smart, can be counted and feminist poets, both fictionalized compulsively, both free of accusations of slander -Ones, by license, others, that so amazing, it could reverse the charges and accused of violating the rights of gender or, simpler and easier, call us misogynists.) In turn pragmatic linguistics accent has positioned as the hegemonic trend in the major departments of Linguistics of the world by admitting that underneath all his so-called cognitive experientialism-Wittgensteinian arguments were that, let us say clearly, are the only ones so far can derail many other property of a of the geniuses of linguistics, Chomsky. At this
point one may well feel overwhelmed by the exorbitant and plentiful that in his eyes shows the amount due. (But one could not also be tempted to find a book from our philosophers?)
But those for whom it has set the face of Wittgenstein wait to be shown that what he has to that is both as good (deep, clear and useful), one could only report that the only way would be pleased about it long and patient study of treated papers and books. Since then the American-European Second Conference on Science and Philosophy "Science, Religion and Civilization. Wittgenstein against the excesses of the Project of Modernity and Enlightenment "/ Second Conference on Philosophical Analysis, Legal and Political Speech, Political Realism and Pure Theory of Law. Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Law ", without more, an opportunity, perhaps very good-to, with the help of specialists, opened this academic enterprise.
How to register?
Send an email to
diaporein@redfilosofica.de whose only content is composed of the explicit request of registration opening for detailed data the applicant and a list of names and email accounts of people who feel interested also in the issue of events. The email subject should be ENROLLMENT. You will then receive information on all steps.
.JPG){kind=link}