Month: January 2019 (page 1 of 1)

Crisis and Critique: Philosophical Analysis and Current Events


Kirchberg/Wechsel, August 4 – 10, 2019.

If you intend to present a paper, please obtain an electronic submissions link. The process is explained here:
www.alws.at/iws_organization/submission-process/

and please mind our instructions for authors:

www.alws.at/iws_organization/instructions-for-authors/

Before you send your paper to the organizers, please make sure that you are registered. For registration, please download the Registration Form:www.alws.at/iws_organization/registration/

and send it to:

Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (ALWS) Markt 63
A-2880 Kirchberg am Wechsel
Austria, Europe

For further information visit:

www.alws.at/symposium/42nd-international-wittgenstein-symposium-2019/

or contact:
Maga Margret Kronaus | E-mail:

The 11th Ludwig Wittgenstein Summer School in Kirchberg/Wechsel, organised by ALWS, will be held prior to the symposium: July 30 – August 3, 2019.

Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

with Cora DIAMOND (Charlottesville), James CONANT (Chicago/Leipzig) & Martin GUSTAFSSON (Turku)

Scientific organization and direction: Volker A. MUNZ (Klagenfurt, ALWS).
For further information see: www.alws.at/11th-ludwig-wittgenstein-summer-school/

We are very much looking forward to seeing you in Kirchberg this August. Best Regards,

David Wagner
(General Secretary, ALWS)

Fourth Wittgenstein Conference in China

The Fourth Wittgenstein Conference in China will be in Xi'an in October 19-20, 2019. Call for papers now! The Conference is international, sponsored by Chinese Wittgenstein Society and hosted by Northwest University in Xi'an. Please submit your paper to Professor Xueguang Zhang at

Two new reviews

Floyd, J., & Katz, J. E. (Eds.). (2015). Review of Philosophy of Emerging Media: Understanding, Appreciation, Application by Charles Brewer. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

Beale, J., & Kidd, I. J. (Eds.). (2017). Review of Wittgenstein and Scientism by Ryan Manhire (1 edition). New York: Routledge.

Book Review,s

The FCT-funded project “Epistemology of Religious Belief: Wittgenstein, Grammar and the Contemporary World” is offering a post-doc contract

The FCT-funded project “Epistemology of Religious Belief: Wittgenstein, Grammar and the Contemporary World” is offering a post-doc contract (not a grant) at the Nova University of Lisbon. The position is for 30 months, starting (inflexibly) on 1st March 2019. The salary is €29,796.76 per year (14 months). The application deadline is 2nd January 2019.

Further details in English can be found here:
fcsh.unl.pt/faculdade/recursos-humanos/concursos/nao-docentes/18344-2018-en.pdf

And in Portuguese here:
fcsh.unl.pt/faculdade/recursos-humanos/concursos/nao-docentes/aviso-18344-2018.pdf

I call the attention of prospective applicants to the last paragraph of the call:

In the case of the PhD of the selected candidates has been conferred by a foreign higher education institution, the recognition of the referred degree must comply with the provisions of Decree-Law No. 341/2007, from October 12, and, under penalty of exclusion, any formalities established therein must be fulfilled up to the date of signature of the contract.

For information about the project, please visit:
www.eplab.ifilnova.pt/projects/erb

Nordic Wittgenstein Review Vol. 7 No 2 (2018)


NWR Volume 7 / Number 2 (December 2018) is now published online and available Open Access.  

Table of contents:

Nordic Wittgenstein Review Vol. 7 No 2 (2018)

Table of contents:

Note from the Editors
Simo Säätelä, Gisela Bengtsson, Tove Österman: Note from the Editors

Invited Paper
Avner Baz: Stanley Cavell’s Argument of the Ordinary

Articles
Ondrej Beran:"Give me an Example": Peter Winch and Learning from the Particular
Leonidas Tsilipakos: Social Criticism, Moral Reasoning and the Literary Form

Interview
Inheriting Wittgenstein: Niklas Forsberg in Conversation with James Conant, Part 2.

From the Archives
Nuno Venturinha and Jonathan Smith: Wittgenstein on British Anti-Nazi Propaganda
Alfred Schmidt: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Nachlass in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register

Book Reviews
Olli Lagerspetz: Review of "Wittgenstein and Modernism" ed. by Michael LeMahieu and Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé
Eric J. Ritter: Review of "Becoming Who We Are: Politics and Practical Philosophy in the Work of Stanley Cavell" by Andrew Norris

NEXT SUBMISSION DEADLINE

  • Deadline for Vol. 8 / No. 1: Feb. 28, 2019. Publ. June 2019.