British Wittgenstein Society

Final call for abstracts

2nd Conference on Hinge Epistemology
Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris
Monday 1- Tuesday 2 July 2019

Submissions of abstracts are invited for a 2-day conference on Hinge Epistemology, hosted by the Wittgenstein Seminar at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, in collaboration with Irvine University, California and the University of Hertfordshire (UK).

Plenary speakers:
· Jocelyn Benoist (Sorbonne)
· Elise Marrou (Sorbonne)
· Constantine Sandis (Hertfordshire)
· Paul Standish (UCL)
· Angélique Thebert (Nantes)

Symposium on Hinge Epistemology
· Annalisa Coliva (Irvine)
· Daniele Moyal-Sharrock (Hertfordshire)
· Duncan Pritchard (Irvine)

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The conference will include a number of sessions for submitted papers. Selection will be based on review of long abstracts (max. 1000 words). Please submit your abstract as an email attachment to Prof. Sandra Laugier (), copied to Prof. Danièle Moyal-Sharrock () by 7th April 2019. Presentation time for accepted papers will be 30 minutes plus Q&A.

Papers will address (positively or critically) the application of Wittgenstein's notion of 'hinges' or 'hinge certainty' to epistemological problems in any discipline. The conference will be held in English, and peer-reviewed proceedings will be published in an edited volume of the series Anthem Studies in Wittgenstein.

Sandra Laugier
Professeure de philosophie à l'université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
Membre de l'institut universitaire de France
UFR de philosophie, 17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris
Institut des sciences juridique et philosophique de la Sorbonne (UMR8103 CNRS-Panthéon Sorbonne),
9, rue Malher, 75004 Paris

Daniele Moyal-Sharrock
Professor of Philosophy
President of the British Wittgenstein Society
Department of Philosophy | School of Humanities
University of Hertfordshire| De Havilland Campus | Hatfield, Herts AL10 9AB
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e-mail:
web page: www.go.herts.ac.uk/danielemoyal-sharrock
academia: herts.academia.edu/DanieleMoyalSharrock

Phi

On April 8-9 the philosophers at Åbo Akademi University arranges a two day symposium, Ethics and Experience: Widening Perspectives.

More information at:
blogs.abo.fi/filosofi/2019/03/13/symposium-ethics-and-experience-8-9-april/

PROGRAM

8.4. ETHICS WITH AND AFTER WITTGENSTEIN 

15.15-16.25 Sophie Grace Chappell (Open University): No More Heroes Any More?

16.55-18.05  Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen (University of Southern Denmark): 'A Two-way Movement in Philosophy'. A Wittgensteinian take on a Murdochioan Point

18.15-20.00 Maria Balaska (University of Hertfordshire): Cavell and Freud on Self-knowledge, Self-attainment, and the Limits of Introspection

9.4. GENDERED ENCOUNTERS: THINKING THROUGH EXPERIENCE
10.15-11.45  Sophie Grace Chappell (Open University): Le bon Dieu n’est pas comme ça: Transgender in Theory and in Experience

12.00-13.00 Salla Peltonen (Åbo Akademi): Challenging Macho Philosophies: Is Gender a Serious Philosophical Topic?"

14.15-15.15 Camilla Kronqvist (Åbo Akademi): Dealing with Difference: On the Need for Gentleness

15.30-16.30 Joel Backström (Helsingfors Universitet): The Absent Centre of Our Discourses on Sexuality and Gender

16.45-17.30 Ylva Gustafsson (Åbo Akademi): On the Masculinization of Emotion Research

Best wishes,

Camilla Kronqvist
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Enrahonar. An international journal of theoretical and practical reason
Monographic issue dedicated to the memory of E. Anscombe
Title of the issue: “Reason, reasoning and action”

The main goal of this special issue is to provide an updated portrait of Elizabeth Anscombe’s philosophy marking her centenary (1919). Our intention is to explore the metaphysical and epistemological aspects of Anscombe’s positions in domains ranging from philosophy of logic through epistemology and philosophy of mind to philosophy of action and moral philosophy.

In this special issue we are first of all interested in exploring an Anscombian view of reason, reasoning and action. Connected questions and topics such as practical knowledge and truth, moral philosophy and virtue, self-knowledge and the first person or questions concerning the interpretation of Wittgenstein are also of interest.

It will be soon the anniversary Anscombe’s An Introduction to Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’, which was first published in 1959. This is a book with which Anscombe, as e.g. Cora Diamond noticed, inaugurated a radical change in how the Tractatus is read. We would be pleased if the side of her work which bears on the interpretation of Wittgenstein is also object of attention in this issue.

We invite papers that address the questions above or others in relation to Anscombe’s work.

The main languages of the journal are Catalan, Spanish and English.
Articles may be no longer than 9,000 words.
The deadline for peer-reviewed abstracts is May 31st, 2019.
Accepted Manuscripts should be sent no later than November 15th, 2019 to any of the guest editors:

Sofia Miguens:
Mª Dolores García-Arnaldos:

GUEST AUTHORS (confirmed):

R. Teichmann
Duncan Ritcher
J.P. Narboux
Eylem Özaltun
Valérie Aucouturier
Elisa Grimi
Vincent Descombes
Constantine Sandis

Author Guidelines:
revistes.uab.cat/ojs-enrahonar/enrahonar/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions
Feel free to contact the guest editors for further information on the special issue:
Sofia Miguens – University of Porto – Portugal
Mª Dolores García-Arnaldos – University CEU-San Pablo (Madrid-Spain)

Seventh meeting of the Stirling Early Analytic Group
Themes from Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

Tuesday April 23rd 2019, C1 Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling

Hanne Appelqvist (Helsinki) The Transcendentality of Ethics in the Tractatus
Roger White (Leeds) Modality and the Tractatus
Indrek Lobus (Stirling) The Negation Argument (Tractatus 4.0621)
Colin Johnston (Stirling) Solipsism and the Graspability of Sense

Full details available here: stirlingphilosophy.org/early-analytic-group/

Attendance is free and everyone is welcome, but let Colin Johnston know () if you will attend, and if you will stay for dinner, so catering can be confirmed.

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Call for registration

Husserl-Wittgenstein workshop, Husserl Archives Leuven

27th of March 2019

hiw.kuleuven.be/hua/events/agenda/husserl-wittgenstein-workshop

Workshop description:

The Linguistic Turn marks the beginning of the divide between continental and analytic traditions in philosophy. The origins of this Turn are located in different works by interpreters, but the influence of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus on this movement is uncontested. One of the sharpest critics of this work was, however, Wittgenstein himself at a later stage in his career. His later work is of a pragmatic nature, and his later views on meaning are marked by an emphasis on the social nature of this term that had previously been absent in his work.

As a result of the Linguistic Turn, continental philosophy also became a separate discipline, with phenomenology as one of its most prominent branches and Husserl as its founder. When investigating both Husserl and Wittgenstein, the retrospective assignment of different labels to their enterprises can tempt us to lose sight of the historical and philosophical synchronicities in their works. Both philosophers operated in similar historical contexts, within the same philosophical tradition (both were in contact with and heavily influenced by Gottlob Frege for instance) and were concerned with similar questions concerning the constitution of meaning.

The aim of this workshop is to discuss and explore these parallels. It will not be our intention to gloss over the differences between the philosophers on the basis of which they were assigned to different traditions in the first place. But we also do not believe that these differences are more important than the similarities, which can provide a way into fruitful interdisciplinary research. Philosophy of language is not strictly a matter for philosophers that have taken the Linguistic Turn, nor are considerations concerning experience restricted to phenomenology. This workshop will bring together philosophers working in both traditions and at the intersections in an attempt to open a dialogue between these two philosophers.

Speakers:
Alois Pichler (University of Bergen)
Kevin Mulligan (University of Geneva)
John Rogove (Husserl Archives Paris)
Kelee Lee (Husserl Archives, KU Leuven)
Audun Bengtson (Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, KU Leuven)
Deva Waal (Husserl Archives, KU Leuven)

To register, please send an email to the organisers: or . Do not hesitate to contact us with further questions about the workshop. ​

Do at least some animals have minds comparable to those of humans?

This question has exercised philosophy and science since their inception. It is also prominent in the wider public sphere, on account of its moral, legal, and political implications. The connection between the question of animal minds and ethics is two-fold.

Animal Morals: do animals have moral beliefs, attitudes, sentiments or practices?
Animal Ethics: How should we treat animals? What are our obligations towards them?
Professor Glock’s lecture shall explore both. Against current fashion, Glock maintains that the scope for animal morals is severely limited but that – contra contractualism – animals needn’t possess any morality in order for us to have duties towards them. Glock resists the tendency among some activists and philosophers to base claims about the nature and scope of animal minds on preconceived ethical views. This is to put the cart before horse: our moral obligations towards animals depend on their mental capacities. The lecture shall thus explore whether at least some animals possess mental capacities (e.g. ones relating to sensation, belief, intention, and reasoning) connected to various kinds of moral status.

Hans-Johann Glock is Professor of Philosophy and Head of Department at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), as well as Visiting Professor at the University of Reading (UK). He is the author of A Wittgenstein Dictionary (Blackwell 1996), Quine and Davidson (CUP 2003), La mente de los animals (KRK 2009) and What is Analytic Philosophy? (CUP 2008), as well as editing and co-editing numerous other publications. He has published numerous articles in leading international journals on Wittgenstein, the history of analytic philosophy, meta-philosophy, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of animal minds. He has been a Visiting Professor at Queen’s University, Canada, a Hugh-Le May Fellow at Rhodes University, South-Africa, a fellow of the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Germany and a recipient of a Humboldt Research Prize. He is currently working on a book about animal minds.

Refreshments will be available from 18:30 and the lecture will start at 19:00.

Further information on the Francis Bacon Lecture Series

The lecture will be preceded by a workshop at 13:00 in room W042 (Law Court Building), on animal minds and morals with talks by Maria Balaska, Mikel Burley, Luke Cash, Niklas Forsberg, and Sasha Lawson-Frost. Places at the workshop are free but limited so please register by email.
www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/events/2019/april/animal-minds-and-animal-morals-francis-bacon-lecture

Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics (aesthetics.ff.cuni.cz) invites submissions for a special issue on the topic of Wittgenstein and Aesthetics. The submissions should not exceed 9000 words and must be written in English and prepared for blind peer review (see the journal’s website for more specific guidelines).

Confirmed contributors to the special issue are Severin Schroeder (University of Reading) and Joachim Schulte (University of Zürich).

Aesthetics and the arts figure prominently in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work. We find remarks on these themes in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and the Philosophical Investigations as well as in those manuscripts, lectures, and personal notebooks that have been edited and published posthumously. Most recently, the publication of Wittgenstein: Lectures, Cambridge 1930–1933: From the Notes of G. E. Moore in 2016 (CUP) made previously inaccessible notes on Wittgenstein’s lectures on aesthetics available to scholars, disclosing features of his thought on aesthetics not discernible elsewhere in his published work. Typically, Wittgenstein’s remarks on aesthetics and the arts appear in his writing intermittently and in close connection to other themes that occupy his thought, such as language, mathematics, and the nature of philosophy. Hence, the questions whether Wittgenstein had an account of aesthetics and what the philosophical relevance of his remarks on aesthetics is remain subject to debate.

Estetika welcomes submissions on all aspects of Wittgenstein’s treatment of aesthetics and the arts, but discussions (both scholarly and more systematic in orientation) on the general philosophical import of his thought on aesthetics are especially encouraged.

Submissions should be sent by the 15th of September at the latest to

The planned publication schedule is as follows:
‒ Submission deadline: 15th of September 2019
‒ Decision and comments sent out: 31st of October 2019
‒ Final drafts due on: 15th of December 2019
‒ Publication date: end of March 2020