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Welsh Philosophical Society 52nd Session

April 22, 2016 - April 24, 2016

Friday, 22nd April

4 p.m. Tea

4.30 pm Postgraduate paper: Katja Behrens (Hertfordshire), "When did the online shopping occur?"

7.00 p.m. Dinner

8.00 p.m. Danièle Moyal-Sharrock (Hertfordshire) and Hugh Knott (Anglesey) will introduce a discussion of Norman Malcolm’s paper ‘Wittgenstein: The relation of language to instinctive behaviour and Rush Rhees’s response to it, ‘Language as emerging from instinctive behaviour’

Saturday, 23rd April

8 a.m. Breakfast

10 a.m. Annual Wittgenstein Lecture

Martin Gustafson (Abo Akademi), ‘Category Mistakes’

11 a.m. Coffee

11.30 a.m. Discussion of paper

12.30 p.m. Short business meeting

1 p.m. Lunch

4 p.m. Tea

4.30 p.m. Bill Child (Oxford), title tbc

7.00 p.m. Dinner

8.00 p.m. Christopher Norris (Cardiff), ‘The Philosophical Muse: recent poems and verse-essays’

Sunday, 24th April

8 a.m. Breakfast

9.30 a.m. Elizabeth Drummond Young (Edinburgh), 'Moral Depth and the work of Aurel Kolnai'

10.30 a.m. Tea & Discussion

12 a.m. Departure

Agenda for Short Business Meeting

Arrangements for next meeting
AOB
The conference is sponsored by generous contributions from the British Wittgenstein Society and University of Wales Trinity St David.

Details

Start:
April 22, 2016
End:
April 24, 2016
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Website:
https://www.britishwittgensteinsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/WPS-2016-Registration.pdf

Organiser

David Cockburn
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Email:
cockburn.david@gmail.com

Venue

Gregynog Hall
Tregynon, Newtown
Newtown, SY16 3PW United Kingdom
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