30. Internationale Wittgenstein Symposium 2007

The 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium will be held in

Kirchberg am Wechsel, Lower Austria,
Sunday, 5 August 2007 - Saturday, 11 August 2007

Its general theme will be:

Philosophy of the Information Society

Please note: Deadline Extension until 20 May 2007

Sections

  1. Wittgenstein
  2. Wittgenstein and the digital turn
  3. Information science, text theory and hermeneutics in the digital context
  4. Philosophy of media
  5. Philosophy of the Internet
  6. Ethics and political economy of the information society

Workshop:
Electronic philosophy resources and Open Source

Panel discussion:
Philosophy of the Information Society. Chances and Challenges

Invited Speakers include

Daniel APOLLON (Bergen)
Luciano BAZZOCCHI (Pisa)
Barbara BECKER (Paderborn)
Anat BILETZKI (Tel-Aviv)
Thomas BINDER (Graz)
Gregory CHAITIN (New York)
Chris CHESHER (Sydney)
Gerhard CLEMENZ (Wien)
Wolfgang COY (Berlin)
Jos DE MUL (Rotterdam)
Fred DRETSKE (Stanford)
Charles ESS (Springfield)
August FENK (Klagenfurt)
Maurizio FERRARIS (Turin)
Peter FLEISSNER (Wien)
Luciano FLORIDI (Bari/Oxford)
Juliet FLOYD (Boston)
Newton GARVER (Buffalo)
Rishab A. GHOSH (Maastricht)
Stefan GRADMANN (Hamburg)
Frank HARTMANN (Wien)
Cynthia HAYNES (Clemson)
Michael HEIM (Long Beach)
Theo HUG (Innsbruck)
Claus HUITFELDT (Bergen)
Peter KEICHER (Karlsruhe)
Dieter KÖHLER (Karlsruhe)
Martin LINDNER (Wien)
Reinhard MARGREITER (Berlin)
Kerstin MAYR (Innsbruck)
Cameron MCEWEN (Charlottesville)
Michael NENTWICH (Wien)
Katalin NEUMER (Budapest)
Yukiko OKAMOTO (Tokyo)
Claus PIAS (Wien)
Allen RENEAR (Urbana-Champaign)
Victor RODYCH (Lethbridge)
Josef ROTHHAUPT (Munich)
Siegfried J. SCHMIDT (Münster)
Ursula SCHNEIDER (Graz)
David G. STERN (Iowa)
Luis M. VALDÉS-VILLANUEVA (Oviedo)

Administrative Organization

The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society

  • Volker Munz, Secretary of the ALWS
  • Margret A. Kronaus, Office Manager of the ALWS

Organization and Scientific Direction

Program & Abstracts