32nd International Wittgenstein Symposium 2009

Kirchberg am Wechsel, Lower Austria,
Sunday, 9 August 2009 - Saturday, 15 August 2009

Its general theme will be:

Language and World

Sections

  1. Wittgenstein
  2. Theories of the Linguistic Sign
  3. Language and Action
  4. Language and Consciousness
  5. Language and Metaphysics
  6. Reality and Construction

Workshops:
Wittgenstein and the Literary
Wittgenstein’s Nachlass

Prior to the Symposium the 1st Ludwig Wittgenstein Summer School will also take place.

Invited Speakers include

Krzysztof Abriszewski (Torun)
Luciano Bazzocchi (Pisa)
Anat Biletzki (Tel Aviv)
Ewa Binczyk (Torun)
Stewart Candlish (Perth)
Frank Cioffi (Kent)
James Conant (Chicago)
Michael Dummett (Oxford)
Volker Gadenne (Linz)
Arthur Gibson (Cambridge)
Laurence Goldstein (Kent)
Ian Hacking (Toronto)
Lars Hertzberg (Åbo)
Jaakko Hintikka (Boston)
Peter Janich (Marburg)
James Klagge (Virgina)
Sybille Krämer (Berlin)
Peter Kügler (Innsbruck)
Stefan Majetschak (Kassel)
Johann C. Marek (Graz)
Marie McGinn (York)
Brian McGuinness (Siena)
Anna A. Moser (New York)
Danièle Moyal-Sharrock (London)
Marjorie Perloff (Stanford)
Rupert Read (Norwich)
Maria E. Reicher (Graz)
Eike v. Savigny (Bielefeld)
David Schalkwyk (Cape Town)
Genia Schönbaumsfeld (Southampton)
Joachim Schulte (Zürich)
Hans Sluga (Berkeley)
Ilse Somavilla (Innsbruck)
Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (Leipzig)
David Stern (Iowa)
Alexandra Strohmaier (Graz)
Nuno Venturinha (Lissabon)
Jörg Volbers (Berlin)
Anja Weiberg (Wien)
Lutz Wingert (Zürich)

Administrative Organization

The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society

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

Organization and Scientific Direction

  • Volker Munz
  • Klaus Puhl
  • Joseph Wang