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Dienstag, 3. Mai 2022, 18.30 Uhr
Lesesaal der Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
Rathaus, Eingang Lichtenfelsgasse,
Stiege 6 (Glaslift), 1. Stock, 1010 Wien
Warum neigen Menschen in modernen Gesellschaften dazu, sich für Personen, die in irgendeiner Weise aus der Masse der Menschen herausragen, zu begeistern und sie kultartig zu verehren? Diesen „Genies“ wird von ihren Verehrer*innen zugestanden, dass sie über Maßstäbe, die für die „breite Masse“ gelten, erhaben sind. Den Unterschied zwischen wahr und falsch brauchen sie nicht zu respektieren. Und wenn sie moralische Maßstäbe mit Füßen treten, wird dies mit ihrer welthistorischen Mission entschuldigt.
Der Philosoph Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) untersuchte in seinen Studien zur Psychologie und Soziologie der Genie-Verehrung des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts Themen, die heute hoch aktuell sind. Sein Projekt blieb zwar Fragment, gilt aber heute als Pionierarbeit der modernen Wissenschaftsforschung.
Sagt uns Edgar Zilsels Plädoyer für rationales Argumentieren und empirische Überprüfung von Behauptungen heute noch etwas? Wie erklärt er die Attraktivität, die der Irrationalismus in seiner Zeit hatte? Was hat die Neigung zum Irrationalismus mit den modernen Naturwissenschaften zu tun?
Informationen und Anmeldung zur aktuellen Diskussion im Rahmen der Reihe DIALOGIC hier:
https://www.wienbibliothek.at/veranstaltungen-ausstellungen/veranstaltungskalender/dialogic-rationale-argumente-sachlichkeit
The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society would like to draw your attention to an event organised by Lila Schwan (www.lilaschwan.at):
On April 7, 2022 (7 p.m.) in Haus Hoffmannsthal, 1030 Vienna,
https://haus-hofmannsthal.jimdofree.com/2022/04/07/ende-des-herbstes/
and on
May 11, 2022 (7 p.m.) in the ballroom of the District Museum in Josefstadt, 1070 Vienna.
Both events are concerts of new song cycles based on poems by Georg Trakl, Rainer Maria Rilke and Carl Dallago. The songs are framed by readings from the 1914 correspondence between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Ludwig von Ficker.
Our next International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium on PLATONISM will take place from August 7 – 13, 2022.
The 13th Ludwig Wittgenstein Summer School will take place from August 2 – 6, 2022.
Hans-Johann Glock (UZH, Zurich) and John Hyman (UCL, London) will lead the Summer School on the topic of
AGENCY, CAUSATION AND NORMATIVITY.
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Our centennial symposium on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus has been moved to August 6 – 12, 2023.
The 14th Ludwig Wittgenstein Summer School will precede it from August 1 – 5, 2023.
We hope to see you there!
Dear colleagues and friends,
Let us again express how sorry we are about the fact that we had to postpone this year’s symposium. But the ongoing pandemic and continued restrictions imposed on the organisation of large events made the centennial symposium that we were all looking forward to – not only as an academic, but also as a sociable and truly international symposium bringing together Wittgenstein students and scholars from all continents – simply impossible.
There is, however, an online-event to which we would like to invite you. The international conference on Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle will take place from June 10 to 12, 2021. It has been co-organised by the Institute Vienna Circle and the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. The lecture by Marjorie Perloff will be hosted by the Austrian National Library. For further information see:
https://wittgenstein2021.univie.ac.at/home/
https://vorlesungen.wien.gv.at/wittgenstein/
Additionally, we would like to draw your attention to the “Wittgenstein-Dossier” with which the Wiener Zeitung celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Tractatus:
https://www.wienerzeitung.at/dossiers/ludwig-wittgenstein/
We are confident that the Wittgenstein-symposia and summer schools in the next two years will be as successful as in previous years. We would like to thank our team in Kirchberg and Mayor Fuchs very much for their excellent cooperation, even under these difficult conditions.
With all best wishes,
Elisabeth Nemeth (President of the ALWS)
David Wagner (General Secretary of the ALWS)
In 2021 the Summer School will take place at the University of Klagenfurt.
Please refer to our header SUMMER SCHOOL for further information.
Due to the Covid-19 related regulations given by the Austrian government we are sorry to inform you that the restrictions would cut down the symposium to an extent that we think to be unacceptable. We would be obliged to reduce the number of participants to a very small number and to prevent as far as possible any social gatherings. We think that under such conditions, our symposium cannot be what we wanted the Wittgenstein Symposium of 2021 to be: a highlight for the community of Wittgenstein scholars, where the best scholars of the field exchange ideas with the community, in particular with the younger generation of students interested in Wittgenstein. For the same reason we do not want to turn the symposium into an online-event.
You can imagine that it was with a heavy heart that we have decided to postpone the International Wittgenstein Symposium “100 Years of Tractatus logico-philosophicus – 70 Years after Wittgenstein’s death” to 2023. We are particularly sad about this postponement but very much hope for your willingness to re-submit your paper or submit another one for the same Wittgenstein Symposium two years later. We are happy to say that this year’s Summer School will take place at the University of Klagenfurt, independently of the symposium.
43rd INTERNATIONAL WITTGENSTEIN SYMPOSIUM 2021
Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, August 8–14, 2021
100 Years of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus –
70 Years after Wittgenstein’s Death: A Critical Assessment
Scientific Organisers:
Alois Pichler (Bergen), Esther Ramharter (Vienna) and Friedrich Stadler (Vienna)
SECTIONS:
1. Wittgenstein
2. Wittgenstein (1889–1951) – Research, editions, and access situation 70 years after his death
3. Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung and Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – Genesis, translation, publication, and edition in context
4. TLP within and outside of Wittgenstein’s work – Interactions, receptions, and controversial interpretations of Wittgenstein’s work up to the present
5. TLP: Open philosophical, ethical, and scientific questions
6. Wittgenstein, Schlick, Waismann, and the Vienna Circle – A reassessment
WORKSHOP
“Wittgenstein: New editions and research tools”
(Organisation: Alois Pichler, Bergen)
LIST OF CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
Hanne Appelqvist (Helsinki)
Luciano Bazzocchi (Siena)
Michael Beaney (Berlin/Aberdeen)
Anat Biletzki (Quinnipiac)
Anna Boncompagni (Irvine)
Anne-Marie Christensen (Odense)
Annalisa Coliva (Irvine)
James B. Conant (Leipzig)
Mauro Engelmann (Belo Horizonte)
Christian Erbacher (Bergen/Siegen)
Maria Carla Galavotti (Bologna)
Arthur Gibson (Cambridge)
Richard Heinrich (Vienna)
Lars Hertzberg (Åbo)
Herbert Hrachovec (Vienna)
Allan Janik (Innsbruck)
Wolfgang Kienzler (Jena)
James Klagge (Blacksburg)
Oskari Kuusela (East Anglia)
Jakub Mácha (Brno)
Stefan Majetschak (Kassel)
Dejan Makovec (Pittsburgh)
Cheryl Misak (Toronto)
Danièle Moyal-Sharrock (Hertfordshire)
Gabriele Mras (Vienna)
Michael Nedo (Cambridge)
Martin Pilch (Vienna)
John Preston (Reading)
Victor Rodych (Lethbridge)
Alfred Schmidt (Vienna)
Genia Schönbaumsfeld (Southampton)
Joachim Schulte (Zurich)
Radek Schuster (Pilsen)
Anne Siegetsleitner (Innsbruck)
Jonathan Smith (Cambridge)
Ilse Somavilla (Innsbruck)
Antonia Soulez (Paris)
David G. Stern (Iowa)
Susan G. Sterrett (Wichita State)
Thomas Uebel (Manchester)
Sarah Uffelmann (Bergen/Munich)
Nuno Venturinha (Lissabon)
Thomas Wallgren (Helsinki)
Joseph Wang (Innsbruck)
Anja Weiberg (Vienna)
Extended deadline for submission of papers (to section 1–6):
April 15, 2021
(Instructions for authors:
https://www.alws.at/iws_organization/instructions-for-authors/)
Students of the University of Innsbruck have made a video on the 42nd International Wittgenstein Symposium. You can find the video on this page.
The registration forms for the summerschool 2020 and the International Wittgenstein Symposium 2020 in English and German are now available using the links.
Einladung zur Konferenz:
Rudolf Haller und die österreichische Philosophie
Rudolf Haller and Austrian Philosophy
Symposium anlässlich des 90. Geburtstages und 5. Todestages von Rudolf Haller
8.-9. November 2019
Hs. 11.01, Universität Graz, Heinrichstr. 36, Erdgeschoß
Die Philosophie in Graz hat Rudolf Haller viel zu verdanken: er hat ihr die Anknüpfung an die aktuelle analytische Diskussion ermöglicht und zugleich ihre historische Verankerung bewahrt. Früchte seiner Tätigkeit sind unter anderem die Gründung der Fachzeitschrift GrazerPhilosophischen Studien, sowie der _Studien zur österreichischen Philosophie und des Instituts Forschungsstelle und Dokumentationszentrum für österreichische Philosophie. In seiner eigenen wissenschaftlichen Arbeit widmete er sich vor allem der Erforschung der österreichischen Philosophie von Bolzano bis in die Gegenwart, an die er auch systematisch anknüpfte. Seine vielfältigen Interessen finden ihren Niederschlag in fast 300 Publikationen zu Themen der Erkenntnistheorie, der philosophischen Psychologie, der Sprachphilosophie, Ontologie, Wissenschaftstheorie, Ästhetik und der Philosophie Wittgensteins und des Wiener Kreises.
Die Konferenzbeiträge widmen sich Rudolf Haller, seinen Leistungen bei der Erforschung der österreichischen Philosophie und seinen systematischen Positionen. Eine Veröffentlichung in den Grazer
Philosophischen Studien ist vorgesehen.
Organisation:
Marian David, unterstützt von Reinhard Fabian, Johannes Friedl, und Ulf Höfer
(Universität Graz, Institut für Philosophie bzw. Alexius Meinong-Institut)
Serena Cattaruzza, Michele Lenoci
(University of Trieste, University of Milano)
EINLADUNG
Wittgenstein und Architektur. Welche Moderne für welche Zukunft?
Dialogic – Eine Diskussionsreihe der Wiener Zeitung und der Ludwig
Wittgenstein Gesellschaft, in Kooperation mit der Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
Dienstag, 29. Oktober 2019, 19:00 Uhr
Lesesaal der Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
Rathaus, Eingang Lichtenfelsgasse,
Stiege 6 (Glaslift), 1. Stock, 1010 Wien
Weitere Informationen unter folgendem Link:
The 43rd International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg am Wechsel, 9th – 15th August 2020, and the 12th Ludwig Wittgenstein Summerschool, 4th – 8th August 2020, has been announced.
In cooperation with
Creative Skills & Mediaphilosophy.
How can we face the anti-democratic tendencies in the digital media society?
OPEN SPACE SESSION
with Wolfgang Renner (Wiener Zeitung)*
In spring 2019 the London School of Economics has published a report that diagnosed an immediate and serious threat to quality journalism and, as a result, to the values of a functioning democracy.
Loss of confidence, power obsession and apathy are just three key words from the report. What new paths can be taken in the all-penetrating media society?
Can there be hope in ‘creative skills’ or the ‘media philosophy’? In this open space session, various implemented projects are shown, scenarios are described and will be discussed openly.
*Wolfgang Renner Dr. h.c., MSc., Acad. M&S (WU Vienna) is Head of Wiener Zeitung Academy. ‚Wiener Zeitung‘ is the oldest still existing newspaper of the world. Established in August 1703.
Time: Wednesday, August 7, 2019, 17:45
Location: Room B
XII SUMMER SCHOOL in Mind & Language in Siena, June 5-7, 2019
Martin Pilch (Österreichischen Bundesverwaltung, Wien) & Luciano Bazzocchi (Università di Siena)
Inside Wittgenstein’s conceptual laboratory: the composition of (the Tree of) the Tractatus
More Information can be found here.