16. Ludwig Wittgenstein Summerschool

August 5-9, 2025


Wittgenstein’s Anthropological Turn

with Juliet Floyd (Boston) & Sandra Laugier (Paris)
Scientific Organisation and Direction: Volker A. Munz (AAU, Klagenfurt)

Conference Center:
Elementary school
Markt 300
A-2880 Kirchberg am Wechsel

Maximum number of participants: 40
Application deadline (registration and payment): March 31, 2025 (Later applications can unfortunately not be taken into account.)

Information concerning acceptance/non-acceptance: April 30, 2025 (Full reimbursement in case of non-acceptance)
Accommodation will be organised by the ALWS and is located just opposite the conference centre. Private booking possible.

Summer school participants are invited to join the
46th International Wittgenstein Symposium: Feminist Philosophy – Language, Knowledge, and Politics
Kirchberg am Wechsel, August 10-16, 2025 at reduced fees.

Fees:

250 Euro including conference participation (220 Euro for ALWS members)
210 Euro summer school only (180 Euro for ALWS members).

Summer school fees can be reimbursed only until June 15, 2025 (minus 20 Euro handling charge).
(Refunding of later cancellation: 125 Euro / 105 Euro; minus 20 Euro handling charge)

Payment of the fees includes:

  • Free board and lodging during the summer school (dormitory)
  • Certificate of participation (working load to the amount of 6 ECTS points)

You can download this year’s poster here.
Registration form is available here.

Required qualifications:

The summer school is addressed to advanced university students in philosophy.
Elementary knowledge of Wittgenstein’s philosophy is desirable.
Applicants are asked to send a transcript record and a 3-page preparatory essay on a selected subject dealing with the 2025 subject on Wittgenstein.

Reading List:

  • Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics Part I
  • Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough
  • Ursache und Wirkung (“Cause and Effect: Intuitive Awareness”)
  • Lectures on Aesthetics
  • Philosophical Investigations
  • Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology (selections)
  • Secondary sources are enlisted here (Updated on 2025-04-22)

 

15. Ludwig Wittgenstein Summerschool

August 6-10, 2024


Privacy, Expression, And Grammar: PI §§ 243-308

with James Conant (Chicago) & David Finkelstein (Chicago)
Scientific Organisation and Direction: Volker A. Munz (AAU, Klagenfurt)

Conference Center:
Elementary school
Markt 300
A-2880 Kirchberg am Wechsel

Maximum number of participants: 40
Application deadline (registration and payment): March 31, 2024 (Later applications can unfortunately not be taken into account.)

Information concerning acceptance/non-acceptance: April 28, 2024 (Full reimbursement in case of non-acceptance)
Accommodation will be organised by the ALWS and is located just opposite the conference centre. Private booking possible.

Summer school participants are invited to join the 45th International Wittgenstein Symposium: Facets of Reality – Contemporary Debates
Kirchberg am Wechsel, August 11-17, 2024 at reduced fees.

Fees:

250 Euro including conference participation (220 Euro for ALWS members)
210 Euro summer school only (180 Euro for ALWS members).

Summer school fees can be reimbursed only until June 15, 2024 (minus 20 Euro handling charge).
(Refunding of later cancellation: 125 Euro / 105 Euro; minus 20 Euro handling charge)

Payment of the fees includes:

  • Free board and lodging during the summer school (dormitory)
  • Certificate of participation (working load to the amount of 6 ECTS points)

You can download this year’s poster here.
You can download the registration form here.

Required qualifications:

The summer school is addressed to advanced university students in philosophy.
Elementary knowledge of Wittgenstein’s philosophy is desirable.
Applicants are asked to send a transcript record and a 3-page preparatory essay on a selected subject dealing with Wittgenstein’s discussion of a private language.


Achtung:
Studierende an einer österreichischen Universität haben die Möglichkeit, sich als „Mitbeleger*in“ für die vorbereitende Lehrveranstaltung zur 15. Wittgenstein Summer School:
Forschungsseminar (210.104)
an der Universität Klagenfurt zu inskribieren.
Sie erhalten dann ein offizielles Zeugnis der Universität Klagenfurt.Dazu bedarf es einer Registrierung unter:
https://www.aau.at/studium/studienorganisation/studienverlauf/mitbelegung/

Neben der Registrierung, die online erfolgen kann, bedarf es zudem eines aktuellen Studienblattes der eigenen österreichischen Universität. Das aktuelle Studienblatt ist per E-Mail an die Studien- und Prüfungsabteilung zu übermitteln (nach der Online Registrierung). Wer an einer Mitbelegung interessiert ist, sollte sich neben den üblichen Bewerbungsunterlagen ab 1. Februar 2024 bis spätestens 31. März 2024 (Ende der verlängerten Inskriptionsfrist für das Sommersemester 2024) registrieren und das aktuelle Studienblatt übermittelt haben. Mit dem zugewiesenen Benutzernamen und Passwort können Sie sich dann für die Lehrveranstaltung und die einzelnen Termine einschreiben.
Bei Rückfragen kontaktieren Sie bitte Lehrveranstaltungsleiter Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Volker A. Munz (Universität Klagenfurt) unter: Volker.Munz@aau.at

 

14th Ludwig Wittgenstein Summerschool

August 1-5, 2023


WITTGENSTEIN’S LAST WRITINGS – THE INNER AND OUTER IN CONTEXT

with Lars Hertzberg (Åbo) & David G. Stern (Iowa)
Scientific Organisation and Direction: Volker A. Munz (AAU, Klagenfurt)

Conference Center:
Elementary school
Markt 300
A-2880 Kirchberg am Wechsel

Maximum number of participants: 40
Application deadline (registration and payment): March 31, 2023 (Later applications can unfortunately not be taken into account.)

Information concerning acceptance/non-acceptance: April 30, 2023 (Full reimbursement in case of non-acceptance)
Accommodation will be organised by the ALWS and is located just opposite the conference centre. Private booking possible.

Summer school participants are invited to join the 44th International Wittgenstein Symposium: 100 Years of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
Kirchberg am Wechsel, August 6-12, 2023 at reduced fees.

Fees:

250 Euro including conference participation (220 Euro for ALWS members)

210 Euro summer school only (180 Euro for ALWS members).

Summer school fees can be reimbursed only until June 15, 2023 (minus 20 Euro handling charge).
(Refunding of later cancellation: 125 Euro / 105 Euro; minus 20 Euro handling charge)

Payment of the fees includes:
• Free board and lodging during the summer school (dormitory)
• Certificate of participation (working load to the amount of 6 ECTS points)

You can download this year’s poster here.

You can download this year’s registration form here: Summer_School_2023_Registration

Required qualifications:
The summer school is addressed to advanced university students in philosophy.
Elementary knowledge of Wittgenstein’s philosophy is desirable.
Applicants are asked to send a transcript record and a 3-page preparatory essay on a selected subject dealing with Wittgenstein’s last writings (particularly the terms “inner” and “outer” in Wittgenstein’s writings on philosophy of mind). Essential reading is thus:

Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1994): Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology, Vol. 2. The Inner and the Outer, 1949–1951. Edited by G. H. von Wright. Reprint. Oxford et al.: Blackwell.

The updated and corrected reading list for the 14th Summer School can be downloaded here: Reading List 2023.06.26

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• Achtung: Studierende an einer österreichischen Universität haben die Möglichkeit, sich als „Mitbeleger*in“ für die vorbereitende Lehrveranstaltung zur 14. Wittgenstein Summer School:

Forschungsseminar (210.007):
„Wittgenstein’s Last Writings. The Inner and Outer in Context“

an der Universität Klagenfurt zu inskribieren.
Sie erhalten dann ein offizielles Zeugnis der Universität Klagenfurt.

Dazu bedarf es einer Registrierung unter:
https://www.aau.at/studium/studienorganisation/studienverlauf/mitbelegung/

Neben der Registrierung, die online erfolgen kann, bedarf es zudem eines aktuellen Studienblattes der eigenen österreichischen Universität. Das aktuelle Studienblatt ist per E-Mail an die Studien- und Prüfungsabteilung zu übermitteln (nach der Online Registrierung). Wer an einer Mitbelegung interessiert ist, sollte sich neben den üblichen Bewerbungsunterlagen ab 1. Februar 2023 bis spätestens 31. März 2023 (Ende der verlängerten Inskriptionsfrist für das Sommersemester 2023) registrieren und das aktuelle Studienblatt übermittelt haben. Mit dem zugewiesenen Benutzernamen und Passwort können Sie sich dann für die Lehrveranstaltung und die einzelnen Termine einschreiben.
Bei Rückfragen kontaktieren Sie bitte Lehrveranstaltungsleiter Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Volker A. Munz (Universität Klagenfurt) unter: Volker.Munz@aau.at