42nd International Wittgenstein Symposium 2019

Crisis and Critique: Philosophical Analysis and Current Events

Announcement

Kirchberg am Wechsel, 4 – 10 of August 2019

Here is the list of invited speakers and the title of their lectures.

Scientific Organizers

Anne Siegetsleitner, Andreas Oberprantacher, Marie-Luisa Frick (Innsbruck)

Sections

1. Wittgenstein
2. Challenges to Philosophical Critique in Politics, Economy, and Law
3. Challenges to Philosophical Critique in Culture and Society
4. Philosophical Critique and Questions of Social Identity
5. Science and Critique
6. Philosophical Concepts of Critique

Workshop: Workshop “Ethics of Ecology”,
Organization: Lukas Meyer (Graz)

Invited Speakers

Richard Amesbury (Tempe, Arizona, USA)
Unpopular Sovereignties: Citizenship, Philosophy and Political Authority

Maria Baghramian (Dublin, Ireland)
The Question of Value in Science

Dieter Birnbacher (Düsseldorf, Germany)
What is biodiversity and why should we feel obliged to protect it?

Christine Bratu (Munich, Germany)
Idiots and Assholes: What we (should) criticize when we criticize sexist action

Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir (Reykjavík, Iceland)
Myths of Meritocracy and Philosophical Culture

Ridha Chennoufi (Tunis, Tunisia)
Politische Krise und Kritik im historischen Kontext

James Conant (Leipzig, Germany)
Wittgenstein on the Interdependence of Sign and Symbol

Alice Crary (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Wittgenstein Does Critical Theory

Cora Diamond (Charlottesville, Virginia, USA)
Thinking about Naturalism and Pragmatism: Wittgenstein and Rorty

Eva-Maria Engelen (Konstanz, Germany)
Trust in Testimony

Ulrich Frank (Essen, Germany)
Language, Change and Possible Worlds: Philosophical Considerations of the Digital Transformation. An Essay on Methodological Challenges of Information Systems Research

Stephen Gardiner (Seattle, Washington, USA)
The Paradoxical Virtues of the Anthropocene

Anke Graneß (Hildesheim, Germany)
Zwischen ‚Politik der Feindschaft‘ und ‚parteilichem Kosmopolitismus‘. Achille Mbembe und Kwame A. Appiah im Dialog

Martin Gustafsson (Turku, Finland)
Wittgenstein, Austin, and the Distinction Between Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Acts

Sally Haslanger (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
The Place of Social Ontology in Social Critique

Clare Heyward (Tromsø, Norway)
Is the Beneficiary Pays Principle Redundant?

Elisabeth Holzleithner (Vienna, Austria)
Crises of Liberal Democracy: A focus on Fear

Colin G. King (Providence, USA / Basel. Switzerland)
Truth in Voting

María Pía Lara (Mexico City, Mexico)
Revisiting the Concepts of Crisis and Critique

Sandra Laugier (Paris, France)
An anthropology of voice

Thijs Lijster (Groningen, The Netherlands)
Critical commons, or: how to regain steam

Eva Maria Maier (Vienna, Austria)
Zur aktuellen Krise von Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit. Ursachen und Symptome

Reinhard Merkel (Hamburg, Germany)
Humans, Cyborgs, Humanoid Robots: Challenges for Autonomy and Responsibility?

Ulrich Metschl (Innsbruck, Austria)
Epistemic Disagreement, Doubts, and Coherence

Katrin Meyer (Zurich, Switzerland)
Intersektionalität und die Bedingungen situierter Kritik

Lukas Meyer and Pranay Sanklecha (Graz, Austria)
Climate Justice. Why the Past Matters in Conflicting Ways

Susana Monsó (Vienna, Austria)
Is predation necessarily amoral?

Mélika Ouelbani (Tunis, Tunisia)
Der Status der Mathematik in der Philosophie Wittgensteins

Anne Reichold (Flensburg, Germany)
Varieties of Resentment

Marc Rölli (Leipzig, Germany)
Kapitalismus und Identität. Zur Dekolonisierung demokratischer Popularität

Yıldız Silier (Istanbul, Turkey)
Surplus Populations and Empowerment Through Radical Needs

Georg Siller (Innsbruck, Austria)
Hase oder Ente? Wittgensteins Aspektwechsel und Identitätspolitik

Ilse Somavilla (Innsbruck, Austria)
Der Verlust an Wahrhaftigkeit: Wittgensteins Kritik an Kultur und Wissenschaft der modernen Zivilisation

Thomas Wallgren (Helsinki, Finland)
After Sustainability: Freedom and Reason in the Age of Climate Alarmism

Karsten Weber (Regensburg, Germany)
Zivilgesellschaft als Mittel gegen Fake News und Hate Speech: Eine unbegründete Hoffnung

Eva Weber-Guskar (Göttingen, Germany)
Kritik an moralischer Kritik. Moralismus im Internet