29 Jul
Wiederkehrend

WITTGENSTEIN AND MOORE´S PARADOX

Veranstaltungsort: AAU Klagenfurt (O.0.01 Stiftungssaal)

Wittgenstein wrote a letter to G. E. Moore after hearing Moore give the paper inwhich he first set forth a version of (what has come to be known as) Moore's paradox.The version of the paradox that Moore first set forward invotved imagining someoneuttering the fottowing sentence: "There is a fire in this room and I don't betievethere is." Wittgenstein's understanding of the importance of Moore's paradox maybe summarized as fottows: Something on the order of a , 365)The aim of this workshop witt be to understand why Wittgenstein thinks that Moore'sparadox provides an exampte of something that is akin to a contradiction and how itbrings out (as Wittgenstein puts it) that logic isn't as simpte as logicians think it is.His treatment of this case invotves an expansion of what is ordinarily considered tobetong to togic. Section x of Part ll of Wittgenstein's Philosophical lnvestigations isdevoted to an exploration of Moore's paradox. We there find Wittgenstein makingthese three remarks:1. My own retation to my words is wholty different to other people's.2. lf there were a verb meaning'to betieve fatsely,'it woutd not have ameaningfuI fi rst-person present i ndicative.3. "l betieve...." throws tight on my state. Conctusions about my conduct can bedrawn from this expression. So there is a similarity here to expressions ofemotion, of mood, etc,.The workshop witt seek to understand: how my retation to my own words is whottydifferent from my retation to those of other peopte; wherein the asymmetry liesbetween the use of a range of verbs (such as "believe," "know," and "perceive") inthe first-person present indicative form and other uses of the same verbs (e.g., inthe second-person or past tense form); and how the logical grammar of these verbsis retated to that of expressions of emotion, of mood, and of sensation, includingexpressions that takes the form of avowats. Finatty, we wi[[ explore why Wittgensteinthinks a philosophical investigation of these three points ought to lead to anexpansion and transformation of our entire conception of [ogic.

22 Nov

Making sense of image-making in ultrasound practices

Veranstaltungsort: AAU Klagenfurt (N.1.71)

Along with their diagnostic purposes, fetal images produced through ultrasound have attained a central place in our visual culture. Their iconic power continues to create dissent and debate, not least because of the bioethical issues they raise. Already the first practitioner applying ultrasound in obstetrics (Ian Donald from the 1950s in Glasgow) advocated for using it not just for therapeutic purposes, but also to give pregnant women visual testimonies of the life of their fetuses with the aim of discouraging decisions to interrupt a pregnancy. This deployment would later become mandatory in some Western countries, and it remains so to this day (e.g. in the US). But both the anti-abortion positions using ultrasound scans as photographs in this way, and the feminist critiques arguing they are in fact photographic manipulations of reality, take it for granted that ultrasound machines provide more or less transparent visual access to the fetus. The first part of this talk will thus address fetal visualization: the relationship between technologies that make it possible to ‘see’ the inside of a body (of the pregnant self) and the perceived constitution of another human being (the fetus). By exploring how this new model of image-making impacts the way pregnant people undergo screenings, and deploying a post-phenomenological and enactivist framework, it will then be shown that bioethical issues arising from ultrasound technologies are tied up with the kind of images they produce.

17 Jan

Making sense of image-making in ultrasound practices

Veranstaltungsort: AAU Klagenfurt (N.1.71)

Along with their diagnostic purposes, fetal images produced through ultrasound have attained a central place in our visual culture. Their iconic power continues to create dissent and debate, not least because of the bioethical issues they raise. Already the first practitioner applying ultrasound in obstetrics (Ian Donald from the 1950s in Glasgow) advocated for using it not just for therapeutic purposes, but also to give pregnant women visual testimonies of the life of their fetuses with the aim of discouraging decisions to interrupt a pregnancy. This deployment would later become mandatory in some Western countries, and it remains so to this day (e.g. in the US). But both the anti-abortion positions using ultrasound scans as photographs in this way, and the feminist critiques arguing they are in fact photographic manipulations of reality, take it for granted that ultrasound machines provide more or less transparent visual access to the fetus. The first part of this talk will thus address fetal visualization: the relationship between technologies that make it possible to ‘see’ the inside of a body (of the pregnant self) and the perceived constitution of another human being (the fetus). By exploring how this new model of image-making impacts the way pregnant people undergo screenings, and deploying a post-phenomenological and enactivist framework, it will then be shown that bioethical issues arising from ultrasound technologies are tied up with the kind of images they produce.Der Vortrag findet auf Englisch statt. / Predavanje bo v angleščini. / The talk will be in English.

6 Mrz

Philosophie-Olympiade 2024

Veranstaltungsort: O.0.01

Am Landeswettbewerb der Philosophie-Olympiade in Kärnten nahmen dieses Jahr 209 Schüler:innen, sechs Schulen und zehn Professor:innen teil. Die beiden erstplatzierten Schüler:innen treten wie jedes Jahr zum Bundeswettbewerb der Philosophie-Olympiade an. Die ersten beiden Schüler:innen des Bundeswettbewerbs fahren zur Internationalen Philosophie-Olympiade. Die Jury vergibt einzeln Punkte an anonymisierte Essays für Konzentration, Kohärenz, Argumentative Überzeugungskraft, Philosophisches Verständnis des Themas, Originalität. Folgende Ränge wurden vergeben:Die ausgezeichneten Schüler:innen werden am 06. März um 17:00 bekannt gegeben und auch die Preise werden bei dieser Festveranstaltung verliehen.Vortrag: „Philosophie als kritische Disziplin“„Ob Philosophie ein abstraktes akademisches Unterfangen bleibt oder ein praktisches Werkzeug, um die gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, in die wir eingebettet sind, besser zu verstehen und gegebenenfalls zu verändern, hängt davon ab, wie man philosophiert.Eine engagierte Philosophie ist eine lebendige Wissenschaft, die sich affizieren lässt von den drängenden Fragestellungen ihrer Zeit und kritische Werkzeuge entwickelt, um methodisch und in aller nötigen Ruhe, die entscheidenden Probleme zu identifizieren, zu durchdringen und zu analysieren. Die ökologische Krise stellt eine existenzielle Bedrohung für uns alle dar und es ist nicht klar, welche gesellschaftlichen Kräfte es sein werden, die die entscheidenden Impulse für die Gestaltung unserer künftigen Lebenswelten geben werden oder mit welchen Mitteln und Methoden diesen globalen Herausforderungen begegnet wird. Im besten Fall gibt diese Drohkulisse Anstoß für eine engagierte Philosophie, die abseits von Politik und Medien einen öffentlichen Raum anbietet, in dem das gemeinsame Nachdenken über unser Leben und die von uns geschaffene Welt stattfinden kann. Denn es entscheidet sich auch in der täglichen Praxis philosophischer Institutionen, in denen geforscht, gelehrt, und manchmal sogar lautstark diskutiert wird, welche Leitfragen und Diskurse unsere Gesellschaft erreichen und diese letztlich mitgestalten.Jede einzelne PhilosophiestudentIn ist eine Absicherung für die institutionelle Verankerung der Philosophie an den Universitäten und damit für die Möglichkeit selbst Teil der soeben skizzierten Praxis zu sein.“Vorstellung des Philosophie-Studiums durch Philosophie-Studierende. Vorstellung des Ethik-Studiums durch Ethik-Studierende. MUSIK: Prof. Franz Steiner mit Schüler*innen (BRG Klagenfurt-Viktring)