Fourth International Klagenfurt Wittgenstein Workshop
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren!
Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen!
Das Institut für Philosophie lädt Sie recht herzlich zum Fourth International Klagenfurt Wittgenstein Workshop
„Rules, Understanding, and Practice: Brandon, Diamond, McDowell, Wright, and others on Wittgenstein“
vom 28. Juli bis 1. August 2026, im Stiftungssaal (O.0.01) ein.
This year’s Klagenfurt Workshop will examine Wittgenstein’s treatment of rule following from a fresh perspective by considering how it is intertwined with three further topics: (1) the relation of sign to symbol, (2) the logical character of human expression, (3) the second person. After a first session in which we will briefly discuss some of Saul Kripke’s proposals for how to understand this region of Wittgenstein’s thought—which forms the background of most of the articles we will read — we will turn our attention in the first half of the workshop to a series of debates on how to read (and how not to read) Wittgenstein on rule following that may be understood to pit John McDowell and Cora Diamond against Robert Brandom and Crispin Wright. In the second half of the workshop, we will study some comparatively neglected articles (by Elizabeth Anscombe, David Finkelstein, Elek Lane, and Edward Minar, among others) that home in on one or another aspect of topics (1) – (3).
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