Second International Klagenfurt Wittgenstein Workshop
SECOND INTERNATIONAL KLAGENFURT WITTGENSTEIN WORKSHOP
PRIVACY, EXPRESSION, THE HUMAN BODY, AND OTHER MINDS: CAVELL, MCDOWELL, AND STROUD ON WITTGENSTEIN
James Conant, David Finkelstein (University of Chicago),
Volker A. Munz (University of Klagenfurt)
University of Klagenfurt/Austria, Stiftungssaal
August 1 – August 3, 2024
Contact: Volker [dot] Munz [at] aau [dot] at
This year’s Klagenfurt Workshop will examine the work of some of the most challenging, insightful, influential, and controversial commentators on Philosophical Investigations, §§243-308.
Unit I of the Workshop will focus on the work of John McDowell, especially his reading of Wittgenstein’s so-called private language argument. We will move in
Unit II to an examination of Barry Stroud’s textually subtle undoing of what one might call the standard reading of the private language argument.
Unit III will be devoted to Stanley Cavell’s development – in Part IV of The Claim of Reason – of Wittgenstein’s treatment of privacy, expression, and skepticism about the possibility of knowledge of other minds.
