THIRD INTERNATIONAL KLAGENFURT WITTGENSTEIN WORKSHOP
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THIRD INTERNATIONAL KLAGENFURT WITTGENSTEIN WORKSHOP
THE LOGICAL PRIORITY OF LIFE OVER DEATH: SIGN AND SYMBOL / EXPRESSION AND FEELING
Keyspeaker: James Conant, David Finkelstein (University of Chicago)
University of Klagenfurt/Austria, Stiftungssaal
July 31 – August 2, 2025
Contact: Volker Munz Volker [dot] Munz [at] aau [dot] at
Selina Dieterle selinadi [at] edu [dot] aau [dot] at
This year’s Klagenfurt Workshop will focus on two topics. The first is the relation between sign and symbol – the material expression of thought in spoken or written linguistic signs and what is thereby expressed. The second is the expression of (what philosophers call) “non-discursive psychological states” such as sensation, desire, and emotion. The sections of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations on which we will concentrate will involve some of the most famous ones from the book. But we will also focus on some that have been relatively neglected in the commentary but that allow one to see more clearly how Wittgenstein’s treatments of these two topics are interconnected.
