NNWR Conference: Wittgensteinian Approaches to Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture

Nordic network for Wittgenstein research
Conference 2009, March 26 – 28, Åbo Akademi University
Wittgensteinian Approaches to Ethics and the Philosophy of Culture

Program:

Thursday 26 March
14.45 – 15.00 Opening of the symposium
15.00 – 16.00 Olli Lagerspetz, Åbo Akademi University
Dirt and Cleanliness, and the Dialectic between Facts and Practices
16.00 – 16.15 Coffee
16.15 – 17.30 Duncan Richter, Virginia Military Institute
Wittgenstein, Bentham, Derrida: Ethics, Nonsense, Metaphysics, and Rights
17.30 - 18.45 Don Levi, University of Oregon
The Omniscient Being Knows
20.00 Reception

Friday 27 March
10.15 – 11.30 Tove Österman, Uppsala University
Understanding Otherness
11.45 – 13.00 Lars Hertzberg, Åbo Akademi University
On Knowing Right from Wrong
13.00 – 14.15 Lunch
14.15 – 15.30 Alice Crary, The New School for Social Research, New York
Ethics and the Logic of Life
15.30 – 15.45 Coffee
15.45 – 17.00 Joel Backström, Åbo Akademi University
Making the Unconscious Conscious in Wittgenstein and Freud
17.15 – 18.30 Sergio Benvenuto, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and
Technologies, Rome
Ethics, Wonder and the Real in Wittgenstein
19.30 Conference dinner

Saturday 28 March
10.15 – 11.30 Anniken Greve, University of Tromsø:
The Holocaust and the Ethics of Remembering
11.45 – 13.00 Mikel Burley, University of Leeds
Wittgenstein, Religion, and the Rejection of Metaphysics
13.00 – 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 15.30 Carolyn Wilde, University of Bristol
The Intersubjectivity of Aesthetic Judgment
15.30 – 15.45 Coffee
15.45 – 17.00 Pär Segerdahl, Uppsala University
Gender, Language and Philosophical Forgiveness
17.15-18.15 Konstituerande möte för Nordiska Wittgensteinsällskapet – Constituting meeting of the Nordic Wittgenstein Society

For further information, contact Hannes Nykänen <hanykane@abo.fi>