Upcoming Events

Every session consists of a presentation, a response/comment and a moderated discussion. The sessions are supposed to last 90 - 120 minutes. (If the speakers agree, we will record the talk.)
​Please log into the “waiting room” at least 5 minutes in advance of each talk.

- The date: July 16th
​- Time: 8:30 New York/ 14:30 CET/20:30 Beijing/21:30 Tokyo
- Speaker: Paul Horwich
- Title: Wittgenstein on Religion (Abstract)
- Respondent: Hiroshi Ohtani

- The date: July 30th
​- Time: 2:00 (CEST)/ 9:00 Tokyo/ 8:00 Beijing/ 17:00 West Coast USA (July 29th)
- Speaker: Yi Jiang
- Title: Uncertainty as a New Normal in Later Wittgenstein’s Philosophy (Abstract)
- Respondent: Alfred Nordmann

- The date: August 14th
​- Time:
- Speaker: Naomi Scheman
- Title: 
- Respondent: 

- The date: August 28th
​- Time:
- Speaker: Moira De Iaco
- Title: New meanings for Old Words. Wittgenstein on Social Praxis and Language
- Respondent: 

Past Events

July 3rd: Young-Scholar-Sessions Day

Time (GMT)	Speaker	Title
9:00-9:30	Saori Makino	Peer Pressure and Wittgenstein's On Certainty
9:30-10:00	Jack Manzi	Is Isolation the Ideal Condition for Thought? Wittgenstein on Philosophy in Isolation
10:00-10:15		Break
10:15- 10:45	Jonathan Beale	Types of ‘Misleading Picture’ in Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy
10:45-11:15	Andrei Valentin Bacrău	The Linguistic Challenge from Wittgenstein’s Form of Life
11:15-11:30		Break
11:30-12:00	David Palme	Faced with Crisis. Wittgenstein to Sraffa on the change of form of life (Abstract)
12:00-13:00		General Discussion

- The date: June 19th
- Speaker: Alfred Nordmann
- Title: Philosophy in Captivity (Abstract)
- Respondent: Alexander Berg

 - The date: ​June 4th
- Speaker: Hans Sluga
- Title: Showing the Fly the Way out of the Fly-bottle: Wittgenstein as a Liberatory Thinker (Abstract, ppt)
- Respondent: Yi Jiang (Comment ,ppt)
(The participants in the workshop can look at this lecture of Rupert Read, Day Three - part 4, in advance.)

- The date: ​May 28th
- Speaker: Oskari Kuusela
- Title: Later Wittgenstein on Moral Good: Realism without the Postulation of Moral Properties or Naturalistic Reduction (Abstract, Full Paper)
- Respondent: Masashi Kasaki (Comments)
- Video: Due to technical problem, we couldn't record this session.