Wittgenstein seminar, June 7-10, 2002, at Tørvis Hotel, Marifjøra in Luster

Rules and expressions:
The grammar of use and the expressiveness of meaning in Wittgenstein's late philosophy

Department of Philosophy at the University of Bergen
in co-operation with the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen
Collège International de Philosophie, Paris
Centre de cooperation franco-norvégien en sciences socials et humaines, MSH, Paris

Organizers:

The seminar is supported by the Norwegian Research Council

Friday 7th

Saturday 8th

Antonia Soulez (Paris 8, Collège International):
Writing "in the sense of the whole" (im Sinne des Ganzen): aspects and resonances

Simo Säätelä (Bergen):
"Eine Einstellung zur Seele" and the concept of a person

Lunch break with excursion to Wittgenstein's "hytte" in Skjolden 13.00-16.30
Harald Vatne (Skjolden): Wittgenstein in Skjolden

Afternoon session 16.30-20.00 (chair Kjell S. Johannessen)

Allan Janik (Innsbruck):
Impure reason vindicated

Emmanuel Halais (Amiens):
Ethics, expression and non-sense: Remarks on Cora Diamond's reading of Wittgenstein

Dinner 20.00

Sunday 9th

Jean-Philippe Narboux (Paris Sorbonne):
Imagination, expressiveness and the problem of aspects

Kevin M. Cahill (Bergen):
What Kripke missed: The antinomical structure of the remarks on rule-following

Lunch break 13.00-15.00

Afternoon session 15.00-20.00 (chair Knut Ågotnes)

Dominique Lecourt (Paris 7):
Gesture ("le geste"), Wittgenstein and Cavaillès

Alois Pichler (Bergen):
A polyphonic reading of PI: §§156-178

Arild Utaker (Bergen):
If rules are based on nothing, what then about this "nothing"?

Dinner 20.00

Monday 10th

9.00-10.00: Conclusive remarks and perspectives

11.00: Departure

Participants:

Practical information:

Contact

Arild Utaker
e-post: utaker@msh-paris.fr, arild.utaker@fil.uib.no
tel. +33-149542216

Adresse:
Centre de coopération franco-norvégienne en sciences sociales et humaines
Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
54, bd. Raspail
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06