Workshop 14.6.2013: "Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language", organized by Jakub Macha and Sebastian Greve


  • 9.45am Introduction

  • 10am Gisela Bengtsson (University of Bergen) - The River: Frege and Wittgenstein on Stepping into Language
    Commenter: Alois Pichler

  • 11am Jesús Padilla Gálvez (University of Castilla-La Mancha) - Creativity as Problem-Solving [live video streaming]
    Commenter: Sorin Bangu

  • 12pm Maria Balaska (Paris 8 University) - The Running-up-against Paradox: How Can we Place it in Language? [live video streaming]
    Commenter: Wilhelm Krüger

  • 1pm Ben Ware (University of Manchester) - Seeing the Everyday Otherwise: Vision, Ethics and Utopia in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
    Commenter: Ilyas Khan

  • Lunch break

  • 3pm Joseph Zanella (University of Copenhagen) - Seeing and Meaning
    Commenter: Helle Nyvold

  • 4pm Ladislav Koren (University of Munich) - Certainties and the Sceptical Problem
    Commenter: tba

  • 5pm Emiliano La Licata (University of Bergen) - The Psychic Life and the Creativity of the Forms of Life
    Commenter: Deirdre Smith

  • 6pm Isabel G. Gamero (Complutense University of Madrid) - Normativity and Rules within a Political Frame: Consensus or Conflict?
    Commenter: Rune Falch

See Ilyas Khan's report on the workshop.