Wittgensteinarkivet (WAB) og Wittgensteinforskergruppe (WFG) ved Universitetet i Bergen: Seminarrekke vår 2004

Wittgensteinarkivet og Wittgensteinforskergruppen i Bergen arrangerer en seminarrekke ved Filosofisk institutt som er åpen for alle interesserte. Noen av innlederne vil snakke eksplisitt om Wittgenstein. Andre vil ta opp problemstillinger som ikke fokuserer direkte på Wittgensteins arbeider, men som kan knyttes til problemer som behandles i Wittgensteins filosofi. I vårsemesteret 2004 vil flere av gjesteforskerne ved Wittgensteinarkivet holde innlegg, men vi håper også å få andre i miljøet her i Bergen, muligens også fra andre institutter i Norge, til å bidra med innlegg. Nedenfor en oversikt som blir kontinuerlig oppdatert.


15.1.2004 Oskari Kuusela (Helsinki): Do the concepts of grammar and use in Wittgenstein articulate a theory of language or meaning? 19.2.2004 Istvan Danka (Budapest): Wittgenstein and the problem of Synthetic a priori: Some pilosophical arguments for digital philology 9.3.2004 Oskari Kuusela (Helsinki): Moral judgements and moral reasons 24.3.2004 Arild Utaker (Bergen): 25 år: "Wittgenstein og filosofien som problem" 29.3.2004 Kim van Gennip (Groningen): Wittgenstein and Russell on intuitive knowledge (1936-1938) 14.4.2004 Elena Tatievskaya (Augsburg): Wittgenstein über logische Konstanten 20.4.2004 Kåre Johnsen: Persepsjon, kausalitet og tenkning 6.5.2004 Herbert Hrachovec (Wien): "Eine Ansammlung von Bemerkungen"? Microstructures in Wittgenstein's Big Typescript (Workshop) 13.5.2004 Herbert Hrachovec (Wien): Nonstandard Internet Scholarship: MOOs, Wikis, Open Archives (Workshop) 4.6.2004 Debora Maccanti (Pisa): The role of the visual in Wittgenstein's philosophy 21.6.2004 Harald Johannessen (Bergen): While reading Wittgenstein

15.1.2004 Filosofisk inst. seminarrom 18:15 Oskari Kuusela (Helsinki): Do the concepts of grammar and use in Wittgenstein articulate a theory of language or meaning?

Kuusela disputerte ved Universitetet i Oxford (St. John's College) i fjor med avhandlingen "Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy and Philosophical Method" og er i perioden januar-mars 2004 EU ARI WAB forsker ved Wittgensteinarkivet. Han har forfattet følgende sammenfatning av paperet:

"The paper 'Do the concepts of grammar and use in Wittgenstein articulate a theory of language or meaning?' seeks to outline an interpretation of Wittgenstein's statements on language and meaning in his later philosophy which would to make plain the sense in which these statements do not constitute a theory of language or meaning. In particular, my purpose is to clarify Wittgenstein's conception of philosophy and the methods of philosophy aided by the concrete example of what he says about language and meaning. At the seminar my focus will not be on Wittgenstein-exegesis, but on philosophical questions relating to Wittgenstein's methods and conception of philosophy. This means that I will not be particularly concerned with the justification of my interpretation of Wittgenstein. Instead, the justification is provided in the long version of the paper available beforehand. (I will of course be happy to discuss issues that come up in the long version of the paper at the seminar, should questions concerning these matters arise.)"

Go to a draft version of Kuusela's paper (user identification and password required).


19.2.2004 Wittgenstein Archives, Allégt. 27, 1st floor, Lunch room 14:00 Istvan Danka (Budapest): Wittgenstein and the problem of Synthetic a priori

Danka er medlem av Institute for Philosophical Research ved Hungarian Academy of Science i Budapest og er i perioden januar-februar 2004 EU ARI WAB forsker ved Wittgensteinarkivet. Danka har gitt oss følgende sammenfatning av innlegget:

"There are two main methodological trends of interpreting Wittgenstein. One of them is closely interpretative and text-oriented. The other approach tries to find problems and arguments in his thought, independent of the contexts where they appear. I think, and will argue for, that both of them are quite unwittgensteinian methods. My approach is, in a sense, an argument for a special application of the Bergen Electronic Edition. By using the function of searching keywords, there can be seen/given some new relations among different manuscripts which disappear from a light bird's eye view of problem-oriented philosophy and also from a text-oriented view which sometimes does not see the wood for the trees. I should argue for (1) there isn't any (essential) meaning of a particular text (by this, I try to avoid conceptual relativism), (2) there is'nt any (essential) meaning, independent of contexts (that is against any essentialist/realist concept of meaning). These statements seem to be counterpart of each other, and to exclude a middle. My presentation will hopefully show, how Wittgenstein's account of Synthetic a priori solves this problem."

Go to a working version of Danka's presentation (user identification and password required).


9.3.2004 Filosofisk inst. seminarrom 16:15 Oskari Kuusela (Helsinki): Moral judgements and moral reasons

Kuusela disputerte ved Universitetet i Oxford (St. John's College) i fjor med avhandlingen "Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy and Philosophical Method" og er i perioden januar-mars 2004 EU ARI WAB forsker ved Wittgensteinarkivet. Han har gitt oss følgende sammenfatning av paperet:

"In my talk I will discuss the notion of moral judgements concerning the righteousness of action and that of reasons given in support of such judgements. I will present a conception of moral judgements according to which they are analogous to clarifications of meaning. Moral judgements articulate ways of looking at actions (in particular contexts) or are attempts to get us to view actions in a certain light. With this conception of moral judgements I seek to dissolve problems related to cognitivism and non-cognitivism in ethics on the one hand, and to develop an account of philosophy’s contribution to discourse concerning moral issues on the other."

Go to a draft version of Kuusela's paper (user identification and password required).


24.3.2004 Filosofisk inst. seminarrom 18:15 Arild Utaker (Bergen): 25 år: "Wittgenstein og filosofien som problem"

Innlegget tar utgangspunkt i artikkelen "Wittgenstein og filosofien" fra Norsk Filosofisk Tidskrift 2, 1979, som vil bli distribuert på forhand. I artikkelen sier Arild bl.a.:

"Wittgenstein bryter radikalt med den rollen som eksemplet har hatt i den filosofiske tradisjon. For Wittgenstein er ikke eksemplet det heterogene i forhold til en teoretisk utviklingsgang. Det skal ikke få oss til å forstå det vanskelige, det teoretiske. Eksemplene er snarere utviklingsgangen in hans diskurs. Hans diskurs fremviser en serie med eksempler som hverken uttrykker en teori eller kittes sammen ved en teori. Deres oppgave er derimot å uttrykke det enkle, det som vi i grunnen allerede vet."


29.3.2004 Filosofisk inst. seminarrom 16:15 Kim van Gennip (Groningen): Wittgenstein and Russell on intuitive knowledge (1936-1938)

Kim van Gennip works as a PhD-student at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and is currently EU ARI WAB scholar at the Wittgenstein Archives.


14.4.2004 Filosofisk inst. seminarrom 16:15 Elena Tatievskaya (Augsburg): Wittgenstein über logische Konstanten

Tatievskaya ist Lehrbeauftragte an der Universität Augsburg und hat sich bei Prof. Mainzer über den Begriff der logischen Form in den Grundlagen der Analytischen Philosophie habilitiert. Von Februar bis April 2004 ist sie EU ARI WAB Gastforscherin am Wittgensteinarchiv. Veröffentlichungen u.a. "Russells Universalientheorie" (2001) und "Einführung in die Aussagenlogik" (2003).


20.4.2004 Filosofisk inst. seminarrom 16:15 Kåre Johnsen (Bergen): Persepsjon, kausalitet og tenkning

Det sentrale poenget i John McDowells Mind and World er at alle mentale innhold er konseptuelle. Dette gjelder også perseptuelle innhold. Det synes nokså klart at dette synet må medføre at persepsjon må forståes som en direkte eller umiddelbar relasjon mellom det persiperende subjektet og det som blir persipert - og at kausale teorier om persepsjon utelukkes. Innlegget vil forsøke å si noe om hvordan vi kan forstå, og forsvare, en teori om direkte persepsjon innen dette perspektivet, og vil også diskutere forholdet mellom persepsjon og tenkning. I denne sammenhengen vil debatten om eksternalisme og internalisme bli kommentert.


6.5.2004 Wittgenstein Archives, Allégt. 27, 1st floor, Lunch room 18:00 Herbert Hrachovec (Wien): "Eine Ansammlung von Bemerkungen"? Microstructures in Wittgenstein's Big Typescript (Workshop)

Hrachovec er professor i filosofi ved Univ. i Wien og er i perioden mai 2004 EU ARI WAB forsker ved Wittgensteinarkivet.

In spite of its table of contents and its chapter headings the Big Typescript is obviously far from being a conventional book. But is it just a haphazard assembly of notes? Two theses challenging this assumption will be presented. From a systematic point of view the first dozen sub-chapters can be seen as offering a highly condensed introduction into the tectonic changes in Wittgenstein's understanding of sentences and meaning. Secondly, this shift manifests itself in the careful arrangement of groups of remarks. Several discursive microstructures can be found in the initial pages of the typescript.


13.5.2004 Wittgenstein Archives, Allégt. 27, 1st floor, Lunch room 14:00 Herbert Hrachovec (Wien): Nonstandard Internet Scholarship: MOOs, Wikis, Open Archives (Workshop)

Hrachovec er professor i filosofi ved Univ. i Wien og er i perioden mai 2004 EU ARI WAB forsker ved Wittgensteinarkivet.

Two internet protocols almost exclusively determine the general perception of the net: SMTP and HTTP, aka e-Mail and the WWW. Both protocols are asynchroneous and stateless, enforcing one-way data transmission and discouraging dialogue and collaboration in real time. Hypertext and databases are, in fact, digital extensions of book culture, hence their attractiveness to scholars. This talk will discuss three alternative communicative settings, ranging from an educational MOO server developed by a Norwegian scholar (Jan Rune Holmevik) to a protocol for automatic metadata harvesting of collections of web resources.


4.6.2004 Wittgenstein Archives, Allégt. 27, 1st floor, Lunch room 14:15 Debora Maccanti (Pisa): The role of the visual in Wittgenstein's philosophy

Maccanti er dr. student ved universitetet i Pisa og i perioden mai-juni gjesteforsker ved Wittgensteinarkivet. Hennes prosjekt fokuserer på "philosophical analyses of seeing and vision since the late XIX century, above all in the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Friedrich Waismann and Nelson Goodman."

Debora Maccanti from the University of Pisa, visiting researcher at WAB, gives a presentation with the title "The role of the visual in Wittgenstein's philosophy". In the presentation Maccanti will focus on Wittgenstein's analysis of seeing and vision in the "Notebooks" and "Tractatus". What is the conception of Bild in "Notebooks" and "Tractatus", and which are the consequences from the distinction between truth, Bedeutung and Sinn? Which risks and freedoms are related to conceive vision and seeing without an ontological background? Does Wittgenstein's way to conceive vision and seeing create difficulties for the conception of subject and for the way in which we can distinguish sense from nonsense? Finally, has the way in which we interpret "The proposition is a picture of reality" consequences for how we conceive ethics and aesthetics?


21.6.2004 Wittgenstein Archives, Allégt. 27, 1st floor, Lunch room 16:15 Harald Johannessen (Bergen): While reading Wittgenstein