July 30: Registration at the Conference Centre Volksschule Kirchberg
20.00h: Informal Gathering at Hotel St. Wolfgang
Day 1: July 31
Section 1, 10:00 -11:30 --- Introduction
Background reading for this session: Hylton, “The Nature of the Proposition and the Revolt against Idealism”
Section 2, 11:45-13:15 Cora Dimoand: Wittgenstein on the “one great problem”. Wittgenstein’s “Fundamental Thought”. Wittgenstein on “p” and “~p” as having opposite sense, but with one and the same reality corresponding to them
Reading for these sessions: Tractatus 5.47-5.4711; 4.01 - 4.0621; 2.1- 2.1512, 2.21-2.225.
Wittgenstein: “Notes on Logic”
Frege: Sense and Reference.
Optional reading: last four paragraphs of Hylton, “Functions, Operations and Sense in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus”
Section 3, 14:30-16:00: Continuation of the previous seession
Cora Dimoand: Wittgenstein on the “one great problem”. Wittgenstein’s “Fundamental Thought”. Wittgenstein on “p” and “~p” as having opposite sense, but with one and the same reality corresponding to them
Section 4, 16:15-17:45 James Conant: The distinction between sign and symbol.
Readings for this session: Tractatus 3.3-3.326, 5.473- 5.4733
Gustafsson: “Wittgenstein on Using Language and Playing Chess”
Conant: “Reply to Gustafsson”
Recommended readings:
Hacker: “Hacker - Wittgenstein, Carnap and the New American Wittgensteinians”
Diamond: “Logical Syntax in the Tractatus”
Optional readings: Conant, “The Method of the Tractatus”
Franz Boas: “Introduction”
DAY 2: August 1
Session 1, 10:00 -11:30 ---: Continuation of the previous Session:
James Conant, The distinction between sign/symbol (continued).
Readings for this session: Tractatus 4.0s
Session 2, 11:45-13:15 : Martin Gustafsson: Analysis in the Tractatus. Elementary vs. non-elementary propositions. Truth-tables as metalinguistic devices vs. truth-tables as propositional signs.
Readings for this session: Tractatus 4.2-4.211, 4.25-4.45.
Gustafsson, “Quine and Wittgenstein on the Dissolution of Philosophical Problems”.
Session 3, 14:30-16:00 Martin Gustafsson: Function vs. operation. The notion of a variable. The general form of a proposition.
Readings for these sessions: Tractatus 4.122-4.128, 5.2s, 5.3s, 5.4-5.472, 6-6.01.
Hylton, “Functions, Operations and Sense in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus”.
Session 4, 16:15-17:45 --- Continuation of the previous session:
Martin Gustafsson: Function vs. operation. The notion of a variable. The general form of a proposition.
DAY 3: August 2
Session 1, 10:00 -11:30: Martin Gustafsson: Logical inference and the logocentric predicament.
Readings for this session: Tractatus 5.1-5.143; 6.1-6.13
Gustafsson, “Wittgenstein and ‘tonk’”;
Ricketts, “Frege, the Tractatus, and the Logocentric Predicament”.
Session 2, 11:45-13:15 : James Conant: Picturing, Thought and Reality
Readings for this session: Tractatus 3.11, 3.3-3.33, 4.03, 4.063-0641, 4.461-2; 6.1, 6.11, 6.113, 6.121,
Conant, “Reply to Travis”
Recommended reading:
Gustafsson, “Why is Frege’s Judgment-Stroke Superfluous?”
Optional reading:
Glock, “Truth in the Tractatus”
Travis, “When Words Fail”
Session 3, 14:30-16:00: Continuation of the previous session:
James Conant: Picturing, Thought and Reality (continued)
James Conant: Picturing, Thought and Reality (continued)
Session 4, 16:15-17:45 : Cora Diamond: Wittgenstein’s “main contention”. Wittgenstein on “the cardinal problem of philosophy”. Some discussion of “showing” and some cases of what is shown. The activity of philosophy as the logical clarification of thoughts. What you see when you see what isn’t going to be in a series. Drawing the limits of the expression of thoughts. Contrasting ways of understanding “limits”
Readings for this and the next session:
First page of Notes dictated to Moore;
TLP Preface; 4.012, 4.112; 4.114-4.115; 4.44-4.4461; 4.51; 5.1311; 5.503, 5.534; 6.001
DAY 4: August 3
Session 1, 10:00 -11:30: Continuation of the topics of the previous session:
Cora Diamond: Wittgenstein’s “main contention”. Wittgenstein on “the cardinal problem of philosophy”. Some discussion of “showing” and some cases of what is shown. The activity of philosophy as the logical clarification of thoughts. What you see when you see what isn’t going to be in a series. Drawing the limits of the expression of thoughts. Contrasting ways of understanding “limits”
Cora Diamond: Wittgenstein’s “main contention”. Wittgenstein on “the cardinal problem of philosophy”. Some discussion of “showing” and some cases of what is shown. The activity of philosophy as the logical clarification of thoughts. What you see when you see what isn’t going to be in a series. Drawing the limits of the expression of thoughts. Contrasting ways of understanding “limits”
Session 2: 11:45-13:15 Concluding discussion