Program

Fifth Symposium of the International Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (Internationale Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft)

Faculty of Philosophy (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)

Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st of May, 2015

 

 

Wednesday 20th of May                                                                                Room S-217

9.00-9.20

Opening ceremony: Rafael Orden Jiménez, Dean of the Faculty, Stefan Majetschak, President of the  International Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and  Ángeles J. Perona, Main Organiser

9,30-10.20

“The Legacy of Wittgenstein: A Critical Overview and a Modest Proposal”.  Alan Janik (Universität Innsbruck)

10.20-10.50

Debate. Chair: Ángeles Jiménez Perona (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

10.50-11.20

Coffee pause

11.20-12.10

"Antirealism, Human Creativity and Authenticity. Some Romantic Roots in Wittgenstein's Thought".  Antoni Defez (Universitat de Girona)

12.10-12.40

Debate. Chair: Óscar L. González Castán (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

13.00-14.30

Lunch

14.30-15.20

"The ‘System Response’ to Radical Skepticism in On Certainty". Martin Kusch (Universität Wien)

15.20-15.50

Debate. Chair: Juan José Acero (Universidad de Granada)

15.50-16.50

Three talks: Tero Vaaja (University of Jyväskylä) “Wittgensteinian Criteria and Embodiment of the Inner”, Vasso Kindi (University of Athens) “Wittgenstein’s understanding of concepts and incommensurability” and David Pérez Chico (Universidad de Zaragoza) “Cavell y Wittgenstein sobre la certeza”

15.50-17.30

Debate. Chair: Vicente Sanfélix (Universidad de Valencia)

17.30-17.50

Pause

17.50-18.40

“Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Logic: How to be a Naturalist Without Being an Empiricist?” Oskari Kuusela (University of East Anglia)

18.40-19.10

Debate. Chair: Luis Manuel Valdés Villanueva (Universidad de Oviedo)

 

Thursday 21st of May                                                                                    Room S-217

9.00-9.50

"'Everything lies open to view', though perhaps only from 'elsewhere': Wittgensteinian therapy and the 'others' of European modernity"". Naomi Scheman (University of Minnesota)

9.50-10.20

Debate. Chair: Astrid Wagner (Technische Universität Berlin)

10.20-11.00

Two talks: Emiliano Lalicata (Università degli Studi di Palermo) “Wittgenstein Theorist of the Commonwealth: Hardt/Negri’s Wittgenstein” and Miguel Ángel Quintana Paz (Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes) “Five Uses of Wittgenstein against Marxism”

11.00-11.30

Debate. Chair: Javier Vilanova (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

11.30-11.50

Coffee pause

11.50-12.35

ROUND TABLE: María Cerezo (Universidad de Murcia) “Analogical terms in the Tractatus: a revision of old, new and elucidatory interpretations”. Nuno Venturinha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) "The Timeliness of Wittgenstein's Religious Epistemology". Rosa M. Calcaterra (Università Roma Tre) "Concrete reality. Wittgenstein's and pragmatist overcoming of the realism-antirealism contraposition"

12.35-13.10

Debate. Chair: Stella Villarmea (Universidad de Alcalá)

13.10-14.30

Lunch

14.30-15.30

Three talks: Marco Damonte (Università di Genova) “Wittgenstein’s Legacy for the Future of Natural Theology”, Karsten Schoellner (Universität Potsdam) “A Wittgensteinian form of moral expressivism” and Janyne Sattler (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil) “Wittgenstein’s Thought and the Future of Moral Philosophy”

15.30-16.10

Debate. Chair: José María Ariso (Universidad International de La Rioja)

16.10-16.50

Two talks: : Thomas Raleigh (Norwegian University of Science & Technology) “How to talk about sensations?” andMaria João Mayer Branco (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) “Wittgenstein on Hearing, Understanding and Expressing the Meaning of Music: Advantages of his Use for Contemporary Philosophy of Music”

16.50-17.20

Debate. Chair: Isabel Gamero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

17.20-17.40

Pause

17.40-18.30

"Wittgenstein on Objectivity Revisited: Why it Matters". Alice Crary (The New School for Social Research, New York)

18.30-19.00

Debate. Chair: Stefan Majetschack (Universität Kassel)

19.00-19.15

Closing ceremony