Philosophy
Research: Projects
The Tractatus and its History
Friday 9 - Sunday 11 September, 2005
Stirling Management Centre, University of Stirling.
Draft programme
Friday 9th September
4.00-4.30 Tea
4.30-5.45 Adrian Moore (University of Oxford)
Was the author of the Tractatus a Transcendental idealist?
5.45-7.00 Jim Conant (University of Chicago)
Perspicuous representation
7.30 Dinner
Saturday 10th September
9.00-11.00 Divided session 1. Chair: Michael Potter
9.00 Colin Johnston (University College, London)
The unity of a Tractarian fact
10.00 Marie McGinn (University of York)
Simples
9.00-11.00 Divided session 2. Chair: Peter Sullivan
9.00 Guy Stock (University of Dundee)
Theories of truth, the Tractatus, and transcendental idealism
10.00 Roger White (University of Leeds)
Simple objects and “determinacy of sense” (Tractatus 3.23-3.24)
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.45 Brian McGuinness (University of Siena)
Further thoughts on the 1916 Abhandlung
12.45-1.45 Lunch
1.45-3.00 Ian Proops (University of Michigan)
Frege and Wittgenstein on logical category distinctions
3.00-4.15 Tom Ricketts (Northwestern University)
Some remarks on logical segmentation and higher-order quantification
4.15-4.45 Tea
4.45-6.00 Michael Potter (Universities of Cambridge and Stirling)
The genesis of the Tractatus
6.00-715 Bill Child (University of Oxford)
Sensations, private objects and realism
7.45 Dinner
Sunday 11th September
9.00-11.00 Divided session 3. Chair: Michael Potter.
9.00 Hanne Ahonen (Columbia University)
Why does Wittgenstein say that “ethics and aesthetics are one and the same” (Tractatus 6.421)?
10.00 John Preston (University of Reading)
Hertz and the interpretation of the Tractatus
9.00-11.00 Divided session 4. Chair: Peter Sullivan.
9.00 Chon Tejedor (St Hilda’s College, Oxford)
An end to metaphysics: the world in the Tractatus
10.00 Denis McManus (University of Southampton)
What might Wittgenstein’s ladder be made of?
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.45 Jim Levine (Trinity College, Dublin)
Logic and solipsism
12.45-1.45 Lunch
1.45-3.00 Genia Schoenbaumsfeld (University of Southampton)
Is Wittgenstein's ladder real?
3.00-4.15 Warren Goldfarb (Harvard University)
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Acknowledgements: This conference is sponsored by the AHRC, the Analysis Trust, the Aristotelian Society, the Mind Association, the Faculty of Arts and the Department of Philosophy at Stirling, and the Scots Philosophical Club; the conference organizers are grateful to all these bodies for their support.