Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Goldfarb - "Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations"

Warren Goldfarb (Harvard) is presently giving a month-long seminar on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations at the University of Sydney. Here is Goldfarb's description of the seminar:

In his Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein claims to be giving a radical critique of philosophy. The nature of this critique, and the nature of the activity that Wittgenstein would like to see replace philosophy as previously done, are not well understood, particularly because they are not based on any general view that underwrites the criticism ('verificationism', 'behaviorism', etc.). In this series of seminars I want to provide a unified reading of the work that focuses on five major topics: reference to objects (ontology), linguistic meaning, understanding and other cognitive notions, rule-following, and the private mental realm. A major aim is to exhibit an idea of 'Wittgensteinian scrutiny' and to point a way to apply it to contemporary questions in philosophy.

Goldfarb is posting the text of the lectures on his website here.

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