3 Jun 2022
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Heyting Day 2022 Wittgenstein's Tractatus The Tractatus gives rise to many exciting issues of interpretation. The speakers of the Heyting Day will throw light on some of these issues, especially on Wittgenstein’s views on the nature of logic and on the role of the first person in the Tractatus. The day will provide ample room to reflect together about what the book has to tell us. Date & time: Friday 3 June 2022 10 a.m. - 4.30 p.m. Venue: Trippenhuis Building, Kloveniersburgwal 29, 1011 JV Amsterdam<https://knaw.nl/routedescription?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_4_12_2022_Heyting_Day_2022)> More information: Website KNAW<https://knaw.nl/heyting-day-2022?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_4_12_2022_Heyting_Day_2022)> Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus A hundred years ago, Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was published in English and in German. Since that time, the book has engendered enduring fascination both from professional philosophers and from interested laypersons. This interest is both due to the book’s themes and to its literary style. The themes include the nature of reality, the relationship between world and language, the nature of logic, ethics, the self, the mystical … The Tractatus gives rise to many exciting issues of interpretation. The speakers of the Heyting Day will throw light on some of these issues, especially on Wittgenstein’s views on the nature of logic and on the role of the first person in the Tractatus. The day will provide ample room to reflect together about what the book has to tell us. Sure, not all can be said, but we will try to say what we can and show what we can’t. Speakers * Victor Gijsbers, assistant professor of philosophy at Leiden University, No privileged numbers? Infinity in the Tractatus * Oskari Kuusela, Associate Professor at the University of East Anglia, UK, The Tractatus’ epistemology of logic * Maria van der Schaar, Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy, Leiden University, The Tractatus and the First Person * Wim Vanrie, Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy at Ghent University, Tautology and showing in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Plenary discussion led by Martin Stokhof, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. The symposium will be conducted in English. More information and registration For more information, please contact Jolanda Pel, congresbureau@knaw.nl<mailto:congresbureau@knaw.nl>, +31 6 4643 8500. You are most welcome to attend the Heyting Day. Participation is free, but registration is required. You can register by submitting the online form. -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam