Logic List Mailing Archive

Heyting Day 2022: Wittgenstein's Tractatus

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