18-22 May 2015
Iowa City IA, U.S.A.
Wittgenstein's lectures, Cambridge 1930-1933: text and context
Call for Abstracts: Special Opportunity for One Early Career Scholar
Deadline: October 27 by 5:pm
Location: Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, Iowa City, Iowa
Dates: May 18-22, 2015
Faculty Director: Professor David Stern, Department of Philosophy, University
of Iowa
Beginning in January 1930, Ludwig Wittgenstein regularly gave lecture
courses at Cambridge. GE Moore attended almost all of those lectures for the
next three and a half years and took very full notes. This period was a time of
transition for Wittgenstein, and is of great interest for anyone who wants to
understand the development of his thought. Wittgenstein's teaching and writing
from the 1930s, once overshadowed by his earlier and later work, has attracted
growing attention in recent years.
In the fall of 2015, Cambridge University Press will publish
Wittgenstein: Lectures, Cambridge 1930-1933, From the Notes of G. E Moore,
edited by David Stern, Brian Rogers, and Gabriel Citron. This is the first
edition of notes from any of Wittgenstein's lectures that aims to present, as
accurately as possible, what was written down at the time. While Moore did
occasionally quote from his notes in his published essay on the lectures,
Moore's essay was primarily an analysis of the views he attributed to
Wittgenstein. Moore's succinct but detailed lecture notes are always
considerably longer than the previously published student versions, and often
include whole topics that are simply missing from theirs. Seminar presenters
and participants will have advance access to the text of the forthcoming
edition of Moore's lecture notes.
Early career scholars (defined as those who, as of September 1, are
within fifteen years of receiving a PhD) are invited to apply to present a
paper. One person will be selected, on the basis of an abstract (250-500 words)
and a copy of a current cv, which should be submitted as a single PDF
attachment to an email addressed to to erin-hackathorn@uiowa.edu by October 27,
2014. A decision will be announced by November 21.
The paper proposed in the abstract should address some aspect of Wittgenstein's
1930- 33 lectures. A detailed description of those lectures can be found in
Moore's 'Wittgenstein's Lectures in 1930-33,' first published in three parts in
Mind in 1954-55, and reprinted in Wittgenstein, Philosophical Occasions.
Students' notes from those lectures have been published in Wittgenstein's
Lectures, Cambridge 1930-1932, ed. Desmond Lee and the first part of
Wittgenstein's Lectures, Cambridge 1932-1935, ed. Alice Ambrose. Further
information about the lectures and the forthcoming edition can be found in
Stern, Citron and Rogers "Moore's notes on Wittgenstein's lectures, Cambridge
1930-1933: Text, Context, and Content." Nordic Wittgenstein Review #2 2013, pp.
161-179, available by open access online from
http://www.nordicwittgensteinreview.com/
The early career scholar who is selected to present a paper at the
symposium will be given immediate access to the full text of the forthcoming
edition of Moore's lecture notes, and will be expected to submit a completed
paper by April 1, 2015. The selected participant's travel expenses and
accommodation during the symposium will be fully covered.
A full list of invited participants and further information about the symposium
are available at
http://obermann.uiowa.edu/programs/summer-seminar/summer-2015-wittgensteins-lectures-cambridge-1930-1933