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Spring 2009 Boston Wittgenstein Workshop

Friday, January 30 2009

A Wittgenstein Workshop will take place at Boston University, meeting concurrently with Juliet Floyd's seminar on Philosophical Investigations. The seminar meets Mondays 3:30-6:30pm in room 525 at 745 Commonwealth Avenue and all are welcome; students from Harvard and Suffolk University will be occasionally attending. Lectures are as follows:

• Jean-Philippe Narboux, Université de Bordeaux, 3/16/09, "An Externalist Strand in Wittgenstein's On Certainty"

• Doug Winblad, Vassar College 3/23/09, "Tractarian Reflections"

• David Stern, University of Iowa, 4/6/09, "Private Language"

• Alice Crary, New School for Social Research 4/23/09 (Thurs. is a Mon. schedule at BU this week), "Ethics and the Logic of Life." (a paper on Michael Thompson's and Philippa Foot's work.)