FORM(S) OF LIFE AND THE NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
International Wittgenstein Workshop
Institute of Philosophy of Language
Faculty of Social and Human Sciences
New University of Lisbon
22-23 May 2009
The aim of this workshop is to explore some of the relations between
Wittgenstein's concept of 'Lebensform(en)' and his view of human experience.
To what extent is the form of our life fixed, i.e., is there a form of life
or forms of life, and how does this relate to the different fields of
experience? The workshop is expected to shed light on a much exploited but
rarely analysed topic in Wittgenstein's scholarship and to contribute to the
overall philosophical discussion about the nature of experience.
Provisional Programme:
22 May, Friday
9.15 - Opening
9.30-10.30 - Joachim Schulte, University of Zurich:
"Does the Devil in Hell have a Form of Life?"
10.30 - Coffee Break
11.00-12.00 - Jean-Pierre Cometti, University of Provence:
"Aesthetic Experience and Forms of Life"
12.00-13.00 - Maria Filomena Molder, New University of Lisbon:
"Cries, False Substitutes and Figurative Expressions: Three Wittgensteinian
Approaches to the Understanding of Pain"
13.00 - Lunch
14.30-15.30 - Stefan Majetschak, University of Kassel:
"Forms and Patterns of Life: Considerations on a Controversial Concept in
Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy"
15.30-16.30 - James M. Thompson, University of Halle-Wittenberg:
"Translating Forms of Life?: Remarks on the Encounter of the Other"
16.30 - Coffee Break
17.00-18.00 - António Marques, New University of Lisbon:
"Forms of Life: Between the Given and the Thought Experiment"
20.00 - Dinner for the Speakers
23 May, Saturday
9.30-10.30 - Jesús Padilla Gálvez, University of Castilla-La Mancha:
"Form of Life as Arithmetical Experiment"
10.30 - Coffee Break
11.00-12.00 - Nuno Venturinha, New University of Lisbon:
"Wittgenstein on Immediate Experience"
12.00.13.00 - Edward Harcourt, Keble College, University of Oxford:
"Love and the Origins of Authority in Infancy"
13.00 - Workshop closing and lunch
There is no registration fee for the workshop. Those attending it will be
expected to make their own arrangements for meals and accommodation as
needed. Enquiries relating to any subject should be sent to Dr Nuno
Venturinha (nventurinha.ifl@fcsh.unl.pt).
Up-do-date information about the conference will be available at www.ifl.pt.
For information about, and how to get to, the Faculty please visit
www.fcsh.unl.pt.
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Dr Nuno Venturinha
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Instituto de Filosofia da Linguagem
Avenida de Berna, 26-C
P-1069-061 Lisboa
Tel. +351 217908300 Ext. 1527
www.ifl.pt/main/Pessoas/NunoVenturinha/tabid/101/Default.aspx
