[Wittrs] CONF: Wittgenstein on Colour, Vienna, 25-27 June

[Stefan Riegelnik]

Registration is now open for the forthcoming conference

"Wittgenstein on Colour"

jointly hosted by 

the Philosophy Division of the WU Vienna,
the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna, and
the Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy.


Conference Theme

Ludwig Wittgenstein's so-called "Remarks on Colour" are frequently
described as extremely fragmented and exceptionally difficult to
understand, and their significance remains (on the whole) unclear.
Furthermore, compared with other aspects of Wittgenstein's philosophy,
his thoughts on colour have, to date, received little attention. 
The conference aims to substantially advance our understanding of this
material, which is without doubt among the most opaque and perplexing of
Wittgenstein's writings. 

Program

Monday, June 25th
(Vienna University of Economics and Business, Festival Hall)

6.00 pm - 06.15
Conference opening

6:15 pm - 07.45 pm
Andrew Lugg (University of Ottawa)
When and why was "Remarks on Colour" written - and why it is important to know?

Session Chair: Gabriele M. Mras (WU Vienna)

08:15 pm
Conference dinner

Tuesday, June 26th 

10.00 am - 11.00 am
James Conant (University of Chicago)
Wittgenstein's Conception of Grammar in the Remarks on Colour

11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Martin Kusch (University of Vienna)
Wittgenstein as a Commentator on the Psychology and Anthropology of Colour

Session Chair: Dejan Makovec (University of Vienna)

12:15 pm - 02:00 pm
Lunch break

02:00 pm - 03:00 pm
Herbert Hrachovec (University of Vienna)
Reddish Green

03:15 pm - 04:15 pm
Frederik Gierlinger (WU/University of Vienna)
"Imagine a tribe of colour-blind people, and there could easily be one"

04:30 pm - 05:30 pm
Joachim Schulte (University of Zurich)
"We have a colour system as we have a number system"

Session Chair: Bernhard Ritter (University of Klagenfurt)

Wednesday, June 27th

10:00 am - 11:00 am
Barry Stroud (University of California, Berkeley) 
Concepts of Colours and Limits of Understanding

11:15 am - 12:15 pm
Gabriele Mras (WU Vienna)
"Propositions 'About Blue'" - Objects, Concepts, and Colour

Session Chair: Stefan Riegelnik (WU Vienna/University of Zurich)

12:15 pm - 02:00 pm
Lunch break

02:00 pm - 03:00 pm
Richard Heinrich (University of Vienna)
Green and Orange. Colour and Space

03:15 pm - 04:15 pm
Gary Kemp (University of Glasgow) 
A Wittgensteinian take on the nature of colour

Session Chair: Frederik Gierlinger (WU/University of Vienna)

Locations:

25th June: Festival Hall, 1st Floor, Section A, WU (Vienna University of
Economics and Business), Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna

26th June: Marietta-Blau-Saal, University of Vienna,
Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, 1010 Vienna 

27th June: Large Conference Room, 2nd Floor, Section D,
WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna


Organisers
Frederik Gierlinger fgierlinger at gmail.com
Stefan Riegelnik stefan.riegelnik at uzh.ch


Questions should be directed in the first instance to wittgenstein-on-colour at googlegroups.com
Websites of the conference:
http://www.wu.ac.at/geschichte/philo/conwandl/juni_2012 and
http://colors.philo.at

Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html.

Discussions should be moved to chora: enrol via
http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/chora.html.

Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/pal.

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