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Call for Workshop Participants/Special Issue: New Perspectives on Wittgenstein on Expression

Organizers: Michael Campbell (Centre for Ethics, Pardubice); Lynette Reid (Dalhousie)

Advisors/participants: David Cockburn (Lampeter); Lars Hertzberg (Åbo Akademi)

We invite applications for participation for a virtual workshop on Ludwig Wittgenstein's use of the concept of expression and related notions, centered around the question of the integration of what was formerly presented as Part I and Part II of the Investigations. (See the workshop format below.)

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New Blog: The self-righteous mind

In a new installment of our blog, Ondřej Beran writes about The self-righteous mind, or, why some very fine people on both sides are divided by politics and religion.

 

You can read it HERE. 

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The self-righteous mind, or, why some very fine people on both sides are divided by politics and religion

I am writing while the chaos of the US presidential elections is peaking, and then shortly after Joe Biden is probably confirmed as president-elect. As I have recently been trying to write something about Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind, it struck me how much this book – hailed 10 years ago, when it was published, but still now, as an insightful explanation of general political phenomena – has aged.

Being held in one's identity

In a new installment of Centre's blog, Nora Hämäläinen discusses how we are being "held" in our identity by various encounters and relationships with other people. You can read it HERE. 

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Research seminar - fall semester

*as of the date of publication, the seminar is planned to take place offline. However, because of the ongoing pandemic, it might be moved online.

 

 

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