Mittwoch, 10.03.2021
Gastvortrag ONLINE
Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein on Reference and Names
10:00 - 11:45 Uhr
online, https://webconference.uibk.ac.at/b/chr-32e-dhy-4wt
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Vortragende/r
Prof. Edward Harcourt, Oxford
Edward Harcourt has been a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, since 2005. His research is in ethics, in particular in moral psychology, and he has published on topics including neoAristotelianism and child development, the ethical dimensions of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, the moral emotions, love and
the virtues, Nietzsche‘s ethics, the philosophy of mental health and mental illness, literature and philosophy, and Wittgenstein.
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In Philosophical Investigations §1, Wittgenstein appears to attack a view of language according to which all words are the names of objects. But whose theory was this? It has sometimes been argued that the targets of Wittgenstein’s attack were Frege and Russell. The lecture explains why this cannot be right: in the context of assumptions which Frege, Russell and the early Wittgenstein all shared, all meaningful expressions had to be names, and (according to the Tractatus arguments which Wittgenstein rehearses in the Investigations) Frege and Russell were wrong for failing to see this. The lecture will then explore how, if those earlier assumptions are dropped, Wittgenstein’s Investigations position is closer to that of some contemporary theorists of reference than has sometimes been thought.
Veranstalter
Institut für Christliche Philosophie