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Our Guest: Barry Allen
LFUI Wittgenstein Guest Professor
May/June 2024
Home university / Country
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Position
Distinguished University Professor of
Philosophy and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Department of Philosophy
Research areas
His work is centred on the concept of knowledge from an interdisciplinary and multi-cultural perspective. Barry Allen's books examine the relationship between art and knowledge as well as knowledge and civilisation in a comparison between Chinese and Western history of ideas.
Guest of
Anne Siegetsleitner
Department/Unit
Department of Philosophy
Guest lectures
> May 23, 2024, 5 p.m.
"Knowledge and Wisdom East and West"
Public lecture in the Agnes-Heller-Haus (Kleiner Hörsaal)
> May 27, 2024, 6 p.m.
“Native American Spirituality and Eurasian Metaphysics.”
Lecture at the Brenner Archive
> May 29, 10:15-11:45 a.m.
"Meet the Author" on "Empiricisms"
Department of Philosophy
> June 4, 6-8 p.m.
"Language Games and the Deconstruction of Epistemology"
Ernst con Glasersfeld-Lecture
Claudiasaal, Herzog-Friedrich-Str. 3, 2nd floor
"What fascinates me is the freedom the study of philosophy offers to seek new questions as well as new answers to old questions."
Innsbruck for me is ...
Tyrol, and the happy feeling surrounded by great mountains, and riding trains into the mountains to visit the historical villages.
At the University of Innsbruck I will...
Meet interesting new colleagues and aspiring students. Hear new questions and encounter new problems for my tentative solutions and favorite theories.
What fascinates me about scientific work is...
My work is in Philosophy. What fascinates me is the freedom the study of philosophy offers to seek new questions as well as new answers to old questions. My work in philosophy introduces neglected voices and traditions, such as traditional Chinese and Native Americans, into conversation with European philosophical traditions.
For my students I give the following advice...
Write. Then re-write. Then re-write. Then re-write. Then . . . .