Wittgenstein Themed Reading Group
The Wittgenstein-Themed Reading Group is an informal reading group aiming at discussing key texts on and after Wittgenstein's later philosophy. In Michaelmas 2022 we meet weekly on Wednesday from 4:30-6PM in Room 331 in the MML Faculty (right next to the Philosophy Faculty on the Third Floor of the Raised Faculty Building).
At each meeting we discuss a key text on some aspect of Wittgenstein's later philosophy. Much of these works are also on the reading list for the Part II Wittgenstein module, so if you plan to take or supervise this at some point, that might be a nice way to commit yourself to reading them. Anyone at the University of Cambridge is welcome to attend (undergraduates, postgraduates, faculty, from any department).
All readings are on the reading list for the Module in the Cambridge Tripos Part II Wittgenstein and his Successors—except for the last topic, this is additional material.
To receive information about each week's reading or give suggestions, please e-mail Pablo Hubacher Haerle (ph539@cam.ac.uk). All are welcome. The pieces we’re reading are building on some familiarity of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigation.
Michaelmas 2022 Termcard
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Topic 1: Rule-Following |
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12 October |
Saul Kripke, Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language, 1982. [iDiscover here] |
| 19 October |
John McDowell “Wittgenstein on Following a Rule”, 1984 [JSTOR link here] |
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26 October |
Jane Heal, “Interests, Activities and Meaning”, in her Quine and Wittgenstein on Philosophy of Language, 1989 [available over moodle here] |
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Topic 2: The Private Language Argument(s) |
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| 2 November |
Alfred Ayers and Rush Rhees, “The Private Language Argument” 1971 [JSTOR] |
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9 November |
Arif Ahmed “Triangulation and the Private Language Argument” 2017 [philpapers] |
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Topic 3: Cavellian Readings of the Later Wittgenstein |
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16 November |
Stanley Cavell, 1969: Must We Mean What We Say?, 1969: ch. 1. & 2. [Cambridge Core] |
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23 November |
Toril Moi, The Revolution of the Ordinary, 2017: ch. 1 & 2 [iDiscover here] |
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30 November |
Avner Baz, “Stanley Cavell’s Argument of the Ordinary”, 2018 [link] |
