Seminar cercetare DFT ‘Can Descriptions be Non-Hypothetical? Thought Experiments from Wittgenstein’s Manuscripts’

Următoarea conferință online din cadrul seminarului de cercetare al Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretică în parteneriat cu CELFIS din semestrul al II-lea al anului 2022/2023 va fi susținută de dr.  Mihai Ometiță (Universitatea din București, ICUB). Prezentarea sa este intitulată ‘Can Descriptions be Non-Hypothetical? Thought Experiments from Wittgenstein’s Manuscripts’. Iată un rezumat:

‘In manuscripts around 1930, Wittgenstein characterizes ordinary language as hypothesis-laden and envisages what he calls a “phenomenological language”, which would provide non-hypothetical descriptions of experience. I will first reconstruct that under-explored project, which illuminates the transition from the Tractatus to the Philosophical Investigations. Then I will discuss several thought experiments which Wittgenstein devices in order to test the viability of a phenomenological language. The methodological moral I advance is that the price to be paid for the attempt to provide non-hypothetical descriptions is one’s estrangement from intelligibility.’