Activities

For an updated list of guest lectures and seminars at the Wittgenstein Archives Bergen (WAB) please visit http://wab.uib.no/wab_goingon.page

• Eighth workshop in the project
  Wittgenstein+PhilMath
  Paris, L’Institut d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (IHPST)
  27-28 June 2024
  Organizer: Sorin Bangu
   

• Seventh workshop in the project
  Normativity in Nature: The Prospects of Re-enchantment
  Univ. of Bergen, 6-7 June 2024
  Organizer: Kevin Cahill
   

• Andrew Norris (UC Santa Barbara): Johannes de Silentio's Private Language 
  Talk at the Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Bergen, 23 May 2024. 
  Organizer: Kevin Cahill
   

• Sixth workshop in the project
  Mathematics with a Human Face (II)
  Univ. of Bergen, 21-22 May 2024
  Organizer: Sorin Bangu
   

• Hanoch Ben-Yami (CEU Vienna): Wittgenstein and Waismann’s Open Texture
  Talk at the Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Bergen, 14 May 2024. 
  Organizers: Sorin Bangu, Alois PIchler
   

• Jamie Tappenden (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor): Johann Herbart and the Interpretation of Frege's Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik Talk at the Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Bergen, 7 May 2024. 
  Organizer: Sorin Bangu
   

• Fifth workshop in the project
  Mathematics with a Human Face
  Boston University, Center for History and Philosophy of Science, 22 April 2024
  Organizer: Juliet Floyd (Boston Univ.)
  For a video recording  of the event scroll down on this webpage: https://www.bu.edu/cphs/colloquium/ 
   

• Sorin Bangu: Innate Arithmetical Knowledge? A Look at the Empirical Evidence 
  Talk at the IHPST Paris, 21 March 2024 (invited) and Insitute Vienna Circle, 15 April 2024 (invited) 
   

• Sorin Bangu: Wittgenstein on Scientism and Mathematics
  Talk at CELFIS, Univ. of Bucharest. 31 Jan. 2024 (invited) 
   

• Martin Sætre: Wittgenstein's early Philosophy of Mathematics and Beyond: Continuities and Discontinuities 
  Trial lecture for PhD Disputas
  Univ. of Bergen, 1 Dec. 2023 
  Organizer: Faculty of Humanities, Univ. of Bergen
   

• Knowledge, Chess, Wittgenstein and Dedekind: A (History of) Analytic Philosophy Workshop
  Univ. of Bergen, 30 Nov. 2023
  Organizer: Sorin Bangu, Kevin Cahill
   

• Sorin Bangu. On the Grammar of Mathematical Propositions. Talk at the International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Aug. 2023 (invited)  
   

• Fourth workshop in the project:  
  Wittgenstein on Mathematics, Mind and Language. Univ. of Bergen, 15-16 May 2023.Organizers: Sorin Bangu and Kevin Cahill (Univ. of Bergen) 
   

• Sorin Bangu: Proofs and Concepts. Talk at “Wittgenstein on Mathematics, Mind and Language“ workshop. Bergen, 16 May 2023.
   

• Kevin Cahill. Wittgensteinian Political Quietism. Talk at Univ. of Georgia, USA. 27 April 2023 (invited) 
   

• Sorin Bangu: Wittgenstein on the Benacerraf Dilemma. Talk at conference “The Heuristic View. Logic, Mathematics and Science“. Rome, 20 Feb. 2023 (invited) 
   

• Sorin Bangu: Wittgenstein on the dissolution of the Benacerraf Dilemma. Talk at conference “Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice“, Brussels, 30 March 2023 (keynote) 
   

• Sorin Bangu: "There is Nothing to Explain": Wittgenstein on Scientism. Talk at Institute Vienna Circle. (Joint seminar w/ CEU) 24 Nov. 2022, Vienna. (invited) 
   

• Martin Sætre (Bergen): Wittgenstein on the primacy of games. Talk at the Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Bergen, 22 Sept. 2022Organizers: Sorin Bangu and Kevin Cahill 
   

• Arif Ahmed (Cambridge): Wittgenstein's Index Theory. Talk at the Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Bergen, 14 Sept. 2022Organizers: Sorin Bangu and Kevin Cahill
   

• Sorin Bangu and Jeffrey Schatz: Wittgenstein on the Irrationals. Talk at “Wittgenstein on Foundations: Mathematics, Language, World“ conference at Wadham College, Oxford. Aug 2nd 2022 
   

• Third workshop in the project:
  Wittgenstein on Foundations: Mathematics, Mind, WorldWadham College, Univ. of Oxford and Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Bergen. 1-2 August 2022Co-organizers: Sorin Bangu and Kevin Cahill (Bergen), Alex Paseau (Oxford, Wadham College) 
   
• Sorin Bangu. Wittgenstein on the irrationals. Talk at IHPST Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 30 June 2022, 11.15-13. 
   
• Second workshop in the project: Wittgenstein and PracticeUniv. of Bergen, 26-28 May 2022Co-organizers: Kevin Cahill, Sorin Bangu 
   
• Sorin Bangu: Wittgenstein on Proof. Talk in Brussels, 10 March 2022. (invited)
   
• Jeffrey Schatz: Universes without Objects. An Arealist’s Guide to the Set-Theoretic Multiverse 
  Bergen Phil. Dept. Seminar 26. januar 18.15-20.00
   
• Sorin Bangu: An analogous investigation? Later Wittgenstein on psychological and mathematical discourse.
  At the workshop 'Wittgenstein and the formal sciences', ETH Zurich, 11 Jan. 2022
   
• Kevin Cahill. (2021) A Parting of the Ways: A Sort of Prequel. Talk at Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; A Series of Centennial Lectures, The Joint Research Center in Logic of Tsinghua University and the University of Amsterdam, June 9. [zoom]
   
• Sorin Bangu. (2021) Two dualisms in later Wittgenstein's writings on mathematics.
  Talk at Oxford Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar, 3 May. [zoom]
   
• First workshop in the project: 
  Wittgenstein: Naturalism and Necessity  
  Dept. of Philosophy, University of Bergen, Nov. 21-22, 2019. 
  Co-organizers: Sorin Bangu, Kevin Cahill.
  Invited speakers: Bill Child (Oxford), Annalisa Coliva (UC Irvine), Oskari Kuusela (East Anglia), Juliet Floyd (Boston), Alexander George (Amherst), Severin Schroeder (Reading).
  The first workshop in the NFR funded project 'Mathematics with a Human Face'.
  Program
  Video recordings of the talks