Monday 12 February 2018 12:45 - 13:45
The Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was a remarkable thinker and personality. In his earlier days he published the strict and logical Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in which he claimed to have solved a lot of philosophical problems. After a few years of retreat from philosophy – he worked as a teacher at a primary school in an Austrian village – he wrote his Philosophical Investigations, in which he developed the influential concept of language-games.
Dr. Brandt van der Gaast teaches philosophy at the UT and will explain life and thinking of Wittgenstein.
Monday 12 February, 12.45-13.30 hours / Vrijhof/Amphitheater
Free lunch for students!
In cooperation with Ideefiks
Foto João Queiroz (1957)
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