Philosophie
Lecture 11: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

German Intellectual Traditions: from Kant to Habermas

Fri, 17.02.2017
10:00 AM Library MMB

In collaboration with the Department of Philosophy, Mumbai University

This is a year-long lecture series on German philosophers, initiated by the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, which focuses on a specific thinker whose work is discussed in two sessions of 90 minutes each. The lectures are delivered by eminent scholars of philosophy from across India and abroad, followed by an interaction with the participants.

The aim of this lecture series is to make scholars and students familiar with the German intellectual tradition, its background, key ideas as well as representative interpretations/debates of some of
its most prominent thinkers.

The series covers works by thinkers such as Immanuel Kant / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel/ Karl Marx / Max Weber - Georg Simmel / Sigmund Freud / Ludwig Wittgenstein / Hannah Arendt / Walter Benjamin / Theodor Adorno / Arthur Schopenhauer / Friedrich Nietzsche / Edmund Husserl/ Martin Heidegger / Herbert Marcuse / Jürgen Habermas


Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
By Akeel Bilgrami
Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, 
Professor, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University

Lecture title: “Failure: Wittgenstein on mind, language, and human behaviour”

Sessions followed by audience interaction.
 
Participating Colleges:
HVPS´s  Ramaniranjan Jhunjhunwala College /Ruia College / SIES College of Arts, Science, and Commerce / Sophia College for Women  /  St. Xaviers College – Autonomous, Mumbai / VPM´s K. G. Joshi College of Arts & N. G. Bedekar College of Commerce / Wilson College
 
Entry by registration: deptofphil@hotmail.com

Quote:
“An expectation is so made that whatever happens has to accord with it, or not”
Philosophical investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe


CV: Prof. Akeel Bilgrami
 
Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy | Columbia University
Faculty member of the Committee on Global Thought
B.A., Bombay University (1970)
B.A., Oxford University (1974)
Ph.D., University of Chicago (1983)

Akeel Bilgrami got a first degree in English Literature from Bombay University but defected to philosophy because he found the former too hard. He went to Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and there got another Bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, after writing a dissertation, "Meaning as Invariance," on the subject of the indeterminacy of translation and issues concerning realism and linguistic meaning. He joined the Department in 1985 after spending two years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Professor Bilgrami has two relatively independent sets of intellectual interests--in the Philosophy of Mind and Language, and in Political Philosophy and Moral Psychology especially as they surface in politics, political economy, history, and culture.