[News] Wittgen=steine talk on March 20th: Sandra Laugier, "Wittgenstein, Subjectivity and Expression"

Dear All, The "Wittgen=steine" talks continue next week Friday, March 20th, 3-4:30pm, in NIG lecture hall 3D: Sandra Laugier (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) will speak on: "Wittgenstein, Subjectivity and Expression" Abstract: I will discuss the reconceptualization of subjectivity in the later philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and in Stanley Cavell's _Claim of Reason_. Rather than rejecting the notion of inner life, Wittgenstein's later writings--especially in the philosophy of psychology--rethink the traditional opposition between the inner and the outer. I argue that subjectivity should not be understood as an interiority but as a form of expression realized through voice. Meaning and subjectivity emerge in the public dimension of language, where individual voice simultaneously claims and depends upon shared linguistic criteria. The analysis explores how expressions, gestures, and speech function as outward criteria for what we call "inner" processes. At the same time, this redefinition of subjectivity exposes the persistent threat of skepticism: not primarily a problem about knowing other minds, but about the difficulty of acknowledging expression and meaning what one says. Everybody welcome! Best wishes from the organizers, Esther Heinrich-Ramharter Anja Weiberg Martin Kusch