Time and history : proceedings of the 28. International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria 2005

This wide-ranging collection of essays contains eighteen original articles by authors representing some of the most important recent work on Wittgenstein. It deals with questions pertaining to both the interpretation and application of Wittgenstein’s thought and the editing of his works. Regarding the latter, it also addresses issues concerning scholarly electronic publishing. The collection is accompanied by a comprehensive introduction which lays out the content and arguments of each contribution. Contributors: Knut Erik Tranøy, Lars Hertzberg, Georg Henrik von Wright, Marie McGinn, Cora Diamond, James Conant, David G. Stern, Eike von Savigny, P.M.S. Hacker, Hans-Johann Glock, Allan Janik, Kristóf Nyíri, Antonia Soulez, Brian McGuinness, Anthony Kenny, Joachim Schulte, Herbert Hrachovec, Cameron McEwen. Preface I. Th e Philosophy of Time / I. Philosophie der Zeit Ordinary Th inking about Time How Real Are Future Events? Memory and the A-Series Wishing It Were Now Some Other Time Time and Self Time and Reality of Phenomenal Becoming Are Th ere ‘Tensed’ Facts (A-Series)? Is Time an Abstract Entity? Zur Entwicklung des Zeitbegriff s: Aristoteles und der Zeitbegriff in der relativistischen Kosmologie II. Time in the Physical Sciences / II. Zeit in den physikalischen Wissenschaften Can We Understand the Cosmic Evolution? Time and the Deep Structure of Dynamics In the Beginning, At the End, and All in Between: Cosmological Aspects of Time Against Pointillisme about Geometry Zeit im Gödelschen Universum “Close to the Speed of Light”: Dispersing Various Twin Paradox Related Confusions Time’s Arrow, Time’s Fly-Bottle Th ree Concepts of Irreversibility and Th ree Versions of the Second Law Are the Laws of Nature Time Reversal Symmetric? Th e Arrow of Time, or Better: Th e Arrow of Directional Processes III. Time in the Social and Cultural Sciences / III. Zeit in den Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften Time and Communication Perspektiven der Subjektivität: Das Verhältnis von Systemzeit und Eigenzeit in den perfektischen Tempusformen Drei Pioniere der philosophisch-linguistischen Analyse von Zeit und Tempus: Mauthner, Jespersen, Reichenbach Zeit, Performanz und die ontosemantische Struktur des Kunstwerks Die Th eorie der somatisch-neuronalen Entstehung von Werten, die a-chronologische Gedächtniszeit und die Verschränkung von Zeit und Bewerten Wittgenstein und Sraff a. Zeitproduktion durch Zeit IV. Temporal Logic / IV. Zeitlogik A Mini-Guide to Logic in Action On the Problem of Defi ning the Present in Special Relativity: A Challenge for Tense Logic A Deontic Logic with Temporal Qualifi cation V. History / V. Geschichte Kulturelle Zeitgestalten Zeit und Geschichte in frühen Kulturen ‚Zukunft‘ als Schlüsselkategorie der Geschichtsphilosophie Verantwortung und Geschichte VI. Wittgenstein on Time / VI. Wittgenstein über die Zeit Wittgenstein’s Times (And Ours) Wittgenstein on Time (1929–1933) Das „Jetzt“ bei Wittgenstein – Über Gegenwart und Wandel Time, Music and Grammar. When Understanding and Performing What is Understood are Two Facets of the Same Action List of Authors

This wide-ranging collection of essays contains eighteen original articles by authors representing some of the most important recent work on Wittgenstein. It deals with questions pertaining to both the interpretation and application of Wittgenstein’s thought and the editing of his works. Regarding the latter, it also addresses issues concerning scholarly electronic publishing. The collection is accompanied by a comprehensive introduction which lays out the content and arguments of each contribution. Contributors: Knut Erik Tranøy, Lars Hertzberg, Georg Henrik von Wright, Marie McGinn, Cora Diamond, James Conant, David G. Stern, Eike von Savigny, P.M.S. Hacker, Hans-Johann Glock, Allan Janik, Kristóf Nyíri, Antonia Soulez, Brian McGuinness, Anthony Kenny, Joachim Schulte, Herbert Hrachovec, Cameron McEwen.

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