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Rethinking Fideism Through the Lens of Wittgenstein's Engineering Outlook
University of Dayton eCommons Religious Studies Faculty Publications Department of Religious Studies 2012 Rethinking Fideism through the Lens of Wittgenstein’s Engineering Outlook Brad Kallenberg University of Dayton, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.udayton.edu/rel_fac_pub Part of the Catholic Studies Commons, Christianity Commons, Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, Other Religion Commons, and the Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons eCommons Citation Kallenberg, Brad, "Rethinking Fideism through the Lens of Wittgenstein’s Engineering Outlook" (2012). Religious Studies Faculty Publications. 82. https://ecommons.udayton.edu/rel_fac_pub/82 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Religious Studies at eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Religious Studies Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Note: This is the accepted manuscript for the following article: Kallenberg, Brad J. “Rethinking Fideism through the Lens of Wittgenstein’s Engineering Outlook.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 71, no. 1 (2012): 55-73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11153-011-9327-0 Rethinking Fideism through the Lens of Wittgenstein’s Engineering Outlook Brad J. Kallenberg University of Dayton, 2011 In an otherwise superbly edited compilation of student notes from Wittgenstein’s 1939 Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Cora Diamond makes an false step that reveals to us our own tendencies to misread Wittgenstein. The student notes she collated attributed the following remark to a student named Watson: “The point is that these [data] tables do not by themselves determine that one builds the bridge in this way: only the tables together with certain scientific theory determine that.”1 But Diamond thinks this a mistake, presuming instead to change the manuscript and put these words into the mouth of Wittgenstein. -
A REDUCTIVE READING of the TRACTATUS Interpretation of the Book Being About How to Defeat Skepticism
2015 Umeå University, Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies Stefan Karlsson Supervisor: Andreas Stokke Examinor: Peter Melander Level: Bachelor’s thesis A REDUCTIVE READING OF THE TRACTATUS Interpretation of the book being about how to defeat skepticism. Content Abstract ................................................................................................................................................... 4 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 5 Contents .................................................................................................................................................. 6 Traditional readings ................................................................................................................................. 7 Meta-physical interpretations ............................................................................................................. 7 Traditional readings of the nonsense concept in the Tractatus ......................................................... 8 The ineffable truth interpretation ................................................................................................... 8 What can be said and what can be shown ...................................................................................... 9 Modern readings .................................................................................................................................. -
Wittgenstein in Exile
Wittgenstein in Exile “My thoughts are one hundred per cent Hebraic.” -Wittgenstein to Drury, 19491 Wittgenstein was born in 1889 into one of the richest families in Central Europe. He lived and learned at home, in Vienna, until 1903, when he was 14. We have no record of his thoughts about the turn of the last century, but it is unlikely that it seemed very significant to him. The Viennese of the time had little inclination to consider the possibilities of change, and the over-ripe era in which Wittgenstein grew up did not really end until Austria-Hungary’s defeat, in World War I, and subsequent dismantling. But the family in which Wittgenstein grew up apparently felt that European culture had already come to an end in the 1840’s. And Wittgenstein himself felt he belonged to an era that had vanished with the death of the composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856).2 Somewhere in the middle of the Nineteenth Century there was an important change into the contemporary era, of which Wittgenstein did not feel a part. Wittgenstein’s understanding of history, and his consequent self-understanding in relation to his times, was deeply influenced by Oswald Spengler, who in 1918 published The Decline of the West [Der Untergang des Abenlandes]. This book, expanded to a second volume in 1922, and revised in 1923, became a best-seller in post-war Europe. Wittgenstein made numerous references to it in 1930-1931, and acknowledged Spengler as one of his ten noteworthy influences.3 According to Spengler, cultures grow, flower, and deteriorate naturally, according to their own internal form, much as a human being does. -
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus</Em>
University of South Florida Scholar Commons Graduate Theses and Dissertations Graduate School 8-6-2008 Three Wittgensteins: Interpreting the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Thomas J. Brommage Jr. University of South Florida Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd Part of the American Studies Commons Scholar Commons Citation Brommage, Thomas J. Jr., "Three Wittgensteins: Interpreting the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" (2008). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/149 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Three Wittgensteins: Interpreting the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Thomas J. Brommage, Jr. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy College of Arts and Sciences University of South Florida Co-Major Professor: Kwasi Wiredu, B.Phil. Co-Major Professor: Stephen P. Turner, Ph.D. Charles B. Guignon, Ph.D. Richard N. Manning, J. D., Ph.D. Joanne B. Waugh, Ph.D. Date of Approval: August 6, 2008 Keywords: Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, logical empiricism, resolute reading, metaphysics © Copyright 2008 , Thomas J. Brommage, Jr. Acknowledgments There are many people whom have helped me along the way. My most prominent debts include Ray Langely, Billy Joe Lucas, and Mary T. Clark, who trained me in philosophy at Manhattanville College; and also to Joanne Waugh, Stephen Turner, Kwasi Wiredu and Cahrles Guignon, all of whom have nurtured my love for the philosophy of language. -
'Solved by Sacrifice' : Austin Farrer, Fideism, and The
‘SOLVED BY SACRIFICE’ : AUSTIN FARRER, FIDEISM, AND THE EVIDENCE OF FAITH Robert Carroll MacSwain A Thesis Submitted for the Degree of PhD at the University of St. Andrews 2010 Full metadata for this item is available in the St Andrews Digital Research Repository at: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/920 This item is protected by original copyright ‘SOLVED BY SACRIFICE’: Austin Farrer, Fideism, and the Evidence of Faith Robert Carroll MacSwain A thesis submitted to the School of Divinity of the University of St Andrews in candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The saints confute the logicians, but they do not confute them by logic but by sanctity. They do not prove the real connection between the religious symbols and the everyday realities by logical demonstration, but by life. Solvitur ambulando, said someone about Zeno’s paradox, which proves the impossibility of physical motion. It is solved by walking. Solvitur immolando, says the saint, about the paradox of the logicians. It is solved by sacrifice. —Austin Farrer v ABSTRACT 1. A perennial (if controversial) concern in both theology and philosophy of religion is whether religious belief is ‘reasonable’. Austin Farrer (1904-1968) is widely thought to affirm a positive answer to this concern. Chapter One surveys three interpretations of Farrer on ‘the believer’s reasons’ and thus sets the stage for our investigation into the development of his religious epistemology. 2. The disputed question of whether Farrer became ‘a sort of fideist’ is complicated by the many definitions of fideism. -
Wittgenstein on the Nature of British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Philosophy J Wittgenstein and His Times
@Basil Blackwdl Publisher Limitcd 1982 Contents Fiesr published 1982 Basil BlackwelJ Publisher Limited 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 IJF, England All rights rcserved. No part ofthis publicarion may bc reproduccd, stored in a retricval system, or trammitted. in an y form or hy any means. clcctronic, mcchanicaJ, photocopying. recording or otherwisc. withollt the prior permission of Basil Blackwell Publisher Limited. Editor's Preface v Anthony Kenny Wittgenstein on the Nature of British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Philosophy J Wittgenstein and his times. Brian McGuinness Freud and Wittgenstein 27 I. Wittgenstein, Ludwig I. McGuinness, Brian J. C. NYlri Wittgenstein's Later Work in '92 B)376.W)64 reiation co Conservatism 44 ISBN 0-63'-11161-1 Rush Rhees Wittgenstein on Language and Ritual 69 G. H von Wright Wittgenstein in relation to his Times 108 Index 121 Printe<! in Great Britain at Thc Blackwell Press Limitcd, Guildford, Landon, Oxford, Worcester. LATER WORK IN RELATION 1'0 CONSERVATISM 45 since Wittgenstein 's position in respect to the body ofconserva Wittgenstein 's Later Work in relation tive literature cannot be satisfactorily dctcrmined in the absence to Conservatism * ofa thorough analysis ofhis unpublished manuscripts. I Still, the interpretation here presented, cven ifmerely an approximation, C. Nyiri seems to me to constitute a necessary step towards a more J. complere pieture of Wittgenstcin's philosophy. Wittgenstein's later philosophy emerged at a time when conservatism - in tbe form of neo-conservatism - was one of the dominant spiritual currents in Germany and Austria; and Wittgenstein received decisive impulses both from authors who deeply influenced this The well-kno"vn fact that in Wittgenstein's later philosophy current and trom representatives ofthe I1ew conservatism itself. -
Evolution of One-Handed Piano Compositions
CLINICAL PERSPECTIVE Evolution of One-Handed Piano Compositions Ignat Drozdov, BS, Mark Kidd, PhD, Irvin M. Modlin, MD, PhD Electronic searches were performed to investigate the evolution of one-handed piano com- positions and one-handed music techniques, and to identify individuals responsible for the development of music meant for playing with one hand. Particularly, composers such as Liszt, Ravel, Scriabin, and Prokofiev established a new model in music by writing works to meet the demands of a variety of pianist-amputees that included Count Géza Zichy (1849– 1924), Paul Wittgenstein (1887–1961), and Siegfried Rapp (b. 1915). Zichy was the first to amplify the scope of the repertoire to improve the variety of one-handed music; Wittgenstein developed and adapted specific and novel performance techniques to accommodate one- handedness; and Rapp sought to promote the stature of one-handed pianists among a musically sophisticated public able to appreciate the nuances of such maestros. (J Hand Surg 2008;33A:780–786. Copyright © 2008 by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. All rights reserved.) Key words Amputation, hand, history of surgery, music, piano. UCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT the creativity of EVOLUTION OF THE PIANO: OF FINGERS AND composers and the skills of musicians, and KEYS Mspecial emphases have been placed on the Pianists are graced with a rich and remarkable history of mind and the vagaries of neurosis and even madness in their instrument, which encompasses more than 850 the process of composition. Little consideration has years of development and evolution.1 From the keyed been given to physical defects and their influence on monochord in 1157, to the clavichord (late Medieval), both music and its interpretation. -
Natural Theology and the Christian Contribution to Metaphysics: on Thomas Joseph White’S Wisdom in the Face of Modernity
Nova et Vetera, English Edition, Vol. 10, No. 2 (2012): 539 –62 539 Natural Theology and the Christian Contribution to Metaphysics: On Thomas Joseph White’s Wisdom in the Face of Modernity NICHOLAS J. H EALY , J R. John Paul II Institute Washington, DC From the very heart of Christian faith and, at the same time, the heart of Greek thought now joined to faith, Manuel II was able to say: Not to act “with logos” is contrary to God’s nature. [T]he faith of the Church has always insisted that between God and us, between his eternal Creator Spirit and our created reason there exists a real analogy, in which unlike - ness remains infinitely greater than likeness, yet not to the point of abol - ishing analogy and its language (cf. Lateran IV). God does not become more divine when we push him away from us in a sheer, impenetrable voluntarism; rather, the truly divine God is the God who has revealed himself as logos and, as logos, has acted and continues to act lovingly on our behalf. This inner rapprochement between biblical faith and Greek philosophical inquiry was an event of decisive importance not only from the standpoint of the history of religions, but also from that of world history—it is an event which concerns us even today. 1 It is my view that the neoscholastic rationalism that was trying to reconstruct the praeambula fidei, the approach to faith, with pure rational certainty, by means of rational argument that was strictly inde - pendent of any faith, has failed; and it cannot be otherwise for any such attempts to do that kind of thing. -
Uqam Plan De Cours
UQAM PLAN DE COURS PHI-4019 Gr. 10 WITTGENSTEIN Professeurs : François LATRAVERSE Mathieu MARION Alain VOIZARD Disponibilités : Sur rendez-vous Lundi 14h00 à 17h00 Local : A-2590 DESCRIPTION (du cours selon l'annuaire) Étude globale de la pensée de Wittgenstein et de son influence déterminante sur le cours de la philosophie occidentale, de manière à apprécier l'essentiel de son apport. CONTENU DU COURS Introduction générale à la pensée de Ludwig Wittgenstein (Vienne 1889 - Cambridge 1951). Cette introduction se fera à travers la lecture des textes de l'auteur au programme. Très prolifique, Wittgenstein a écrit beaucoup sur la philosophie de la logique, du langage et des mathématiques, mais il a aussi écrit sur la philosophie de la psychologie, l’éthique, l'esthétique, la philosophie des sciences, des probabilités etc. Ses contributions les plus significatives se retrouvent toutefois en philosophie de la logique, du langage et des mathématiques. C'est donc à partir des questions touchant ces domaines que nous aborderons sa pensée. La discussion de certaines problématiques précises et importantes nous entraînera à faire quelques petits détours en philosophie de la psychologie, en esthétique et autres. Nous commencerons par l'étude du Tractatus logico-philosophicus (achevé en août 1918, mais publié sous une forme acceptable en 1922) dont l'importance et l'impact philosophique ont été gigantesques pour presque toute la philosophie du XXe siècle. Afin de bien comprendre cette œuvre nous devrons cependant en examiner préalablement les motivations. Cela nous permettra de situer Wittgenstein par rapport au milieu philosophique et intellectuel qui fut le sien au début du siècle; cela servira aussi d'introduction générale au travail de Wittgenstein. -
Wittgenstein's Invitation to Philosophy
Nordic Wittgenstein Review 4 (No 2) 2015 Beth Savickey b.savickey @ uwinnipeg.ca “Let us imagine...”: Wittgenstein’s Invitation to Philosophy Abstract Wendy Lee-Lampshire writes that Wittgenstein’s conception of language has something valuable to offer feminist attempts to construct epistemologies firmly rooted in the social, psychological and physical situations of language users (1999: 409). However, she also argues that his own use of language exemplifies a form of life whose constitutive relationships are enmeshed in forms of power and authority. For example, she interprets the language game of the builders as one of slavery, and questions how we read and respond to it. She asks: “Who are ‘we’ as Wittgenstein’s reader(s)?” This is an important question, and how we answer offers insight not only into our own philosophical practices, but also into Wittgenstein’s use of language games. With the words “Let us imagine...”, Wittgenstein invites readers to participate in creative, collaborative, and improvisational language games that alter not only the texts themselves, but our relationship with others. 1. Introduction In the opening of the Investigations, Wittgenstein introduces the language game of the builders (in response to Augustine’s description of the learning of human language): Let us imagine a language for which the description given by Augustine is right. The language is meant to serve for communication between a builder A and an assistant B. A is building with building stones: there are blocks, pillars, slabs, and beams. B has to pass the 99 Beth Savickey CC-BY stones, and that in the order in which A needs them. -
CYRUS P. OLSEN III May 2020
Cyrus Olsen / 1 CYRUS P. OLSEN III May 2020 414 Loyola Science Center, The University of Scranton Scranton, PA 18510-4699 Telephone: (570) 941-7729 Fax: (570) 941-4386 [email protected]; [email protected] University Webpage ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS Faculty Fellow, Slattery Center for the Humanities, University of Scranton, Spring 2021 Co-Director, Health Humanities Concentration, University of Scranton, 2020-Present Associate Prof. Theology/Religious Studies, University of Scranton, 2013-Present Tenure: Spring, 2014 Promotion: Spring, 2013 Director, General Education Assessment, University of Scranton, 2015-18 Assistant Prof. Theology/Religious Studies, University of Scranton, 2007-2013 Director (Interim), M.A. Program, Theology/Religious Studies, University of Scranton, 2009-10 Lecturer, Theology/Religious Studies, University of Scranton, 2006-2007 EDUCATION D.Phil. University of Oxford, Modern Theology (2008) M.Phil. University of Oxford, Modern Theology (2003) B.A. University of Washington, Comparative History of Ideas (2000) Exch. University of Aberdeen, Philosophy, Theology, English, Latin (1998-1999) SELECT GRANT APPLICATIONS AND FUNDED PROJECTS (since 2008) Hope and Healing for Ugandan Youth: Educating Amidst Environmental Degradation, Food Insecurity, and Poverty, Emmanuel Katongole (Notre Dame): $2,500.00 (Spring, 2021) Humanities Connection Grant Co-Signatory and Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Health Humanities Concentration and Community-Based Learning at The University of -
Wittgenstein's Vienna Our Aim Is, by Academic Standards, a Radical One : to Use Each of Our Four Topics As a Mirror in Which to Reflect and to Study All the Others
TOUCHSTONE Gustav Klimt, from Ver Sacrum Wittgenstein' s VIENNA Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin TOUCHSTONE A Touchstone Book Published by Simon and Schuster Copyright ® 1973 by Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form A Touchstone Book Published by Simon and Schuster A Division of Gulf & Western Corporation Simon & Schuster Building Rockefeller Center 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, N.Y. 10020 TOUCHSTONE and colophon are trademarks of Simon & Schuster ISBN o-671-2136()-1 ISBN o-671-21725-9Pbk. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 72-83932 Designed by Eve Metz Manufactured in the United States of America 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 The publishers wish to thank the following for permission to repro duce photographs: Bettmann Archives, Art Forum, du magazine, and the National Library of Austria. For permission to reproduce a portion of Arnold SchOnberg's Verklarte Nacht, our thanks to As sociated Music Publishers, Inc., New York, N.Y., copyright by Bel mont Music, Los Angeles, California. Contents PREFACE 9 1. Introduction: PROBLEMS AND METHODS 13 2. Habsburg Vienna: CITY OF PARADOXES 33 The Ambiguity of Viennese Life The Habsburg Hausmacht: Francis I The Cilli Affair Francis Joseph The Character of the Viennese Bourgeoisie The Home and Family Life-The Role of the Press The Position of Women-The Failure of Liberalism The Conditions of Working-Class Life : The Housing Problem Viktor Adler and Austrian Social Democracy Karl Lueger and the Christian Social Party Georg von Schonerer and the German Nationalist Party Theodor Herzl and Zionism The Redl Affair Arthur Schnitzler's Literary Diagnosis of the Viennese Malaise Suicide inVienna 3.