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Family-Memoirs – About Strategies of Creating Identity in Vienna of the 1940S
Family-Memoirs – About strategies of creating identity in Vienna of the 1940s. By example of the family of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Nicole L. Immler, University of Graz My talk will be about one of the most quoted sources concerning the biography of the well known austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who studied philosophy in Cambridge and later became professor of philosophy at Trinity- College: The family memoirs written by Hermine Wittgenstein, the sister of the philosopher, in the years 1944–49 in Vienna.1 The Typescript is so far unpublished, with the exception of the section concerning Ludwig Wittgenstein 2, and was never contextualised as a whole. To use the Familienerinnerungen as a historical source it‘s f i r s t l y necessary to picture the relevance of family memoirs from the perspective of recent theories about memory culture. S e c o n d l y it is to ask about the general historical background of the literary genre family memoirs as such, about the intentions and functions of this genre as well as its origin. Specifically related to the Wittgenstein memoirs I want to follow the thesis, if they can be read as an example of a strategy to create identity for a bourgeois family in Vienna in the nineteenforties. Finally and f o u r t h y, I want to ‚proof- read‘ one argument made by Hermine Wittgenstein by comparing it to arguments of Ludwig Wittgenstein in his writings. Owing to their differences in living conditions, character and experiences, they have different approaches towards a geographical and emotional concept of home. -
The Documentality of Memory in the Post-Truth Era Claire Scopsi
The documentality of memory in the post-truth era Claire Scopsi To cite this version: Claire Scopsi. The documentality of memory in the post-truth era. Proceedings from the Document Academy, The University of Akron, 2018, 5 (2), 10.35492/docam/5/2/4. hal-02177585 HAL Id: hal-02177585 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02177585 Submitted on 10 Jul 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. The documentality of memory in the post-truth era Claire Scopsi Dicen-idf Cnam Paris, [email protected] This article compares the definitions of the document, produced by the document theorists and the arguments advanced by the French historical epistemology of the twentieth century in order to set what is a reliable documentary source. In the context of digital post-truth, the former criteria, based on the paradigm of truth and authenticity guaranteed by institutions and scientists, can be questioned. We suggest to consider the production of historical narratives as a design process, and to evaluate the truthfulness of a source according to their three regimes of documentality: textualization, auctorialisation and documentarisation. Keywords: memory, narratives, document theory, post-truth 1 The documentality of memory in the post-truth era Claire Scopsi Dicen-idf Cnam Paris, [email protected] Politics, environment and economy are affected by the phenomenon of post truth. -
Objects and Their Environments: from Aristotle to Ecological Ontology1
Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology1 Barry Smith Department of Philosophy, Center for Cognitive Science and National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University at Buffalo From Andrew Frank, Jonathan Raper and Jean-Paul Cheylan (eds.), The Life and Motion of Socio- Economic Units (GISDATA 8), London: Taylor and Francis, 2001, 79–97. Introduction What follows is a contribution to the theory of space and of spatial objects. It takes as its starting point the philosophical subfield of ontology, which can be defined as the science of what is: of the various types and categories of objects and relations in all realms of being. More specifically, it begins with ideas set forth by Aristotle in his Categories and Metaphysics, two works which constitute the first great contributions to ontological science. Because Aristotle’s ontological ideas were developed prior to the scientific discoveries of the modern era, he approached the objects and relations of everyday reality with the same ontological seriousness with which scientists today approach the objects of physics. We shall seek to show that what Aristotle has to say about these commonsensical objects and relations can, when translated into more formal terms, be of use also to contemporary ontologists. More precisely, we shall argue that his ideas can contribute to the development of a rigorous theory of those social and institutional components of everyday reality – the settings of human behavior – which are the subject of this volume. When modern-day philosophers turn their attentions to ontology they begin not with Aristotle but rather, in almost every case, with a set-theoretic ontology of the sort which is employed in standard model-theoretic semantics. -
The Semantic Web - ISWC 2004
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3298 The Semantic Web - ISWC 2004 Third International Semantic Web Conference, Hiroshima, Japan, November 7-11, 2004. Proceedings Bearbeitet von Sheila A. McIlraith, Dimitris Plexousakis, Frank van Harmelen 1. Auflage 2004. Taschenbuch. xxxv, 844 S. Paperback ISBN 978 3 540 23798 3 Format (B x L): 15,5 x 23,5 cm Gewicht: 970 g Weitere Fachgebiete > EDV, Informatik > Datenbanken, Informationssicherheit, Geschäftssoftware > Datenkompression, Dokumentaustauschformate schnell und portofrei erhältlich bei Die Online-Fachbuchhandlung beck-shop.de ist spezialisiert auf Fachbücher, insbesondere Recht, Steuern und Wirtschaft. Im Sortiment finden Sie alle Medien (Bücher, Zeitschriften, CDs, eBooks, etc.) aller Verlage. Ergänzt wird das Programm durch Services wie Neuerscheinungsdienst oder Zusammenstellungen von Büchern zu Sonderpreisen. Der Shop führt mehr als 8 Millionen Produkte. Preface The 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004) was held Novem- ber 7–11, 2004 in Hiroshima, Japan. If it is true what the proverb says: “Once by accident, twice by habit, three times by tradition,” then this third ISWC did indeed firmly establish a tradition. After the overwhelming interest in last year’s conference at Sanibel Island, Florida, this year’s conference showed that the Semantic Web is not just a one-day wonder, but has established itself firmly on the research agenda. At a time when special interest meetings with a Seman- tic Web theme are springing up at major conferences in numerous areas (ACL, VLDB, ECAI, AAAI, ECML, WWW, to name but a few), the ISWC series has established itself as the primary venue for Semantic Web research. Response to the call for papers for the conference continued to be strong. -
2012 SPEP Program (Rochester
SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY AND EXISTENTIAL PHILOSOPHY Executive Co-Directors Anthony Steinbock, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Amy Allen, Dartmouth College Executive Committee Amy Allen, Dartmouth College Alia Al-Saji, McGill University Fred Evans, Duquesne University Brian Schroeder, Rochester Institute of Technology Anthony Steinbock, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Shannon Mussett, Utah Valley University, Secretary-Treasurer Graduate Assistant Christopher C. Paone, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Advisory Book Selection Committee Shannon Winnubst, The Ohio State University, Chair Ann V. Murphy, Fordham University Brad Elliott Stone, Loyola Marymount University Adrian Johnston, University of New Mexico David Carr, Emory University Brent Adkins, Roanoke College Daniela Vallega-Neu, Univeristy of Oregon James D. Hatley, Salisbury University Advocacy Committee Robin James, University of North Carolina Charlotte, Chair Peter Gratton, Memorial University of Newfoundland Gail Weiss, George Washington University Committee on the Status of Women Laura Hengehold, Case Western Reserve University, Chair Shannon Sullivan, The Pennsylvania State University Elaine Miller, Miami University of Ohio Racial and Ethnic Diversity Committee Falguni Sheth, Hampshire College, Chair Hernando Estévez, John Jay College/CUNY Devonya Havis, Canisius College LGBTQ Advocacy Committee Robert Vallier, Institut d’Études Politiques, Chair William Wilkerson, University of Alabama Huntsville Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo, Washington State University Webmaster Christopher P. Long, The Pennsylvania State University Local Arrangements Contacts Brian Schroeder, local contact and organizer, [email protected] Scott Campbell, book exhibit coordinator, [email protected] Lindsey Johnson, student volunteer coordinator, [email protected] All SPEP sessions will be held at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center (RRCC) on 123 East Main St., Rochester, NY. The RRCC is adjacent to the host hotel, the Hyatt Regency Rochester, to which it is connected by an enclosed skyway. -
Social Objects(1)
Social Objects(1) Barry Smith Department of Philosophy, Center for Cognitive Science, and National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis University at Buffalo [email protected] 1. Introduction 1.1 Two Dogmas of Reductionism Two persistent tendencies have made themselves felt in the course of philosophical history. On the one hand is the Ockhamite tendency, the tendency to embrace one or other of a small repertoire of simplified ontologies, for example atomism or monism, together with a view according to which more complicated entities are to be ‘reduced’ by one or other means to the favoured class of simples. On the other hand is Cartesianism, the tendency to embrace one or other foundationalist doctrine in epistemology, or in other words to prize episteme at the expense of doxa. The two tendencies reinforce each other mutually. Thus foundationalism tilts the attention of philosophers in the direction of ontological simples, for it is held that in relation to the latter knowledge secure against doubt is more easily attainable. Philosophers are thus shielded from any concern with the complex mesoscopic (medium-sized, middle-range, human-scale) objects of our everyday environment and of the social world, since the latter is, after all, a realm of mere opinion, not worthy of the attention of those striving after rigour. Austrian philosophers have been marked no less than philosophers in other traditions by both of these tendencies. Brentano, especially, was an avowed foundationalist, a proponent of psychological immanentism, and in his later philosophizing he embraced an ontology according to which all objects must belong to the single category of thing or substance. -
Barry Smith Kasimir Twardowski
BARRY SMITH KASIMIR TWARDOWSKI: AN ESSAY ON THE BORDERLINES OF ONTOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY AND LOGIC1 1. Introduction The influence of Kasimir Twardowski on modern Polish philos ophy is all -pervasive. As is well known, almost all important 20th century Polish philosophers went through the hard training of his courses in Lvov. Twardowski instilled in his students an enduring concern for clarity and rigour. He taught them to regard philosophy as a collaborative effort, a matter of disciplined discussion and argument. And he encouraged them to work together with scientists from other disciplines above all with psychologists, and also with mathematicians - so that the Lvov school of philosophy would gradually evolve into the Warsaw school of logic2. Kasimir Skrzypna - Twardowski, Ritter von Ogonczyk, was born in Vienna in 1866, the son of a high official in the Austro-Hun garian Ministry of Finance. He was educated at the Theresianum, where, as in all Austrian grammar schools, a course in philos ophy (which is to say, psychology plus logic) was compulsory in the final year3. The officially prescribed textbook for this course for much of the second half of the 19th century (and in many cases also later) was the Philosophische Propadeutik of Robert Zimmermann, first published in Vienna in 1853 and transla - ted into Hungarian and Italian shortly thereafter. Zimmermann's work, the logical sections of which are little more than lightly disguised summaries of Bolzano's Wissenschaftsfehre prepared at Bolzano's own request, can now be seen to have done much to bring about a renaissance of Bolzanianism in Austria in a period when Bolzano's own writings were officially suppressed. -
From Bühler to Wittgenstein1 Kevin Mulligan
On Being Guided, Signals & Rules: from Bühler to Wittgenstein1 Kevin Mulligan (Università della Svizzera italiana & Istituto di studi filosofici, Lugano) Abstract. Kevin Mulligan has examined in several papers and a book the conceptual relations between the descriptions of mind, language and colours in the philosophies of Brentano’s heirs and the descriptions given later by Wittgenstein. In Chapter 12, he looks at what Bühler and Wittgenstein have to say about the phenomenon of being guided by something and two of their favourite examples – reading and our relations to rules. §1 A Guide to Guidance §2 Reading & Guidance §3 Misleading Pictures & Pianolas: Machines & Modality, Rules & Rigidity §4 Early Bühler & Early Wittgenstein on Rule-Awareness §1 A Guide to Guidance Appearances, demonstratives, facts, knowledge, name tags, people, perceptions, pictures (misleading or not), quotation marks, 1 Versions of the material in this paper were presented most recently in Liège (2018 “On Being Guided: Bühler in the Brown Book” and in Vienna (2013). I am grateful to the audiences for their comments. Thanks, too, to Peter Simons for help with engineering terminology. rules, street signs, traffic signals, utterances, written signs, and many, many other things guide, lead, steer, control and influence us. In the writings of Brentano’s heirs and Wittgenstein, we find many verbs for such relations: trigger/auslösen follow/befolgen steer, control/steuern influence/beinflussen guide, lead/führen allow oneself to be led by/sich leiten lassen indicate/anzeigen The philosophers of guidance are Martinak, Marty and Ahlman, Husserl and Scheler, Bühler and Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein and his great predecessor, Bühler, sometimes use the term “signal” (Signal) for the first term of the relation of guidance2. -
Mitteilungen Aus Dem Brenner-Archiv Nr. 31/2012
Mitteilungen aus dem Brenner-Archiv Nr. 31/2012 innsbruck university press Johann Holzner, Anton Unterkircher: Brenner-Archiv, Universität Innsbruck Gedruckt mit Unterstützung des Dekanats der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Innsbruck, des Amtes der Tiroler Landesregierung (Kulturabteilung) und des Kulturamts der Stadt Innsbruck ISSN 1027-5649 Eigentümer: Brenner-Forum und Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv Innsbruck 2012 Bestellungen sind zu richten an: Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv Universität Innsbruck (Tel. +43 512 507-4501) A-6020 Innsbruck, Josef-Hirn-Str. 5 brenner-archiv.uibk.ac.at Druck: Steigerdruck, 6094 Axams, Lindenweg 37 Satz: Barbara Halder und Christoph Wild Layout und Design: Christoph Wild Nachdruck oder Vervielfältigung nur mit Genehmigung der Herausgeber gestattet. © innsbruck university press, 2012 Universität Innsbruck 1. Auflage Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Inhalt Editorial 5 Texte Anna Rottensteiner: Lithops 7 Michael Sallinger: Die Schiffsschraube: oder der Anker im Buchstaben Erinnerungen eines Fossils an seine österreichische Literatur in einem Absatz 19 Aufsätze Klaus Müller-Salget: Ein verdächtiges Subjekt? Der Dichter Heinrich von Kleist 27 Hans Weichselbaum: „Eine bleiche Maske mit drei Löchern“ Zu Georg Trakls Selbstporträt 37 Csilla Mihály: Fremdheit als ausgeblendete Identität Bemerkungen zu Kafkas ‚In der Strafkolonie‘ 45 Sabine Eschgfäller: Karikaturen von Eng? Anmerkungen zu neu entdeckten Zeichnungen aus der Olmützer Villa Müller 69 Eleonore De Felip: Interieurs unter -
The 100 Most Influential Philosophers of All Time 7 His Entire Existence in Those Terms
Published in 2010 by Britannica Educational Publishing (a trademark of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.) in association with Rosen Educational Services, LLC 29 East 21st Street, New York, NY 10010. Copyright © 2010 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, and the Thistle logo are registered trademarks of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. All rights reserved. Rosen Educational Services materials copyright © 2010 Rosen Educational Services, LLC. All rights reserved. Distributed exclusively by Rosen Educational Services. For a listing of additional Britannica Educational Publishing titles, call toll free (800) 237-9932. First Edition Britannica Educational Publishing Michael I. Levy: Executive Editor Marilyn L. Barton: Senior Coordinator, Production Control Steven Bosco: Director, Editorial Technologies Lisa S. Braucher: Senior Producer and Data Editor Yvette Charboneau: Senior Copy Editor Kathy Nakamura: Manager, Media Acquisition Brian Duignan: Senior Editor, Religion and Philosophy Rosen Educational Services Jeanne Nagle: Senior Editor Nelson Sa: Art Director Nicole Russo: Designer Introduction by Stephanie Watson Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The 100 most influential philosophers of all time / edited by Brian Duignan.—1st ed. p. cm.—(The Britannica guide to the world’s most influential people) “In association with Britannica Educational Publishing, Rosen Educational Services.” Includes Index. ISBN 978-1-61530-057-0 (eBook) 1. Philosophy. 2. Philosophers. I. Duignan, Brian. II. Title: One hundred most -
Trombert-Paviot, Alan Rector, Robert Baud, Pieter
HIMJ: Reviewed articles The development of CCAM: The new French coding system of clinical HIMJ HOME procedures Beatrice Trombert-Paviot, Alan Rector, Robert Baud, Pieter CONTENTS Zanstra, Caroline Martin, Egbert van der Haring, Lucienne Clavel and Jean Marie Rodrigues GUIDELINES Abstract MISSION A new French coding system of clinical procedures, the Classification Commune Des Actes Medicaux (CCAM), has been developed at the turn of the millennium (between 1996 and CONTACT US 2001). Two methodologies were used: a traditional domain- experts consensus method, and an artificial-intelligence-based semantic representation. An economic evaluation of clinical procedures was also undertaken for the rating for fee-for- service payment. We present the methodologies used and stress how the European Union research project, ‘European Consortium, Generalised Architecture for Languages, Encyclopaedias and Nomenclatures in Medicine’ (GALEN), facilitated the sharing and maintaining of consistent medical knowledge. This country case study highlights the significant cost to individual countries in developing their own HIMAA classifications in isolation. It also demonstrates the benefits of Locked Bag 2045 North Ryde, NSW contributing to international efforts such as GALEN that enable Australia 1670 harmonisation, yet still allow for diversity. ABN 54 008 451 910 Key words : Artificial intelligence; coding system; clinical procedures; terminology; GALEN Introduction Following an Act passed in the National Assembly and issued in January 1993, the Ministry -
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
Ontologies and the Semantic Web Ian Horrocks <[email protected]> Information Management Group School of Computer Science University of Manchester The Semantic Web Today’s Web • Distributed hypertext/hypermedia • Information accessed via (keyword based) search and browse • Browser tools render information for human consumption What is the Semantic Web? • Web was “invented” by Tim Berners-Lee (amongst others), a physicist working at CERN • His vision of the Web was much more ambitious than the reality of the existing (syntactic) Web: “… a set of connected applications … forming a consistent logical web of data …” “… an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation …” • This vision of the Web has become known as the Semantic Web Hard Work using “Syntactic Web” Find images of Peter Patel-Schneider, Frank van Harmelen and Alan Rector… Rev. Alan M. Gates, Associate Rector of the Church of the Holy Spirit, Lake Forest, Illinois Impossible (?) using “Syntactic Web” • Complex queries involving background knowledge – Find information about “animals that use sonar but are neither bats nor dolphins” , e.g., Barn Owl • Locating information in data repositories – Travel enquiries – Prices of goods and services – Results of human genome experiments • Finding and using “web services” – Given a DNA sequence, identify its genes, determine the proteins they can produce, and hence the biological processes they control • Delegating complex tasks to web “agents” – Book me a holiday next weekend somewhere warm, not too far away, and where they speak either French or English What is the Problem? Consider a typical web page: • Markup consists of: – rendering information (e.g., font size and colour) – Hyper-links to related content • Semantic content is accessible to humans, but not (easily) to computers… What is the (Proposed) Solution? • Add semantic annotations to web resources Dr.