2015–2016 Obermann Center Annual Report

Summer Research Seminar: Wittgenstein’s Lectures, Cambridge 1930–1933

Obermann Center

The Obermann Summer Seminar is an opportunity for UI faculty members to lead a major collaborative project with a dozen or more visiting participants that will result in some form of publication or public work. The outcome should make a significant contribution to the fields of the participants, whether as a print or digital publication or in another form that promises real impact.

Wittgenstein’s Lectures, Cambridge 1930–1933: Text & Context

May 18-22, 2015

David Stern (Philosophy), Director of the 2015 Summer Seminar

The 2015 Obermann Summer Seminar was led by David Stern (Philosophy, CLAS). The seminar was built around a discussion of the book he co-edited, Wittgenstein: Lectures, Cambridge 1930–1933, From the Notes of G.E. Moore, which will be published by Cambridge University Press later this year.

A facsimile edition of source manuscripts is freely available on the Wittgenstein Source website: http://www.wittgensteinsource.org.

Contributors to the Summer Seminar produced essays on the issue, problem, or question they found most provocative in the edition of Moore’s lecture notes that formed the basis for the seminar. Stern will publish an edited collection of these essays as Wittgenstein’s Return to Cambridge: Reflections on the Middle Period.

 

Wittgenstein: Lectures, Cambridge 1930–1933, From the Notes of G.E. Moore was inspired by a legendary edition of the Moore lecture notes and can be read as a companion to that volume. It also offers the most wide-ranging discussion to date of Wittgenstein’s “middle period” in relation to his early and late philosophical masterpieces, the Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations.

Seminar Faculty Participants