Paul Horwich, "Wittgenstein on Truth" (TRUTH20|20 Conference)

Recorded on Monday 27 July 2020 at 10:05 EDT / 15:05 BST / 16:05 CEST / 23:05 KST / 00:05 AEST +1
Abstract: My plan for this presentation is to talk about four related questions.-- What’s the account of truth that Wittgenstein gives in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus? To which view of that concept does he turn in his Philosophical Investigations? Is this a move in the right direction? And how does it relate to other important differences between his early and late philosophy: is it a cause of them, a mere effect of them, or fairly independent of them?
The TRUTH 20|20 Conference kicks off the Virtual International Consortium of Truth Research (VICTR), sponsored by the Future of Truth project at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute (futureoftruth.uconn.edu/). Information on upcoming VICTR events can be found at tinyurl.com/VICTR.

[@russellalfonso2962]

I recall my earliest start as a philosophy major at UCLA, around the early 80s, and one of the more memorable experiences was your class on induction and confirmation, I still have the textbook which you signed. I recall the Dunhill smoke rings and the foam cup of coffee.

[@Just_an_onion]

Great talk!

[@stoyanfurdzhev]

Wittgenstein knew of truth as much as Nietzsche knew of faith.