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Volume 6 Alois Pichler, Herbert Hrachovec (Eds.)
Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information
Proceedings of the 30th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in
Kirchberg, Volume 1
ISBN 978-3-86838-001-9
356pp., Hardcover, EUR 79,00
This is the first of two volumes of the proceedings from the 30th International Wittgenstein
Symposium in Kirchberg, August 2007. In addition to new contributions to Wittgenstein
research (by N. Garver, M. Kross, St. Majetschak, K. Neumer, V. Rodych, L. M. Valdés-
Villanueva), the book contains articles with a special focus on digital Wittgenstein research
and Wittgenstein's role for the understanding of the digital turn (by L. Bazzocchi, A.
Biletzki, J. de Mul, P. Keicher, D. Köhler, K. Mayr, D. G. Stern), as also discussions - not
necessarily from a Wittgensteinian perspective - of issues in the philosophy of information,
incl. computational ontologies (by D. Apollon, G. Chaitin, F. Dretske, L. Floridi, Y.
Okamoto, M. Pasin and E. Motta).
Volume 7 Herbert Hrachovec, Alois Pichler (Eds.)
Philosophy of the Information Society
Proceedings of the 30th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in
Kirchberg, Volume 2
ISBN 978-3-86838-002-6
326pp., Hardcover, EUR 79,00
This is the second of two volumes of the proceedings from the 30th
International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, August 2007. It contains selected
contributions on the Philosophy of media, Philosophy of the Internet, on Ethics and the
political economy of information society. Also included are papers presented in a
workshop on electronic philosophy resources and open source/open access.
Volume 8 Jesús Padilla Gálvez (Ed.)
Phenomenology as Grammar
ISBN 978-3-938793-91-6
224pp., Hardcover, EUR 59,00
This volume gathers papers, which were read at the congress held at the University of
Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo (Spain), in September 2007, under the general subject of
phenomenology. The book is devoted to Wittgenstein’s thoughts on phenomenology. One
of its aims is to consider and examine the lasting importance of phenomenology for
philosophic discussion. For E. Husserl phenomenology was a discipline that endeavoured
to describe how the world is constituted and experienced through a series of conscious
acts. His fundamental concept was that of intentional consciousness. What did drag
Wittgenstein into working on phenomenology? In his “middle period” work, Wittgenstein
used the headline “Phenomenology is Grammar”. These cornerstones can be signalled by
notions like language, grammar, rule, visual space versus Euclidean space, minima
visibilia and colours. L. Wittgenstein’s main interest takes the form of a research on
language.