[Wittrs] Sixth BWS Lecture-Sandra Laugier

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Dear BWS members,  
 
Just a reminder that Professor Sandra Laugier will be giving the Sixth 
Annual Lecture of the LWLS on Monday 9th of May. Please see the announcement 
below. If you haven't yet registered, please do so. 
 
We look forward to seeing you there, and sharing a glass of wine 
with Professor Laugier after the lecture.
 
Best wishes
Ian
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BWS Ludwig Wittgenstein Lecture Series (LWLS)

 
9 May 2011 
Sixth lecture of the BWS Ludwig Wittgenstein Lecture Series

speaker: Professor Sandra Laugier
venue: the University of Hertfordshire, (de Havilland Campus, Room R110)
time: 5 p.m. (a wine reception will follow)
title: The Importance of Importance: Cavell and Diamond on ethics 
 
Sandra Laugier is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 
(Panthéon Sorbonne), France. She is an Honorary Member of the Institut 
Universitaire de France, and the coordinator, with Christiane Chauviré, of the 
Wittgenstein Seminar at the Université Paris 1-Sorbonne. Her research focuses 
primarily on Wittgenstein, Austin, Cavell, ordinary language philosophy and, 
more recently, moral philosophy. 

Professor Laugier studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris), at Harvard 
and the Sorbonne, where she wrote her PhD on W. V. Quine (Lâ??anthropologie 
logique de Quine, 1992) before turning to Wittgenstein. She is also a 
specialist of Stanley Cavellâ??s work and has published French translations of 
his books, as well as translations of Quine and Cora Diamond. 

Her main publications: Du réel à lâ??ordinaire (1999), Recommencer la 
philosophie (1999); Une autre pensée politique américaine: la démocratie 
radicale, de R.W. Emerson à S. Cavell (2004); Ethique, littérature, vie 
humaine, (2006); Wittgenstein, les sens de lâ??usage (2009). Edited volumes 
include: Wittgenstein, les mots de lâ??esprit (with C. Chauviré et JJ. Rosat) 
(2001); Wittgenstein, Métaphysique et jeux de langage (2001); Husserl et 
Wittgenstein: de la description de lâ??expérience à la phénoménologie 
linguistique (with J. Benoist) (2004); Langage ordinaire et métaphysique - 
Strawson (with J. Benoist) (2005);Le souci des autres â?? éthique et politique 
du care (with P. Paperman) (2005); Lire les Recherches Philosophiques de 
Wittgenstein (with C. Chauviré) (2006); Normativités du sens commun (2008).

Professor Laugier's current projects include a monograph on Wittgenstein, 
Cavell, and expressiveness, Le mythe de lâ??inexpressivité (Vrin, 2010), and 
an edited volume on Moral Perfectionism (PUF, 2011). Some of her work is 
available in English: 'Austin after Cavell', in R. Goodman, ed. Contending with 
Cavell, Cambridge University Press (2005); 'The Myth of the "Outer": 
Wittgenstein's Redefinition of Subjectivity' in D. Moyal-Sharrock, ed. 
Perspicuous Presentations: Essays on Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Psychology  
(2007), 'Wittgenstein and Cavell: Anthropology, Skepticism, and Politics' in A. 
Norris, ed. The Claim to Community: Essays on Stanley Cavell and Political 
Philosophy (2007); 'Transcendentalism and the Ordinary', European Journal of 
Pragmatism and American Philosophy (2009), 'Aspects, sense, and perception', in 
William Day, Victor J. Krebs, Seeing Wittgenstein Anew (2010).
The event is free, but registration is required. Please email bws@xxxxxxxxxxx  
How to get to the conference venue  
Bus timetable from/to London 
Map of the campus: There will be plenty of parking; just mention the Philosophy 
Conference at the Parking Gate.

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