Signs, Minds and Actions

This second of two volumes brings together invited papers of the 32nd International Wittgenstein Symposium (Kirchberg/W. (Austria), 2009). The collection not only contains articles related to some of Wittgenstein's central arguments but also holds contributions that deal with the role and function of signs, as well as with the relations between language and action, consciousness and metaphysics. An interdisciplinary workshop was dedicated to Wittgenstein and Literature, an area of study which has been prominent in the philosophical discourse of the last decade. Contributors to this volume are Anat Biletzki, Michael Dummett, Laurence Goldstein, Peter Janich, Brian McGuinness, Marjorie Perloff, David Schalkwyk, Joachim Schulte, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, David Stern, Eike von Savigny among others.

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Joseph Wang is Professor in Department of Nanoengineering at the University of California, San Diego. He received his PhD from the Israel Institute of Technology in 1978. He held a Regents Professorship and a Manasse Chair at New Mexico State University and served as the Director of Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors of the Arizona State University. Joseph Wang has published more than 800 papers and ten books and holds twelve patents. He received two ACS National Awards and three honorary professorships from Spain, Argentina and Slovenia. He became the most cited electrochemist in the world and was listed fourth on the ISI list of 'Most Cited Researchers in Chemistry' in the decade 1996-2006. Joseph Wang's scientific interests are concentrated in the areas of nanomachines, bioelectronics, bionanotechnology and electroanalytical chemistry. Klaus Puhl is Senior Lecturer at the Philosophy Department of Vienna University. His research interests are Wittgenstein, Literary and Cultural Theory, and Modernism. He is the editor of Meaning Scepticism and the author of Subjekt und Körper as well as of essays on Wittgenstein, Freud, Post-Structuralism and the Philosophy of Language. Volker A. Munz is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Klagenfurt and Research Fellow at the University of Graz. His research interests include Austrian Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Wittgenstein and Viennese Modernity. He is the author of Satz und Sinn and of various essays related to the above subjects.