Wittgenstein Lectures
The Wittgenstein Lectures were inaugurated 1987 and are funded from the central University budget. It was one of the first steps towards internationalization of teaching at the University. Traditionally we invite a renowned philosopher to hold a week of lectures and colloquia on themes central to our Philosophy & Economics programme.
All philosophy teaching stops for a week and the first lecture is usually followed by a reception. At the end of the series there is a short exam. Students of the new PO get 2 ECTS for module V1. Students of the old PO get 2 ECTS for module area V, but are only allowed to credit no more than two Wittgenstein Lectures. Sometimes we offer advanced seminar courses on the work of the Wittgenstein Lecturer.
The Wittgenstein Lectures are open to the public and all members of the University.
Summer Semester 2018, 11-15 June:
Climate Change and Obligations for Future Generations
Prof. Dr. Joseph Heath
University of Toronto
Programme:
- Monday, 11 June - The Failure of Traditional Environmental Philosophy (16–18 c.t. H 24 (RWI) + Reception)
- Tuesday, 12 June - Intergenerational Cooperation (Lecture: 10–12 c.t. H 25 (RW I), Colloquium: 14–16 c.t. H 18 (NWII))
- Wednesday, 13 June - Climate Change and Economic Development (Lecture: 10.00–12 c.t. Audimax, Colloquium: 14–16 c.t. H 17 (NWII))
- Thursday, 14 June - Cost-Benefit Analysis and Liberal Neutrality (Lecture: 10–12 c.t. H 21 (RWII), Colloquium: 14–16 c.t. H 17 (NWII))
- Friday, 15 June - Justifying a Positive Social Time Preference (Lecture: 10–12 c.t. H 8 (GEO), Exam: 18.00–19 s.t. Audimax)
2017
Markets and Morality
Prof. Dr. Debra Satz
Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society (Stanford University)
2016
Preference, Prediction and Policy
Prof. Daniel M. Hausman
Herbert A. Simon and Hilldale Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison
2015
Left Libertarianism: Promise and Problems
Prof. Peter Vallentyne
Kline Chair in Philosophy University of Missouri-Columbia
2014
The Ethics and Economics of Climate Change
Prof. John Broome
Emeritus White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford
2013
The Revolution in Just War Theory
Prof. Jeff McMahan
White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford
2012
The Robust Demands of the Good
Prof. Philip Pettit
Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics
and Human Values at Princeton University
2011
Ethics and Public Policy
Prof. Jonathan Wolff
Professor of Political Philosophy, University College London
2010
Values, Norms, Decisions
Prof. Wlodek Rabinowicz
Professor (emeritus) of Philosophy, Lund University
2009
Collective Actions and the Commons: What Have We Learned?
Prof. Elinor Ostrom
Professor (emeritus) of Political Science, Indiana University
(Nobel Prize in Economics, 2009; †2012)
2008
Philosophy Amid the Darkness of These Times
Prof. Jonathan Glover
Professor of Philosophy, King's College, University of London
2007
From Rankings to Reasons
Prof. Michael Smith
McCosh Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
2006
The Theory of (Un)Bounded Rationality: Games, Experiments and Evolution
Prof. Werner Güth
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
2005
Evolution, Learning and the Social Contract
Prof. Brian Skyrms
Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and Economics at the University of California, Irvine
2004
Knowledge and Representation
Prof. Keith Lehrer
(Arizona)