Wittgenstein's Visit to Ithaca in 1949

Monday, February 27 at 4:30pm to 6:30pm

A.D. White House, Guerlac Room

Richard Swedberg (Sociology, Cornell University) and Trevor Pinch (Science & Technology Studies, Cornell Univeristy) will present, "Wittgenstein's Visit to Ithaca in 1949: the Importance of Details" on Monday, February 27 at 4:30pm in the Guerlac Room, AD White House.

Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.

In 1999, his posthumously published Philosophical Investigations (1953) was ranked as the most important book of 20th-century philosophy.

This event is free and open to the public.