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"Verstehen" Understanding vs Comprehension

My analysis of the Wittgenstein’s conception of what is “understanding” starts from Philosophical Investigations § 109, where the activity of “Beschreibung” plays a central role. There Wittgenstein traces a sharp contrast between the activity of “describing” and that of “erklären” and defends the former as the correct philosophical method. So we want to explore that kind of activity as well as the meaning of such a gap. I’ll try to clarify this problem with an extended reference to a similar debate in the field of contemporary philosophy.

º Friday, 8 September 2017 VERSTEHEN, HUMAN UNDERSTANDING COMPREHENSION? O OR R Wolfgang KÜNNE, Univ-Hamburg; Carsten DUTT, Heidelberg/New York; Emil ANGEHRN, Univ-Basel; Jocelyn LAUGIER, Univ-Paris; Michel LEDU, Aix-Marseille Univ; Christian BERMES, Univ-Landau; António MARQUES, Univ-Nova-Lisboa; Francesc Sandra LAUGIER, Univ-Paris; PERENYA BLASI, UB; Margit GAFFAL, UCM; Severin SCHROEDER, Univ-Reading; Jesús PADILLA GÁLVEZ, UCLM. I n f o r m a t i o n : Wittgenstein Congress in Toledo: “Sala de Prensa”| Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha | Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales | Cobertizo de San Pedro Mártir, s/n. | E-45071 Toledo (SPAIN) | Tel: 0034 925 268800 | Fax: 0034 925 268801 | e-mail: [email protected] | Web: http://www.uclm.es/profesorado/jpadilla