This Wittgenstein Reading Group meets twice per term at St Hilda's College, Oxford UK.
Meetings run from 4.45pm-6.45pm.
They consist of discussion of about 20 pages of text which members have read beforehand.
Members include fellows, current graduate students, and other interested parties who have studied philosophy.
The convenor is Richard Gipps. Please contact him at richard.gipps@bfriars.ox.ac.uk to ask about opportunities/requirements for joining.
Next (Trinity 2026) term we shall be discussing the Remarks on Colour.
Texts already discussed:
- Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough
- Lectures on Aesthetics, Freud, and Religious Belief
- Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology vol 1
- Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology vols 1 & 2
- Zettel
- Culture & Value
- Cambridge Lectures - Moore's Notes
- Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough
- On Certainty
- Philosophical Investigations
- Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics
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A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. (Maurice O'Connor Drury, quoting Wittgenstein, 1930)
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