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My lecture this year is based on my collaboration with Dirk Kreimer and concerns renormalization in field theory. We show that renormalization is a special case of a general finite part extraction procedure given by the Riemann-Hilbert problem with values …
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14:00 to 17:00
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In his philosophy of psychology, Wittgenstein gives what he calls "paraphrases" a considerable role, which he sometimes reproaches himself for not emphasizing enough (BPP I, § 853). A paraphrase can be characterized as an expression that: (1) is the …
15:15 to 16:30
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From the end of 1929 onwards, Wittgenstein devoted a fair number of remarks to criticizing the philosophical images that underpin the search for a particularly immediate mode of reproduction of the spatiality (and temporality) inherent in visual …
16:45 to 18:00
Joachim Schulte
The Life of a Picture
Joachim Schulte
The Life of a Picture
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In a remark printed in the so-called "second part" of his Philosophical Investigations , Wittgenstein says that "a picture does not always live for me while I am seeing it" (p. 205 of the old English edition). This observation is puzzling. But as soon as …
14:00 to 15:15