What We Are

The Wittgenstein Fanboys Club* is a group of graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh interested in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Starting in the Spring term of 2007, we meet weekly to slowly read Wittgenstein, line by line, and discuss it till we run out of steam. (By slow, I mean slow -- we average about four pages per week.) Notes and mp3 audio are kept for most of the sessions.

We started with the Blue Book, and the current plan is to follow it up with the Brown Book, the Philosophical Investigations, and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. If the miraculous happens, and we finish those works, we will then move on the the broader corpus.

* The name owes to Balázs Gyenis.
Although he almost surely meant it facetiously,
we'll take it!
 

What do I know about God and the purpose of life?
I know that this world exists.
(1916 Notes)

If I have exhausted the justifications,
I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned.
Then I am inclined to say: "This is simply what I do."
(Investigations, 217)

Every sign by itself seems dead.
What gives it life?--In use it is alive.
Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?'
(Investigations, 432)

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