{"id":593,"date":"2018-04-03T03:15:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T02:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-35\/"},"modified":"2018-04-03T03:15:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T02:15:21","slug":"seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raimundo Henriques<\/p>\n<p>LANCOG University of Lisbon<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>Ornament and Nonsense<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><strong>6 April 2018, 16:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o <\/strong>(Departamento de Filosofia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> In 1932 Wittgenstein stated that the use of nonsense in philosophy is \u201cin a sense really a requirement of style\u201d and hence similar to the use of ornamentation. The aim of this talk is to clarify the nature of this analogy by appeal to Adolf Loos\u2019s thought, the influence of which Wittgenstein recognized in the same remark. I will argue that the best way to account for Wittgenstein\u2019s suggestion is by taking the \u2018sense-nonsense\u2019 and \u2018structure-ornament\u2019 distinctions, not as theoretical ends accompanied by (a sort of) Ockham&#8217;s razor, but rather as theoretical means to a normative end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raimundo Henriques LANCOG University of Lisbon Ornament and Nonsense 6 April 2018, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: In 1932 Wittgenstein stated that the use of nonsense in philosophy is \u201cin a sense really a requirement of style\u201d and hence similar to the use of ornamentation. The aim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}