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SUMMARY:Wittgenstein's Games - Professor A C Grayling\, New College of the
  Humanities
DTSTART:20160129T173000Z
DTEND:20160129T183000Z
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nWittgenstein twice thought that he had solved all 
 the problems of philosophy\, by explaining how language acquires meaning. 
 The first time he said that it does so by its relation to the world\; the 
 second time\, by its relation to itself. To this second suggestion\, the c
 oncept of "games" is central. I explain and discuss Wittgenstein's contrib
 utions with "games" focally in view.\n\nBiography\n\nA C Grayling MA\, DPh
 il (Oxon) FRSL\, FRSA is Master of the New College of the Humanities\, and
  a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College\, Oxford. Until 2011 he was P
 rofessor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College\, University of London. He has 
 written and edited over thirty books on philosophy and other subjects\; am
 ong his most recent are "The Good Book"\, "Ideas That Matter"\, "Liberty i
 n the Age of Terror" and "To Set Prometheus Free". For several years he wr
 ote the "Last Word" column for the Guardian newspaper and a column for the
  Times. He is a frequent contributor to the Literary Review\, Observer\, I
 ndependent on Sunday\, Times Literary Supplement\, Index on Censorship and
  New Statesman\, and is an equally frequent broadcaster on BBC Radios 4\, 
 3 and the World Service. He writes the "Thinking Read" column for the Barn
 es and Noble Review in New York\, is the Editor of Online Review London\, 
 and a Contributing Editor of Prospect magazine.\n \nIn addition he sits on
  the editorial boards of several academic journals\, and for nearly ten ye
 ars was the Honorary Secretary of the principal British philosophical asso
 ciation\, the Aristotelian Society. He is a past chairman of June Fourth\,
  a human rights group concerned with China\, and is a representative to th
 e UN Human Rights Council for the International Humanist and Ethical Union
 . He is a Vice President of the British Humanist Association\, the Patron 
 of the United Kingdom Armed Forces Humanist Association\, a patron of Dign
 ity in Dying\, and an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.\
 n \nAnthony Grayling was a Fellow of the World Economic Forum for several 
 years\, and a member of its C-100 group on relations between the West and 
 the Islamic world. He has served as a Trustee of the London Library and a 
 board member of the Society of Authors. He is a Fellow of the Royal Societ
 y of Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2003 he was 
 a Man Booker Prize judge\, in 2010 was a judge of the Art Fund prize\, and
  in 2011 the Wellcome Book Prize. He was the chairman of the 2014 Man Book
 er Prize.\n \nHe supports a number of charities including Plan UK\, Greenp
 eace\, Médecins Sans Frontières\, Amnesty International and Freedom from
  Torture. He is also a sponsor of Rogbonko School in Sierra Leone.\n \nHis
  latest books are "The God Argument" (March 2013) and "Friendship" (Septem
 ber 2013).\n \nAnthony Grayling's new book\, "The Challenge of Things" was
  published in March 2015.
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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