July 5 (Wednesday) Program

8:30 – 9:30 am

Tibor Machan, Ph.D. – Wittgenstein’s Naturalist Ethics?

It is widely contended that Ludwig Wittgenstein is a non-cognitivist. He himself so claims in places. But perhaps we should observe what he does, not worry about what he says, argues Tibor Machan. In places where he isn’t being self-consciously philosophical, Wittgenstein talks as if he were a meta-ethical naturalist. So Wittgenstein seems conflicted, but by his own philosophical notion that the meaning of terms is their use in the language—that that’s were the meat is to be found—he looks closer to being a naturalist than most would suspect.

Tibor Machan is R. C. Hoiles Professor of Business Ethics & Free Enterprise at the ArgyrosSchool of Business & Economics, ChapmanUniversity. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at UCSB in 1971, has written 30 plus books and edited another 18. He recently wrote Objectivity, Recovering Determinate Reality in Philosophy, Science, and Everyday Life (Ashgate, 2004).

David Kelley, Ph.D. and William Thomas, M.A. – Atlas Shrugged as a Philosophical Novel 4

(The description of Atlas Shrugged as a Philosophical Novel is in the schedule for Sunday, July 1.) 

THE REMAINDER OF WEDNESDAY IS A FREE DAY.

Go to the beach, go to Disneyland, take a quick day-trip to Hollywood and Beverley Hills. There are so many choices in the Orange County/Los Angeles area, you will have a hard time selecting just one thing to do.