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Fourth BWS Annual  Conference: Competition

 

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the death of Ludwig Wittgenstein, BWS ran a competition for an essay or a poem of no more than 1500 words on the theme: 'Wittgenstein and Me - how he has affected my life, my philosophy, how I view the world, and how I act?'

The winner is Mikel Burley. His, and other entries can be read online.
 


 

Mikel Burley, Leeds University
L. Wittgenstein from a lecture belonging to a course of lectures on dead philosophers
4 pages (18 Kb pdf)

Special mention:

David Connearn
Everything is what it is and not another thing
4 pages (93 Kb pdf)

Also commended:

Simon Barron
The Man who Described the Universe: a view on the enduring beauty of Wittgenstein’s ideas
4 pages (165 Kb pdf)

John Powell, Humboldt University
A Letter to Wittgenstein, Sixty Years On
1 page (9 Kb pdf)

Dr Hili Razinsky, University of Be'er-sheva
A live language: Concreteness, openness, ambivalence
4 pages (31 Kb pdf)

David Scott Wemyss
Divertissement: a fictional account
 3 pages (21 Kb pdf)

Andrew Turner, Nottingham University
Wittgenstein Sixty Years On: The Tractatus in Haiku
1 page (6 Kb pdf)

 

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