Inner and outer, psychology, and Wittgenstein’s painted curtain
Paul Standish (UCL)  

5.30 – 7.00 pm

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Much thinking in psychology and psychotherapy is in the grip of a conception of inner–outer relationships that distorts the reality of our lives and world. In the last years of his life especially, Wittgenstein battled against this. In the course of his criticism, he developed vivid images that challenge this picture, revealing its limitations and opening the way to better understanding. Although 70 years have passed since Wittgenstein died, it remains the case that psychology and psychotherapy can be strengthened through more careful attention to his criticism. The present discussion endeavours to show why and how this is so.
 
Paul Standish is Professor of Philosophy of Education at UCL IOE and President of the PESGB. His broadly phenomenological approach to education, with its particular attention to language, draws on extensive experience teaching in schools and colleges, prior to his university career. He is the author or editor of some twenty books, including Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation (2017, Rowman & Littlefield), co-edited with Naoko Saito, and Wittgenstein and Education: On Not Sparing Others the Trouble of Thinking: (2022, Wiley), co-edited with Adrian Skilbeck. He is Co-Editor and was Editor (2001-2011) of the Journal of Philosophy of Education.
 
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