Dear all, The Moral Sciences Club's next meeting will be held on Tuesday 8th November. We are delighted to welcome Dr Anil Gomes (Oxford), who will be giving a talk entitled 'Kantian Acquaintance'. Here is the abstract:
How should we understand the link between perceptual consciousness and acquaintance? At the start of the twentieth-century, a number of philosophers defended views on which perceptual consciousness is constituted by relations of acquaintance. And they presented these views as requiring a rejection of Kant's views about the way the mind is put in contact with the world. In this talk I'll try to do the following: i) identify the reasons why these philosophers thought their views required a rejection of Kant; ii) investigate the options for defending a Kantian form of an acquaintance theory; iii.) consider what reasons Kant may have had for endorsing an acquaintance view and compare them to contemporary defences of such views. The meeting will be held at 2:30 until 4:15, in the Barbara White Room at Newnham College, and will be followed by tea and coffee. For those who have not yet paid, there is a yearly membership fee of £7.50 for students and £15 for others, or a one-off fee of £3 (£2 for students). These can be purchased online at: http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&catid=75&prodvarid=87 -- Matt Dougherty, James Hutton, and Li Li Tan Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
