Dear all,
We will be running a reading group over the summer on Wilhelm Dilthey's epistemology and philosophy of social science, including his thinking on combining historical and systematic methods, on lived experience and on interpretation. The initial meeting is scheduled for this Friday, 5 July, 10-11:30 in the Philosophy Faculty Board Room. We are thinking of meeting more or less weekly, at the same time, but if you are interested in attending and that will not work for you, please contact Sen (sb2276). Please contact Sen too if you would like to be on the mailing list for future updates. We will be starting with the first 9 pages of Dilthey's "General Theses about the System of the Human Sciences" in his The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences. All the planned readings are available in this online volume: https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/5h73pw41d. But feel free to use other editions or indeed read in German - volume number and pagination from Dilthey's Gesammelte Schriften is given in the schedule below. The currently planned schedule of readings is: 1. "General Theses", pp142-51 / GS VII, 120-9: Introduction and Section One, "Objective apprehension" 2. "General Theses", pp152-62 / GS VII, 130-40: Section Two, chapter 1 ("Life and the human sciences") and part 1 of chapter 2 ("Re-presentations based on lived experience") 3. "General Theses", pp162-74 / GS VII, 141-52: Section Two, chapter 2, parts 2 and 3, and chapter 3 ("The objectifications of life") 4. "General Theses", pp174-86 / GS VII, 152-64: Section Two, chapter 4 ("The world of human spirit as a productive nexus", up to and including "Stages of historical intelligibility") 5. "General Theses", pp186-197 / GS VII, 164-77: Section Two, chapter 4 (up to and including "External organisations, the political whole and politically organised nations") 6. "General Theses", pp197-209 / GS VII, 177-88: Section Two, chapter 4 (until end) 7. "The Psychic Structural Nexus", pp23-33 / GS VII, 3-13: Introduction and Part I ("Task, method and outline...") 8. "The Psychic Structural Nexus", pp34-44 / GS VII, 13-23: Part II ("Descriptive preliminary concepts") 9. "The Understanding of Other Persons and Their Manifestations of Life", pp226-41 / GS VII 205--20 Hoping to see many of you soon, Sen Bhuvanendra, Philosophy Rosie Worsdale, CRASSH _____________________________________________________ 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.
