Dear all, The HPS Philosophy Workshop provides a friendly and supportive setting for graduate students and postdocs to get feedback on their work-in-progress from their peers. Texts are circulated one week in advance and discussed over tea and biscuits in HPS Seminar Room 1 on alternate Wednesdays, 5-6pm.
We continue next Wednesday with Katharina Kraus (PhD student in HPS) on "Psychology as objective science? - Kant's mathematical principles in the context of empirical psychology". The abstract is below; please contact me if you'd like a PDF of the paper. Best wishes, Vashka -- Psychology as the science of individuals' mental states and of subjective contents of consciousness, it is often argued, cannot allow for general conclusions and objective knowledge claims about its subject matter. Investigating individuals' minds and subjective perceptions seems in tension with any commonsensical notion of /objective/ and /universal /science. This paper shows why this does not have to be the case by offering a Kantian viewpoint. In the light of Kant's critical theory of cognition, it provides a fresh look at the problem of objectively quantifying first-person experiences, such as emotions and sense-perceptions. _____________________________________________________ Sent by the CamPhilEvents mailing list. To unsubscribe or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents Posts are archived here: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive
