Dear all,
This Thursday, our own Rachel Robertson will be talking to us about
"Kant's Theory of Embodiment" (abstract below) at the Serious
Metaphysics Group. As usual, we will meet from 1-2.30pm in the Faculty
Board Room. Feel free to bring your lunch along. All welcome!
Best wishes,
Dan.
Abstract:
In this paper, I introduce a new way of reading Kant's Critical work, as
an exploration of the embodied human subject. My focus is on the
Critique of Pure Reason ('CPR'), which lays the foundations for this
approach. According to a 'face-value' reading of CPR, Kant makes a
revolutionary 'turn to the subject' in order to justify and delineate
the extent of a priori knowledge, hence metaphysics itself. I argue that
this reading does not do justice to Kant's dissatisfaction with
traditional ways of viewing the subject, most prominently expressed in
the Paralogisms of Pure Reason. I propose instead that Kant's project is
to develop a new notion of the subject as embodied, going from CPR and
the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, to the other two
Critiques. I then go into one step of this project in more depth,
examining how four passages from the Transcendental Analytic section of
CPR point to a theory of embodiment.
--
Daniel Williams
PhD Candidate in Philosophy
Email: [email protected]
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
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