*CORRECTION* The title of James Hutton's talk is in fact 'Epistemic Normativity in Kant's "Second Analogy"'.
Apologies. -- Karamvir Chadha and Cathy Mason Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc On 8 November 2017 at 16:13, Moral Sciences Club <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be held on Tuesday 14th > November. We are delighted to welcome James Hutton (Cambridge), a former > Moral Sciences Club Secretary, who will be giving a talk entitled 'Killing > and Aggregation'. The abstract is below: > > > In the ‘Second Analogy’, Kant examines the relation between time and > causation. He argues that, unless mental contents involve the concept of > causation, they cannot represent an objective temporal sequence. According > to Kant, deploying the concept of causation renders a certain temporal > ordering of representations *necessary*, thus enabling objective > representational purport. One exegetical question, neglected by recent > scholarship, is this: in what sense does deploying the concept of cause > render certain temporal judgments *necessary*? I argue that this > necessitation is a matter of epistemic normativity: with certain causal > presuppositions in place, the individual is obliged to make a judgment with > certain temporal contents, on pain of irrationality. This interpretation > fits Kant’s text; his argumentative aims; and his broader views about > causal inference, better than rival interpretations can. This result has > important consequences for understanding the role of normativity in Kant’s > theory of the understanding. > > > 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. > > If you would like to have dinner with James Hutton in the evening > following his talk at the Moral Sciences Club, please email the secretaries > of the club ([email protected]) by midday on Monday. > > This dinner is open to anyone who has attended the talk and it will take > place at around 7pm at a location to be determined (those who sign up for > dinner will be notified of the details by email closer to the time). > > -- > Karamvir Chadha and Cathy Mason > 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.
