Dear All, A reminder that 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 'Epistemic Normativity in Kant's "Second Analogy"'. 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.
