Dear all, At the next meeting of the SMG we will have Dr. Raamy Majeed (Auckland University) presenting a talk entitled ‘The Indeterminacy of Unconscious Belief’ (abstract below). As usual it will be on Wednesday (the 13th) in the Philosophy Faculty Board Room, however the talk will be at the later time of 5.00 to 6.30pm due to an examination meeting. The talk should last about 45 minutes followed by questions and discussion. All graduate students are welcome.
After the talk we will be going to a nearby restaurant for dinner. If you would like to join Dr. Majeed (at your own expense) please let me know by midday tomorrow. A full list of speakers for Lent term is available here: https://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/SMG Abstract: What is the relationship between conscious and unconscious intentionality? According to the contemporary conception, (i) unconscious propositional attitudes represent the world in the same way conscious ones do, and (ii) both sets of attitudes represent by having determinate propositional content. In his presidential address to the Aristotelian Society, Crane (2017) denies both claims, proposing instead that unconscious propositional attitudes, e.g. beliefs, differ from conscious ones in being less determinate in nature. In this paper, I evaluate Crane’s proposal, and argue that the reasons for challenging (ii) actually tell in favour of (i). More specially, if Crane is right about the indeterminacy of unconscious belief, this indeterminacy spreads to conscious intentional states well. I hope to see you there, Nathan Hawkins PhD student in Philosophy Cambridge University _____________________________________________________ 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.
