Dear all, The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be held on Tuesday 19th February. We are delighted to welcome Adrian Haddock (Stirling) who will be giving a talk entitled 'Self-Consciousness, Sensory Consciousness, and Indirect Discourse'. Here is an abstract for the talk:
*This paper falls into three parts. The first part considers some difficulties for the idea of indirect discourse, in order to bring out a distinction between two kinds of report: those given from within what they report, which say how things are for the subject; and those given from outside, which say how things are in themselves. The second part draws on this distinction to shed light on the philosophical idea of self-consciousness—the idea that Aristotle captures by saying that the mind “thinks itself”—and then draws on this idea to put in place a further distinction between an understanding that proceeds from within, and an understanding from outside. Finally, the third part exploits this last distinction to explain what is at stake in the apparent disagreement between those who acknowledge that cases of sensory consciousness are conceptual acts, and those who profess to see no reason to think this.* The meeting will be held from 2:30 until 4:15 in the Jane Harrison Room at Newnham College, and will be followed by tea and coffee. If you would like to have dinner with the speaker in the evening following the talk, 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 those who sign up for dinner will be notified of the details closer to the time. Best wishes, -- Annie Bosse, Benjamin Marschall and Lucy McDonald 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.
