Dear all, This term, the Verstehen Colloquium will be meeting online to discuss readings from Friedrich Albert Lange’s 1866 The History of Materialism. Our first meeting will be next Thursday, 8 October, 10-11:30, to discuss the chapter “Materialism and Exact Research” (details of reading below). The Verstehen Colloquium explores philosophical approaches to thinking about human behaviour and systems from (primarily) the phenomenological and hermeneutic traditions. You can find out more about the group and our past meetings here: https://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/verstehen-colloquium. Lange was a founding member of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism in the mid-19th century. In response to disputes between German Idealists (such as Hegel) and materialists, Lange turns “back to Kant” to develop a natural-scientifically respectable account of the mind and its epistemic and ethical activity whilst avoiding a dogmatic materialism. After Lange, we will be looking at the later Marburg figure, Ernst Cassirer, who in works such as The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1929) and The Logic of the Humanities (1942) develops a unified account of the natural and human sciences. For an invitation to the meeting, to be added to our mailing list and for access to the text please contact Senthuran (sb2276). The scheduled of planned readings is as follows: Thurs 8 October "Materialism and Exact Research" - 2nd book, 2nd section, Chapter 1 Whole chapter, or for those with limited time, Vol II pp.307-325 (of the 1925 3rd edition translation by EC Thomas)
Thurs 22 October "Scientific Psychology" - 2nd book, 3rd section, Chapter 3 Whole chapter, or for those with limited time, Vol III pp.167-186 Thurs 5 November "The Physiology of the Sense Organs and the World as Representation" - 2nd book, 3rd section, Chapter 4 Whole chapter i.e. Vol III pp.202-230 Thurs 19 November "Political Economy and Dogmatic Egoism" - 2nd book, 4th section, Chapter 1 Whole chapter, or for those with limited time, Vol III pp.233-253 Apologies for any cross posting. We hope to see many of you soon. With best wishes, Rosie Worsdale, Matt Bennett and Senthuran Bhuvanendra _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
