Please join us for a workshop on "Kant and the 19th Century" featuring two of our visiting grant recipients!
10am - 12pm: Stephen Howard (Leuven), "Is the idea of the world, for Kant, inherently contradictory?"
Abstract:
Interpreters of the Transcendental Dialectic of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason generally hold that the cosmological ideas can have no legitimate regulative utility, and that in this respect these ideas differ from their psychological and theological counterparts. Kant indeed asserts that the speculative objects of the psychological and theological ideas, the soul and God, entail no contradiction when thought regulatively for the sake of our theoretical and practical ends. By contrast, the cosmological ideas inevitably lead to antinomies (under certain presuppositions). This leads to a standard view in the literature: the idea of the world is itself contradictory and there can be no regulative use of the cosmological ideas. In this talk, I argue that this conclusion is mistaken. By reconstructing where the contradiction enters in the production of the ideas, I claim that, for Kant, the idea of the world can be legitimately thought and the cosmological ideas do have regulative utility – albeit in a way that differs from the psychological and theological ideas.
Comments: Katharina Kraus (Hopkins)
12pm - 1 pm: Lunch break
1 - 3 pm: Mark Textor (King’s College London), "MY thoughts, MY Self"
Abstract: Contemporary views of mental ownership hold that MY thoughts are those that I have privileged access to and/or those that I have ‘generated’. In my talk I will introduce an alternative to these views. In the 19th century Hermann Lotze argued that mental ownership is constituted by felt-evaluations that are prior to and independent of self-consciousness. I will expound and defend the view of feeling on which this idea is based and explore Lotze’s account of the first-person concept.
Comments: Kris McDaniel (Notre Dame)
This page will be updated as more event details become available. We hope to see you there!
Originally published at historyofphilosophy.nd.edu.