The Mind-Matter Argument in Late German Philosophy (1860-1950)
Seminar Series
Convenor: Dr Christine Lopes (Visiting Fellow, IGRS)
Four two-hour seminars held on Friday afternoons, from 4 to 6 p.m. in Room ST 276 (other than 3 February)
3 February 2012 (postponed from 27 January 2012)
Room ST 270
What are disorders of rationality?
Contemporary analytic and phenomenologist philosophers tend to agree on the existence of disorders of rationality. We will consider in a concise manner some of the recent analytical and phenomenological accounts of such disorders, and the nature of the line that separates pathological from non-pathological reasoning.
10 February 2012
Franz Brentano: the notions of self-evident experience and intentionality
We will discuss key passages from Brentano’s seminal Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, and critically consider what he sees as the two fundamental markers of mentality: self-evident experience and intentionality.
2 March 2012
Ernst Cassirer: the notion of symbolic form
A concise account of the ‘Davos Disputation’ between Cassirer and Heidegger, and a critical discussion about some of the arguments involved in Cassirer’s re-conception of Kant’s theory of transcendental imagination into a system of symbolic forms. The main textual reference will be selected passages from Cassirer’s The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms.
16 March 2012
Karl Jaspers: the notion of psychopathology
We will look into some recent philosophical evaluations of the legacy of Jaspers’ seminal work on psychopathology, and consider the difficulties involved in a philosophical reduction of the notion of psychopathology to that of pathological reasoning. The main textual reference will be selected passages from Jaspers’ General Psychopathology.
ALL WELCOME
