WMA Graduate Research Seminar, 2023/2024
In preparation for MindGrad we will dedicate the first 3 sessions to 3 papers by Matt Soteriou and the following 2 session to background reading for Lea Salje's talk.
Week 4: Matt Soteriou, ‘Determining the Future’ [pdf]
Week 5: Matt Soteriou, ‘The past made present: Mental time travel in episodic recollection’ [pdf]
Week 6: Matt Soteriou, ‘Waking Up and Being Conscious' [link]
Week 7: Eli Alshanetsky, Articulating a Thought, Introduction [link] and Chapter 2 'A Puzzle' [link]
Week 9: Alex Byrne, 'Knowing what I'm thinking'
Thu 2 Nov, '23- |
WiP SeminarS2.77 |
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Thu 9 Nov, '23- |
WiP SeminarS2.77 |
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Thu 16 Nov, '23- |
WiP Seminar - Haley BurkeS2.77 |
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Thu 23 Nov, '23- |
WiP SeminarS2.77Our next postgraduate Work in Progress (WiP) seminar is taking place this Thursday 23rd November from 5-6:15 PM in S2.77 and on Teams. Fridolin Neumann will present 'Heidegger on Kant and Ontological Intuition'. Everyone welcome!
Abstract: In the 1920s and 1930s, Heidegger intensively engaged with Kant’s philosophy in a way that he himself acknowledges as “violent” since it always attempts to capture the unsaid in the written word. My talk revolves around a crucial claim Heidegger makes about Kant’s theory of cognition, evoking discomfort in every loyal Kantian: “knowing is primarily intuiting [Erkennen ist primär Anschauen].” I argue that in order to understand what is at stake here this claim must be interpreted along the lines of Heidegger’s distinction between ontic and ontological cognition (that is, cognition of entities on the one hand and cognition of being transcendentally determining our encounter with entities on the other hand). As I propose, the supposed primacy of intuition mainly refers to ontological cognition and hereby offers an account of human responsiveness to ontological norms which determine our ontic experience of entities in the first place. In Heidegger’s account, this (ontological) responsiveness is cashed out in terms of intuition which is structurally similar to (ontic) intuition involved in sensible perception. I proceed by first elaborating on the distinction between ontic and ontological cognition to then argue why Heidegger’s thesis about intuition should be understood as referring to the latter. After that, I sketch what it means to understand ontological cognition in terms of intuition. |
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Thu 30 Nov, '23- |
WiP Seminar - Oscar North-ConcarS2.77 |
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Thu 7 Dec, '23- |
WiP SeminarS2.77 |
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Thu 11 Jan, '24- |
WiP SeminarS2.77Our first postgraduate Work in Progress (WiP) seminar of the term is taking place this Thursday 11th January from 5-6:15 PM in S2.77 and on Teams. Aurian De Briey will present 'From Heidegger's social ontology to his answer to the technological challenge'. Everyone welcome! Abstract: In Der Spiegel Interview, Heidegger acknowledges his difficulty in providing a political answer to the technological challenge he depicts in The Question Concerning Technology. I aim to make sense of such difficulty by going back to Being and Time where lies Heidegger’s social ontology and ideal of authenticity. I argue that such an ideal, when translated in collective terms, is one of mere co-existence, where individuals can at best all be authentic alongside each other but never build together a common good. I then show how this feature is transferred in Heidegger’s critique of technology which is one of the way we see the world and then to his solution to it which is a praise of art. Teams link: |
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Thu 18 Jan, '24- |
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Thu 25 Jan, '24- |
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Thu 1 Feb, '24- |
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Thu 8 Feb, '24- |
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Thu 15 Feb, '24- |
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Thu 22 Feb, '24- |
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Thu 29 Feb, '24- |
WiP SeminarS2.77 |
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Thu 7 Mar, '24- |
WiP SeminarS2.77 |
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Thu 14 Mar, '24- |
WiP SeminarS2.77 |