Organisers: Lia Nordmann
Date/time: Thursdays, from 10am to 12noon
If you'd like to join the group, please contact Lia (lsn26)
Michaelmas Term 2023
This term, the group has been reading Kant's Inquiry Concerning the Distinctness of the Principles of Natural Theology and Morality.
Lent Term 2022: Aesthetic Judgment
week 1 |
1st and 2nd Moment (§§ 1-9; 5:201-219) |
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week 2 |
3rd and 4th Moment (§§ 10-22; 5:219-244) |
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week 3 |
Analytic of the Sublime (§§ 23-29; 5:244-266) |
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week 4 |
General Remark (5:266-278) |
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week 5 |
Deduction (§§ 30-40; 5:279-296) |
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week 6 |
Deduction (§§ 41-49; 5:296-319) |
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week 7 |
Deduction (§§ 50-54; 5:319-337) |
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week 8 |
Dialectic (§§ 55-60; 5:337-356) |
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Easter Term 2022: Teleological Judgment
week 1 |
Analytic (§§ 61-64; 5:357-372) |
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week 2 |
Analytic (§§ 65-68; 5:372-384) |
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week 3 |
Dialectic (§§ 69-75; 5:385-401) |
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week 4 |
Dialectic (§§ 76-78; 5:401-415) |
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week 5 |
Doctrine of Method (§§ 79-83; 5:416-434) |
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week 6 |
Doctrine of Method (§§ 84-86; 5:434-447) |
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week 7 |
Doctrine of Method (§§ 87-90; 5:447-466) |
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week 8 |
Doctrine of Method (§ 91; 5:467-486) |
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Previous terms
Michaelmas Term 2021
7 October |
Section 1: The Ideal in General (A567-571/B595-B599) |
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14 October |
Section 2: The Transcendental Ideal (A571-583/B599-611) |
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21 October |
Section 3: On the Grounds of Proof (A583-591/B611-619) |
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28 October |
Section 4: The Ontological Proof (A592-602/B620-630) |
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4 November |
Section 5: The Cosmological Proof (A603-620/B631-648) |
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11 November |
Section 6: The Physico-Theological Proof (A620-630/B648-658) |
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18 November |
Section 7: Critique of all Theology (A631-642/B659-670) |
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25 November |
Buffer/Speaker |
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Easter Term 2021
30 April | Introduction to the Dialectic (A293-309/B349-B366) |
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7 May |
Book One of the Dialectic (A293-309/B349-B366) |
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14 May |
First Part of the Appendix (A642-668/B670-696) |
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21 May |
Second Part of the Appendix (A669-704/B697-732) |
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28 May |
Intermezzo: Talk by Samantha Matherne (Harvard) |
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4 June |
Introduction to the third Critique (5:171-197) |
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11 June |
Leibniz, tbd |
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18 June |
Leibniz, tbd |
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Lent Term 2020
23rd January |
Kant, The only possible argument for the |
Board Room, Philosophy Faculty |
30th January |
The only possible argument, Section 2, Fourth |
Board Room, Philosophy Faculty |
6th February |
The only possible argument, Section 2, Sixth Reflection (2:123-37) |
Board Room, Philosophy Faculty |
13 February |
Phemister & Strickland (2015) ‘Leibniz's Monadological Positive Aesthetics’, BJHP, 23:6, 1214-1234 Three short pieces by Leibniz: |
Board Room, Philosophy Faculty |
20 February |
Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics sections 5-9, 12-16, 23-29, 32-35 |
Maletin Room, Hughes Hall |
27 February |
Paper by Julia Borcherding, ‘“Every Feeling is the Perception of a Truth”: Leibniz on Moral Instincts’ |
Board Room, Philosophy Faculty |
Monday 2 March |
Kant, Third Critique, ss. 42, 84-6 and Intro IX. Background: ss. 1-5, 9-11, 61, 82-3. |
Maletin Room, Hughes Hall |
5 March |
Guest Talk: Justin Shaddock (Williams College), |
Room E4, Gibbs Building, King’s |
Organisers: Senthuran Bhuvanendra and Julia Borcherding. For further details or to be added to the mailing list, please contact Senthuran (sb2276). |
Michaelmas Term 2019: Kant and Hannah Arendt on political and moral judgement
Thursday 10 October |
Arendt, The Human Condition, ch.1, s.1 (“Vita activa and the human condition”) |
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Thursday 17 October | The Human Condition, ch.1, ss.2,3,6 (“The term vita activa”, “Eternity versus immortality”, “The rise of the social”) | |
Thursday 24 October | Kant, Third Critique, Second Moment of the Analytic of the Beautiful (on subjective universal judgements) | |
Friday 1 November | Third Critique, Fourth Moment of the Analytic of the Beautiful (5:236-40) and ss.39-41 (5:291-8): common sense and social dimensions of judgement | |
Friday 8 November | Guest Talk: Chenghui Ma (Fudan University / Mudanjian Normal University), “Why Arendt was Right - A General Introduction to the Banality of Evil and Defence of It” | |
Friday 15 November | Third Critique, s.40 (on common sense) and “What does it mean to orient oneself in thinking?” | |
Friday 22 November | Kant, Doctrine of Virtue, ss.13-16 (on conscience) | |
Friday 29 November |
Arendt, Some Questions of Moral Philosophy, Second Lecture |
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Organisers: Senthuran Bhuvanendra and Chenghui Ma |
Easter Holidays and Easter Term 2019
Thursday 11 April |
Dreams of a Spirit-Seer Elucidated by Dreams of Metaphysics, Preamble and First Chapter (2:317-28) |
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Thursday 18 April | Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, Second Chapter (3:329-41) | |
Thursday 25 April | Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, end of Second Chapter and Third Chapter (2:334-48) | |
Thursday 2 May | Dreams of a Spirit Seer, Third and Fourth Chapters (2:342-52) | |
Thursday 16 May | Notes on Aesthetics, pp.488-501 in Cambridge Edition | |
Thursday 30 May | Guest Talk: João Lemos (IFILNOVA/FCSH, Nova University of Lisbon), “How to make use of Kantian beauty” | |
Thursday 6 June | Doctrine of Virtue, Introduction ss.I-VIII (6:379-94) | |
Thursday 13 June | Doctrine of Virtue, Introduction ss.IV-XII (6:386-406) | |
Thursday 20 June | Doctrine of Virtue, section II: 6:448-74 on duties towards others | |
Organiser: Senthuran Bhuvanendra |
Michaelmas Term 2018
Thursday 1 November |
Theorie und Praxis (“On the common saying: That may be correct in theory, but it is of no use in practice”), First Section |
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Thursday 15 November | Theorie und Praxis, Second and Third Sections | |
Thursday 22 November |
Nick Stang, “Is Kant’s Critique of Metaphysics Obsolete?” |
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Organiser: Rachel Robertson |
Easter Term 2018
Conceptions of Kantian Unity Workshop
Workshop of the DAAD Network “Conceptions of Unity in German Philosophy”
1st June 2018, Room S2, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge
9.30-10.00 am |
Registration and welcome |
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10.00-11.00 am |
Anastasia Berg |
Kant’s Feeling of Moral Respect as Practical Self-Consciousness |
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11.00-11.30 am | Break |
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11.30-12.30 pm |
Rae Langton |
'Real Grounds’ in Matter and Things in Themselves |
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12.30-1.30 pm |
Lunch |
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1.30-2.30 pm |
Rachel Robertson |
The embodied human being in Kant’s Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science |
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2.45-3.45 pm |
Robert Watt |
The Transcendental Unity of Apperception | ||
3.45-4.15 pm | Break |
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4.15-5.15 pm |
Benjamin Marschall |
Kant's Mereological Relativism | ||
Organisers: Rachel Robertson (rsr35), Angela Breitenbach (ab335) |
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This workshop is supported by the DAAD Cambridge Research Hub with funds from the German Federal Foreign Office |
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Lent Term 2018: Kant on modality
Monday 22 January |
Chapter 2 (‘Is Existence a Real Predicate?’) of Nicholas Stang’s Kant’s Modal Metaphysics (2016) |
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Monday 5 February | Preface and Section 1 of The only possible argument in support of a demonstration of the existence of God | |
Monday 26 February | Second half of Section 1, and the beginning of Section 2 of The only possible argument | |
Organiser: Rachel Robertson |
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Michaelmas Term 2017: Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science
Monday 9 October |
Preface |
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Monday 16 October | First Chapter – Phoronomy (up to but not including the Proposition) | |
Monday 23 October |
First Chapter – Phoronomy (Proposition until end) & Second Chapter – Dynamics (up to but not including Proposition 3) |
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Monday 30 October |
Second Chapter – Dynamics (Proposition 3 up to but not including Proposition 7) | |
Monday 6 November | Second Chapter – Dynamics (Proposition 7 up to but not including General Remark) | |
Monday 13 November | Second Chapter – Dynamics (General Remark until end) | |
Monday 20 November | Third Chapter – Mechanics | |
Monday 27 November |
Fourth Chapter – Phenomenology |
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Convenors: Samuel Hughes, Rachel Robertson and Angela Breitenbach |