For our past discussions, we have held reading sequences on Friedrich Albert Lange; Edmund Husserl; Wilhelm Dilthey; Adolf Reinach; Max Scheler; Edith Stein; Ernst Cassirer; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; Jean-Paul Sartre and Martin Heidegger’s debate on humanism; Paul Ricœur; Hans-Georg Gadamer; Hans Blumenberg; Michel Foucault; Claude Lefort; feminist phenomenologists influenced by Merleau-Ponty (Iris Marion Young, Judith Butler, Gail Weiss, Sara Ahmed, Gayle Salamon); Jacques Derrida; Michael Rosen; Elías José Palti; Rowan Williams; and Martin Hägglund. See below for details.
In addition, we have had guest talks and paper presentations from Barnaby Aspray (theology, Oxford); Cristina Lafont (philosophy, Northwestern); Elías José Palti, (intellectual history, Quilmes and Buenos Aires); Martin
Hägglund (comparative literature, Yale); Paul Joose and Dominik Zelinsky (sociology, Hong Kong and Copenhagen); and Samantha Matherne (philosophy, Harvard); and discussions of papers by group participants Apeike Umolu (on Black consciousness), Christopher Watts (on frame problems and attention), Daniele Garancini (on Cassirer’s philosophical project), Sebastian Raza-Mejia (on the normative turn in sociology), Tingwen Li (on Edith Stein and empathy) and Zach Freig (on 20th-century French political thought).
Michaelmas Term 2024
Wednesday 16 October
Rowan Williams, The Edge of Words (2014), Introduction and Appendix ‘On Representation’
Wednesday 23 October
Ch. 1, ‘A Future for Natural Theology?’
Wednesday 30 October
Ch. 2, ‘Can We Say What We Like? Language, Freedom and Determinism’
Wednesday 6 November
Ch. 3, ‘Speech and Time: The Unfinishable Business of Language’
Wednesday 13 November
Ch. 4, ‘Intelligent Bodies: Language as Material Practice’
Wednesday 20 November
Ch. 5, ‘Excessive Speech: Language in Extreme Situations’
Wednesday 27 November
Ch. 6, ‘Saying the Unsayable: Where Silence Happens’
Convenors: Haotian (Walden) Wu and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Summer 2024
Wednesday 3 July
Adolf Reinach, The Apriori Foundations of the Civil Law (1913), §1 ‘The idea of the apriori theory of right’ and §2 ‘Claim and obligation’
Wednesday 10 July
§3 ‘The social acts’ and §4 ‘The act of promising as the origin of claim and obligation’
Wednesday 17 July
§7 ‘Representation’
Wednesday 24 July
§8 ‘Enactments and the propositions expressing enactments’
Convenors of Reinach sequence: David Ewing, Senthuran Bhuvanendra and Christopher Watts
Wednesday 14 August
Michel Foucault, Archaeology of Knowledge (1969), PART II The Discursive Regularities: (1) The unities of discourse; (2) Discursive formations
Wednesday 21 August
PART II The Discursive Regularities: (3) The formation of objects; (4) The formation of enunciative modalities; (5) The formation of concepts
Wednesday 28 August
PART III The Statement and the Archive: (1) Defining the Statement; (2) The enunciative function
Wednesday 4 September
PART III The Statement and the Archive: (3) The description of statements; (5) The historical a priori and the archive
Wednesday 11 September
PART IV Archaeological Description: (1) Archaeology and the history of ideas; (2) The Original and the regular; (3) Contradictions
Convenors of Foucault sequence: David Ewing, Senthuran Bhuvanendra and Henri Chastain
Wednesday 18 September
Jacques Derrida, seminar series on hospitality. Session of 10 January 1996, ‘Foreigner Question: Coming from Abroad / from the Foreigner’, in Jacques Derrida and Anne Dufourmantelle, Of Hospitality: Anne Dufourmantelle Invites Jacques Derrida to Respond, I (2000)
Wednesday 25 September
Session of 17 January 1996, ‘Step of Hospitality / No Hospitality’, in Of Hospitality
Wednesday 2 October
Session of 8 January 1997, in Acts of Religion (2002)
Wednesday 9 October
Session of February 12th, 1997, in Acts of Religion
Convenors of Derrida sequence: David Ewing, Senthuran Bhuvanendra and Isabel Connolly-Linden
Easter Term 2024
Wednesday 1 May
Edith Stein, On the Problem of Empathy (1917), Ch. 2 ‘The Essence of the Act of Empathy’, ss1–2 (methodology, comparative description of empathy), pp. 3–11
Wednesday 8 May
Ch. 2, ss. 3, 5 and 6 (comparison with other accounts, including Lipps, Scheler and theories of genesis of understanding)
Wednesday 15 May
Ch. 3 ‘The Constitution of the Psycho-Physical Individual’, ss1–4 (the pure ‘I’, stream of consciousness, soul/psyche, living body)
Wednesday 22 May
Ch. 3, s. 5a–h (the other’s sensations and the other’s world, implications for constitution of one’s self and the world, other’s movement)
Wednesday 29 May
Ch. 3, s. 5i–l (life, causality, expression)
Wednesday 5 June
Ch. 3, s. 5m–p (correcting empathy, other’s constitution and constitution of one’s self)
Wednesday 12 June
Ch. 4 ‘Empathy as the Understanding of Spiritual [geistig] Persons’, ss. 1–3 (spirit/Geist and the cultural sciences/Geisteswissenschaften, spiritual subject, constitution of person through emotion)
Wednesday 19 June
Ch. 4, ss. 4–9 (givenness of other, soul/psyche and person, existence of spirit, Dilthey, empathy and constitution of own person, spirit and physical body)
Convenors: David Ewing and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Lent Term / Easter Vacation 2024
Wednesday 24 January
Paul Ricoeur, Time and Narrative (1984), Intro to Pt. III, ‘The Configuration of Time in Fictional Narrative’; ‘The time of narrating vs narrated time’ and ‘Utterance, statement, and object in Genette’s narrative discourse’, from ch. 3
Wednesday 31 January
Ch. 4: ‘The Fictive Experience of Time’ (intro, Mrs Dalloway, The Magic Mountain)
Wednesday 7 February
Ch. 4 (contd.) (Remembrance of Things Past)
Wednesday 14 February
Introduction to Pt. IV, ‘Narrated Time’; Introduction to Section 1, ‘The Aporetics of Temporality’; Ch. 1, ‘The Time of the Soul and the Time of the World: The Dispute between Augustine and Aristotle’
Wednesday 21 February
Ch. 2 (part), ‘Intuitive Time’ (Husserl)
Wednesday 28 February
Ch. 3 (part), ‘Temporality, Historicality, Within-Time-Ness: Heidegger and the “Ordinary” Concept of Time’
Wednesday 6 March
Ch. 4, ‘Between Lived Time and Universal Time: Historical Time’
Wednesday 13 March
Ch. 5, ‘Fiction and Its Imaginative Variations on Time’
Wednesday 20 March
Ch. 6, ‘The Reality of the Past’
Wednesday 27 March
Ch. 7, ‘The World of the Text and the World of the Reader’
Wednesday 3 April
Ch. 8, ‘The Interweaving of History and Fiction’
Wednesday 10 April
Ch. 10, ‘Towards a Hermeneutics of Historical Consciousness’
Convenors: David Ewing, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Michaelmas Term 2023
Wednesday 25 October
Paul Ricoeur, Time and Narrative (1983), Intro to Pt 1, “The Circle of Narrative and Temporality” + ch1 “The Aporias of the Experience of Time: Book 11 of Augustine’s Confessions”
Wednesday 1 November
Ch1 (continuation of discussion)
Wednesday 8 November
Ch2, “Emplotment: A reading of Aristotle’s Poetics”
Wednesday 15 November
Ch3, “Time and Narrative: Threefold Mimesis”
Wednesday 22 November
Intro to Pt 2, “History and Narrative” + ch4, “The Eclipse of Narrative”
Wednesday 29 November
Ch5, “Defenses of Narrative”, intro + “The Breaking up of the Covering Law Model”
Wednesday 6 December
Ch5, cont.: “Narrativist Arguments”
Wednesday 13 December
Ch6, “Historical Intentionality” + conclusion
Convenors: David Ewing, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Summer 2023
Wednesday 28 June
Martin Hägglund, This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free (2019), Introduction
Wednesday 5 July
This Life, Chapter 1: Faith
Wednesday 12 July
This Life, Chapter 2: Love, sections I to III
Wednesday 19 July
This Life, Chapter 2: Love, sections IV to VI
Wednesday 26 July
This Life, Chapter 3: Responsibility, sections I to III
Wednesday 2 August
This Life, Chapter 3: Responsibility, sections IV to V
Wednesday 9 August
This Life, Chapter 4: Natural and Spiritual Freedom, sections I to III
Wednesday 16 August
This Life, Chapter 4: Natural and Spiritual Freedom, sections IV to V
Wednesday 23 August
This Life, Chapter 5: The Value of our Finite Time, sections I to II
Wednesday 30 August
This Life, Chapter 5: The Value of our Finite Time, sections III to IV
Wednesday 6 September
This Life, Chapter 6: Democratic Socialism, sections I to IV
Wednesday 13 September
This Life, Chapter 6: Democratic Socialism, sections V to VI
Wednesday 20 September
This Life, Conclusion, full chapter
Wednesday 11 October
Discussion with Martin Hägglund (Yale)
Convenors: David Ewing, Orsolya Petocz, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Easter Term 2023
Wednesday 3 May
Michael Rosen, “The History of Philosophy as Philosophy” (2007)
Wednesday 10 May
Rosen, On Voluntary Servitude: False Consciousness and The Theory of Ideology (1996), Chapter 8: The Theory of Ideology and Beyond, and “On Voluntary Servitude and the Theory of Ideology” (2000)
Wednesday 17 May
Rosen, “Must We Return to Moral Realism?” (1991), and “Whatever Happened to the Ontic Logos? German Idealism and the Legitimacy of Modernity” (2020)
Wednesday 24 May
Rosen, The Shadow of God (2022), Chapter 8: Philosophy in History
Wednesday 31 May
The Shadow of God, Chapter 9: After Immortality
Friday 2 June
Graduate Seminar with Michael Rosen (Harvard)
4-6pm: Workshop on The Shadow of God, with speakers Rae Langton (Philosophy, Cambridge), Richard Bourke (History, Cambridge), Charles Turner (Sociology, Warwick) and Daniel Chernilo (Sociology, University Adolfo Ibañez)
Organisers: Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Marijn Nohlmans
Wednesday 7 June
Paper Discussion: Christopher J Watts (Department of Anthropology, Durham University), “Frame Problems in the Age of Attention Scarcity”
Wednesday 14 June
Paper Discussion: Apeike Umolu (Faculty of History), “On Black Consciousness”
Convenors: David Ewing, Orsolya Petocz, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Lent Term / Easter Vacation 2023
Wednesday 25 January
Edmund Husserl, Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy (1913), First Section (Essence and Eidetic Cognition), ch.1 (“Fact and essence”), §§1-8
Wednesday 1 February
Alternative discussion due to UCU strike:
Eric Hayot, Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan (2021)
Wednesday 8 February
Ideas, First Section, ch.1, §§9-17
Wednesday 22 February
Alternative discussion due to UCU strike:
Chad Wellmon, Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overload and the Invention of the Modern Research University (2015)
Wednesday 8 March
Ideas, Second Section (The Fundamental Phenomenological Consideration), ch.1 (“The thesis of the natural attitude and its suspension”), §§27-32
Wednesday 22 March
Alternative discussion due to UCU strike:
Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon, “Max Weber, Scholarship and Modern Asceticism” Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age (2021)
Wednesday 29 March
Ideas, Second Section, ch.2 (“Consciousness and natural actuality”), §§33-8
Wednesday 5 April
Ideas, Third Section (On the Methods and Problems of Pure Phenomenology), ch.1 (“Methodological pre-considerations”), §§63-71
Wednesday 12 April
Ideas, Third Section, ch.1 and ch.2 (“Universal structures of pure consciousness”), §§73-7
Wednesday 19 April
Ideas, Third Section, ch.2, §§78-80
Wednesday 26 April
Ideas, Third Section, ch.2, §§81-6
Convenors: David Ewing, Orsolya Petocz, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Michaelmas Term / Christmas Vacation 2022
Wednesday 9 November
Husserl, Logical Investigations (1900-1/1913) I (Expression and Meaning), ch.1 (“Essential distinctions”), §§1-14
Thursday 10 November
Paper Discussion: Paul Joosse (Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong) and Dominik Zelinsky (University of Copenhagen) on “Sharing the Emperor’s New Clothes: Charisma and Imitation in the Case of Volodymyr Zelensky”
Wednesday 16 November
Husserl, Investigation V (On Intentional Experiences and their ‘Contents’), introduction and ch.1 (“Consciousness as the phenomenological subsistence of the ego and consciousness as inner perception”), §§1-8
Wednesday 23 November
Investigation V, ch.2 (“Consciousness as intentional experience”), §§9-15
Wednesday 30 November
Alternative discussion due to UCU strike, on interdisciplinarity:
Review by Charles Turner of Roger Smith, Being human: Historical knowledge and creation of human nature (2009)
Wednesday 7 December
Investigation V, ch.2, §§16-21
Wednesday 14 December
Investigation V, ch.3 (“The matter of the act and its underlying presentation”), §§22-31
Wednesday 10 January
Investigation VI (Elements of a Phenomenological Elucidation of Knowledge), ch.1 (“Meaning-intention and meaning-fulfilment”), §§1-8
Convenors: David Ewing, Orsolya Petocz, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Late Summer Vacation 2022
Wednesday 14 September
Iris Marion Young, “Throwing like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility and Spatiality” (1980)
Wednesday 21 September
Judith Butler, “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory” (1988)
Wednesday 28 September
Butler, “Sexual Difference as a Question of Ethics: Alterities of the Flesh in Irigaray and Merleau-Ponty” (2006)
Gail Weiss, “Urban Flesh” (2005)
Wednesday 5 October
Sara Ahmed, “Introduction: Find Your Way” and “Sexual Orientation”, in Queer Phenomenology: Objects, Orientations, Others (2006)
Wednesday 12 October
Gayle Salamon, “The Sexual Schema: Transposing and Transgenderism in Phenomenology of Perception” in Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality (2010)
Convenors: David Ewing and Orsolya Petocz
Summer Vacation 2022
Wednesday 13 July
Claude Lefort, “Thinking Politics” (1963)
Wednesday 20 July
Lefort, “The Permanence of the Politico-Theological?” (1981)
Wednesday 27 July
Lefort, “The Death of Immortality?” (1982)
Wednesday 3 August
Lefort, “The Question of Democracy” (1983) and “The Logic of Totalitarianism” (1980)
Wednesday 10 August
Lefort, “Hannah Arendt and the Question of the Political” (1985) and “Reversibility: Political Freedom and the Freedom of the Individual” (1986)
Wednesday 17 August
Lefort, “Rereading The Communist Manifesto”(1986)
Wednesday 24 August
Lefort, “Politics and Human Rights” (1980) and “Human Rights and the Welfare State” (1984)
Convenors: David Ewing, Orsolya Petocz, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Easter Term 2022
Wednesday 11 May
Elías José Palti, ‘The “Theoretical Revolution” in Intellectual History’ (2014) & ‘From Ideas to Concepts to Metaphors: The German Intellectual Tradition and the Complex Fabric of Language’ (2010)
Wednesday 18 May
Palti, “The Theological Genesis of the Political” in An Archaeology of the Political (2017)
Wednesday 25 May
Discussion with Elías José Palti (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes and Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires)
Wednesday 1 June
Palti, “Koselleck – Foucault: The Birth and Death of Philosophy of History”
Wednesday 8 June
Paper Discussion: Sebastian Raza-Mejia (Department of Sociology), “The Normative Turn in Sociological Theory: Sociology’s Garden of the Forking Paths” (co-authored with Daniel Chernilo)
Wednesday 15 June
Paper Discussion: Zach Freig (Faculty of History), “A Tale of Two Primacies: the Social, the Political, and Logical Methods in Twentieth-Century France”
Convenors: David Ewing, Orsolya Petocz, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Lent Term / Easter Vacation 2022
Wednesday 26 January
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (1945), Part One, Section III (“The Spatiality of One’s Own Body and Motricity”) and Part Two, Section II, Subsection A (“Up and Down”)
Wednesday 2 February
Phenomenology of Perception, Part One, Section IV (“The Synthesis of One’s Body”) and Section VI (“The Body as Expression, and Speech”)
Wednesday 9 February
Merleau-Ponty, “Cézanne’s Doubt”(1948)
Wednesday 16 February
Alternative discussion due to UCU strike, on academic publishing
Wednesday 23 February
Merleau-Ponty, “On the Phenomenology of Language”(1951)
Wednesday 2 March
Alternative discussion due to UCU strike, on canons
Wednesday 9 March
Merleau-Ponty, “Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence” (1952)
Wednesday 16 March
“Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence” (1952)
Wednesday 23 March
Alternative discussion due to UCU strike, on academia and war
Wednesday 30 March
Merleau-Ponty, “Eye and Mind” (1960)
Wednesday 6 April
Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible (1964), Chapter 1 (“Reflection and Interrogation”)
Wednesday 13 April
Paper Discussion: Cristina Lafont (Northwestern University), “The Politics of Imagination: Critical Theory and Realistic Utopias”
Wednesday 20 April
The Visible and the Invisible, Chapter 1
Wednesday 27 April
The Visible and the Invisible, Chapter 4 (“The Intertwining – The Chiasm”)
Wednesday 4 May
Institution and Passivity (1954-55), Part 1 (“Institution in Personal and Public History”)
Convenors: Daniele Garancini, Orsolya Petocz, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Michaelmas Term 2021
Thursday 7 October
Jacques Derrida, “The Ends of Man” (1968)
Thursday 14 October
Derrida, “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences” (1966)
Thursday 21 October
Derrida, “Différance” (1968)
Thursday 28 October
Foucault, “The Human Sciences” from The Order of Things (1966)
Thursday 4 November
Scheler, Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Value (1913-16), ch2, section A: “The A Priori and the Formal in General”
Thursday 11 November
Scheler, Formalism in Ethics, ch2, section B: “The Non-Formal A Priori in Ethics”
Thursday 18 November
Scheler, Formalism in Ethics, ch6, section A (“On the Theoretical Conception of the Person in General”), subsections on reason, ego, transcendental apperception, act, object, consciousness, world and God
Thursday 25 November
Scheler, Formalism in Ethics, ch6, section A, subsection on lived body, environment and ego
Thursday 9 December
Paper Discussion: Tingwen Li (Xiamen University), “Deception, Correction, and Affect Theory—On Edith Stein’s Pedagogical Empathic Acts”
Thursday 16 December
Scheler, “The Essence and Concept of a Sociology of Culture”, from Problems of the Sociology of Knowledge (1924)
Convenors: Daniele Garancini, Orsolya Petocz, Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Summer Vacation 2021
Thursday 24 June
Paul Ricœur, The Voluntary and the Involuntary (1950), “General Introduction: Question of Method”, sections 1 and 2
Thursday 1 July
The Voluntary and the Involuntary, Part I, ch1, intro and ss1-2 (on decision)
Thursday 8 July
The Voluntary and the Involuntary, Part I, ch 1, s3 and ch2, introduction and s1, subsection 1 (on motives, the body and the nature of need)
Thursday 15 July
The Voluntary and the Involuntary, Part II, ch1 (on acting and moving)
Thursday 22 July
The Voluntary and the Involuntary, Part III, ch2, s2 (on the unconscious) Background reading: Part III, ch1, s1 and s2, subsection 1 (on the problem and structure of consent), pp341-7
Thursday 29 July
Ricœur, Fallible Man (1960), Preface and ch1 (on method, the “pathétique” of misery and reflection)
Thursday 5 August
Fallible Man, ch2 (applying Kant’s transcendental synthesis)
Thursday 12 August
Fallible Man, ch3, intro and s1 (on “practical synthesis” and character), and conclusion (on the concept of fallibility)
Thursday 19 August
Ricœur, The Symbolism of Evil (1960), Part I, intro (on methodology for study of symbols)
Thursday 26 August
The Symbolism of Evil, Part I, ch1, ss1-3 (on symbols of defilement) and ch2, s5 (on the relation to symbols of sin)
Background reading: Part I, conclusion (on relations between symbols), pp151-7
Thursday 2 September
The Symbolism of Evil, Part II, intro (on symbolic function of myth) and conclusion (“The symbol gives rise to thought”)
Thursday 9 September
Talk: Barnaby Aspray (University of Oxford), “The Keystone of Ricœur’s Thought: Finitude and What Lies Beyond”
Thursday 16 September
Jean-Paul Sartre, “Existentialism is a Humanism” (1946)
Martin Heidegger, Letter on Humanism (1946)
Thursday 23 September
Heidegger, Letter on Humanism (cont.)
Thursday 30 September
Heidegger, Letter on Humanism (cont.)
Convenors: Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Easter Term 2021
Thursday 29 April
Hans Blumenberg, Introduction to Paradigms for a Metaphorology (1960) and “Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality” (1979)
Thursday 6 May
Blumenberg, “Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality”
Thursday 13 May
Blumenberg, “Theory of Nonconceptuality” (excerpt, c.1975)
Thursday 20 May
“Theory of Nonconceptuality”
Thursday 27 May
“Theory of Nonconceptuality”
Thursday 3 June
Blumenberg, Shipwreck with Spectator (1979)
Thursday 10 June
Paper Discussion: Samantha Matherne (Harvard), “The Status of Art in Cassirer’s System of Culture” (2021)
Friday 11 June
Talk: Samantha Matherne, “Cassirer on Art and Self-Knowledge”
Convenors: Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Lent Term / Easter Vacation 2021
Thursday 4 February
Ernst Cassirer, The Logic of the Humanities [Kulturwissenschaften] (1942), Ch.1, “The subject matter of the humanities”, part 1
Thrusday 11 February
Cassirer, Logic, Chapter 1, part 2
Thursday 18 February
Cassirer, Logic, Chapter 2, “Perception of things and perception of expression”
Thursday 25 February
Cassirer, Logic, Chapter 2
Thursday 4 March
Cassirer, Logic, Chapter 3, “Nature-concepts and culture-concepts”, part 1
Thursday 11 March
Cassirer, Logic, Chapter 3, part 1 + part 2
Thursday 18 March
Cassirer, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1929), vol.3, ch.2 “The phenomenon of expression as the basic factor in the perceptive consciousness”
Thursday 1 April
Shaun Gallagher (2008) “Philosophical Antecedents of Situated Cognition”
Thursday 15 April
Paper Discussion: Daniele Garancini (Lingnan University, Hong Kong), “Cassirer’s Naturalism, Precious yet Forgotten, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Kantian Philosophy”
Convenors: Sebastian Raza-Mejia and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Michaelmas Term 2020
Thursday 8 October
Friedrich Albert Lange, The History of Materialism (1865/1873-5), 2nd book, 2nd section, Ch.1: “Materialism and Exact Research”
Thursday 22 October
2nd book, 3rd section, Chapter 3: “Scientific Psychology”
Thursday 5 November
2nd book, 3rd section, Chapter 4: “The Physiology of the Sense Organs and the World as Representation”
Thursday 19 November
2nd book, 4th section, Chapter 1: “Political Economy and Dogmatic Egoism”
Convenors: Matt Bennett and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Summer Vacation 2020
Monday 20 July
Edith Stein, The Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities (1922), First Treatise, Chapter I
Monday 27 July
Stein, First Treatise, Chapter V, sections 1-4
Monday 3 August
Stein, Second Treatise, Chapter I, section 3
Monday 10 August
Stein, Second Treatise, Chapter II, section 2
Convenors: Matt Bennett, Rosie Worsdale and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Easter Term / Summer Vacation 2020
Tuesday 12 May
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method (1960), Part I, Chapter 1, section 1
Monday 18 May
Truth and Method, Part I, Chapter 1, sections 2 and 3 (selections)
Monday 25 May
Truth and Method, Part I, Chapter 2, section 1, subsections A and B
Monday 1 June
Truth and Method, Part II, Chapter 3 (selections)
Monday 8 June
Truth and Method, Part II, Chapter 4, section 1
Monday 15 June
Truth and Method, Part II, Chapter 4, section 3
Monday 22 June
Truth and Method, Part III, Chapter 5, section 1
Monday 29 June
Truth and Method, Part III, Chapter 5, section 2
Monday 6 July
Truth and Method, Part III, Chapter 5, section 3
Convenors: Matt Bennett, Rosie Worsdale and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Easter Vacation / Spring 2020
Monday 23 March
Fiona Hughes (2013) “A Passivity Prior to Passive and Active: Merleau-Ponty’s Re-reading of the Freudian Unconscious and Looking at Lascaux”:
https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzt061
Monday 30 March
Continuation of Hughes’ paper
Monday 6 April
Edmund Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (1936), sections 33-41
Tuesday 14 April
Husserl, Crisis sections 42-55
Tuesday 21 April
Husserl, Crisis sections 47-55
Monday 27 April
Husserl, Crisis sections 57-64
Monday 4 May
Husserl, Crisis sections 59-64
Convenors: Matt Bennett, Rosie Worsdale and Senthuran Bhuvanendra
Summer Vacation 2019
Tuesday 9 July
Wilhelm Dilthey, “General Theses about the System of the Human Sciences” from The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences (1910), Introduction and Section One, Makkreel and Rodi translation, pp142-51 (Gesammelte Schriften 7:120-9)
Tuesday 16 July
Section One to Section Two, pp145-55 (7:123-33), on objective apprehension, life and the human sciences
Tuesday 23 July
Section One, part 2 and Section Two, chapter 1, pp149-57 (7:127-35)
Tuesday 30 July
Section Two, chapter 1, pp152-60 (7:130-8), on life-experience
Tuesday 6 August
Section Two, chapter I, pp155-62 (7:133-40), on life-attitudes, life-experience and lived experience
Tuesday 13 August
Section Two, chapters 1 and 2, pp158-66 (7:137-45)
Tuesday 27 August
Section Two, chapter 2, pp160-8 (7:139-46) on structural nexus of consciousness, reflection on lived experience, time, mutual understanding, and generality/universality
Tuesday 3 September
Section Two, chapters 2 and 3, pp163-70 (7:141-8) on understanding, generality and universality
Tuesday 10 September
Section Two, chapters 2 and 3, pp167-74 (7:145-52)
Thursday 19 September
Section Two, chapters 3 and 4, pp169-75 (7:147-53) on objectivity
Thursday 26 September
Section Two, chapter 4, part 1, pp170-8 (7:148-56)
Convenors: Rosie Worsdale and Senthuran Bhuvanendra