Kant Party! Reason #238 that I live on the wrong continent

While we are never short of excuses for a party in Montana, and indeed the US (two days after the 4th of July), rare it is that we celebrate philosophy. ‘Tis something I should perhaps look into fixing around here…

Here’s the full announcement, for those who might be near Angus, Scotland this month:

Kant and Reid Reading Party

Burn House, Angus, Scotland

27 – 30 July 2009

The aim of our Kant and Reid Reading Party is to bring together students and staff who are interested in Kant’s and Reid’s philosophy. We want to discuss selected texts of these two enlightenment thinkers in detail and offer graduate students the opportunity to present papers.

Readings

Kant, Paralogisms (Critique of Pure Reason, A 341-405, B 406-31);

Reid, ‘Of Memory’ (Essays on the Intellectual Power of Man, Essay III)

Graduate Presentations

Ralf Bader (St Andrews)

‘Self-knowledge in §7 of the Transcendental Aesthetic’

Response: Anna Tomaszewska (Kraków)

Ruth Boeker (St Andrews)

‘Reid’s theory of memory and the self: Does Reid offer a coherent alternative to Locke’s account of personal identity?’

Response: Martin Brecher (Bonn)

Toni Kannisto (Oslo)

‘The Inevitability of the Illusion in the Paralogisms: A Survey on Subjective and Objective Necessity’

Response: Giuseppe Motta (Mainz)

Fees

£80 Students (unwaged)

£120 Staff (waged)

The fee includes full boarding at the Burn House and transport from St Andrews to the Burn House and back.

Organisers

Ruth Boeker and Jens Timmermann, Departments of Philosophy, University of St Andrews.

In co-operation with the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst and St Leonard’s College, St Andrews.

Please contact Ruth Boeker ([email protected]) for registration and any further information.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of GRADskills, the School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies, St Leonard’s College (all St Andrews), the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst, the Scots Philosophical Club, and the UK Kant Society.

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/events/?eventid=78