Workshop on Late Modern Philosophy \; The BU Workshop on Late Modern Philosophy is an annual forum for presenting new work on late-eighteenth through early-twentieth-century philosophy. \; \; \; \;
THEME FOR 2020/21 WORKSHOP: \;
The 2020/21 workshop will focus on \;Self-Knowledge and Self-Ignorance. \;
At the end of the eighteenth-century\, Kant claimed that the &ldquo\;I think&rdquo\; must be able to accompany any genuinely mental representations. \;This suggested\, to some readers\, that all mental states would be consciously accessible and that our minds would be transparent. \; \;Yet Kant also asserts that &ldquo\;only a few places on the vast \;map \;of our mind are \;illuminated&rdquo\; (Anthropology \;7:135) and that &ldquo\;without noticing it\, we suppose we are discovering within ourselves what we ourselves have put there&rdquo\; (Anthropology \;7:133)\, thus emphasizing the obscurity of our own minds. \; \;These two tendencies&mdash\;the tendency to emphasize a distinctive mode of access to our own mental states\, together with the admission that our minds can be opaque to us&mdash\;occupied a great deal of attention during the \;late \;modern \;period. \; \;Do we have any kind of privileged access to our own mental activities? \; \;Or is our knowledge of our own mental lives analogous to our knowledge of the minds of others? \;If we do have privileged access\, how is this to be reconciled with the fact that we display pervasive self-ignorance? \;
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ORGANIZER:
Paul Katsafanas \;
FORMAT: \;
The workshop provides speakers with an opportunity to receive constructive feedback on work in progress. \; Papers are distributed in advance and should be read prior to the workshop. \; At the workshop\, the participants give brief summaries of their papers\; this is followed by an hour of discussion per paper. \;
The workshop is \;open to the public. \;Everyone is \;welcome to attend\, but registration is required. \; To register\, send an email to latemodernworkshop@gmail.com
Ninth Annual BU Workshop on Late Modern Philosophy
Topic: Self-Knowledge and Self-Ignorance \;
Website for more information: \;http://people.bu.edu/pkatsa/late-modern-workshop.html
Friday\, September 17\, 2021
1:00pm-2:20pm
Aaron Garrett (BU)
"Read Thyself"
2:30pm-3:50pm
Andreja Novakovic (UC Berkeley)
"Erotic Desire in Hegel's \;Phenomenology"
3:50-4:30
Coffee break
4:30pm-5:50pm
Bé\;atrice Longuenesse (NYU)
"Representations 'with' or 'without' Consciousness\,
According to Kant"
Saturday\, September 18\, 2021
10:00am-11:20am
Paul Katsafanas (BU)
"Irony\, Affirmation\, and the Appeal of Inarticulacy"
11:30am-12:50pm
Matthew Boyle (Chicago)
"Sartre on Bodily Transparency"
1:00-2:30
Lunch Break
2:30pm-3:50pm
Francey Russell (Barnard/Columbia)
"The Value of Self-Opacity"
4:00pm-5:20pm
Richard Moran (Harvard)
"Self-Consciousness and Self-Division
in Moral Psychology"
Registration is required. \; To register and receive access to the papers\, send an email to:
latemodernworkshop@gmail.com \; \;
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