Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series Presents
The Lorne Maclachlan Lecture on Kant

屎A Scandal of Philosophy屎: Kant使s Refutation of External World Skepticism

Janum Sethi, 카지노게임사이트 of Michigan

Thursday, March 28, 2024

4:00-6:00 pm

Watson Hall, Room 517 

In his 카지노 게임 컬렉션淩efutation of Idealism,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Kant notoriously attempts to refute external world skepticism by arguing that the mere awareness of our subjective states proves the existence of an external world. Interpreters disagree widely about how to read Kant카지노 게임 컬렉션檚 argument in the Refutation, but they agree almost universally that it does not succeed as published. In this paper, I begin by rejecting the most prominent interpretive strategy to reconstruct Kant使s Refutation: the so카지노 게임 컬렉션恈alled Causal Reading. I argue that the starting point of Kant카지노 게임 컬렉션檚 argument according to the Causal Reading카지노 게임 컬렉션攏amely, causal knowledge of one카지노 게임 컬렉션檚 subjective states카지노 게임 컬렉션攂egs the question against the skeptic. In its place, I defend a different interpretation of the Refutation, according to which its starting point is the mere awareness of one카지노 게임 컬렉션檚 temporally unified subjective states. I conclude by responding to two objections that are often thought to tell decisively against Kant카지노 게임 컬렉션檚 argument.