October 18, 2024 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM

Kaplan Hall 193 & Zoom

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Join us on October 18, 2024 for a colloquium with Anil Gomes, Oxford – Trinity College. The talk will take place in Kaplan Hall 193 from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow.

Faith and World

What connection, if any, is there between being self-conscious and being related to an objective world? Answers to this question thread through early modern discussions of the mind and then again, transmuted and transformed, across different twentieth-century traditions. My aim today is to clarify the question and set out some of the routes by means of which philosophers have attempted to establish a connection. The intent is to make salient two points: first, the relevance to the question of Lichtenberg’s enigmatic remarks on the ‘I think’, and second, the role that faith and practice play in answering it.

Anil Gomes is Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Trinity College, Oxford, and a Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Oxford. He has written on a range of topics in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and the work of Iris Murdoch.

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