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What are concepts or general ideas? And how are they acquired? Professor James Conant begins by discussing these questions in relation to the views of John Locke and his theory of abstraction. He then goes on to discuss Kant's critique of Locke and the empiricists, as well as some issues that arise in Kant, including a famous issue in section 77 of the Critique of Judgment, as well as a problem that was later brought to light by Wittgenstein in his famous discussion of rule-following.

Uploaded 08-08-21

This is a version of an upload from the previous channel. The clips come from a lecture given by professor James Conant back in 2005 at the University of Bergen in Norway. Note, the audio has been edited and significantly improved, but the original can be found here: http://wittgensteinrepository.org/ojs/index.php/agora-wab/article/view/3148/3850

James Conant's Series on Skepticism: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhP9EhPApKE8muoMpX8qQ-14zKnYPc5VI

Conant with Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam on Truth and Pragmatism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxL0fQcrjzQ

00:00 Locke on Concepts and Abstraction
05:16 Kant and his Critique of Empiricism
10:19 Section 77 of Kant's Third Critique
14:26 Kant and Wittgenstein on Rule-Following
19:51 Goethe and Schiller

#philosophy #epistemology #kant #locke #historyofphilosophy #empiricism



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