180044 SE Against Hume: Mary Shepherd's Philosophy of Causation (2023W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 04.09.2023 09:00 to Su 10.09.2023 23:59
- Registration is open from Mo 18.09.2023 09:00 to Su 24.09.2023 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Tu 31.10.2023 23:59
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Wednesday
11.10.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 3D, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. III/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Wednesday
18.10.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 3D, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. III/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Wednesday
25.10.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 3D, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. III/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Wednesday
08.11.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 3D, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. III/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Wednesday
15.11.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 3D, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. III/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Wednesday
22.11.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 3D, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. III/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
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29.11.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 3D, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. III/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
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06.12.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 3D, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. III/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Wednesday
13.12.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 3D, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. III/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Wednesday
10.01.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 3D, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. III/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Wednesday
17.01.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 3D, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. III/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Wednesday
24.01.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 3D, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. III/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
Wednesday
31.01.
09:45 - 11:15
Hörsaal 3D, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. III/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
§5. Evaluation procedureThe final grade consists of two evaluation procedures:1. Students are asked to submit questions on assigned readings (minimum of 75% of the assignments are required); these questions will be evaluated;2. Students are required to submit a short essay on a topic related to the seminar;
(1500 - 3000 words; *in English or German*)
Submission deadline: 31.03.2024The final grade is calculated as follows:Note of 1. (questions) x 0.4 + Note of 2. (essay) x 0.6The conversion of points to the Austrian system follows this table:8.8–10=1
7.5–8.7=2
6.3–7.4=3
5.0–6.2=4
0 – 4.9 = 5§6. Contact, submission of lists, essay (etc.)
julio.brotero.de.rizzo@univie.ac.at
(1500 - 3000 words; *in English or German*)
Submission deadline: 31.03.2024The final grade is calculated as follows:Note of 1. (questions) x 0.4 + Note of 2. (essay) x 0.6The conversion of points to the Austrian system follows this table:8.8–10=1
7.5–8.7=2
6.3–7.4=3
5.0–6.2=4
0 – 4.9 = 5§6. Contact, submission of lists, essay (etc.)
julio.brotero.de.rizzo@univie.ac.at
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
The following are requirements for approval in the course:
- Regular attendance and participation;
- Submission of questions on 75% of the reading assignments;
- At least 4 (converted grade) on the essay.
- Regular attendance and participation;
- Submission of questions on 75% of the reading assignments;
- At least 4 (converted grade) on the essay.
Examination topics
Texts, slides and notes of discussions.
Reading list
Primary Literature:
D. Hume:
• 1739-1740, A Treatise of Human Nature
• 1748, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
M. Shepherd:
• 1824, An Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect, London: T. Hookam.
• 1827, Essays on the Perception of the External Universe, Antonia LoLordo (ed.) OUP.
Secondary Literature:
• Atherton, Margaret, 1996, “Lady Mary Shepherd’s Case Against Berkeley”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 4(2): 348–366. doi:10.1080/09608789608570945
• Bolton, Martha Brandt, 2010, “Causality and Causal Induction: the Necessitarian Theory of Lady Mary Shepherd”, in Causation in Modern Philosophy, Keith Allen and Tom Stoneham (eds.), London: Routledge: 242–261.
• –––, 2019, “Lady Mary Shepherd and David Hume on Cause and Effect”, in Feminist History of Philosophy: The Recovery and Evaluation of Women’s Philosophical Work, Eileen O’Neill and Marcy Lascano (eds,), Cham: Springer: 129–152.
• –––, 2017, “Mary Shepherd”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/mary-shepherd/>.
• Fantl, Jeremy, 2016, “Mary Shepherd on Causal Necessity”, Metaphysica, 17(1): 87–108.
• Garrett, Don, forthcoming, “External Existence and the Rejection of Idealism in Hume and Shepherd”, in Essays on Mary Shepherd: Causation, Mind, and Knowledge, K. Fields (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Rickless, Samuel, forthcoming, “Shepherd’s Argument for the Causal Maxim: ‘There is No Object Which Begins to Exist, But Must Owe Its Existence to Some Cause’” in Essays on Mary Shepherd: Causation, Mind, and Knowledge, K. Fields (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Tanner, Travis, 2022, “How Good was Shepherd’s Response to Hume’s Epistemological Challenge?”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy (30.1): 71–89.
• Wilson, Jennifer, forthcoming, “On Mary Shepherd’s Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect”, in Neglected Classics of Philosophy, II, Eric Schliesser (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
D. Hume:
• 1739-1740, A Treatise of Human Nature
• 1748, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
M. Shepherd:
• 1824, An Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect, London: T. Hookam.
• 1827, Essays on the Perception of the External Universe, Antonia LoLordo (ed.) OUP.
Secondary Literature:
• Atherton, Margaret, 1996, “Lady Mary Shepherd’s Case Against Berkeley”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 4(2): 348–366. doi:10.1080/09608789608570945
• Bolton, Martha Brandt, 2010, “Causality and Causal Induction: the Necessitarian Theory of Lady Mary Shepherd”, in Causation in Modern Philosophy, Keith Allen and Tom Stoneham (eds.), London: Routledge: 242–261.
• –––, 2019, “Lady Mary Shepherd and David Hume on Cause and Effect”, in Feminist History of Philosophy: The Recovery and Evaluation of Women’s Philosophical Work, Eileen O’Neill and Marcy Lascano (eds,), Cham: Springer: 129–152.
• –––, 2017, “Mary Shepherd”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/mary-shepherd/>.
• Fantl, Jeremy, 2016, “Mary Shepherd on Causal Necessity”, Metaphysica, 17(1): 87–108.
• Garrett, Don, forthcoming, “External Existence and the Rejection of Idealism in Hume and Shepherd”, in Essays on Mary Shepherd: Causation, Mind, and Knowledge, K. Fields (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Rickless, Samuel, forthcoming, “Shepherd’s Argument for the Causal Maxim: ‘There is No Object Which Begins to Exist, But Must Owe Its Existence to Some Cause’” in Essays on Mary Shepherd: Causation, Mind, and Knowledge, K. Fields (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Tanner, Travis, 2022, “How Good was Shepherd’s Response to Hume’s Epistemological Challenge?”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy (30.1): 71–89.
• Wilson, Jennifer, forthcoming, “On Mary Shepherd’s Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect”, in Neglected Classics of Philosophy, II, Eric Schliesser (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Association in the course directory
Last modified: Mo 09.10.2023 09:07
Causation plays a prominent role in both of Shepherd’s major works, the Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect (1824) and the Essays on the Perception of the External Universe (1827). In them, she critically engages with one of the major philosophers of her time, David Hume, in a rather for the epoch surprisingly clear way; and presents her positive views on a wide variety of topics such as causation, epistemic justification, perception, which are not only interesting in their own right, but share interesting features with the views put forward by e.g. Leibniz and Kant.
In this course, we will go through Hume’s view on causation, as laid down in his Treatise and Enquiry; and will examine Shepherd’s criticism thereof, as well as her own accounts on causes and effects and related topics. By way of stage setting, we will also cover some of the more general debate around causation in the 17th and 18th centuries.§2. Course AimsTo discuss the debate around causation in modern writers, with special emphasis on the views of David Hume and Mary Shepherd.§3. MethodologyExposition and discussion of texts. Some acquaintance with formal logic is a requirement. Though the seminar and the main literature will be in English, students are allowed to ask questions in German.
No previous acquaintance with either Hume or Shepherd is required.§4. Course Structure
The course is divided into three parts:
1. Introduction to causation in modern philosophy;
- A script written by the instructor will be made available
2. The Humean View on Causation
- Reading of selected excerpts of the Treatise and the Enquiry;
3. Against Hume: Shepherd on Causation
- Reading of selected chapters of Shepherd’s two essays.