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SUMMARY:The influence of neo-Kantian structural realism on the modernist a
 esthetics of TS Eliot and James Joyce - Maddie Geddes-Barton (Faculty of E
 nglish)
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CONTACT:Toby Bryant
DESCRIPTION:The aim of my thesis is to explore the connections between neo
 -Kantian structuralism in the philosophy of science in the 1920s and 20s a
 nd the pattern based aesthetics of literary modernism. At the moment I am 
 working on James Joyce and T.S. Eliot\, who (between them) had read popula
 r works by Poincare\, Russell\, Whitehead\, Eddington and James Jeans as w
 ell as numerous journal articles discussing contemporary trends in scienti
 fic metaphysics and epistemology.\n\nIn the workshop I am primarily intere
 sted in getting clear on the philosophy of science. In developing an accou
 nt of the literary response to (what I am calling) 'structuralist' philoso
 phy of science\, I need to clarify what this philosophy is and how it is d
 istinguished from other currents in contemporary philosophy in the 1910s\,
  20s and 30s. I am particularly concerned to get clear on the distinction 
 between neo-Kantian 'structuralism' (and Whitehead's holist metaphysics) o
 n the one hand\, and the sense-data school of empiricism. As I see it an i
 mportant distinction is that the latter founds all knowledge upon immediat
 e experience\, whilst the former repudiates the notion of unmediated exper
 ience. 
LOCATION:Whipple Museum\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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