[SydPhil] HPS Research - James Ley: Cutting nature at the joints, or just chunking it? The parts of madness in Plato's Phaedrus

[Debbie Castle]

Dear All,
The next in the online HPS Research Seminar Series will be presented by James Ley, University of Sydney.
Monday 14th September, 2020 from 5pm

Title:
Cutting nature at the joints, or just chunking it? The parts of madness in Plato's Phaedrus.

Abstract: I will argue that philosophers and historians of science should avoid the talk of cutting nature at the joints that they derive from the passage at 265e in Plato's Phaedrus. They should avoid this talk because a wider reading of the Phaedrus suggests that Plato confuses the metacognitive division of information described as 'chunking' by George A. Miller for a metaphysical division of nature into real or true kinds. I will trace some of the implications of this confusion by looking at the classification of the parts of madness that Plato produces in the Phaedrus and our present efforts to provide a proper classification of mental disorders.




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