Indeterminacy and Identity: Kant and Husserl on Moral Consciousness

<strong>JNU Philosophy Colloquium</strong> a lecture by <strong>Nishad Patnaik</strong> Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi on <strong>Indeterminacy and Identity: Kant and Husserl on Moral Consciousness</strong> This paper attempts to set up a dialogue between Kant and Husserl, by comparing their closely connected, yet distinct conceptions of moral consciousness, in relation to their respective articulations of the field of cognition. Such a dialogue turns out to be productive, insofar as it brings to light a fundamental 'structural' ambiguity, running through the 'theoretical'-cognitive and 'practical'-ethical aspects of rationality articulated by both thinkers. This ambiguity centers on the relation and distinction between the 'phenomenal' and 'noumenal', or 'immanence' and 'transcendence' that, mediated by the different manners in which the distinction is negotiated by the two thinkers, gives rise to analogous 'effects' or problematics in both domains. <strong>Chair : Manidipa Sen </strong> Centre for Philosophy, JNU, New Delhi Time :<strong> 18th March 2015 </strong>