[PHILOS-L] Workshop: Theoretical – Practical – Pragmatic: Applications of Kant’s Reason in Interplay
Davide Dalla Rosa
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Workshop
Theoretical – Practical – Pragmatic
Applications of Kant’s Reason in Interplay
July 18–19, 2024
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Institute of Philosophy
Venue: Online (via Zoom)
Description: Kant’s notion of reason has many facets, ranging from its
uses in explicating and systematising scientific cognitions to defining the boundaries and (both epistemic and practical) ends of specific sciences (cf. Sturm 2020). Still, as is well known, Kant advocates the idea of the unity of reason, which presupposes that different terms in relation to reason are only different ways of applying reason and, in reality, denote the same reason but are used in different spheres (KrV A 645 / B 673). The three main spheres of application of reason, which cover all spheres of human rationality, are the ones of theoretical (scientific cognition and logical analysis), practical (morality, what is proper in relation to others), and pragmatic use of reason (social interactions, what is practically achievable in the empirical world). However, while his arguments in favour of this unity have been studied in detail, much less attention has been paid to the forms and limitations in the concrete application of this idea, namely to the interaction between theoretical, practical and pragmatic use of reason in various dimensions of Kant’s thought – from his epistemology, ethics and aesthetics to political philosophy, philosophy of law and anthropology. The interplay between theoretical, practical and pragmatic does not just raise interpretive questions related to Kant’s account of reason broadly meant, but also involves the cognitive implications of using said faculty. It relates to Kant’s account of reasoning, i.e. the theory of judging and inferential reasoning, whose forms are established by general logic. Some interpretive questions that arise in this respect regard the cognitive exercise of the higher cognitive faculties in both the theoretical and the practical domain, for instance, regarding the cognitive nature of practical judgments with respect to their relationship to theoretical judgments. A separate problem is how the pragmatic use of reason relates to practical and theoretical reason, how they are connected and interact with each other. Answers to these questions could provide a more wholesome picture of human rationality from a Kantian perspective. The workshop aims to fill these gaps, as it will cover several key areas of Kant’s thought while, at the same time, providing examples of the relevance of Kant’s idea of the unity of reason for contemporary debates in philosophy and social sciences.
Organisation: The workshop is organised by Davide Dalla Rosa (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), Alexey Salikov (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), and Alexey Zhavoronkov (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
List of participants: Ralf Bader (Université de Fribourg), Achim Brosch (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), Damiano Canale (Università Bocconi Milano), Davide Dalla Rosa (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), Olga Lenczewska (University of North Carolina, Wilmington), Sofie Møller (Universität zu Köln), Roberta Pasquare (independent scholar), Alexey Salikov (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), Nuria Sánchez Madrid (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Martin Sticker (University of Bristol), Thomas Sturm (ICREA & UAB Barcelona), Alexey Zhavoronkov (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main).
More information and the programme can be found here: Workshop 2024 – KANT RATIONALITY (kant-social-rationality.net)
Registration: For additional information and to receive the Zoom link, please send a message to: kant.social...@gmail.com
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