[PHILOS-L] Reminder CFP Workshop on Habermas' Communicative Rationality

[Heloisa Valeria Castro]

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Call for Papers

Workshop in Honor of Jürgen Habermas

Communicative Rationality: Contexts and Applications

July 23, 2026, online, Zoom meeting tbc

We invite submissions on Communicative Rationality in honor of the German Philosopher Jürgen
Habermas, who passed away on March 14, 2026. Communicative rationality represents the key-
notion to ground Habermas’ theory of truth and objectivity, rational discourses, ethical, moral and
political perspectives.

Speakers:
Lorenzo Magnani (University of Pavia), Discourse Ethic Revisited: Technology, Violence and
Moral Pluralism
Teodosio Orlando (University of Roma Tre), From Constitution to Communication: Habermas
Reading of Wittgenstein between Sellars, Frege and Husserl
Sergio Prado (Pontifical Lateran University), On Normative Pragmatics: Habermas’ Inheritance in
Brandom’s Thought and the Crisis of Digital Pollution
Raffaela Giovagnoli (Pontifical Lateran University, GSIS Vienna), Communicative Rationality,
Lifeworld and Religion
Uttariamuthu Jegan Bose (St. Paul’s Institute of Theology), Post-Truth: Undecidability, Assertibility
and Acceptability

The one-day workshop is online, with 30-minute slots.
You can send an abstract of max 500 words to the organizers by May 30, 2026.

We welcome proposals on:
Theory of communicative rationality
Communicative rationality and ethics
Communicative rationality and politics
Communicative rationality and history of philosophy

Applied communicative rationality (Anthropology, Communication, Cognitive Sciences and AI,
Philosophy of mind)

Organizers:

Raffaela Giovagnoli, Pontifical Lateran University & GSIS (Vienna), giova...@pul.it
Uttariamuthu Jegan Bose, St. Paul’s Institute of Theology, Tamil Nadu, India, frj...@gmail.com

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[Heloisa Valeria Castro]