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10. Berliner Kant-Kurs mit Karl Schafer: Kant's Reason

10. Berliner Kantkurs

Karl Schafer (UT Austin)
Kant's Reason

 

Der Berliner Kantkurs ist ein regelmässig stattfindendes Kompaktseminar, in dem international renommierte Forscherinnen und Forscher eigene neuere Arbeiten zu Kants Philosophie, ihrer philosophiegeschichtlichen Wirkung oder ihrer Rezeption in der zeitgenössischen systematischen Philosophie vorstellen. Nach Lucy Allais, Patricia Kitcher, Michael Friedman, Nick Stang, Marcus Willaschek, Robert Stern, Andrew Chignell, Michelle Kosch und Daniel Sutherland wird in diesem Jahr Karl Schafer (UT Austin) zu Gast sein und eine neue Interpretation von Kants Konzeption von Vernunft vorstellen.

Der Berliner Kantkurs richtet sich an interessierte fortgeschrittene Studierende und Fachphilosoph*innen aus Berlin und anderen Orten. Da die Anzahl der Teilnehmer*innen begrenzt ist, ist für die Teilnahme eine Anmeldung erforderlich (E-Mail an: chuguevg@hu-berlin.de). Bitte melden Sie sich bis zum 16. Juni 2023 an. Angemeldeten Teilnehmer*innen wird die Lektüre zum Kurs zugänglich gemacht.

 

10th Berlin Kant Course

Karl Schafer (UT Austin)
Kant's Reason

 

The Berlin Kant Course is a regularly occurring, compact seminar, where internationally known researchers present their own new work regarding Kant's philosophy, its influence on the history of philosophy, or its reception in contemporary systematic philosophy. After past seminars with Lucy Allais, Patricia Kitcher, Michael Friedman, Nick Stang, Marcus Willaschek, Andrew Chignell, Michelle Kosch, and Daniel Sutherland, our guest this year will be Karl Schafer (UT Austin), who will present a novel interpretation of Kant’s conception of reason and its significance for his philosophical system.

The Berlin Kant Course is aimed at advanced students and philosophers from Berlin and elsewhere. Because the number of participants is limited, registration is required in order to participate (E-Mail: chuguevg@hu-berlin.de). Please register by June 16, 2023. Registered participants will receive the readings.

 

Overall Course Description: Kant’s Reason develops a novel interpretation of Kant’s conception of reason and its significance for his philosophical system, focusing on several claims. First, it argues that Kant presents a powerful model for understanding the unity of theoretical and practical reason as two manifestations of a unified capacity for theoretical and practical understanding (or “comprehension”), both of which are governed by a version of the Principle of Sufficient Reason. At the same time, Kant’s Reason reads Kant as presenting us with a compelling picture of the role that reason (as a capacity or power) should play in a systematic approach to foundational philosophical questions. In doing so, it argues for an account of the fundamental norms that apply to rational beings that treats as fundamental neither substantive reasons, nor structural rationality, but instead reason as the power or capacity for theoretical and practical understanding. The result is a form of “rational constitutivism,” which contrasts with “reasons fundamentalism” and the forms of “agency-first constitutivism” that have dominated Kantian metaethics. In this sense, the book’s aim is to vindicate Kant’s insistence that his philosophy represents nothing more or less than reason’s implicit self-understanding coming to explicit and systematic self-consciousness.

 

Schedule and recommended readings:

 

 

Monday, June 19: Department talk, 18:15-19:45

Unter den Linden 6, Raum 1070

Title: Constitutivism and Idealism in Kantian Metaethics

 

 

 

Tuesday, June 20Session 1, 10:00-12:30

Unter den Linden 6, Raum 2070a

Title: Overview and Reason as the Capacity for Comprehension

 

Main Reading: Chapters 4 of Kant’s Reason

Recommended Background: Introduction and Chapter 2 of Kant’s Reason

Background Primary Sources: A293/B249-A338/B396, B376–7, A820/B848-A831/B859, Log 9:33-72, 9:114-133, V-Lo/Blomberg 24:133–5, KpV 5:3-20, 5:120-146

 

 

Tuesday, June 20Session 2, 14:00-16:30

Unter den Linden 6, Raum 2070a

Title: The Supreme Principle of Reason in its Theoretical Use and the PSR

 

Main Reading: Chapter 5 of Kant’s Reason

Background Primary Sources: A293/B249-A338/B396, A642/B670-A704/B732, A820/B848-A831/B859, KpV 5:134-146

 

 

Wednesday, June 21Session 3, 09:30-12:00

Unter den Linden 6, Raum 2070a

Title: The Principle of Practical Reason: The Moral Law and the Practical PSR

 

Main Reading: Chapter 6 of Kant’s Reason

Recommended Reading: Chapter 7 of Kant’s Reason

Background Primary Sources: GMS 4:406-445, KpV 5:19-41, 5:107-120

 

 

Wednesday, June 21Session 4, 13:30-16:00

Unter den Linden 6, Raum 2070a

Title: Kant’s Rational Constitutivism and Reason-First Philosophy

 

Main Reading: Chapters 1, 3 and Conclusion of Kant’s Reason

Background Primary Sources: KpV 5:19-41, Log 9:13-26, GMS 4:446-463, KU 5:167-179