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 20: Session 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 20: Session 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 21: Session 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 21: Session 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