Yes we Kant!
Critical reflections on objectivity:
its meaning, its limitations, its fateful omissions
May 27-29, 2010
Ghent-Belgium
Centre for Critical Philosophy
www.criticalphilosophy.ugent.be
CFP:
"The aim of this three-day international workshop is to present and
exchange various critical viewpoints on objectivity and subjectivity,
and to more specifically focus on the various interpretations of
necessity in its relation to contingency. This approach on the matter
can find inspiration in Kant’s third Critique, but this source of
inspiration should certainly not be considered as the only possible
one. Husserl's gesture to extrapolate the co-constitutive relation
between objectivity and subjectivity to history is but one example of
objectivity seen from a dynamical, contingently, historically and
subjectively grounded background, the life-world. The meeting is open
to explore other backgrounds.
To realize that end, we invited speakers from different disciplinary
backgrounds – physics, mathematics, biology, human and social sciences,
– and embedded in quite divergent philosophical contexts. This
meeting is not in the first place about critically, exegetically,
discussing Kant’s texts. Its aim is rather to inquire whether, and in
what sense, a return to Kant and to neo-Kantianism can be important to
open unsuspected perspectives on objectivity (and subjectivity). We
conjecture that this approach can be relevant (i) for a contemporary
reading of basic texts in the tradition of transcendental philosophy,
(ii) for a conception of objectivity that can have a relevance in
current philosophy and in philosophy of science in particular, and
(iii) for the development of a transcendental viewpoint in philosophy
of science, supplementing and challenging current dominant analytical
viewpoints."
