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Lecture: Dietmar Heidemann, “Kant’s Capacitism and Theory of Rationality” (Online, 26 November 2025)

We are glad to announce that Dietmar Heidemann (University of Luxembourg), will give a lecture entitled Kant’s Capacitism and Theory of Rationality.
The event will find place online (Webex) on November 26th, 2025 (6.00 pm – 7.30 pm CET). Please find the Webex link here.

The talk is part of the lecture series Digital Kant-Lectures, organized by Digital Kant-Centre NRW.

Below you can find the abstract of the lecture.

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The paper connects the debate about Kant’s capacitism with the debate about additive and transformative rationality. It proposes to conceive Kant’s capacitism as faculty-capacitism. On this view, faculty and capacity must be distinguished because it is only by means of its unique capacity that a faculty can be individuated and characterized. Kantian faculty-capacitism, it is then argued, makes a good case against the dichotomy of additive vs. transformative conceptions of rationality and shows why Kantian rationality is rather subtractive.

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