We are pleased to give notice of the workshop The Conflict of Mechanism and Teleology in Kant’s Critique of Judgment, which will take place on May 26th-27th, at the Maison des Sciences Humaines – Institute of Philosophy University of Luxembourg.
The event is organized by Julian Grewe and Dietmar Heidemann.
For registration, please email: julian.grewe@uni.lu
For further information, please visit the workshop website.
Below you can find the program of the event.
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May, 26th 2025
09:30-10:30 Peter McLaughlin, Mechanism, Teleology and the Organism (Lebenskraft and commercium)
Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Paula Órdenes, Mechanism and Its Limits in Kant’s Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment
12:00-01:00 Siegfried Roth, Distinctions between living and non-living in Kant and current analytic philosophy. A comparison with an outlook to modern biology
Lunch break
02:30-03:30 Kristina Engelhard, Formative Power and the Antinomy of Teleological Judgment in Kant’s Third Critique
Coffee break
04:00-05:00 Marcel Quarfood, The Presupposition of the Teleological Antinomy
05:00-06:00 Julian Grewe, Revisiting the Constitutive Interpretation of the Antinomy of Teleological Judgment
May, 27th 2025
09:30-10:30 Ido Geiger, Is There a Conflict between the Maxims of Mechanism and Teleology? Description and Explanation in Kant’s Philosophy of Science
Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Lorenzo Spagnesi, Maxims of Inquiry: A Zetetic Solution to the Antinomy of Teleological Judgment
12:00-01:00 Filippo Iorillo, Kant on the Peculiarity of our Human Understanding in the Dialectic of the Teleological Power of Judgment
Lunch break
02:30-03:30 Dietmar Heidemann, The possibility of the intuitive understanding
Coffee break
04:00-05:00 Karen Koch, Kant on the Relation between Mechanism, Teleology, and Intuitive Understanding
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