The Institute of Philosophy is pleased to invite to the conference The Conflict of Mechanism and Teleology in Kant’s Critique of Judgment which will take place on Monday, 26 and Tuesday, 27 May 2025 in the Blackbox at Maison des Sciences Humaines, Campus Belval.
To register for this conference, please send an email to julian.grewe@uni.lu.
Programme
Monday, 26 May 2025
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9:20
Welcome and Introduction
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9:30 – 10:30
Peter McLaughlin: Mechanism, Teleology and the Organism (Lebenskraft and commercium)
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Coffee Break
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11:00 – 12:00
Paula Órdenes: Mechanism and Its Limits in Kant’s Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment
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12:00 – 13:00
Siegfried Roth: Distinctions between living and non-living in Kant and current analytical philosophy. A comparison with an outlook to modern biology
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Lunch Break
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14:30 – 15:30
Kristina Engelhard: Formative Power and the Antinomy of Teleological Judgment in Kant’s Third Critique
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Coffee Break
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16:00 – 17:00
Marcel Quarfood: The Presupposition of the Teleological Antinomy
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17:00 – 18:00
Julian Grewe: Revisiting the Constitutive Interpretation of the Antinomy of Teleological Judgment
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19:00
Conference Dinner
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
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9:30 – 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
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11:00 – 12:00
Lorenzo Spagnesi: Maxims of Inquiry: A Zetetic Solution to the Antinomy of Teleological Judgment
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12:00 – 13:00
Filippo Iorillo: Kant on the Peculiarity of our Human Understanding in the Dialectic of the Teleological Power of Judgment
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Lunch Break
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14:30 – 15:30
Dietmar Heidemann: The possibility of the Intuitive understanding
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Coffee Break
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16:00 – 17:00
Karen Koch: Kant on the Relation between Mechanism, Teleology, and Intuitive Understanding
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