Event

International research workshop “The Powers and Limits of Rational Reflection”

  • Speaker  Cristina Borgoni, Frank Hofmann, Yannick Kohl, Hilary Kornblith, Maria Lasonen-Aarnio, Anna-Sara Malmgren, Ram Neta, Mona Simion, Kurt Sylvan.

  • Location

    MSH, Black Box, ground floor.

    MSH, Black Box, Campus Belval

    Esch-Belval, LU

  • Topic(s)
    Humanities

Roughly, ‘rational reflection’ is the capacity for thinking and reasoning about normative features of one’s own attitudes in a reflective and self-conscious way and with the aim of forming more appropriate attitudes. While it is an open question whether all reasoning requires this capacity, it is clear that it is a very important element in the cognitive toolbox of mature human agents. How does it work? What are its powers and limits?