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mardi 27 septembre 2016
Kant's Copernician Turn : Reading the Analytic in Light of the B-Preface (S. Bird-Pollan)
Conférence | Talk
(University of Kentucky)
Kant's Copernician Turn : Reading the Analytic in Light of the B-Preface
Friday, September 30th, 2016
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In this paper I suggest that Kant’s
project is properly understood as departing from the ‘fact’ of experience, that
is, from the particular way the world impresses itself upon us. Against both
empiricism and rationalism which seek to free us from the contingencies experience
or nature by classifying nature once and for all, Kant’s project begins by acknowledging
our fundamental situatedness in experience and argues that nature can only be
made intelligible from within our interaction with it. Such intelligibility is
of a different kind than the intelligibility envisioned either by rationalists
or empiricists. Kant’s Copernican turn employs the metaphor of science’s inquiry
into nature as a way of understanding human subjectivity’s continued need to respond
or make sense of nature from within nature. For Kant this continued involvement
with nature is what makes us human. In the second part of my paper I read what
Kant says in the Analytic if the first Critique in light of this central claim
about our necessarily ongoing interaction with nature.
3:00pm
University of Ottawa
Desmarais Hall
Room 8161
jeudi 22 septembre 2016
Le Tourment de la guerre (J.C. Guillebaud)
Date: 26 septembre, 2016
- 19:30
Lieu: Collège
universitaire dominicain, 96 avenue Empress, Ottawa (ON)
Prix d'entrée
suggéré : $5
Bio: Jean-Claude Guillebaud est un écrivain,
essayiste, conférencier et journaliste français connu pour ses reportages
importants dans le monde des idées. Né le 21 mai 1944 à Alger, il est licencié
en droit, diplômé d'études supérieures de sciences criminelles.
Grande figure du
journalisme, il a débuté au journal Sud-Ouest en
1965 ; fut grand reporter au journal Le Monde de
1973 à 1980 ; lauréat du Prix Albert Londres en 1972. Il est éditorialiste
au Nouvel Observateur à partir de 2010 ; chroniqueur à l’hebdomadaire La Vie et au journal Sud Ouest Dimanche.
Il a présidé Reporters sans frontières (RSF)
de 1988 à 1993. Il a parrainé l’agence de presse associative Reporters d’espoirs fondée en 2007.
Directeur littéraire
aux Arènes et à l’Iconoclaste, il a longtemps été directeur littéraire au
Seuil. Il a également fondé les éditions Arléa en 1986. Ses livres ont été
couronnés par plusieurs prix notamment le Prix Roger Nimier pour Le voyage
à Kéren ; le Prix Jean-Jacques Rousseau pour La trahison des Lumières : enquête
sur le désarroi contemporain ; le Prix Renaudot Essai pour La tyrannie du plaisir ; le Prix européen de
l’essai Charles Veillon pour Le principe d’humanité ;
le Prix Humanisme de la Franc-maçonnerie française pour La force de conviction : à quoi pouvons-nous croire ?
mardi 13 septembre 2016
Models in Geometry and Logic (P. Blanchette)
Conférence | Talk
(University of Notre-Dame)
Models in Geometry and Logic
Friday, September 23rd, 2016
One
of the core questions in the philosophy of logic is the extent to which
the formal tools of modern
logic are faithful to the ordinary, non-formal notions that originally
motivate work in logic. This talk discusses the question of
faithfulness as it applies to the notions of consistency and
independence, and in particular to the use of models to show that
these relations obtain. The strategy of this talk is to discuss the
development of the modern notion of model from its origins in nineteenth
century geometry through its canonical formulation in the early
twentieth century, and to discuss various ways in which
the use of this tool does, but also various ways in which it does not,
allow us to answer ordinary, non-formal questions of consistency and
independence of the sort that a non-logician might be interested in.
3:00pm
University of Ottawa
Desmarais Hall
Room 8161
jeudi 8 septembre 2016
The Morality of Political Honours (S. Nili)
Conférence | Talk
***Event co-sponsored by Carleton University Philosophy, St-Paul Ethics and Public Affairs and University of Ottawa GSPIA***
***Event co-sponsored by Carleton University Philosophy, St-Paul Ethics and Public Affairs and University of Ottawa GSPIA***
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