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The impact of Kant’s philosophical work on the different directions of the development of science and culture in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries is so great that posterity will undoubtedly not hesitate to establish a parallel between it and the millenarian influence that Plato and Aristotle have exerted on Western history and culture. The breath of his theoretical and practical influence during more than two centuries surpasses that of any other figure of modernity. This is especially the case of the phenomenological and hermeneutic traditions since their origin, in their debates with scientific positivism, and during the complex course of their subsequent development.
Indeed, Kant inspires the first defenders of the formal sciences and the human sciences from 1870 onwards: in the schools of Baden and Marburg and in the development of contemporary neo-criticism with Dilthey’s hermeneutics and later with Cassirer’s critical symbolism. The first gives a decisive boost to the “critique of historical reason” as well as to human and cultural sciences. The second highlights the role of Kant’s transcendental imagination in the constitution of symbolic thought, language and art.
The emergence of Husserl’s phenomenology in 1900 and its subsequent development draws on both neo-Kantian schools, as well as Dilthey. A little later, Scheler, inspired by Husserl’s concept of a material a priori, proposes a “material ethics of values” in critical dialogue with Kantian formalism, while Heidegger—in debate with Kant the “metaphysician”—is responsible for the turn from transcendental phenomenology towards a hermeneutics of historical existence, which gains new impetus both with Gadamer and, later, with Ricoeur. Several other figures in phenomenology and hermeneutics represent ramifications of this strand, such as Hannah Arendt and her sui generis reappropriation of Kant’s “reflective judgment” in the realm of practical philosophy.
Even today, Kant is an unavoidable reference for “Continental” philosophers interested in exploring the philosophical-epistemological foundations of the physical and/or cognitive sciences.
In short, Kant’s work continues to be a philosophical reference for the main reflections in current science and culture. For this reason, the XX Journeys on Phenomenology and Hermeneutics of the Peruvian Circle of Phenomenology and Hermeneutics is dedicated this year to the commemoration of Emmanuel Kant’s 300 birth anniversary, and his legacy.
If you are interested in participating, please send your tentative title and abstract to cipher@pucp.edu.pe until de 15th of august 2024.
Keynote speakers
Steven Crowell
Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Rice University (USA). He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Yale University. He specializes in twentieth-century European philosophy, especially the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and its development in Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Arendt; hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur); and post-structuralism (Derrida, Lyotard). He has also written on Kant, German Idealism, Neo-Kantianism, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard. He has systematic interests in metaphysics, meta-ethics, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and philosophy of history. Crowell edited the Cambridge Companion to Existentialism (2021), co-edited Husserl Studies (with Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl [Graz]), and is Founding Editor (with Burt Hopkins) of the New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy. His books include Normativity and Phenomenology in Husserl and Heidegger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), winner of the Symposium Book Award, Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, 2014, and Husserl, Heidegger, and the Space of Meaning: Paths Toward Transcendental Phenomenology (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2001), winner of the Edward Goodwin Ballard Prize for the best book in phenomenology, 2002.
Thomas Nenon
Professor of Philosophy and Vice Provost for Assessment, Institutional Research, and Reporting at the University of Memphis. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg, and worked as an editor at the Husserl-Archives and instructor at the University of Freiburg. His teaching and research interests include Husserl, Heidegger, Kant and German Idealism, hermeneutics, and the philosophy of the social sciences. He has been co-editor (along with Hans-Rainer Sepp) of volumes XXV and XXVII of the Husserliana series; he has also served as review editor for Husserl Studies, as a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, as Director of the Center for the Humanities, and is President of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology (CARP). His current research interests include Husserl’s theories of personhood and subjectivity, and Kant’s and Hegel’s practical philosophy. Among his numerous works he has authored Objektivität und endliche Erkenntnis: Kants transzendentalphilosophische Theorie der Wahrheit (Freiburg: Alber Verlag, 1986) He has also co-edited books such as Husserl’s Ideen (with Lester Embree) (Berlin, New York, Springer, 2012), and Advancing Phenomenology: Essays in Honor of Lester Embree (co-editor with Philip Blosser) (Springer, Dordrecht, 2010).
Dennis Schmidt
Research Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Research Initiative at Western Sydney University. He has taught at Penn State, Villanova, and SUNY-Binghamton, and in visiting appointments at the University of Rome (“La Sapienza”) and the University of Freiburg. He obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston College. In addition to his own publications, he edits the SUNY Series in Continental Philosophy. His areas of interest and work are Ancient Philosophy, Post-Kantian Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics, Literary Criticism, and Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics. He has authored several books, including Between Word and Image: Heidegger, Gadamer, and Klee (Indiana University Press, 2012), Idiome der Wahrheit (Klostermann Verlag, 2012), Lyrical and Ethical Subjects (SUNY Press, 2005), On Germans and Other Greeks (Indiana University Press, 2001), Hermeneutische Wege (co-edited with Günter Figal, Mohr-Siebeck Verlag, 2000), and The Ubiquity of the Finite (MIT Press, 1988).
Andrés Francisco Contreras Sánchez
PhD in Philosophy from the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and the Complutense University of Madrid. He has been awarded scholarships for academic merit by the University of the Andes (Colombia), the Carolina Foundation (Spain), and the French Government. Head of the research project “Tiempo, historicidad y lenguaje en la filosofía hermenéutica y la fenomenología” (2015-2018), and member of the inter-institutional research group “Hermeneutics in Contemporary Philosophical Discussion” (Colciencias COL0064191). He is a member of the Latin American Circle of Phenomenology (CLAFEN) and the Ibero-American Society for Heideggerian Studies (SIEH). He currently serves as an assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Antioquia (Colombia). His most recent publications on phenomenology and hermeneutics are: “El otro cuya palabra puede transformarse. El papel de la alteridad en la hermenéutica de Gadamer” (2018); “La respuesta de Gadamer al humanismo antimetafísico heideggeriano” (2017); “Historia y télos de la filosofía: El debate de Husserl, Heidegger y Gadamer en torno al humanismo” (2016); “Quién soy yo y quién eres tú? La reformulación gadameriana de la aperturidad de la existencia” (2015).
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