INDUCTIVE METAPHYSICS
  • Subprojects 2017-2020
    • A1: The Research Programme of Inductive Metaphysics from Gustav Theodor Fechner to Erich Becher and beyond
    • A2: Creative Abductive Inference and Its Role for Inductive Metaphysics in Comparison to Other Metaphysical Methods
    • A4: Kant and Inductive Methods in 18th Century Metaphysics
    • B1: Modality in Physics and in Metaphysics
    • B2: Properties and Property Individuation
    • B4: Determinism, Control, and the Consequence Argument
    • B5: Statistical Causation, Intervention, and Freedom
  • Subprojects 2020-2023
    • A1: Inductive Metaphysics and Logical Empiricism
    • A2: Creative Abductive Inference and its Role for Inductive Metaphysics
    • A4: Inductive Methods in Kant and Neo-Kantianism
    • B6: The Role of Inference to the best explanation in the discovery of Gravitational Waves
    • B7: Graded Causation
    • B8: The Time of science and the time of our lives
    • B9: Complex biological dispositions: a case study in the metaphysics of biological practice
    • B10: Metaphysics of Evolution: justification and ontology of generalized evolution theory
    • B11: Abductive Methodology in the philosophy of logic
  • Events
    • Inductive Metaphysics: Insights, Challenges and Prospects
    • Non-Reductionism in the Metaphysics of Mind
    • Essences, Dispositions and Laws in Kant
    • The Methodology of Logic: Abductivist and Non-abductivist Approaches
    • Grounding and the Direction of Explanation
    • Wochenendseminar zur Philosophie der Physik
    • Dispositions in the Life-Sciences Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
    • New Work on Induction and Abduction
    • Compatibilist Libertarianism: Advantages and Challenges
    • Metaphysics as Modelling. Contemporary and Kantian Issues
    • Laws and Explanations in Metaphysics and Science
    • Causation and Responsibility
    • Thinking About the Cultural Evolution of Thinking
    • Causal Distinctions: Specificity and Beyond
    • Free Will and Causality
    • Epistemic Engineering
    • Counterpossibles, Counternomics and Causal Theories of Properties
    • The Possibility of Metaphysics
    • Abduction and Modelling in Metaphysics
    • Kant's Concepts of Metaphysics
    • Freedom and Determinism
    • What Do We Do When We Do Metaphysics?
    • Properties and Laws in the Light of Inductive Metaphysics
    • Free Will and Laws of Nature
    • Traditional and Inductive Metaphysics
    • Spacetime: Fundamental or Emergent?
  • People
  • Research
    • Publications
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International Workshop

Kant's concepts of metaphysics
Aprioristic and Non-Aprioristic?

International Workshop
Kant's Concepts of Metaphysics: Aprioristic and Non-Aprioristic?
University of Luxembourg, Campus Belval,
Building: MSA, Room 3.120
Nov 26 - Nov 27, 2018

This workshop is organised by Kristina Engelhard (TU Dortmund) and Dietmar Heidemann (University of Luxembourg). It is co-funded and co-organised by the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Luxembourg and the DFG-funded research group "Inductive Metaphysics" (FOR 2495).

Description

According to widespread understanding of Kant’s critical doctrine, in metaphysics knowledge or cognition respectively is acquired independently of experience. There are in fact passages in Kant’s work that explicitly say that this even is an analytic feature of metaphysics in general. The critique of metaphysics in the Critique or Pure Reason aims at this specific concept. On the contrary – and probably because of Kant’s ground-breaking critique of metaphysics and follow up positivistic challenges –, according to many contemporary metaphysicians, this discipline should be pursued on empirical grounds, i.e. it should make use of experiential data and of inductive methods that are successfully used in the empirical sciences, like abductive inference or inference to the best explanation.
 
The aim of this workshop is to elaborate a more differentiated picture of Kant’s account of metaphysics. We are interested in questions like the following: What are Kant’s pre-critical and critical concepts of metaphysics? How do they relate to traditional metaphysics? Which methodology does Kant ascribe to metaphysics?  Which sources of knowledge can metaphysics make use of according to Kant? What concepts of metaphysics can be extracted from Kant’s own metaphysics in practice, i.e., what sources of knowledge and what methods does he use in his works? Are there non-aprioristic elements in Kant’s pre-critical and/or critical writings on metaphysics? Are there relevant differences between metaphysics in Kant’s theoretical and practical philosophy?

Speakers
  • Sabrina Bauer (Heidelberg)
  • John Callanan (London)
  • Andrew Chignell (Princeton)
  • Kristina Engelhard (Dortmund)
  • Brigitte Falkenburg (Dortmund)
  • Anton Friedrich Koch (Heidelberg)
  • Bernd Ludwig (Göttingen)
  • Ansgar Seide (Münster)
  • Marcus Willaschek (Frankfurt/M.)

Program

Monday, Nov 26

13:00 - 13:30

13:30 - 14:30

14:30 - 15:00

15:00 - 16:00

16:00 - 16:30

16:30 - 17:30

17:30 - 18:30

Welcome

Brigitte Falkenburg: "Kant's Pre-Critical Metaphysics and the Analogy to Newtonian Science"

coffee break

Bernd Ludwig: "Drei Arten der Analysis – und die Struktur der Kritischen Philosophie (1781-85)"

coffee break

Kristina Engelhard: "Non-aprioristic elements in Kant’s critical practice of metaphysics?"

Marcus Willaschek: "Kant on the A priori Sources of Metaphysics"


Tuesday, Nov 27

10:00 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:30

​11:30 - 12:30

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12:30 - 14:00

14:00 - 15:00

15:00 - 15:30

15:30 - 16:30

16:30 - 17:30
John Callanan: "The Boundary of Pure Reason"

​coffee break

Ansgar Seide: "The Relation Between Empirical and A priori Elements in Kant's Special
Metaphysics of Nature"
lunch

Andrew Chignell: "Kant's Liberal Method in Metaphysics"

coffee break

Anton Friedrich Koch: "Das transzendental Notwendige ist metaphysisch unmöglich"

Sabrina Bauer: "Metaphysica scientia prima cognitionis humanae principia continens est? – Kants Kritik des 'Schulbegriffs' der Metaphysik"

Registration

Everybody is welcome, but please send a short email to Katalin Turai (katalin.turai@uni.lu) to let us know you are coming.

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  • Subprojects 2017-2020
    • A1: The Research Programme of Inductive Metaphysics from Gustav Theodor Fechner to Erich Becher and beyond
    • A2: Creative Abductive Inference and Its Role for Inductive Metaphysics in Comparison to Other Metaphysical Methods
    • A4: Kant and Inductive Methods in 18th Century Metaphysics
    • B1: Modality in Physics and in Metaphysics
    • B2: Properties and Property Individuation
    • B4: Determinism, Control, and the Consequence Argument
    • B5: Statistical Causation, Intervention, and Freedom
  • Subprojects 2020-2023
    • A1: Inductive Metaphysics and Logical Empiricism
    • A2: Creative Abductive Inference and its Role for Inductive Metaphysics
    • A4: Inductive Methods in Kant and Neo-Kantianism
    • B6: The Role of Inference to the best explanation in the discovery of Gravitational Waves
    • B7: Graded Causation
    • B8: The Time of science and the time of our lives
    • B9: Complex biological dispositions: a case study in the metaphysics of biological practice
    • B10: Metaphysics of Evolution: justification and ontology of generalized evolution theory
    • B11: Abductive Methodology in the philosophy of logic
  • Events
    • Inductive Metaphysics: Insights, Challenges and Prospects
    • Non-Reductionism in the Metaphysics of Mind
    • Essences, Dispositions and Laws in Kant
    • The Methodology of Logic: Abductivist and Non-abductivist Approaches
    • Grounding and the Direction of Explanation
    • Wochenendseminar zur Philosophie der Physik
    • Dispositions in the Life-Sciences Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
    • New Work on Induction and Abduction
    • Compatibilist Libertarianism: Advantages and Challenges
    • Metaphysics as Modelling. Contemporary and Kantian Issues
    • Laws and Explanations in Metaphysics and Science
    • Causation and Responsibility
    • Thinking About the Cultural Evolution of Thinking
    • Causal Distinctions: Specificity and Beyond
    • Free Will and Causality
    • Epistemic Engineering
    • Counterpossibles, Counternomics and Causal Theories of Properties
    • The Possibility of Metaphysics
    • Abduction and Modelling in Metaphysics
    • Kant's Concepts of Metaphysics
    • Freedom and Determinism
    • What Do We Do When We Do Metaphysics?
    • Properties and Laws in the Light of Inductive Metaphysics
    • Free Will and Laws of Nature
    • Traditional and Inductive Metaphysics
    • Spacetime: Fundamental or Emergent?
  • People
  • Research
    • Publications
    • Talks
  • Contact