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SUMMARY:KANT AND THE SYSTEMATICITY OF THE SCIENCES
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LOCATION:IG Farben-Haus\, Frankfurt am Main\, Germany
DESCRIPTION:<p>What defines science? In what way is scientific knowledge different from other kinds of knowledge? These&nbsp\;questions\, which are often seen as central to philosophy of science\, do not have obvious answers. Is it the way in&nbsp\;which claims are justified in science that characterizes scientific knowledge? Or is it the way in which its theories are&nbsp\;ordered and relate to one another? Or again\, is it the method through which knowledge is achieved that defines&nbsp\;what science is? Kant had a straightforward answer to these questions: what is fundamental in science and what&nbsp\;distinguishes science from other forms of knowledge is its systematic nature. Is this claim a historical extravagance\,&nbsp\;an unnecessary demand for a &ldquo\;procrustean bed&rdquo\; (Schopenhauer) or a baroque architecture into which scientific&nbsp\;knowledge has to be moulded? Or are these Kantian assumptions defensible and valuable even today?&nbsp\;<br><br>The conference will be devoted to four main topics of discussion. First\, the historical context: How did Kant depart&nbsp\;from earlier views about systematicity\, as well as from competing notions of what distinguishes scientific&nbsp\;knowledge? What historical contexts and problems could have made it plausible to come up with novel ideas about&nbsp\;the nature of science? Second\, the general notion of systematicity: How should we understand the constituent&nbsp\;elements of his concept of systematicity\, such as &ldquo\;idea&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;schema&rdquo\;\, &ldquo\;unity&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;completeness&rdquo\;? What is the&nbsp\;status of claims of systematicity? And what is the function of systematicity in general? Third\, application of the&nbsp\;general notion: How did Kant employ the notion in his thinking about particular disciplines\, such as cosmology\,&nbsp\;physics\, chemistry\, mathematics\, anthropology\, or history? How flexibly does he adapt the notion and the&nbsp\;requirements of systematicity in his accounts of the structure and limits of the special sciences? Fourth\, current&nbsp\;relevance: How do Kant&rsquo\;s views compare to current views about the nature of the sciences?</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Gabriele Gava;CN=Thomas Sturm;CN=Achim Vesper:
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