Target audience: advanced bachelor students\, master students\, PhD students\, recent postdocs (with PhD received not before 2017).
\n\nIn his critical philosophy Kant argues that the central principles guiding our mind have a peculiar status. They are neither analytic nor a posteriori but rather synthetic a priori. But how can we distinguish between valid and invalid principles that share that status? Moreover\, according to Kant\, some of these synthetic a priori principles are the normative basis for the validity of our judgments about the world\, on one hand\, and our volitions\, on the other. How does Kant justify his controversial claims about synthetic principles a priori &ndash\; from the principles of the understanding\, to the categorical imperative\, to civil rights in a state? The task of the 2020 summer school will be to explore and evaluate Kant&rsquo\;s account of the normativity of those laws and principles. The guiding thread of our lectures and seminars will be marked by the following related questions: (1) how does Kant argue for (deduce) their binding force\, or validity\, and (2) is there a middle ground between realism and constructivism with respect to Kant&rsquo\;s idea of our reason&rsquo\;s self-legislation?
\nThe summer school will focus on the analysis of central passages from Kant&rsquo\;s works (and a few others)\, including but not limited to the Critique of Pure Reason\, the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science\, the Critique of Practical Reason\, and his essay on Perpetual Peace.
\n\n\nThe summer school consists of lectures\, seminars\, and readings. Within the framework of the summer school there will also be a scientific conference\, in which participants will give their own presentations on a research topic related to Kant&rsquo\;s philosophy\, and discuss it with colleagues from different universities of Russia and the world. At the end of the summer school the participants will be given a certificate of their participation.
\nSchool participants are selected on a competitive basis\, no more than 20 people. Participation in the summer school is free of charge. Accommodation in Svetlogorsk and daily meal will be paid by our sponsor &ndash\; the Forum &ldquo\;Petersburger Dialog&rdquo\;.
\nProgram includes:
\nlectures\, seminars\, readings (lectures and seminars &ndash\; in English\, readings &ndash\; in English and Russian)
\nthe conference of the participants of the school with discussion
\nSightseeing tours to Kaliningrad and Curonian Spit
\nThematic program of lectures and seminars:
\nLecture 1: Kant&rsquo\;s Revolutionary Account of Normativity
\nSeminar 1: Kant on Synthetic Judgments A Priori
\nLecture 2: Kant&rsquo\;s Transcendental Hylomorphism
\nSeminar 2: Kant on Logical Normativity
\nLecture 3: Self-Legislation and the Laws of Nature
\nSeminar 3: Kant on the Lawfulness of Natural Laws
\nLecture 4: Self-Legislation and the Moral Law
\nSeminar 4: The Homo Phenomenon-Noumenon Distinction and the Lawfulness of Practical Laws
\nLecture 5: Kant and the Natural Right Tradition
\nSeminar 5: Natural Right and Kant&rsquo\;s Perpetual Peace
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