Digital Kant Lecture with Dietmar Heidemann

Dietmar Heidemann (University of Luxembourg)

The Digital Kant-Centre NRW is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Dietmar Heidemann (University of Luxembourg) with the topic "Kant's Capacitism and Theory of Rationality". 

The lecture will take place online (via Webex) on Wednesday, 26 November 2025, from 18:00 – 19:30 CET. 

Please see below for the Webex-link and an abstract of the lecture. 

The talk is part of the lecture series Digital Kant-Lectures, organized by Digital Kant-Centre NRW, which takes place on the last Wednesday of each month via Webex. For the program of the series, please see here.

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Webex-Link: 

https://uni-siegen.webex.com/uni-siegen/j.php?MTID=mde073cbd52482c342d0005cdb3d8ac73

Abstract: 

The paper connects the debate about Kant’s capacitism with the debate about additive and transformative rationality. It proposes to conceive Kant’s capacitism as faculty-capacitism. On this view, faculty and capacity must be distinguished because it is only by means of its unique capacity that a faculty can be individuated and characterized. Kantian faculty-capacitism, it is then argued, makes a good case against the dichotomy of additive vs. transformative conceptions of rationality and shows why Kantian rationality is rather subtractive.