CFP: Rationality and Reasonableness

Submission deadline: December 31, 2017

Conference date(s):
April 9, 2018 - April 10, 2018

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Conference Venue:

Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition, University of Cologne
Cologne, Germany

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Call for Graduate Student Respondents

Rationality and Reasonableness, Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition (CONCEPT), University of Cologne, April 9-10, 2018.

Workshop abstract: Many epistemologists and ethicists are interested in the norms of ideal rationality.  In contrast, many political and legal theorists are interested in the norms of reasonableness.  But how are these two sets of norms related to each other?  What does reasonableness have to do with ideal rationality, or vice-versa?  What can we do to keep our intuitions about one topic from illicitly regulating our theorizing about the other?  This workshop will address these questions, and their relation to current work in normative theory.

Confirmed Speakers:

-          Krista Lawlor (Stanford)

-          Ram Neta (UNC-Chapel Hill)

-          Clayton Littlejohn (Kings College London)

-          Susanne Mantel (Saarland University)

-          Federica Liveriero (University of Piemonte Orientale)

-          Michael Williams (Johns Hopkins University)

-          Karl Schafer (UC-Irvine) 

-          Georgi Gardiner (Oxford)

-          Alex Guerrero (Rutgers)

We invite graduate students working on this topic to apply to be a graduate respondent. We will be able to provide some assistance with the cost of travel and accommodations.

Please submit a CV and brief statement of research interests (about a paragraph) to Amy Flowerree ([email protected]) by January 1, 2018. Notifications will be made by February 1, 2018.

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