The Philosophy of Dumbness: a Philosophical Romance about Rationality

Tommaso Ostillio (Kozminski University, University of Warsaw)

We are delighted to invite you to the online series Locality of Reason Lectures.   
The researchers of the project Locality of Reason (LOR) consider it to be one of the main tasks of philosophy to analyze and interpret the notion of reason. We believe that the notion of reason, with its intrinsic value of universality, plays a crucial role in guaranteeing a solid ground for human communication as well as for formulating general rules and values which include human beings in practices and institutions of the modern world. Still, we understand the defence of the notion of reason not as a simple revival of the classical concept of reason, which regards it as a universal faculty above the historical and cultural contexts. Our hypothesis is rather that reason is not understandable independently from a set of different strategies aimed at its self-construction. This approach to reason is marked by the notion of 'locality'. 

The first lecture will be given by Tommaso Ostillio on:
"The Philosophy of Dumbness: a Philosophical Romance about Rationality“ Friday, March 25, from 11:00 AM (CET)
More details can be found here: LOR - Events (uw.edu.pl)