The Conflict of Mechanism and Teleology
in Kant’s Critique of Judgment
26-27 May 2025
in Kant’s Critique of Judgment
26-27 May 2025
Institute of Philosophy
University of Luxembourg
Maison des Sciences Humains
11 porte des Sciences
L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette
Venue: Blackbox, ground floor
Registration (free): [email protected]
Directions: https://www.uni.lu/fhse-en/contact/
Conference Program:
MAY 26
9:30-10:30
Peter McLaughlin: Mechanism, Teleology and the Organism (Lebenskraft and commercium)
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Paula Órdenes: Mechanism and Its Limits in Kant’s Critique of the Teleological Power of Judgment
12:00-1:00
Siegfried Roth: Distinctions between living and non-living in Kant and current analytic philosophy. A comparison with an outlook to modern biology
Lunch Break
2:30-3:30
Kristina Engelhard: Formative Power and the Antinomy of Teleological Judgment in Kant's Third Critique
Coffee Break
4:00-5:00
Marcel Quarfood: The Presupposition of the Teleological Antinomy
5:00-6:00 Julian Grewe: Revisiting the Constitutive Interpretation of the Antinomy of Teleological Judgment
MAY 27
9:30-10:30
Ido Geiger: Is There a Conflict between the Maxims of Mechanism and Teleology? Description and Explanation in Kant’s Philosophy of Science
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Lorenzo Spagnesi: Maxims of Inquiry: A Zetetic Solution to the Antinomy of Teleological Judgment
12:00-1:00
Filippo Iorillo: Kant on the Peculiarity of our Human Understanding in the Dialectic of the Teleological Power of Judgment
Lunch Break
2:30-3:30
Dietmar Heidemann: The possibility of the intuitive understanding
Coffee Break
4:00-5:00
Karen Koch: Kant on the Relation between Mechanism, Teleology, and Intuitive Understanding
