Generative Structures:
Reasons of Being & Reasons of Knowing

Instructor: Anna Longo Date & Time: Saturdays, April 6, 13, 20, 27 11 AM - 1:30 PM EST

DESCRIPTION This Seminar takes the question of philosophical systems and the conditions which allow for their autonomous construction. How can different philosophical architectures conserve their inner validity while addressing a variety of conceptual structures? Are we rationally allowed to believe in the productive power of reason?

This seminar will try to answer these questions by dealing with different strategies for constructing philosophical systems since the beginning of modernity (Descartes, Leibniz) until present days (Meillassoux, Badiou) and passing through post and neo Kantianism. A particular attention will be dedicated to the articulation of the two series of the “reasons of being”, concerning the genesis of the real, and the “reasons of knowing” i.e. the conceptual formal structure of thought. A comparison is proposed between the philosophical and the mathematical creativity (Lautman, Cavaillès) and capacity of producing, in an autonomous and non-history dependent way, new domains and objects available for knowledge. The goal is to set the conditions to reflect upon the productive power of reason and on the real effects of the activity of a thinking.

Image: Maya Ealey, 2018

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