יום ב' 08.01.2007, 18:00 - 20:00
חדר 449 בנין גילמן

במסגרת קולוקוויום בר הילל

Professor Robert Brandom,
Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh

Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning, and Rationality

Commentator: Professor Menachem Fisch, Tel-Aviv University

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Kant revolutionized our thinking about what it is to have a mind. Some of what seem to me to be among the most important lessons he taught us are often not yet sufficiently understood, however. I think this is partly because they are often not themes that Kant himself explicitly emphasized. To appreciate these ideas, one must look primarily at what he does, rather than at what he says about what he is doing. For instance, one revolutionary conceptual transformation Kant focuses on is his “Copernican Revolution”: assignment of responsibility for some structural features of knowledge to the nature of the activities of knowing subjects rather than to the nature of the objects known. While this is, of course, an important aspect of his view, as I understand things it is a relatively late-coming move; it occurs significantly downstream from his most radical and important innovations, whose significance owes nothing to this subsequent, optional way of developing them. Indeed, I will say nothing at all about Kant’s transcendental idealism (important as that view was to his way of setting out his achievement). For I want to focus on revolutionary moves that happen off-stage, largely before the first Critique even begins, but which seem to me to form a crucial backdrop and stage for that performance. So I will sketch here in very broad terms some kantian lessons that it seems to me most important for us to keep in mind in our own thinking about mind, meaning, and rationality.

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