Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar (Tuesday - Week 2, HT24)
Tuesday 23 January, 16:00 - 18:00
Ryle Room, Faculty of Philosophy
Joe Saunders (Durham University): 'Freedom in Kant: A Practical Critique'
Kant finds a way to maintain our freedom in the face of natural necessity. In doing so, he hopes to secure freedom and morality. But he also cuts freedom off from experience, which generates serious practical problems. In this talk, I talk through Kant's theory of freedom, and some of these practical problems. I argue that, in the end, we should depart from transcendental idealism, and move to bring freedom and experience closer together.
