Maksim Evstigneev gave a talk on "Kantian Paralogisms and the Ghost of Thinking Matter"

On September 18 at 15:00, Maksim Evstigneev made a presentation at the research seminar of the Western Philosophy History sector titled "History of Philosophy: Heritage and Project."

Maksim Evstigneev

PhD student at the School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, HSE University,

Research intern at IL LLFP

"Kantian Paralogisms and the Ghost of Thinking Matter"

Abstract

This research offers a reconstruction of the history of John Locke’s hypothesis that matter can think, and also demonstrates how this hypothesis is reflected in Kant’s doctrine of paralogisms in the Critique of Pure Reason.

Link to the website of the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences.