Denis Maslov made a presentation entitled "Kant and the problem of metaphysics"

Denis Maslov, a researcher at IL LLFP, made a presentation on "Kant and the problem of metaphysics" at the theoretical seminar "Formal Philosophy", which was held on December 14.

Abstract
A popular view on Kant’s contribution to philosophy suggests that his critical philosophy destroyed metaphysics and demonstrated its impossibility (M. Mendelsohn famously coined the term ‘all-demolisher’ (Alleszermalmer) to describe Kant). This critical thrust found a lot of acclaim in the subsequent tradition (L. Wittgenstein, R. Carnap), and it is widely shared in contemporary systematic German philosophy (e.g. J. Habermas, H. Schnädelbach). Nonetheless, an opposing view blames Kant for maintaining the obsolete metaphysical edifice and attributes to him reinvigoration of the untenable metaphysical enterprise in direct aftermath (for that reason, B. Russel describes him as a pre-Humean philosopher). Contemporary Kant scholarship, however, presents us with a more nuanced account of this issue and correctly discerns his critical impetus towards the old dogmatic metaphysics from his attempt to reform metaphysics and rescue its core (e. g., K. de Boer). The talk will present Kant’s criticism against metaphysics, his reformed view on boundaries, principles, proper subject and task of metaphysics, and, finally, some Kantian lessons for contemporary metaphysics that will be laid out.