International interdisciplinary symposium on rationality

Program “Engaging Rationality Today”

Day 1 22/05/2024
Start:16:00 End 18:00

Coffee and welcome  
 16:00 Introduction

16:30-18h

Quill Kukla: Epistemic Diversity and Ignorance in Science 

Day 2 23/05/2024
Start: 9:00-End: 18:00

09:00

Ondrej Svec: The Paradoxes of Rationality: A Fallibilistic Account 

 10:00 Coffee break

Sessions:

 

 
Practical Rationality  

 10:15

Alida Muehlbauer: Emotions and Narration. Why We Need Storytelling in Order to be Rational 

10:45

Belén Pueyo Ibánez: Affective Communities and the Possibility of Communicative Rationality

Logical Reconstructions  

 10:15

Luca Possati: The Impact of Cognitve Inequalites in Public Decision-Making 

10:45

Karl Bergman: Arguing for irrationality. Is irrationality (sometimes, under some conditions) defensible by (sound or at least convincing) argument? 

 11:15

Coffee break

11:30

Catarina Dutilh Novaes: Argumentation, between reason and power 

 12:30 Lunch break

14:00

Claude Imbert: Facing Diversity 

 15:00 Coffee break

Sessions:

 

Practical Rationality/Hermeneutics  

15:15

Jennifer Harvey: The gap between what is said and what is meant 

15:45

Ulysse Gadiou: Aiming at connections rather than integration – on some ethical aspects of a pluralist take on rationality 

Cognitive sciences/Psychology   

15:15

Sylvain Montalvo: Engaging mass delusions: A problem of rationality or an environmental issue? 

 15:45

Chenwei Nie: Delusion and Experience. "[T]his 'light' can explain why someone obstinately defends or holds on to a given opinion" 

 16:15 Coffee break

16:30- 18h

Mahamadé Savadogo: Rationality and language diversity

Day 3 24/05/2024
Start: 9:00-End: 18:00

09:00

Alexandre Billon: Making sense of science denialism

 10:00 Coffee break

Sessions:

 

Cognitive sciences/Psychology   

10:15

Markus Pawelzik: Psychiatric rationality: from mechanism to personalism?

10:45

António Zilhao: Cognition, rationality and humanity 

Practical Rationality  

10:15

Pauline Gaschignard: Is rationality the essential defense against contentiousness and violence? 

 10:45

Aiste Noreikaté: Personality goes deeper than reason: an alternative for moral objectivity grounded in pure reason

 11:15

Coffee break

11:30

Franca d’Agostini: The Logic of Exploded Reason: Hypotheses and Programs 

 12:30 Lunch break

14:00

Owen Griffiths: Logic, reasoning and pluralism

 15:00 Coffee break

Sessions:

 

Representing Rationality   

15:15

James Grayot & Enrico Petracca: Mindshaping and the Embodiment of Rationality 

15:45

Lubos Popelínsky: Decide between two. Rationality in machine learning

Dialogical approaches  

15:15

Clément Lion: Dialogical rationality, between Polyphony and Inconsistency

 15:45

Sofia Sorokina: Political philosophy, anthropology, and social sciences. Does rationality today need Aufhebung? Soviet school of dialogue, critical rationality and analytical units

 16:15 Coffee break

16:30- 18h

Kai Kresse: Rationality as what is negotiable as common human concern? Anthropological-philosophical reflections building on Swahili thinkers and intellectual practice