The Limits of Reason
Conference Program
The Limits of Reason
Faculty of Philosophy
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
01 June 2022
The online link can be found here
All Times are Madrid, Spain
0930–0935: Introductory Remarks
Cillian Ó Fathaigh and Gavin Rae (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
0935–1035: Early Modern Philosophy
From the Limits of Reason to the Extension of Epistemology to the Passions in David Hume
Julia Vincenti (Aix-Marseille University, France)
The Use of Limits: The Submission of Reason according to Pascal
Thomas Bellon (Aix-Marseille University, France)
1040–1140: Kant
A Feeling of Limits: The Aesthetic Self-reflection of Reason in the Kantian Sublime
Ivan Iyer (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
Reconsidering the Universalistic Account of Reason with Kant and Haraway: Towards a Notion of Situated Rationality
Elena Romano (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
1145–1245: Affectivity and Error
Ethics of Care and Rationality: A Closer Look
Stefano Pinzan (Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Italy)
Reason Unhinged: Errors, Problems, Interruptions, and the Misadventures of Thought
Emma Ingala (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
1250–1350: Reason and Irrationality
Thinking and the Danger of Insanity
Erik Kuravsky (University of Erfurt, Germany)
Orders of reason, reasons of order
Francesco Tibursi (University Niccolò Cusano: Rome, Italy)
1355–1455: Deconstruction
Reason and Style: The Deconstructionist Tradition of Paradox
Eve Judah (Ecole Normale Supérieure, France)
Transgressing Economies: Inheriting Jacques Derrida’s écologie de la mémoire
Sam La Védrine (Independent Scholar, England)
1500–1600: Rethinking Limits
Aesthesis: The Limits of Aesthetic Reason
Cillian Ó Fathaigh (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
The Ontogenesis of Reason: Castoriadis on the Limits of Identity Thinking
Gavin Rae (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
1605–1705: Body and Society
Exercise Reason: William James and Motor Influence on Decisions
Andrea Maria Nencini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the Kin(Aesth)etic Logos
Ainhoa Suárez Gómez (Independent Scholar, Mexico)
1705–1715: Closing Remarks
Organizers: Cillian Ó Fathaigh and Gavin Rae
Funding: This conference forms part of the activities for the following research projects: (1) “Agency and Society: An Inquiry through Poststructuralism” (PR108/20-26), funded by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid–Banco Santander; (2) “Differential Ontology and the Politics of Reason,” funded by the Government of the Region of Madrid, as part of line 3 of the multi-year agreement with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid: V PRICIT Excellence Program for University Professors (Fifth Regional Plan for Scientific Investigation and Technological Innovation); and (3) “The Politics of Reason” (PID2020-117386GA-I00), financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Government of Spain.