Cavell's Claim of Reason
A Conference at the University of Leipzig, 7-9 November, 2019In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the publication of Stanley Cavell’s masterwork The Claim of Reason, this conference will be devoted to an exploration of its central topics: criteria, the relation between skeptical and ordinary doubt, agreement in judgment and language, speaking inside and outside language games, the distinction between specific and generic objects, the relation between meaning and use, our knowledge of the external world, our knowledge of other minds, the asymmetry between external-world and other-minds skepticisms, the concept of a non-claim context, the distinction between knowledge and acknowledgment, the place of knowledge in the articulation of the concept of morality, and, finally, the relation between literary form and philosophical content. The conference will also explore Cavell’s relations to and discussions of the three philosophers who most centrally influenced that book: Ludwig Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin and Thompson Clarke.
Speakers
- Avner Baz (Tufts University)
- Piergiorgio Donatelli (Sapienza University of Rome)
- Paul Franks (Yale University)
- Eli Friedlander (Tel Aviv University)
- Martin Gustafsson (Åbo Akademi)
- Arata Hamawaki (Auburn University)
- Andrea Kern (Leipzig University)
- Sandra Laugier (Panthéon-Sorbonne University)
- Jean-Philippe Narboux (Bordeaux Montaigne University)
Location:
Vortragssaal of the Bibliotheca Albertina
Beethovenstraße 6, 04107 Leipzig
Dates:
7-9 November, 2019
Contact:
johannes.sudau [at] gmail.com
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