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Reilly Hall, Room 244 Immanuel Kant developed a distinctive method of philosophizing, the method of transcendental argumentation, which continues to have philosophical promise. This talk reveals that transcendental arguments contain a performative and first-personal aspect. It presents an interpretation, derived from Fichte, of Kant's Deduction of Freedom through the fact of reason in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason. What this interpretation shows is that a transcendental argument always involves a step that cannot be established by logical means alone, but requires that the reader freely adopt a philosophical system or standpoint.

The full title of this talk is "Kant's Deduction of Freedom: The Performative and First-Personal Aspect of Transcendental Arguments." It will be led by Karin Nisenbaum, Ph.D., assistant professor of philosophy at Colgate University. It is part of the "Philosophy Talks" series.