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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:History Workshop, Work-In-Progress Seminar: Michael Boch, "Kant's Pure Rational Sciences within the Deformalization of Early Modern Logic"
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SUMMARY:History Workshop, Work-In-Progress Seminar: Michael Boch, "Kant's Pure Rational Sciences within the Deformalization of Early Modern Logic"
DESCRIPTION:<p><em>Abstract:</em><span> Kant's place in the history of logic is controversial today. Historians of formal logic (Kneale and Kneale, Bochenski) dispute Kant's importance for the history of logic and even deny him the status of a logician. In recent years, however, there has been an increasing number of studies that not only investigate Kant's role in the history of logic but also count him among the most important reformers of logic (Lu-Adler, Sgarbi, Lobeiras, Pozzo). In my talk, I will discuss Kant's significance for the history of logic against the background of the discourse on logic in the early modern period. The central claim is that in this period logic developed not as a formal discipline of concepts, but as a material discipline of clear and distinct knowledge. Following Wilhelm Risse, I will refer to this paradigm as the deformalization of logic. Against this background, Kant developed the two pure sciences of reason, pure general logic and transcendental logic, in his pre-critical work. The underlying conception of logic is firmly rooted in the Aristotelian and combinatorial tradition. It will be argued that Kant develops a formal, general, and pure logic of reason that is distinct from a deformalized logic. This should not be understood, as it is by formal logicians, as insufficiently formal in relation to mathematical logic of the 20th century, but rather as formal and yet relevant to knowledge in relation to material logic.</span></p>
LOCATION:Robbins Library, Emerson 211
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