JORNADES DE FILOSOFIA 2012

Patricia Kitcher Patricia Kitcher is Roberta and William Campbell & Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University in New Philip Kitcher York. She focuses especially on Organització: philosophy of psychology and Thomas Sturm Columbia University, on Immanuel Kant’s [email protected] philosophy. Among her Carl Hoefer New York outstanding publications are [email protected] Kant’s Transcendental Psychology (Oxford UP, 1990), 14 i 15 de Març Freud’s Dream: A Complete DEPARTAMENT DE FILOSOFIA Sala d`actes (B7/1056) Interdisciplinary Science of Edifici B - Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres Mind (MIT Press, 1992), and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres most recently Kant’s Thinker 08193 Bellaterra - Cerdanyola del Universitat Autònoma de (Oxford UP, 2011). Vallès Barcelona www.uab.cat/departament/filosofia Entrada lliure 14 de Març 15 de Març

11:00-13:00 h - Philip Kitcher: 11:00-13:00 h - Patricia Kitcher: Authority, Responsibility, and Democracy Freud, Darwin, and Diachronic Scientific The controversies that swirl around climate Explanation science, evolutionary biology, and biotechnology Both Freud and Darwin offered diachronic reveal a deep problem about the integration of theories, theories that tried to explain present scientific expertise with democratic values. phenomena in terms of a sequence of cumulative Science has an importance in public policy and changes over time. In this paper, I consider more an effect on human lives that could not have been exactly the forms of their historical explanations envisaged by those who played a role in shaping (in part by contrasting them with current forms its current institutions and practices. This of historical explanation). I argue that the lecture will begin developing an account of the methodology was sound, but that Freud had a relations between science and democracy by special problem in implementing it. I also arguing for the legitimate operation of values in compare two of their synchronic theories scientific practice. I’ll suggest an ideal for science (theories that explain some current conditions in – well-ordered science – and consider how it terms of other current conditions), and argue applies to the choice of research topics and the that Freud’s crucial libido theory was certification of scientific results. considerably sounder than Darwin’s needed but speculative hypothesis of ‘gemmules.’ Philip Kitcher is John 15:00-17:00 h - Patricia Kitcher: Dewey Professor of Philosophy Kant’s Argument for the Formula of 15:00-17:00 h - Philip Kitcher: at Columbia University in Humanity Alienation and Its Dangers New York. He works in Today, many consider the second formulation of Contemporary societies and their citizens are philosophy of science, ethics, the categorical imperative, the formula of frequently hampered because of ignorance of and the philosophy of humanity (‘Always treat humanity whether in available information: “what is known” is not literature. Among his your own person or that of another as an end-in- known. Ignorance comes in varieties, ranging outstanding publications are itself and never as a means only’) to be its best from remediable ignorance to alienation from formulation. But there is considerable doubt science. This lecture will explore the ways in The Advancement of Science about how Kant argued for the principle. And which public knowledge fails to achieve its goals. (Oxford UP, 1993), Science, without knowing why he believed it to be a key I shall argue that the superficially democratic Truth and Democracy (Oxford moral principle, it is unclear how exactly it idea that public airing of technical controversies UP, 2001), Living with should be understood. By looking at his ‘official’ is a mistake, and that, while competition is often Darwin (Oxford UP, 2007), argument for the principle in the third section of helpful in the development of scientific ideas, its The Ethical Project (Harvard the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals negative effects should be countered. I shall UP, 2011) and Science in a and what seems to be his unofficial argument for conclude by considering the ethical Democratic Society it in the Fact of Reason discussion of the Critique responsibilities of scientific investigators. (Prometheus, 2011). of Practical Reason, I offer an account of what the principle implies about how humans must view other humans and, consequently, how they should treat them.