Date: December 3 and 4, 2015
Location: Seminar Room 1010, UFMG School of Engineering

The workshop “Kant, Science, and Human Nature” was held as part of a project coordinated by Patrícia Kauark Leite, resident professor at the Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (2015), in the area of contemporary Kantian philosophy. Its main objective is to promote international collaborative research between members of the Contemporary Kantian Philosophy Project (CKP), coordinated by Professors Robert Hanna and Dietmar Heidemann, based at the University of Luxembourg, and a group of Brazilian Kantian and analytic philosophers. The project aims to explore the nature of human cognition and practical rationality from a Kantian perspective. The project aims to bring together researchers from Europe (Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany), the United States, and Brazil to develop original research to be published by the group members in journal articles, essays, and books.

In addition to promoting interaction between researchers from the “Contemporary Kantian Philosophy” group, Brazilian Kantian and analytical philosophers, and other specific researchers, the event sought to hold a debate around the book “Kant, Science, and Human Nature”, published by Oxford Univ. Press (2006), with the author himself, Robert Hanna, and Brazilian and foreign researchers, and also contribute to the development of international transdisciplinary collaborative research.