#Kant: Digitalization - Europe - Sustainability
Program
Digitalization, sustainability, and the future of Europe are three major contemporary challenges. Immanuel Kant, whose 300th birthday will be widely celebrated in 2024, developed his philosophy on the verge of modernity, in the age of Enlightenment.
The first Passau Summer School for Applied Ethics invites its participants to creatively engage in the question of how Kant’s thoughts and concepts might prove fruitful for dealing with the three contemporary challenges of digitalization, sustainability, and the future of Europe: Which aspects of Kant’s practical philosophy might prove relevant, or even shed new light on these issues? Which are the possible pitfalls of Kantian arguments? Coming from different academic disciplines, but working together, we will develop new perspectives on pressing ethical questions.
PASSAE 2024 is composed of:
- 3 lectures on Kant and contemporary challenges (see speakers below)
- 3 working groups on digitaliziation, sustainability and the future of Europe. In each working group we will discuss one topic in more detail. What has Kant to say on digitalization, sustainability and the future of Europe? Nothing much, a good deal or maybe some hidden traces of argumentation? We will also work creatively on science communication to present the public in the end of the summer school: a blog article, a podcast episode and a micro-exhibition!
- A cultural program in the afternoon and evenings: We will visit the city and the castles around Passau, have a movie night and spend the final evening together with a summer barbecue.
The final program will be published soon.
Lectures
PD Dr. Jörg Noller
LMU Munich / University of Leipzig
Areas of Research:
Philosophy of personhood,
philosophy of liberty,
philosophy of mind,
philosophy of nature,
philosophy of digitality,
metaphysics,
ethics
Prof. Dr. Helga Varden
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Areas of research:
Kant’s practical philosophy,
(The history of) legal-political philosophy (esp. Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Kant, Rawls, Arendt, and Nozick)
(The history of) feminist philosophy (esp. Beauvoir),
(The history of) social philosophy (esp. race, sex, and gender)
Working groups
Digitalization
Dr. Heiner Koch, University of Passau
Sustainability
Prof. Dr. Karoline Reinhardt, University of Passau
Future of Europe
Johanna Sinn, M.A., University of Passau
We thank the Passau International Center for Interdisciplinary Research (PICAIS), the Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie (GAP) and the Kant-Gesellschaft for supporting PASSAE 2024.
University of Passau – Professorship of Applied Ethics – passae@uni-passau.de