Lecture 1: Primacy of Practice —Some Implications

Speaker: Akeel Bilgrami

The idea of the primacy of practice has had a long history. It gets some of its most profound early articulations in Kant's finding the notion of freedom to be essential to the possibility of objective judgment. Akeel Bilgrami's lecture will explore the implications of the primacy of practice for fundamental notions of philosophical concern such as autonomy, value realism, and supervenience

Lecture 2: Why Self-Constituting Agents are not Ends in Themselves

Speaker: Carol Rovane  

This talk would relate my ideas about personal identity both to Korsgaard's work, and to aspects of Kant's moral philosophy.  

About the Speakers:

Professor Akeel Bilgrami is the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy. He holds the Sidney Morgenbesser Chair of Philosophy at Columbia University and is also a professor on the Committee on Global Thought. He has been the Chairman of the Philosophy Department at Columbia University, New York.

Professor Carol Rovane is the Violin Family Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Contemporary Civilization, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York.

Host: Prof Ranjan Kumar Panda <ranjan.panda@iitb.ac.in>