Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Juergen Habermas

On May 19th 2009 Matjaz Potrc presented his paper on Transvaluating Frankfurt to Juergen Habermas in Pecs Hungary. Habermas replied and commented, and so did Agnes Heller, Robert Brandom among others. Matjaz started by delineating his commitment to the existence of a mind and language independent world, then stressed his indirect correspondence normative and contextual approach to truth and argued for the qualitative and narrow account of free will conditions that may be achieved in the experiential world of my brain in a vat duplicate. Habermas mentioned the background basis of the Lebenswelt. Frankfurt cases in the discussion of free will center at the self as a source of action, dismissing phenomenology of free agency. Is the quality achievable in renaissance approach and what is its relation to the enlightenment? The Habermas conference was organized by Janos Boros from Pecs University.

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