Science, Neo-Kantianism, and the End of Enlightenment Philosophy was redefined in Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century. The issues arose initially due to claims that science exhausted everything that could be known, and consequently philosophy could no longer continue to play any role in our understanding of the world. In finding a new role for philosophy, the influential Neo-Kantian Hermann Cohen construed it as form of clarification and systematization of science, of which it now effectively formed an essential part: philosophy completes science, by establishing its unity on an a priori basis. I explore the strengths and weaknesses of this approach, focusing on the period after the World War I, when the aspirations of a scientifically-driven Enlightenment came to be seen by many as ineffectual and empty.
When
Wed Sep 19, 2018 3am – 4:30am Coordinated Universal Time
