International workshop will host professors from the USA and Germany

The event Reason and Rationality in the Era of Thinking Machines is organized by the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts of the University of West Bohemia.

On Thursday, June 20, the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Arts of the University of West Bohemia will host the international workshop Reason and Rationality in the Era of Thinking Machines. The event is organized by the Department of Philosophy and will feature presentations by Professors Hamid Ekbia and William Rasch (both from Indiana University Bloomington, USA), along with Burkhardt Wolf (Humboldt-Universität Berlin) and Josef Moural (University of West Bohemia in Pilsen). The workshop will take place from 13:00 to 18:00 in room SO214 (Sedláčkova 38).

Workshop programme:

13:00-13:20 opening

13:20-14:00 William Rasch: From Reason to System Rationality

14:00-14:20 Discussion

14:20-15:00 Burkhardt Wolf: The Risk of Life: Anxiety in Kafka's Der Bau

15:00-15:20 Discussion

15:20-16:00 coffee break

16:00-16:40 Josef Moural: Rationality and Commensurability: Rorty and Searle

16:40-17:00 discussion

17:00-17:40 Hamid Ekbia: Reason is Dead, Long Live Rationality

17:40-18:00 discussion

18:00-21:00 Closing discussion