34.3564, Calls: Engaging Rationality Today International Symposium

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LINGUIST List: Vol-34-3564. Mon Nov 27 2023. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 34.3564, Calls: Engaging Rationality Today International Symposium

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Date: 27-Nov-2023
From: Sequoya Yiaueki [sequoya.yiaueki at univ-lille.fr]
Subject: Engaging Rationality Today International Symposium


Full Title: Engaging Rationality Today International Symposium
Short Title: Engaging Rationality

Date: 22-May-2024 - 24-May-2024
Location: Lille, France
Contact Person: Sequoya Yiaueki
Meeting Email: sequoya.yiaueki at univ-lille.fr
Web Site: https://engaging-rationality.univ-lille.fr/

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 08-Jan-2024

Meeting Description:

We are pleased to invite multidisciplinary contributions for a
three-day symposium on contemporary conceptions of rationality.

Dates: 22-24 May, 2024

Venue: University of Lille (France)

Organizers: Zoé McConaughey, Shahid Rahman, Sequoya Yiaueki

Institutions:  Institut Éric Weil, UMR 8163-Savoirs, Textes, Langage
(STL), École Doctorale des sciences humaines et sociales
The international symposium Engaging Rationality Today will bring
together specialists from multiple disciplines (philosophy,
psychology, anthropology, linguistics, etc.) to reflect collectively
on  contemporary meanings and uses of rationality.

Projected sessions

Logical and hermeneutical meta-analyses

Psychology and cognitive sciences

Philosophy of langage, linguistics, and AI

Political philosophy, anthropology, and social sciences

other


In your application, please mention in which session (or sessions)
your contribution would be most appropriate. True to our
multidisciplinary goals, we invite a broad variety of approaches and
methods and welcome researchers from any background.

Deadline: January 8, 2024

Abstracts: If you would like to present, please submit an anomymous
abstract (max.of 800 words) in a pdf format.

Accepted submissions will be notified by February 1, 2024.

We strongly encourage submissions from underrepresented groups in
academia.

For further information, please visit the webpage:
https://engaging-rationality.univ-lille.fr/

For any questions or queries contact:
engaging-rationality at univ-lille.fr

Call for Papers:

The international symposium Engaging Rationality Today will bring
together specialists from multiple disciplines (philosophy,
psychology, anthropology, linguistics, etc.) to reflect collectively
on  contemporary meanings and uses of rationality.

The current Western cultural context, which  is marked by numerous
challenges (war, fake news, A.I., populism) and critiques
(post-colonialism, feminism, etc.), requires a reevalutation of the
classic notion of rationality. They show the limits of the classical
notion, grounded on concepts like objectivity, universality,
argumentation, and causal relationships. How are we to face this?
Accepting every new conception without criteria seems to give way to
relativism, thus leading to a dilemma. Either we defend the classic
notion at all costs, thus limiting the concept and those who can be
recognized within it, or this notion folds into relativism because of
the plurality of conceptions of rationality, where any dialogue
between them becomes, at best, difficult, and at worst, impossible.

The symposium Engaging Rationality Today aims at tackling this dilemma
by creating a space of dialogue between various conceptions of
rationality. To do so, it is not only a question of examing what
rationality is, but also, and above all, a question of studying the
limits, blindspots, and problematic uses of the proposed definitions
of rationality. We hope that by examining rationality’s multifaceted
aspects, including what falls outside of the proposed definitions,
contributors will be encouraged to reevalute their own defninitions
through dialogue with others.

This project stems from the organizers’ fundamental dialogical
commitment. According to this approach, rationality is opposed to
violence. This is because rationality is seen to emerge from a common
will to think together by communicative means. This in no way means
that interlocutors have to be of the same mind, to have the same
goals, or to agree to everything others say or believe: they may
disagree, and this possibility may even be a necessary component of
rationality. However, thinking together still requires minimal duties,
namely, the duty to be committed to what one says and to provide
reasons for it when asked, thus being accountable for what is publicly
said.

The organizer’s dynamic and dialogical conception of rationality makes
it open to other perspectives, which may be based on different
principles, be opposed to the present one, or simply stress different
aspects. The aim of the present project is to provide a comprehensive
view of how rationality is currently understood, from various
perspectives (philosophy, psychology, linguistics, etc.).

A full description is available on the website:
https://engaging-rationality.univ-lille.fr/

Guidelines for contributions – To help make each conception of
rationality clearer and to facilitate the comparison between
conceptions, we ask that each contribution spell out what the author
takes rationality to be, to not be, and what remains under-determined.
In addition, contributions can (but do not have to) address one of the
following pairs of guiding questions. They can also challenge the
implied validity of these oppositions:

What does rationality involve? What does it rule out?

How do we recognize it? What could rationality also be?

What are its applications and uses? What are its misapplications and
misuses?

Does it affect us? Can we resist it?

What does it allow us to do? What does it keep us from doing?

Does it have diverse articulations? Or, for it to be rationality, must
it always be exactly the same?



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