Presentation
This study day is organized on the occasion of the publication of Jacques Bouveresse's digital book"Dans le labyrinthe: nécessité, contingence et liberté chez Leibniz" (In the labyrinth: necessity, contingency and freedom in Leibniz). Lectures 2009 and 2010, to be published in May 2012 in the electronic collection"La philosophie de la connaissance au Collège de France"
To mark the online publication of Jacques Bouveresse's lectures on Leibniz from 2008 to 2010 at the Collège de France, the Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge Chair is organizing a study day devoted to the Hanover Philosopher on "The theoretical and practical issues of the principle of reason". Often presented as the hallmark of a triumphant metaphysical rationalism, the principle of reason above all raises questions about free will and the status of the truths and knowledge we are able to establish about human practices and the facts of the world. Whether in the philosophy of logic, epistemology or moral philosophy, Bouveresse proposes to understand the principle of reason as a research principle essential to understanding the kind of knowledge we are entitled to seek about a world that is indissociably determined and contingent. Drawing in particular on Sellars' interpretations, but also on an innovative re-reading of Cudworth, Jacques Bouveresse's lectures offer new perspectives and numerous suggestions for further reading, which we invite you to discover, to help you find your way through the two famous labyrinths of continuity and infinity, as well as the texts devoted by Leibniz to these two questions.
