ПУБЛИЧНЫЙ ДИСПУТ ОНТОЛОГИЯ СОЗНАНИЯ: НАТУРАЛИЗМ / ТРАНСЦЕНДЕНТАЛИЗМ
PUBLIC DEBATES ONTOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS: NATURALISM VS. TRANSCENDENTALISM

27 March 2015, St. Petersburg State University, Institute of Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: This publication is a transcript of the open disputation dedicated to the theme Ontology of Consciousness:Naturalism vs Transcendentalism, which has been held at March 27, 2015 at the Institute ofPhilosophy of St. Petersburg State University. Both positions, naturalism and transcendentalism, werepresented by the teams of two experts, who offered to the public their vision of correlation betweennaturalism and transcendentalism as well as attacked the arguments of opposite side. Moreover, the audiencehad the possibility not only to put the questions to experts, but also to make short remarks on thesubject of discussion. The following problems were discussed during the disputation time: the causalconditionality of the consciousness, constitution of the object of nature and belonging of consciousnessto their realm, the possibility of the freedom inside the natural world, the perspectives of the naturalizationof the phenomenology. But the consensus has not been reached. The range of opinions reached bythe experts during the discussion was quite extensive: from the recognition that transcendentalism andnaturalism are enemies, which fight each other until final victory, to the assumption of the possibilityof mutual complementarity or at least a correction of its own thesis under the influence of criticismopposite side.

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