Dr Sorin Baiasu delivers keynote address

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Posted on 25 October 2011

Dr Sorin Baiasu, SPIRE/Research Institute for Social Sciences, delivered a keynote address at the international workshop ‘Cosmopolitanism and Philosophy in a Cosmopolitan Sense’ at the Institute of Advanced Studies, New Europe College, Bucharest (21/22 October, 2011).

The presentation, entitled 'Cosmopolitanism and the Highest Political Good’, argued for a new interpretation of the epistemic status of the Kantian idea of a guarantee for cosmopolitics.  The presentation emphasised the urgent need for such an account in the current context, where economic, social, political and environmental crises seem to act as strong disincentives for international collaboration and solidarity.

New Europe College (NEC) is an independent institute for advanced study in the humanities and social sciences, and was founded in 1994.  Its impetus was the New Europe Prize for Higher Education and Research, awarded to NEC’s founder in 1993, by a group of six institutes for advanced study (at Stanford, Princeton, Research Triangle Park, Wassenaar, Uppsala, and Berlin.)  In 1998, NEC was awarded the prestigious Hannah Arendt Prize.

The workshop is part of a research project on “The Political Radicalisation of the Kantian Idea of Philosophy in a Cosmopolitan Sense” and drew participants from 14 countries. An edited book with papers presented at the workshop is under way.

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