Workshop in Honor of Jürgen Habermas
Communicative Rationality: Contexts and Applications
July 23, 2026
online

One-day online Workshop on Communicative Rationality in honor of the German Philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who passed away on March 14, 2026. Communicative rationality represents the key-notion to ground Habermas’ theory of truth and objectivity, rational discourses, ethical, moral and political perspectives.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89555603571?pwd=FbK3Dag9S8yjtjMox3Fw3UDfKGAv9D.1
Meeting ID: 895 5560 3571
Passcode: 12345@2026

Schedule (Rome time):

09,45-10,00 Opening

10,00-10,30 Krassimir Markov (University of Prague, ITHEA), Toward an Integrated Theory of Information: Habermas, General Information Theory, and Contemporary Information Science

10,30-11,00 Teodosio Orlando (University of Roma Tre), From Constitution to Communication: Habermas Reading of Wittgenstein between Sellars, Frege and Husserl

11,00-11,30 Sergio Prado (Pontifical Lateran University), On Normative Pragmatics: Habermas’ Inheritance in Brandom’s Thought and the Crisis of Digital Pollution

Break

11,40-12,10 Juliette Monvoisin (University of Siegen), The Concept of Meaning as a Political Issue in Jürgen Habermas: Induction, Abstraction, Generalization

12,10-12,40 Melis Menent (University of Sussex), Reason and Communication for Constitutional Patriotism 

Lunch Break

14,00-14,30 Spyridon Kaltsas (University of Ioannina), Habermas, Communicative Rationality and the Question of Cynicism

15,00-15,30 Dumitru Bogdan (University of Bucharest), Communicative Rationality and AI Alignment: Discourse Ethics as a Framework for Democratic Value Definition in Large Language Models   

15,30-16,00 Uttariamuthu Jegan Bose (St. Paul’s Institute of Theology), Post-Truth: Undecidability, Assertibility and Acceptability

Break

16,10-16,40 Lorenzo Magnani (University of Pavia), Discourse Ethics Revisited: Technology, Violence and Moral Pluralism

16,40-17,10 Reneta Barneva (SUNY Buffalo State), Reframing AI-augmented Business Process Management through Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action

17,10-17,40 Michael Schwarz (Emory University), No Demos, no Kratos? Democratic Cosmopolitics and the Role of the World Parliament in Habermas’ Global Constitutionalism

17,40-18,10 Raffaela Giovagnoli (Pontifical Lateran University, GSIS Vienna), Communicative Rationality, Lifeworld and Religion

End

Organizers:

Raffaela Giovagnoli, Pontifical Lateran University & GSIS (Vienna), giovagnoli@pul.it, raffaela.giovagnoli@gsis.at

Uttariamuthu Jegan Bose, St. Paul’s Institute of Theology, Tamil Nadu, India, frjbose@gmail.com