N.1/2023 Il trascendentale e le pratiche

La conoscenza è la cosa più comprensibile del mondo:  Carlo Sini e Bruno Latour, filosofi delle pratiche

Christian Frigerio

Published in June, 2023

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Knowledge is the most understandable thing in the world. Carlo Sini and Bruno Latour philosophers of practices.

Both Carlo Sini and Bruno Latour have used a dictum of Einstein’s to pose the problem of knowledge and to resolve it through their «philosophies of practices». They agree that knowledge is not an external relation between the subject and the world, but rather that both the world and the subject are byproducts of an original «internal» relation in which they were one. After exposing their views of the problem of knowledge, the conclusion will focus on four differences in their accounts that define two paths for the philosophy of practices: first, Sini sees it as the fulfillment of transcendental philosophy whereas Latour sees it as its dissolution; second, Sini’s practice remains humancentered whereas Latour wishes to admit non-humans into his «collective»; third, Sini keeps on dismissing metaphysics whereas Latour tries to convert his «relationism» into a realistic worldview; finally, the opposition between Sini’s practice-determinism and Latour’s contingentism will let emerge the necessity of a «golden mean» between the two.