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“Do We Think When We Like?” Speaker: Gamze Keskin Moderator: Emre Şan Immanuel Kant, perhaps one of the most influential philosophers in the history of philosophy, addressed his views on taste in his third and final Critique, the Critique of the Power of Judgement. With this work, he grounds the reflective power of judgement, which he believes is a gap between the theoretical and practical fields of philosophy and tries to bridge this gap. This new function of judgement does not act according to set laws. Therefore, it causes the awareness of pleasure, the time of which is uncertain. This uncertainty corresponds to the free play of cognitive faculties in Kant’s system, which is woven with concepts and laws. Faculties that freely adapt outside of their limited, assigned roles are at the basis of the judgment of taste thanks to these different roles. In this talk, we will discuss from the Kantian perspective how we make a judgment of taste, such as ‘This is beautiful,’ and whether we put this judgment through a filter of thought before making it. Gamze Keskin received her MA in Philosophy from Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Philosophy in 2008, her MA in Philosophy from the same university in 2011 with her thesis titled “Kant's Understanding of Transcendental Logic”, and her PhD in Philosophy in 2015 with her thesis titled “The Problem of Romanticism in Philosophy and Art in Connection with Kant's Aesthetics”. She is the president of the Kant Society of Turkey, founded in 2020, and the editor of the Journal of Kant Studies. She continues her studies on Kant's philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy for children, philosophy of art, and the romantic period. She has various articles, translations, and book chapters in these fields. She is the editor of the collection Essays on Aesthetics from Baumgarten to Postmodernism (Alfa Publications) and the author of the book Kant Aesthetics and Romanticism (Alfa Publications). She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Kırklareli University.