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    • 20 Mar 2024
    • 23 Mar 2024
    • Portland, Oregon

    NAKS Session: Author Meets Critics Discussion of Morganna Lambeth’s Heidegger's Interpretation of Kant (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

    DateMarch 20-23, 2024

    Place: Portland, Oregon

    Participants:

    Chair: Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern University)

    Author: Morganna Lambeth (Cal State Fullerton)

    Critics: Alexandra Sasha Newton (University of California Riverside)

                  David Suarez (University of Toronto)

                  Clinton Tolley (University of California San Diego)


    • 04 Apr 2024
    • 06 Apr 2024
    • Johns Hopkins University

    Dates:  April 4-6, 2024

    Place: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

    The symposium will offer the opportunity to discuss Kant’s Toward Perpetual Peace as one of his most timely contributions to political issues such as hospitality, cosmopolitanism, human rights, the inherent value of cultural and religious difference, the critique of colonialism, the essential role of a global public sphere, international law and the rules of armed combat. Featuring leading scholars of philosophy, literature, and political science, it will also address fundamental questions about the ways in which a theoretical text can relate to the mode, time, and timing of its realization. Themes include: utopia and practicality; the temporality of theory; teleology and the “guarantee” of peace; publicity and secretiveness; form, genre, and format; faith and the philosophy of the as-if.

    Speakers include: Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Bochum University, Germany), Peter Gilgen (Cornell University), David Martyn (Macalester College), Jan Mieszkowski (Reed College), Sarah Pourciau (Duke University), Marc Redfield (Brown University), Thomas Schestag (Brown University)

    Hosts: Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought and Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins University

    Organization: Christiane Frey (Johns Hopkins) together with Luke Beller (Johns Hopkins) and Glen Gray (Johns Hopkins)


    • 19 Apr 2024
    • 20 Apr 2024
    • Brown University

    Dates: April 19 - 20, 2024

    Place: Brown University

    This conference will feature panels dedicated to four topics from the philosophical work of Paul Guyer: Aesthetics, Idealism, Kant’s Practical Philosophy, and Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy

    Aesthetics:

    Noël Carroll (CUNY)

    Alexander Nehamas (Princeton)

    Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern)

    Idealism:

    Frederick Beiser (Syracuse University)

    Rolf-Peter Horstmann (Humdboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

    Sally Sedgwick (Boston University)

     

    Kant’s Practical Philosophy:

    Heiner Klemme (Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg)

    Marcy Latta (Bryn Athyn College)

    Jennifer Uleman (SUNY-Purchase)

     

    Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy:

    Uygar Abaci (Penn State)

    Lucy Allais (Johns Hopkins University/University of Witwatersrand)

    Samantha Matherne (Harvard University)

     

    Please Direct any Questions to the Conference Organizers:

    Wiebke Deimling (wdeimling@clarku.edu)

    Reed Winegar (bwinegar@fordham.edu)

    The conference organizers would like to acknowledge the support of both Brown University and the American Society for Aesthetics.


    • 31 May 2024
    • 01 Jun 2024
    • University of South Carolina

    Dates: May 31-June 1

    The NAKS Southern Study Group will meet in Columbia, SC at University of South Carolina in May-June.   The keynote speakers will be Katherine Dunlop (UT Austin) and Matt Boyle (University of Chicago).  Paper submission deadline is February 15, 2024.  For more details, please see the NAKS website Southern Study Group pages:  https://northamericankantsociety.org/SSG



    • 06 Sep 2024
    • 07 Sep 2024
    • Bonn, Germany

    As many of you may already be aware, the 14th International Kant-Congress will take place in Bonn in 2024.

    (12) Kant on Means, Ends, and Trolleys

    Meeting date(s): September 6-7, 2024

    Meeting place: Bonn

    The conference is co-organized and hosted by the research network Using People Well, Treating People Badly (https://sites.google.com/view/usingpeoplewell) and Digitales Kant-Zentrum NRW (https://kant-zentrum-nrw.de). It will take place right before the 14th International Kant Congress in Bonn. If you plan to attend the congress, please consider arriving early for the conference.

    The conference will follow a two-fold structure: On the first day, we will discuss Kant’s thoughts on treating people as mere means vs. ends in themselves, instrumentalization, and the realm of ends. On the second day, we will explore Kantian approaches to the trolley-problem.

    September 6 (9 am – 6 pm): Means and Ends

    • Melissa Fahmy: Exploitation and Mere Means Use
    • Laura Papish: Our Shared Humanity and Exit from the State of Nature
    • Corinna Mieth und Martin Sticker: Beyond Non-Instrumentalization: Negative Ends, Mere Things and Mere Enemies
    • Garrath Williams: Using People as Not-Mere-Means: the Importance of Equity

    September 7 (9 am – 6 pm): Trolleys

    • Samuel Kahn: Kantian Trolleyology
    • Samuel Kerstein: Out of the Loop 
    • Pauline Kleingeld: Was Kant on the Right Track?
    • Elke E. Schmidt: Kant’s Argument Not to Turn the Trolley

    Additional information:

    Organizers: Larissa Berger, Corinna Mieth, Elke E. Schmidt, Dieter Schönecker, and Martin Sticker.  If you plan to attend the conference, please contact Larissa Berger (larissa.berger@uni-siegen.de).


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