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About the Study Group

The Pacific Study Group (PSG) of the North American Kant Society is an informal group that meets once per year, typically in late winter, to facilitate interaction among students and scholars of Kant. The PSG typically features five or six presentations, one of which is usually from a graduate student. The PSG was founded by Eric Watkins in 2002 and its first meeting was hosted at the University of California at San Diego. The PSG has met every year thereafter at universities up and down the west coast (and online during the pandemic) and has featured many influential papers.

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Dai Heide, Regional Chair


2024 NAKS Pacific Study Group Meeting

University of Washington, Seattle, WA, March 2-3, 2024

2024 PSG program:

Saturday, March 2

10am: Continental Breakfast
10:30am: Eli Benjamin Israel (Temple), "A Kantian Account of Moral Trust"

12:00pm: Lunch

1:30pm: Elvira Basevich (UC Davis), "Kant and Du Bois on the Practical Value of the Social Sciences”
3pm: E. Hande Tuna (UCSC), "Kant and Kanye"
4:30pm: Eric Watkins (UCSD), “Kant’s Criticism of the Metaphysics of Fundamentality”

Sunday, March 3
8:30am: Bagels and Coffee
9am: Fatema Amijee (UBC), "Causal Idealism in Du Châtelet and Kant"
10:30am: Laura Papish (GWU), "Kant's Rival Visions of Politics"
12pm: Huaping Lu-Adler (Georgetown), "Slavery and Kant's Doctrine of Right" (Keynote)


All sessions will take place in Savery Hall, Room 408. For those not able to travel to Seattle, virtual participation will be available. Please email Colin Marshall (crmarsh@uw.edu) if interested.


 

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