We are glad to share the final programme of the Leuven Kant Conference, that will take place at the KU Leuven on May 31th and June 1st, 2018.
The registration to the conference is possible until May 24th.
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THURSDAY, MAY 31
09.00 – 09.30 Registration & coffee
09.30 – 09.40 Welcome: Karin de Boer
09.40 – 11.10 Auditorium
Mario Caimi (Universidad de Buenos Aires): Kant’s Deduction of the Ideas of Reason and his Critical Conception of Metaphysics
Respondent: Pavel Reichl (University of Essex)
11.10 – 11.30 Coffee
The Problem of Space
[Auditorium Wolfspoort]
11.30 – 12.15 Natalia Albizu (Freie Universität Berlin)
Orientation and the Properties of Space: An Interpretation of the Argument from Incongruent Counterpart
12.15 – 13.00 Marília Espirito-Santo (Sao Paulo, independent scholar)
Kant on the Formulas of the Categorical Imperative: A New Approach
The Categorical Imperative
[Raadzaal]
11.30 – 12.15 Aljosja Kravanja (University of Ljubljana)
Two Kantian Models of Construction
12.15 – 13.00 Ido Geiger (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
The Second Formula of the Categorical Imperative and the End of Moral Action
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
Substance, Causality, and Force
[Dijlezaal]
14.00 – 14.45 Gaston Robert (King’s College London)
Logical Grounds, Real Causes and the Explanation of Change in Kant’s ‘Nova Dilucidatio’
14.45 – 15.30 Stephen Howard (KU Leuven)
Kant’s Critical Appropriation of Wolff’s and Baumgarten’s Metaphysical Concepts of Force
15.30 – 16.15 James Messina (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
Kant on the Pure Category of Substance: Will the Real Substances Please Stand Up?
Issues in Ethics
[Raadzaal]
14.00 – 14.45 Ryan Wines (Stockholm, independent scholar)
The Definition of the Will and the Metaphysics of Morals in Groundwork II
14.45 – 15.30 Marijana Vujosevic (Leiden University)
Kant’s Account of Moral Weakness
15.30 – 16.15 Lu Chao (KU Leuven) Reconstructing Kant’s Argument for ‘The Human Being is by Nature Evil’
16.15 – 16.45 Coffee
16.45 – 17.30 Jessica Williams (The University of South Florida)
Kant and the Science of Empirical Schematism
Fernando Moledo (Universidad de Buenos Aires / CONICET)
Grounding Human Dignity: The Teleological Argument
17.30 – 19.00 Auditorium Wolfspoort Alix Cohen (University of Edinburgh): Kant on Emotion
Respondent: Simon Truwant (KU Leuven)
19.15 Conference Dinner: Terra (Frederik Lintsstraat 5)
FRIDAY, JUNE 1
09.30 – 10.00 Coffee
Teleology
[Dijlezaal]
10.00 – 10.45 Andrew Cooper (University College London)
A Critical Method for Natural History: The Development of Kant’s Teleological Principle
10.45 – 11.30 Noam Hoffer (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel)
The Critique of the Power of Judgement as the ‘True Apology’ for Leibniz’s Pre-Established Harmony
Feeling
[Raadzaal]
10.00 – 10.45 Tanner Hammond (Boston University)
Moral Feeling and Moral Self-Awareness: The Phenomenological Role of Respect in Kant’s Moral Psychology
10.45 – 11.30 Janum Sethi (University of Michigan)
Two Feelings in the Beautiful: Kant on the Structure of Judgments of Beauty
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee
12.00 – 12.45 Manja Kisner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
The Meaning and Limits of the Discursive Understanding in the Third Critique
Igor Cveijc (University of Belgrade)
The Phenomenological Structure of the Feeling of Pleasure and Displeasure
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch
The Elusive Ground of Kant’s System
[Dijlezaal]
14.00 – 14.45 Sabina Bremner (Columbia University)
‘Nothing More Than the Feeling of an Existence’: The Variable Status of Transcendental Apperception
14.45 – 15.30 Kristi Sweet (Texas A&M University)
‘Life’ and the Relation of Freedom and Nature in Kant’s System
Rebellion and Conflict
[Raadzaal]
14.00 – 14.45 Paola Romero (London School of Economics)
Kant and Political Conflict
14.45 – 15.30 Jason Yonover (Johns Hopkins University)
Kant on Rebellion and Sovereignty
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee
16.00 – 17.30
Auditorium Wolfspoort
Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern University, Chicago):The Momentary Inhibition and Outpouring of the Vital Powers: Kant on the Dynamic Sublime
Respondent: Kristi Sweet (Texas A&M University)