Meeting of the Southern Study Group of the North American Kant Society

The meeting will feature Stephen Palmquist (Hong Kong Baptist University) and Pablo Muchnik (Emerson College, Boston) as keynote speakers.  The meeting program is as follows:

Sept 15th                                             

8:30-9:15a.m.     Continental Breakfast                                   

9:15-10:15           Kyla Ebels-Duggan, Northwestern University , “Kant on Morality, Happiness and Religion”

10:30-11:30         Courtney Fugate, American University of Beirut, “The Highest Good and Kant's Proof(s) of God's Existence”

11:30-1:00p.m.  Lunch                                   

1:00-2:30              Pablo Muchnik,Emerson College, Keynote #1 –“Kant and the Limits of the Jeffersonian Compromise”

2:30-3:00              Coffee Break                                    

3:00-4:00              Joseph Scott Trullinger, Mississippi State University, “Kant's Endorsement of the Fear of God”

4:15-5:15              Colin McQuillan, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, “Oaths, Promises and Compusory Duties: Kant's Response to Mendelssohn's Jerusalem”

6:00                        Dinner @ the Daily Grill, Hyatt Regency Hotel

Sept 16th                                                             

8:30-9:15a.m.     Continental Breakfast                                   

9:15-10:15           Nathan Jacobs,John Brown University,“Early Christian Antecedents and Alternatives to Kant's Transcendental Theology”          

10:30-12:00p.m.  Stephen Palmquist, Hong Kong Baptist University, Keynote #2 – “Kant's Religious Conviction” 

12:00-1:30           Lunch                                   

1:30-2:45              Group Study Session,  General Remark on the Holy Mysteries, Part III of Religion 6:137-147.       

2:45-3:15              Coffee Break                                    

3:15-4:15              Christina Drogalis, Loyola University, Chicago, “Momentary Choices versus Gradual Progress: the Religion as a Turning Point in Kant's Theory of Moral Development”              

4:30-5:30              Robert Gressis, California State Univeristy, Northridge “Kant's Change of Mind on the Propensity to Evil”               

6:00                        Dinner, Location TBA     

The meeting will be held at the Tulsa Hyatt Regency Hotel

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