North American Kant Society--Midwestern Study Group

North American Kant Society

Midwestern Study Group

March 8th-9th, 2013

Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN

(All talks in University Center, Hoosier Room East)

March 8th

12:00-12:55: “The Soul as Two-Sided Illusion” Courtney Morris (U of California, Riverside)

1:00-1:55: “Existence and Indexicality: On Kant’s Thesis that Being is Positing and Not a Predicate” Matthew Rukgaber (Eastern Connecticut State)

2:15-3:10: “Possible and Actual Universality of Judgments of Taste” Amrit Heer (Villanova University)

3:15-4:10: “Sensus Communis and Temporality in Kant’s Critique of Aesthetic Judgment” Kenneth Noe (Southern Illinois, Carbondale)

4:15-5:10: “Kant’s Philosophy of Time in the Transcendental Aesthetic” Oliver Thorndike (Johns Hopkins University)

5:20-6:45: Keynote Address, “The Independence of Right from Ethics” Allen Wood, Indiana University, Bloomington

March 9th

9:00-9:55: “Kant and the Duty to Act from Duty” Michael Walschots (Western Ontario)

10:00-10:55: “Experiments in Ethics? Kant on Chemistry and Practical Philosophy” Martin Sticker (University of St. Andrews)

11:00-11:55: “Kant’s Conception of Humanity in the Groundwork” Zeyu Chi (Georgia State University)

2:00-2:55: “To Suspend Finitude Itself: Hegel’s Early Reaction to Kant’s First Antinomy” Reed Winegar (Fordham University)

3:00-3:55: “A Kantian Argument for Sovereignty Rights of Indigenous Peoples” Krista Thomason (Swarthmore College)