South American-German Kant-Conference: Kant and Our Present Times

The Digital Kant-Centre NRW is pleased to invite you to a South American German Kant Conference. The conference with the topic “Kant and Our Present Times: Climate Change, Poverty, Expertise, and Education” will take place online (via Webex) on 16-17 August 2024, from 2-7 pm (CET). The aim of the conference is to discuss problems of our times against the backdrop of Kant’s philosophy and to establish a dialogue between Kant scholars from South America and Germany.

Please see below for the Webex-link and the program of the conference.

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Location: online (Webex)

Link: https://uni-siegen.webex.com/uni-siegen/j.php?MTID=mcda0a54733122afb0646cb0a3e432c44

Time: August 16 &17, 2024; 2-7 pm (German time)

Topic: Kant and Our Present Times: Climate Change, Poverty, Expertise, and Education

Program

August 16

2-2.30 pm                   Brief introduction of the topic(s) and the participants

Kant on climate change

2.30-2.55 pm              Natalia Lerussi & Pablo Pachilla: Kant in the Anthropocene.  Transcendentality, Nature and Normativity

2.55-3.05 pm              Commentary:  Efraín Lazos

3.05-3.25 pm             Discussion

3.30-3.55 pm              Joel Klein: Kant on the Value of Biodiversity

3.55-4.05 pm              Commentary: Faviola Rivera Castro

4.05-4.25 pm             Discussion

4.30-5 pm                   Break

Kant on poverty

5.00-5.25 pm              Corinna Mieth: Kant on Poverty, Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends

5.25-5.35 pm              Commentary: Lara Scaglia

5.35-5.55 pm              Discussion

6.00-6.25 pm              Alessandro Pinzani: Kant and Hegel on Poverty

6.25-6.35 pm              Commentary:  Elke E. Schmidt 

6.35-6.55 pm              Discussion

August 17

Kant on expertise

2.00-2.25 pm              Sven Bernecker: Fiddling with Epistemic Maxims

2.25-2.35 pm              Commentary:  Christopher Benzenberg

2.35-2.55 pm              Discussion

3.00-3.25 pm              Sasha Mudd: Kant on AI

3.25-3.35 pm              Commentary: Hatice Kaya

3.35-3.55 pm              Discussion

4-4.30 pm                   Break

Kant on the human right for education

4.30-4.55 pm              Marie Göbel: Kant and the Human Right to Education

4.55-5.05 pm              Commentary: Thomas Sukopp

5.05-5.25 pm             Discussion

5.30-5.55 pm              Luis Placencia: Functions of Education in Kant's Philosophy

5.55-6.05 pm              Commentary: Larissa Berger

6.05-6.25 pm             Discussion

6.30-7 pm                   Final discussion; end of the conference