NYU-Princeton Workshop on Kant, Animals, and the Environment

Saturday, May 10  

9:00–9:25 Check–in and Coffee  

9:25 Welcome

9:30–11:30 Environment I

Speaker: Zachary Vereb (Mississippi University)

“Good Kantian Neighbors: A Look at US Air Pollution Policy”

Commentator: Kimberly Brewer (Princeton University) 

Chair: Connor Tannas (Princeton University)  

11:45–12:45 Animals I (Virtual)

Speaker: Nico Dario Mueller (University of Basel)

Précis of Radical Kantianism for Animals

Chair: Laura Mora (New York University)  

12:45–2:15 Lunch Break

2:15–4:15 Animals II

Speaker: Patrick Kain (Purdue University)

“The Value of Animals”

Commentator: Michelle Kosch (Cornell University)

Chair: Jeff Sebo (New York University)  

4:15–4:30 Coffee Break

4:30–6:30 Environment II

Speaker: Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge University)

“Kantian Climate Ethics” Commentator: Haley Brennan (New York University)

Chair: Dale Jamieson (New York University)  

6:30–7:30 Reception

Sunday, May 11  

9:30-10 Check–in and Coffee  

10:00–12:00 Environment III 

Speaker: Toby Svoboda (Colgate University)

"Why Imperfect Duties Regarding Nature Are Perfectly Fine"

Commentator: Desmond Hogan (Princeton University)

Chair: Zachary Ottati (Princeton University)  

12:00–1:30 Lunch Break  

1:30–3:30 Animals III

Speaker: Matthew Altman (Central Washington University)

“A Copernican Revolution in Ethics? A Metaphilosophical Analysis of Kantians on Animals”

Commentator: Anja Jauernig (New York University)

Chair: Ethan Millar-Virkutis (Princeton University)  

3:30–3:45 Coffee Break  

3:45–5:45 Animals IV Speaker: Helga Varden (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

"Kant, Modernity, and the Environment"

Commentator: Andrew Chignell (Princeton University)

Chair: Bin Hui Kwon (New York University)  

5:45–6:45 Reception