German Philosophy and the Ethics of Belief, a conference in honor of Allen W. Wood (aka Woodfest)

**UPDATE:  Registration for the banquet is now closed.  All are welcome to the talks and receptions.**

Allen W. Wood taught for 28 years at Cornell, after which he moved to Yale, then Stanford, and now Indiana University-Bloomington. This fest-conference brings together some of his present and former colleagues, students, collaborators, and friends to celebrate his contributions and to toast the beginning of his 8th decade.  Wood is co-editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, and has translated or co-translated numerous volumes in that series.  His own monographs include:

• Kant's Moral Religion
• Kant's Rational Theology
• Karl Marx
• Hegel's Ethical Thought
• Kant's Ethical Thought
• Unsettling Obligations: Essays on Reason, Reality, and the Ethics of Belief
• Kantian Ethics
• The Free Development of Each: Studies on Freedom, Right, and Ethics in Classical German Philosophy

Schedule:

October 31

Friday morning meeting location: Olin Library (Arts Quad) Room 2B48

Breakfast foods available for purchase in the cafe at the entrance to Olin Library

10-11:15am: Robert M. Adams (Rutgers): Kantian Epistemological Idealism

     Chair: Terence Hua Tai, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Coffee

11:45am-1pm, R. Lanier Anderson (Stanford): Revisiting Wood on Kant’s Rational Theology

     Chair: Jan Willis, Wesleyan University

Lunch on own

**(Rest of the conference is in a new location in Physical Sciences Building room 401)**

2:30-3:45pm: Marcia Baron (Indiana-Bloomington): Aesthetic Manipulation?

     Chair: Julie Maybee, Lehman College, CUNY

Coffee 

4-5:15pm: Béatrice Longuenesse (NYU) Kant on Persons

      Chair: Samuel Kahn, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis

Reception, Baker Portico (Physical Sciences Building first floor) 5:30-7:00

November 1

Breakfast on own

9:30-10:45am: Paul Guyer (Brown): The Twofold Morality of Recht

     Chair: Alyssa Bernstein, Ohio University

Coffee 

11:00am-12:15pm: Desmond Hogan (Princeton): Schopenhauer’s Transcendental Aesthetic

     Chair: Lisa Rivera, U Mass, Boston

Lunch (catered)

2:00-3:15pm: Rebecca Copenhaver (Lewis and Clark): Thomas Reid on Aesthetic Perception

     Chair: Ido Geiger, Ben Gurion University

Coffee 

3.30-4:45pm, Andrew Chignell (Cornell): Early Wood, Recent Wood, and the Crooked Timber of Humanity

     Chair: Stefanie Buchenau, University of Paris 8 - Vincennes-St. Denis

Coffee

5-6:15pm: Allen W. Wood (Indiana University - Bloomington): Universal Law

     Chair:  Lara Denis, Agnes Scott College

6:15-7:15pm Reception (in hall/veranda area outside PSB 401)

7:30pm Banquet (in PSB 401)