UK Kant Society Annual Conference 2025

Programme:
1st Sept.
09:00-09:30 - Registration and welcome

09:30-09:40 - Opening Remarks

09:40-10:55 - Laura Papish (George Washington University) - An Indigenous American Critique of Kantian Civil Freedom

10:55-11:15 - Coffee break

11:15-12:00 - Ying Xue (University of Warwick) - The relationship between freedom and ontology in Kant and its reception in German Idealism

12:00-12:45 - John Walsh (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) - Kant on Knowledge of Freedom

12:45-13:45 - Lunch

13:45-14:30 - Vinicius Carvalho (University of Groningen) - Kant’s Argument for the Innate Right to Freedom

14:30-15:15 - Jens Pier (Royal Holloway, University of London) - The Abyss of Rational Faith: Kant’s Moral Glaube as a Problem of Intelligibility

15:15-15:30 - Coffee break

15:30-16:15 - Amy Duong (University of St Andrews) - The Confident Realisation of Freedom and Virtue

16:15-17:00 - Kutlu Tuncel (Bilkent University) - The Third Antinomy Reconsidered: Transcendental Illusion, Deflationary Reading, and Grounding

17:00-17:30 - AGM
2nd Sept.
09:00-09:30 - Registration and welcome

09:30-10:45 - Christopher Insole (University of Durham) - TBC

10:45-11:00 - Coffee break

11:00-11:45 - Kristi Sweet (Texas A&M) - Revolution and the Weight of the World: A Kantian Justification for Moral Enthusiasm

11:45-12:30 - Tijn Smits (Amsterdam) - Freedom's Unique Form of Practical Cognition

12:30-13:30 - Lunch

13:30-14:15 - Elisabeth Widmer (LSE) - Kant on Republicanism, Economically Stratified

14:15-15:00 - Lorenzo Sala (Università degli studi di Milano) - What Epistemic Access to Freedom? Reassessing Kant in Light of His Historical Context

15:00-15:15 - Coffee break

15:15-16:00 - TJ Bailey (University of Glasgow) - When (and why) are we externally free?

16:00-16:45 - Noa Buckle (University of Toronto) - Kant's Purely Practical Concept of Freedom 17:00-17:30 - Roundtable and final remarks