Midwest Study Group of the North American Kant Society, 2025

Annual meeting of the Midwest Study Group of the North American Kant Society.The 2024 iteration will be hosted University of Notre Dame, on the 14th and 15th of November, 2025!

Schedule

Friday 14 November 2025
09:00–09:30     Breakfast
09:30–10:40     Maya Krishnan — “Against Unificationism: Toward a Particularist Reading of the Transcendental Dialectic”
10:50–12:00     Mario Shärli — “The Optionality of Special Metaphysics”
12:00–13:00     Lunch
13:00–14:10     Noa Buckle — “Kantʼs Purely Practical Concept of Freedom”
14:20–15:30     Farshid Baghai — “Adorno’s Account of the Social Nature of Kant’s Transcendental Subject”
15:30–16:00     Coffee Break
16:00–18:00     Keynote: Allen Wood — “Kant on Lying”
18:00–20:00     Drinks & Dinner

Saturday 15 November 2025
09:00–09:30     Breakfast
09:30–10:40     Logan Ginther —“Taking It to Heart: What It Means to Have an Obligatory End”
10:50–12:00     Sina Rezaei — “The Moral Grounds of Private Property: Locke’s Colonial Vision vs. Kant’s Indigenous Protections”
12:00–13:00     Lunch
13:00–14:10     Hyoung Sung Kim — “Judgment, Freedom, and the B-edition Transcendental Deduction”
14:20–15:30     Aileen C. Luo — “Sense and Sensibility: Kant on Berkeley on Spatial Representation” (Nominee for the Markus Herz Prize)
15:30–16:00     Coffee Break
16:00–18:00     Panel on Karl Ameriks (Noel Birondo, Patrick Frierson, Anja Jauernig, Patrick Paul Kain, Katharina Kraus, Lara Ostaric, Clinton Tolley, Eric Watkins)
18:00–19:00     Reception in honor of Karl Ameriks, sponsored by Notre Dame Philosophy
19:00–20:30     Dinner