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     Logan Ginther —“Taking It to Heart: What It Means to Have an Obligatory End”
14:20–15:30     Sina Rezaei — “The Moral Grounds of Private Property: Locke’s Colonial Vision vs. Kant’s Indigenous Protections”
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     Farshid Baghai — “Adorno’s Account of the Social Nature of Kant’s Transcendental Subject”
10:50–12:00     Hyoung Sung Kim — “Judgment, Freedom, and the B-edition Transcendental Deduction”
12:00–13:00     Lunch
13:00–14:10     Aileen C. Luo — “Sense and Sensibility: Kant on Berkeley on Spatial Representation” (Nominee for the Markus Herz Prize)
14:20–15:30     Patrick Kain — "Kant and Karl on Dignity" & Patrick Frierson, "Regressive Arguments: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
15:30–16:00     Coffee Break
16:00–18:00     Panel on Karl Ameriks, featuring Eric Watkins, Noell Birondo, Katharina Kraus, Anja Jauernig, Clinton Tolley, Angela Schwenkler, and Lara Ostaric; chaired by Andrew Chignell
18:00–19:00     Reception in honor of Karl Ameriks, sponsored by Notre Dame Philosophy
19:00–20:30     Dinner