Leuven Kant Conference

Program (please see the website for more details):

May 28

Aman Sakhardande (University of Toronto) – Is Time an A Priori Representation? Kant contra Locke

David Sommer (University College London) – Forma dat esse rei: Lambert and the Origin of Kant’s Transcendental Hylomorfism

Yinfei Xu (University of Bonn / Renmin University of China) – The Dual Meaning of Kant’s Concept of Freedom and its Origin: Taking the Dialogue in the New Elucidation as a Point of Entry

Joel Thiago Klein (Goethe-University Frankfurt / Federal University of Paraná) – Pratical Reason in Practice: The Case of Revolution and the Issue of Conflicting Moral Duties in Kant's Practical Philosophy

Keynote: Antoine Grandjean (Université de Lille) – A German Philosopher: A Contextual Reading of the Kant-Constant Controversy

Respondent: Martina Favaretto (University of Groningen)

May 29

María Guadalupe Martinez Fischer (Paranamerican University) – The Idea of the “State of Nature” in the Critique of Pure Reason

Shahab Vesali (KU Leuven) – The Dual Sense of Self-Consciousness in Kant ’s Critique of Pure Reason

Caleb Reidy (University of Pittsburgh) – Objective Validity as Truth-Entailing in Kant

Bennet Salzmann (University of Heidelberg) – Kant’s Stoic Concept of Moral Progress

Carolina Paulsen (Federal University of Pelotas / University of Hamburg) – From Egoism to Cosmopolitanism: Kant’s Vision of Human Nature and the Path to Perpetual Peace

Keynote: Melissa Merritt (University of New South Wales) – Kant and Stoic Cosmopolitanism

Respondent: Marijana Vujosevic (Leiden University)

May 30

Yuyue Zhang (Tsinghua University) – Pure Music and the Unity of Kant’s Aesthetic System

Kavin Chada (Indiana University) – A Third Kind of Causality in Kant’s Third Critique?

Martin Obreque (Diego Portales University / Complutense University of Madrid) – “Freiheit ist das ursprüngliche Leben”: The Concept of Life in Kant’s Critical Philosophy

Carlina Schreiber (University of Cologne) – Kant on “Inner Morality” and Political Obligation

Michael Kryluk (University of Friburg) – Kant and Democracy: Republicanism vs Despotism, Representation vs Populism

Keynote: Konstantin Pollok (Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz) – Kant’s Road to Perpetual Peace: On the Concluding Remark of the Doctrine of Right

Respondent: Egyle Hannah do Nascimiento Lopes (Federal University of Paraná / University of Vechta)

Organizers: Karin de Boer (KU Leuven), David Del Bianco (KU Leuven), Shahab Vesali (KU Leuven), Henny Blomme (Université libre de Bruxelles)