Practical Applications of Kant’s Philosophy

Conference Schedule: Practical Applications of Kant’s Philosophy

IDEA: The Ethics Centre, University of Leeds, 24th and 25th September 2026.

17 Blenheim Terrace, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT.

Day 1

10:30 - 10:50 | Welcome

10:50 -11:00 | Opening Remarks

11:00 – 12: 15 | Keynote Session 1: Prof Pablo Gilabert (Montreal) (room 1)

The Significance of Art for Democracy: Some Kantian Insights

12:15 - 12:30 | Coffee Break

12:30 - 13:15 | Parallel Speaker Session 1

Paper 1: Connor Tannas (Princeton): Kant on Slavery, Race, and the Scope of Moral Personhood (room 1)

Paper 2: Jooseppi Räikkönen (LSE): The History of Homo Duplex: Kant, Rousseau, and Enlightenment in the Anthropocene (room 2)

13:15 - 14:00 | Lunch

14:00 - 14:45 | Parallel Speaker Session 2

Paper 3: Mincan Li (Bristol): A Right to Work Somewhere: reconstructing Kant’s Cosmopolitan Right in the context of Migrant Domestic Labour (room 1)

Paper 4: Haiyi Qin (Amber) (Edinburgh): Kant’s sovereignty dilemma: state authority and international inconclusiveness? (room 2)

14:45 - 15:30 | Parallel Speaker Session 3

Paper 5: Dr James Andow (Manchester): Kantian climate ethics and the problem of retrospective non-identity (room 1)

Paper 6: Dr Martin Sticker (Bristol): Do striking academics treat their students as a mere means? (room 2)

15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:45 | Parallel Speaker Session 4

Paper 7: Dr Elisabeth Widmer (LSE): Kant’s Political Paternalism: A Form-Based Reading (room 1)

Paper 8: Dr Garrath Williams (Lancaster): Transnational business corporations: a Kantian lens (room 2)

16:45 - 17:15 | Closing remarks

17:15 - 17:45 | AGM

Day 2

10:30 - 11:45| Keynote 2: Prof Nuria Sánchez Madrid (Madrid) (room 1)

Kantian Traces in Rosa Luxemburg: Towards a Mature Political Mobilisation of the People

11:45 – 12:00 | Coffee Break

12:00 - 12:45 | Parallel Speaker Session 5

Paper 9: Eleni Gkoutzouni (Panteion) Is Diabolical Evil Possible? A New Quasi-Transcendental Reading of Kant’s Theory of Evil (room 1)

Paper 10: Alvaro Rodriguez Gonzalez (Sheffield): Why (exactly) should Kantians care about animals? (room 2)

12:45 - 13:30 | Lunch

13:30 - 14:15 | Parallel Speaker Session 6

Paper 11: Paolo Pavesi (Milan): Kant and the Misuse of Assertions: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Intellectual Dishonesty (room 1)

Paper 12: Lia Nordmann (Cambridge): Kant on beauty-based duties to animals (room 2)

14:15 - 15:00 | Parallel Speaker Session 7

Paper 13: Byron Hyde (Bangor): A Kantian Constraint on Academic Activism (room 1)

Paper 14: Lei Shi (Temple): Judgment Without Anthropocentrism: A Kantian Critique of AI Understanding (room 2)

15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:15 | Parallel Speaker Session 8

Paper 15: Dr Luke Davies (Groningen): What’s Wrong with Selling a Tooth? (room 1)

Paper 16: Dr Thomas Bailey (Glasgow): Artificial Consciousness and Rational Desire: a Kantian View (room 2)

16:00 - 16:45 | Roundtable & closing remarks

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