2026 Midwest Study Group of the North American Kant Society

Friday, December 11th

8:45–9:15 — Coffee & Opening Remarks

9:15–10:15 — Joseph Hamilton, "The Sociality of Prudential Reason"

10:30–11:30 — Amy Duong, "Practice Makes Virtue: Kant on the Role of Practice in Moral Development" (Herz Prize Nominee)

11:45–12:45 — J. Edward Allore, "Kant and the a priori Ground of Imputation"

12:45–14:00 — Lunch

14:00–15:00 — Martina Favaretto, "The Motive of Duty is Not a Commitment to Rightness De Dicto"

15:15–16:15 — Andrew Stahl, "Objective Validity and the Neo-Liberal Reading of Kant"

16:15–16:30 — Coffee

16:30–18:30 — Keynote: Houston Smit

Saturday, December 12th

9:15–9:45 — Coffee 

9:45–10:45 — Davide Dalla Rosa and Lewis Wang, "Kant’s Theory of Meaning"

11:00–12:00 — Laura Benzenberg and Mario Schärli, "Chains of Reason: Kant on Prosyllogisms and the Unconditioned"

12:00–13:00 — Lunch

13:00–14:00 — Hyoung Sung Kim, "Addition, Subtraction, and Transformation"

14:15–15:15 — August Buholzer, "Kantian Functionalism Reconsidered"

15:15–16:00 — Coffee

16:00–17:00 — James Messina, "Transformative Rationality and Forms of Intuition in Kant"

17:00–18:00 — Kant Atlas launch leading into reception [‘Sektempfang’]

Annual meeting of the Midwest Study Group of the North American Kant Society. Hosted at University of Chicago by Maya Krishnan and Thomas Pendlebury.