North American Kant Society - Southern Study Group 2022 Conference

NORTH AMERICAN KANT SOCIETY - SOUTHERN STUDY GROUP 2022 CONFERENCE

Conference Dates: April 22-23, 2022

University of North Carolina, Wilmington

Keynote Speaker: Markus Kohl, UNC-Chapel Hill

Program:

Friday, April 22, 2022

1:00-1:15pm 

Opening & organizational remarks

1:15-2:15pm   

Daniel J. Smith (University of Memphis), “What Happens to Kant’s Race Theory in the 1790s? Towards a New Anthropological Interpretation of Radical Evil”

2:15-3:15pm   

Colin Bradley (Princeton University), “Means, Context, and Property Rights”

3:15-4:15pm   

Qiannan Li (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities), “A Kantian Account of Political Hopes as Fundamental Hopes”

4:15-4:30pm   

Coffee break (Room 261)

4:30-5:30pm   

Student Seminar: How Can Kant Help Us Remain Autonomous in the Era of Technology and Social Media?  (Timothy Aylsworth) – pizza provided for students.

5:30-6:30pm   

Mike Gregory (University of Groningen), “Does the Kantian State Dominate? Freedom and Majoritarian Rule”

7:00pm           

Conference dinner

Saturday, April 23, 2022

8:45-9:00am   

Breakfast & coffee buffet (Room 261)

9:00-10:00am 

Nicholas Dunn (McGill University), “Reflections of Reason: Kant on Practical Judgment”

10:00-11:00am 

Martina Favaretto (Indiana University-Bloomington), “No Choice when Acting from an Affect? Affects and Kant’s Incorporation Thesis”

11:00-12:00     

Justin Shaddock (Williams College), “Kant on the Highest Good, Happiness, and Hylomorphism”

12:00-1:15pm   

Lunch break

1:15-2:15pm     

Special panel: How to Teach Kant Well?

Richard Dean (California State University-LA), “In the Teeth of the Storm: Teaching Chapter 3 of Groundwork”

Timothy Aylsworth (Florida International University), “Shining Like a Jewel: A Helpful Analogy for Teaching Transcendental Idealism”

2:15-3:15pm     

Risha Kuthoore (University of Toronto), “Manifest Idealism. A Response to Lucy Allais’ Reading of Kant’s Transcendental Idealism”

3:15-4:15pm     

Kevin Busch (Davidson College), “Kant’s Non-Conceptualist Reply to Hume”

4:15-4:30pm     

Coffee break (Room 261)

4:30-6:00pm   

Keynote Lecture:  Professor Markus Kohl (UNC-Chapel Hill), "Nietzsche versus Kant on the Possibility of Rational Self-Critique"