We are glad to announce that the Leuven Kant Conference will go online. An adapted version of the conference will be organised by using the video conferencing tool Zoom. The event will take place on May 28th-30st 2020.
Registration is free but obligatory. The deadline for registration is May 15th.
Organisers: Karin de Boer (KU Leuven, Arnaud Pelletier (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Simon Truwant (KU Leuven), Henny Blomme (KU Leuven), Stephen Howard (KU Leuven), Luciano Perulli (KU Leuven), Pierpaolo Betti (KU Leuven)
Below you can find the general presentation of the conference, the list of the keynote speakers and the programme of the event.
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“The light dove, cleaving the air in its free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be even easier in empty space.” (CPR, A5/B8).
While the current crisis deeply affects our society in many ways, it need not entail the impossibility of the social and intellectual exchanges that academic conferences provide. In order to create, at this difficult time, a platform where Kant scholars can share their ideas, receive support and feedback, and create new bonds, we decided to organize an adapted version of the conference by using the video conferencing tool Zoom.
Apart from the three keynote speakers, the 21 researchers who were originally selected will present papers on various aspects of Kant’s philosophy. The papers have been assigned to seven panels, each of which will last 90 minutes. The papers (3000-4000 words) will be circulated in advance among the participants in a specific panel. In each case, a short introduction by the presenter will be followed by questions and discusion. For this reason, all participants are expected to have prepared questions on the texts. Each panel will consist of a maximum of 20 participants.
In order to allow as many people as possible to participate, the conference will take place between 14.00 – 19.00 CET (Thursday – Friday) and 12.30 – 19.30 CET (Saturday).
Keynote speakers
Katerina Deligiorgi (University of Sussex, UK)
Patricia Kauark-Leite (Federal University of Minas Gerais, BR)
John Zammito (Rice University, USA)
Programme
THURSDAY, MAY 28
14:00 – 15:30 Panel 1: Issues in Political Philosophy
Chair: Henny Blomme (KU Leuven)
14:00 – 14:30 Paola Romero (King’s College London), What it Takes to Will Together: A Sketch of Kant’s Account of Public Legislation
14:30 – 15:00 Christoph Kiem (Universität Leipzig), The Categorical Imperative and the Right to Coercion
15:00 – 15:30 Stefano Lo Re (University of St Andrews), Kant on Moderation in Defence of Rights
16:00 – 17:30 Panel 2: Kant and his German Predecessors
Chair: Arnaud Pelletier (ULB)
16:00 – 16:30 Pierpaolo Betti (KU Leuven), Kant’s Mature Non-Physical Monadology
16:30 – 17:00 Lorenzo Sala (Goethe Universität Frankfurt), The Correspondence between the Categories and the Forms of Judgement Explained in Light of its Historical Roots
17:00 – 17:30 Caleb Reidy (University of Pittsburgh), Transcendental Idealism and Cognitive Finitude
18:00 – 19:00 Keynote 1
Chair: Karin de Boer (KU Leuven)
John Zammito (Rice University), A Kuhnian Reconstruction of Kant’s Impact on the Discipline of Philosophy
Respondent: Henny Blomme (KU Leuven)
FRIDAY, MAY 29
14:00 – 15:30 Panel 3: The Moral Law
Chair: Simon Truwant (KU Leuven)
14:00 – 14:30 Daniele Mezzadri (United Arab Emirates University), Kant on the Nature of Logical (and Moral) Laws
14:30 – 15:00 Luciano Perulli (KU Leuven), The Moral Law and the Highest Good: Kant on Deduction and A Priori Practical Synthesis
15:00 – 15:30 Francesco Mariani (Università di Roma La Sapienza), The Moral Law and Gravity: The “Unknowable Ground” in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason and the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science
16:00 – 17:30 Panel 4: Natural Theology
Chair: Pierpaolo Betti (KU Leuven)
16:00 – 16:30 Dino Jakušić (University of Warwick), Kant, Wolff and the Object of Metaphysics: Why is Kant’s Proof called Ontological?
16:30 – 17:00 Ignacio Garay (Universidad Austral / Universidad de Navarra), Crusius and the Pre-Critical Kant on the Principle of Determining Reason and the Ontological Argument
17:00 – 17:30 Pavel Reichl (Newcastle University), Kant’s Response to Hume on the Argument from Design
18:00 – 19:00 Keynote 2
Chair: Simon Truwant (KU Leuven)
Katerina Deligiorgi (University of Sussex), Modality and Freedom
Respondent: Michael Olson (Marquette University)
SATURDAY, MAY 30
12:00 – 13:30 Keynote 3
Chair: Stephen Howard (KU Leuven)
Patricia Kauark-Leite (Federal University of Minas Gerais – Brasil), The Role of Creative Imagination in Kant’s Theory of Science
Respondent: Jennifer Mensch (Western Sydney University)
14:00 – 15:30 Panel 5: Issues in the Critique of Pure Reason
Chair: Stephen Howard (KU Leuven)
14:00 – 14:30 Jonas Held (Universität Leipzig), Kant on Judgment and Belief
14:30 – 15:00 Eylem Özaltun (Koç University), Kant and the First Person: Does the “I”of I think refer?
15:00 – 15:30 Karin de Boer (KU Leuven), Does the Critique of Pure Reason Amount to A Science?
16:00 – 17:30 Panel 6: Issues in Ethics / Political Philosophy
Chair: Luciano Perulli (KU Leuven)
16:00 – 16:30 Achim Vesper (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Kant’s Mixed Metaethics in the Groundwork
16:30 – 17:00 Robert J. Hartman (Stockholm University), Moral Luck in Kant’s Moral Philosophy
17:00 – 17:30 Michael Gregory (University of Groningen), Kant’s Hylomorphic Concept of Right and the Necessity of the State
18:00 – 19:30 Panel 7: Miscellaneous
Chair: Karin de Boer (KU Leuven)
18:00 – 18:30 Pirachula Chulanon (University of Chicago), Kant on the Analogy between Mind and Matter
18:30 – 19:00 Anna Tomaszewska (Jagiellonian University in Kraków), Kant on Atheism as Schwärmerei
19:00 – 19:30 Kristi Sweet (Texas A&M University), Kant and the Excess of Nature: On Genius and Aesthetic Ideas
For more information, please visit the website of the event.