We are glad to give notice of the Leuven Kant Conference, which will take place at the KU Leuven and online (Zoom), on June 1st-3rd, 2023.
Organizers are Karin de Boer (KU Leuven), Pierpaolo Betti (KU Leuven), Arnaud Pelletier (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Henny Blomme (Université Libre de Bruxelles).
Below you can find the general presentation and the programme of the Leuven Kant Conference.
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We intend the yearly Leuven Kant Conference to provide a space for open exchange between established scholars, early career researchers, and PhD students. The 2023 edition of the conference will feature a combination of on-campus and online talks on any topic in Kant scholarship. Participants will be able to attend the on-campus talks on Zoom. The online talks will be fully online, i.e., all participants will join a Zoom meeting regardless of their location.
Programme:
(Time Zone CET)
Thursday, June 1
12.00-13.00: Lunch and Registration
13.00-13.05: Welcome
Panel 1: Ethics and Right
Chair: Karin de Boer (KU Leuven)
13.00-13.50: Günter Zöller (University of Munich)
“Legalitas giuridica […] legalitas ethica”. Kant on lawfulness as universal practical principle
13-50-14.35: Joel Klein (Federal University of Parana)
External coercion and the obligation of right
14-35-15.05: Coffee
Panel 2: Spontaneity, Consciousness and Conscience
Chair: Pierpaolo Betti (KU Leuven)
15.05-15.50: Lucia Volonté (JGU Mainz)
Transcendental freedom and the spontaneity of thinking in the pre-critical Kant
15.50-16.35: Johannes Nickl (University of St Andrews)
Conscience and the fact of reason. Making the moral law first-personal
16.35-17.05: Coffee
17.05-18.20: Keynote 1
Chair: Luis Fellipe Garcia (KU Leuven)
Inga Römer (Université Grenoble Alpes)
What does critical moral philosophy mean for transcendental philosophy? Reflections on Kant’s Opus postumum
Respondent: Henny Blomme (Université libre de Bruxelles)
19.00: Conference Dinner: TBA
Friday, June 2
12.00-13.00: Lunch
Panel 3: Moral Duties
Chair: Henny Blomme (Université libre de Bruxelles)
13.00-13.45: Christopher Fremaux (University of Scranton)
Acting from duty and the form of virtue: The Crusian character of Kant’s moral philosophy
13.45-14.30: Laurenz Ramsauer (University of Chicago)
Kant’s derivation of imperatives of duty
14.30-15.00: Coffee
Panel 4: Progress and Hope
Chair: TBA
15.00-15.45: Laura Papish (George Washington University)
Kant’s revised account of hope in Human Progress
15.45-16.30: Roey Reichert (University of California Los Angeles)
Kant’s anthropological time: The aeonic view of humanity and the Weltrepublik
16.30-17.15: Leonard Weiss (University of Sheffield)
Kant on the end of philosophy
17.15-17.35: Coffee
17.35-18.50: Keynote 2
Chair: Pavel Reichl (KU Leuven)
Márcio Suzuki (University of São Paulo)
Reflex action and transcendental aesthetics. Kant and the physiology of his time
Respondent: Paola Rumore (Università degli Studi di Torino)
19.00 Drinks
Saturday, June 3
12.00-13.00: Lunch
Panel 5: Theoretical Philosophy
Chair: Stephen Howard (KU Leuven)
13.00-13.45: Arnaud Pelletier (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Facing the Leibnizians: Kant and the replies to On a Discovery
13.45-14.30: Rodrigo Zanette de Araujo (University of Milan)
Kant’s negative account of the In-Itself
14.30-15.15: Manja Kisner (Radboud University)
From an architectonic to a generative account of a system
15.15-15.45: Coffee
Panel 6: Right and Possession
Chair: Luciano Perulli (KU Leuven)
15.45-16.30: Elisabeth Widmer (University of Oslo)
Kant on citizenship: A revised ‘economic dependency’ reading
16.30-17.15: Veronica Cibotaru (KU Leuven)
The question of the moral right of selling our own body from a Kantian perspective
17.15-17.35: Coffee
17.35-18.50: Keynote 3
Chair: Arnaud Pelletier (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Luca Fonnesu (Università degli Studi di Pavia)
Forms of knowing and forms of believing in Kant’s critical philosophy
Respondent: Andrew Chignell (Princeton University)
18.50: Concluding Remarks
Registration is free but obligatory at this link. Refreshments and lunches are free as well.
The Zoom link for all sessions will be sent by email closer to the date of the conference.
