We are glad to give notice of the Call for Papers Kant and the Sensible for the triennial Conference of the Società Italiana di Studi Kantiani, which will take place on November 27th-28th, 2025, in Turin.

Abstracts, with a maximum length of 500 words, must be sent in PDF format no later than June 30, 2025, to the following address: societa.studikantiani@proton.me. Acceptance will be communicated by September 30, 2025. The official language of the conference will be Italian, but contributions in English and German will also be accepted.

Keynote Speakers

• Stefanie Buchenau (Université Paris 8 )
• Alfredo Ferrarin (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
• Claudio La Rocca (Università di Genova)

Please find below the text of the call.

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The sensible element plays a crucial role in many areas of Kantian reflection. The relationship between the sensible and the intelligible, between sensibility, intellect, and reason in the various spheres of human activity, has given rise to divergent interpretations of Kant’s theses, both in his contemporary philosophy and in subsequent traditions.

In the variety of its meanings—immediacy, givenness, factuality, corporeality, historicity—the sensible maintains in Kant a privileged but not exclusive relationship with the realm of experience. It allows us to look at the complexity of Kantian philosophy from a fruitful perspective that reveals, on the one hand, the often advantageous constraint that human finitude imposes on the claims of an untamed reason; on the other hand, the need to consider experience in its broadest sense within a dimension of normativity that requires the intervention of what is not sensible.

The conference aims to explore the variety of functions that the sensible plays within Kant’s philosophy, in its epistemic, moral, anthropological, aesthetic, historical, and juridico-political components, as well as in the relationship that the Kantian position maintains with previous and subsequent philosophies.

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