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Spring 2013 Conference

The 10th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Study Group of The North American Kant Society &
The Brandeis Philosophy Department Spring Conference:  Justice and Virtue in Kant

April 19 & 20
Eastern North American Kant Society (ENAKS) Meeting featuring:
Rae Langton, M.I.T. and Thomas Pogge, Yale University
(This event is co-sponsored by Brandeis's Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas Program)

April 21
The Brandeis Philosophy Department Spring Conference,
co-sponsored by the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life, featuring:
Allen Wood, Indiana University
Jens Timmermann, University of St. Andrews
and Kate Moran, Brandeis University

Schedule

Friday, April 19th
11.30 AM: Greetings
11.45 AM: Welcoming Words, Kate Moran and Pablo Muchnik

Afternoon Session
Chair: Susan Hahn, MIT
•      12-1 PM: Marius Stan, Boston College, “Kant on Action by Contact”
•      1.15-2.15 PM: Andrew Specht, Syracuse University, “Kant and the Necessity of Geometry: Trendelenburg's Challenge”
•     2.30-3.30: Tyson Gofton, University of Toronto, “Infinitesimals and Differentials in Salomon Maimon’s Essay on Transcendental Philosophy, (Candidate for the Herz Prize)
•     3.45-4.45: James Hebbeler, Saint Joseph’s University “Kant on Knowledge of Particular Causal Laws,”
Keynote Speaker
•     5.30-7 PM: Thomas Pogge, Yale University, “Transcendental Idealism”
•     7:30PM Group Dinner at The Elephant Walk in Waltham (by invitation)

Saturday, April 20th
Morning Session
Chair: Huaping Lu-Adler, Georgetown University
•     10-11 AM: Oliver Sensen, Tulane University, “Is Kant a Moral Constructivist?”
•     11.15-12.15: Paul Cudney, “No Hope for Kant’s Formula of Universal Law,” Georgetown University

Lunch Break: 12.30-1.45 PM

Afternoon Session
Chair:  Christopher Arroyo, Providence College
•     2-3 PM: Adam Cureton, University of Tennessee, “A Contractualist Reading of Kant’s Proof of the Formula of Humanity”
•     3.15-4.15: Melissa Seymour Fahmy, University of Georgia, “Interpreting Kant’s Formula of Humanity,”
•     4.30-5.30: Donald Wilson, “Norms of Truthfulness and Non-Deception in Kantian Ethics,” Kansas State University
Keynote Speaker
•     6 -7:30 PM: Rae Langton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Dignity and Evil”

Sunday, April 21st

    10:00 am - Noon: Allen Wood, Indiana University, “The Independence of Right from Ethics”

Lunch Break: 12:00-1:45 pm

     2:00-4:00 pm: Jens Timmermann, University of St. Andrews, “The Demands of Kant’s Ethics”

Afternoon Break: 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

    4:30-6:30 pm: Kate Moran, Brandeis University, “Justice and Beneficence in Kant”