Leuven Kant Conference 2023

June 1 – 3

Thursday, June 1

12.00-13.00 Lunch & Registration 
13.00-13.05 Welcome

 

 

13.00-13.50
online
 

13.50-14.35
 

Panel 1: Ethics and Right 

Chair: Karin de Boer (KU Leuven)

Günter Zöller (University of Munich)
“Legalitas iuridica […] legalitas ethica.” Kant on lawfulness as universal practical principle

Joel Klein (Federal University of Parana)
External coercion and the obligation of right
 

14.35-15.05

Coffee


 


15.05-15.50
 

15.50-16.35
 

Panel 2: Spontaneity, Consciousness and Conscience

Chair: Pierpaolo Betti (KU Leuven)

Lucia Volonté (JGU Mainz)
Transcendental freedom and the spontaneity of thinking in the pre-critical Kant

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

 
 


13.00-13.45
 

13.45-14.30
 

Panel 3: Moral Duties

Chair: Henny Blomme (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Christopher Fremaux (University of Scranton)
Acting from duty and the form of virtue: The Crusian character of Kant's moral philosophy

Laurenz Ramsauer (University of Chicago)
Kant’s derivation of imperatives of duty
 

14.30-15.00

Coffee


 


15.00-15.45
 

15.45-16.30
 

16.30-17.15
 

Panel 4: Progress and Hope

Chair: TBA

Laura Papish (George Washington University)
Kant’s revised account of hope in Human Progress

Roey Reichert (University of California Los Angeles) 
Kant’s anthropological time: The aeonic view of humanity and the Weltrepublik

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

 



13.00-13.45


13.45-14.30


14.30-15.15

Panel 5: Theoretical Philosophy

Chair: Stephen Howard (KU Leuven) 

Arnaud Pelletier (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Facing the Leibnizians: Kant and the replies to On a Discovery

Rodrigo Zanette de Araujo (University of Milan) 
Kant’s negative account of the In-Itself

Manja Kisner (Radboud University)
From an architectonic to a generative account of a system 
 

15.15-15.45

Coffee


 


15.45-16.30
 

16.30-17.15
 

Panel 6: Right and Possession 

Chair: Luciano Perulli (KU Leuven)

Elisabeth Widmer (University of Oslo)
Kant on citizenship: A revised ‘economic dependency’ reading

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

 

 



online

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

Format: on-campus and online (Zoom)

Conference venue: Institute of Philosophy, PI 00.32, Andreas Vesaliusstraat 2, Leuven

Time Zone CET