THE NORTH AMERICAN KANT SOCIETY

President
Vice President
Pablo Muchnik
Helga Varden
Institute for Liberal Arts Departments of
and Interdisciplinary
Philosophy, WGS
Studies
University of Illinois
Emerson College
at Urbana-Champaign
120 Boylston Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Boston, MA 02116
hvarden@illinois.edu
pablo_muchnik@
emerson.edu

NEWSLETTER
Vol. XXXXIV, No. 44

In This Issue:
From the Presidents Desk ... 1-2
Announcements.... 2-4
Conferences/Workshops .. 4-5
NAKS Study Groups/Sessions at the
APAs. 5-6
Calls for ApplicationsPapers/
Abstracts/Submissions ..... 6-12
Journals/Blogs. 13-17
NAKS Dues Form.
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FROM THE PRESIDENTS DESK
Dear NAKS Members,
With the holidays quickly approaching and the
semester (almost) at an end, it is a good time to
reflect on NAKS activities this year. 2015 has
been extremely busy and productive: we have
maintained a strong presence at all APA

Treasurer
Bibliographer
Robert Hanna
Steve Naragon
Robert.Hanna@
Dept. of Religion
Colorado.edu
and Philosophy
http://colorado.academia.eeManchester College
edu/RobertHanna
604 E. College Ave.
North Manchester,
IN 46962
SSNaragon@
manchester.edu

DECEMBER 2015
meetings; our regional Study Groups have
featured some of the best contemporary
Kantian scholarship; our prizes in all categories
(graduate students, junior scholars, and senior
scholars) have seen healthy and vigorous
competition; collaboration with other Kant
societies around the world is at an all-time
high; preparations for the third Biennial
Congress at Emory (May 27-29, 2016) are fully
underway; and we have started a collaboration
with the Critique and Contemporary Kantian
Philosophy (C&CKP) project in an effort to
develop, translate, and publish cutting-edge
scholarship online. These are significant
achievements, which require hard work and
express the strong commitment our members
have to all things Kantian. On behalf of all
NAKS officers, I want to express our gratitude
for the intellectual efforts, generosity, and
persistence of those who, through their service
to the Society, have made this whirl of activity
possible. If the health of a philosophical
project is to be measured by the consistent
NAKS Advisory Board

Henry Allison, San Diego (Emeritus); Karl Ameriks, Notre Dame; Richard Aquila, Tennessee;
Paul Guyer (President), Brown; Pauline Kleingeld, Groningen; Jane Kneller, Colorado State;
Patricia Kitcher, Columbia; Rhoda Kotzin, Michigan State (Emeritus); Manfred Kuehn, Boston (Emeritus);
Robert Louden, Southern Maine; Ralf Meerbote, Rochester (Emeritus); Frederick Rauscher, Michigan State;
Hoke Robinson, Memphis (Emeritus); Eric Watkins, San Diego; Allen Wood, Stanford; Guenter Zoeller, Munich

intensity of its pursuit of shared goals, NAKS

is doing well indeed!
Let me highlight
announcements:

few

important

The winner of the 2015 Markus Herz Prize

is Naomi Fisher (Notre Dame). The Herz
Prize is awarded to the best graduate
student paper presented at NAKS regional
meetings. We would like to thank the
selection committee for their judiciousness
and hard work.
There are four important deadlines to
keep in mind:
o Our Biennial conference, the largest
and most prestigious meeting
NAKS organizes, will accept
submissions until January 1, 2016.
We encourage our members to
send their work for blind-review
consideration and take part of this
exciting event.
o The deadline for submissions for the
book NAKS Book Prize is
December 31, 2015.
o Submissions for the Wilfrid Sellars
Prize will be accepted until January
1, 2016.
o Finally, the deadline for submissions
for the Multilateral Colloquium at
Hofstra University is February 1,
2016.
Please help us spread the word about all
these events!

We invite you to join us at our upcoming

sessions at the APA Eastern Division
meeting in Washington D.C, as well as at
the Central APA in Chicago, where
Claudio La Rocca will deliver the Mary
Gregor Lecture. You will find more details
in the body of the newsletter.

As always, we encourage you to send us your

December, 2015

feedback and suggestions as to how we can

make NAKS better serve your scholarly
pursuits. We look forward to hearing from you.
With all best wishes,
Pablo Muchnik, President
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
(1) SUBMISSION DEADLINES FOR
NAKS NEWSLETTERS
Please submit information intended for
inclusion in the Newsletter by the 10th of the
month of publication to Helga Varden at
hvarden@illinois.edu.
The deadlines for the four annual issues are:

For the March Issue: March 10

For the June Issue: June 10
For the September Issue: September 10
For the December Issue: December 10

All announcements must be sent in a Word or

.rtf file (not .pdfs).
For conferences and calls for papers, please
follow the following format:
Conference title
Meeting dates
Meeting place
Brief description (if pertinent)
Schedule with names of chairs and
participants, complete institutional
affiliation, and paper title (if applicable).
Additional information

NB: Time-sensitive materials, such as job

opportunities, are announced through our
e-mail system as well as in the Newsletter when
appropriate. To avoid electronic overload, we
limit e-mail reminders about upcoming
conferences to events directly related to
NAKS, such as NAKS Study Group meetings,
APA/NAKS-sponsored sessions, and the
Biennial National NAKS Meeting. All other

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events of interest to our community are

published in the regular course of the
newsletters and must be submitted by the
respective deadlines.
(2) MARKUS HERZ
NAOMI FISCHER

AWARD

2015:

NAKS is very happy to announce that the

winner of the 2015 NAKS Markus Herz
Award Naomi Fischer.
Naomi recently defended her dissertation,
entitled "Kant, Schelling, and a New
Philosophy of Nature" at the University of
Notre Dame. Her dissertation explores themes
of the the activity, nature, and cognition in
Kant and Schelling, and applies lessons learned
from
this
period
to
contemporary
philosophical debates. She will receive her
degree in January 2016, and beginning in Fall
2016 she will be an Assistant Professor at Clark
University.
Abstract: "Kant on Animals"
Kants Critical philosophy seems to leave very
little room for accounting for the mental lives
of animals, since the understanding is required
for experience and cognition. While Kant does
not regard animals as Cartesian machines, he
leaves them very little resources for getting
around in the world in a coherent and
responsive way. In this paper I present Kants
account of animal minds. According to this
picture, animals have representations of which
they are not conscious, and these
representations can give rise to inclinations
through a form of reflection. While this
account is impressive in its ingenuity, and it
clarifies the role of various faculties and terms
in the critical philosophy, it is ultimately
unsatisfactory in accounting for the variety and
complexity of animal behavior, as well as the
gradual emergence of rationality.

December, 2015

(3) WALTER DE GRUYTER STIFTUNG

KANT LECTURER 2015-16: ONORA
ONEILL
The 2015-2016 Walter de Gruyter Stiftung
Kant lecturer is Onora ONeill (University of
Cambridge). ONeill will present her lecture at
the 2016 Central Division meeting in Chicago,
IL.
De Gruyter has a long history of publishing
Kant scholarship and embraces philosophical
work in the Kantian tradition in the broadest
sense. The de Gruyter Stiftung explicitly
intends the Walter de Gruyter Stiftung Kant
lecture series to be open to a broad approach
to
Kantian
philosophy
across
the
philosophical disciplines. This may also
include contemporary philosophical work in
the Kantian tradition. The Walter de Gruyter
Stiftung Kant lecture series is offered every
year at a divisional meeting on a rotating basis.
More information can be found here:
http://www.apaonline.org/news/news.asp?id
=230972
(4) NEW DATABASE: KANTS BOOKS
The Kant Research Group at the University of
Western Ontario is pleased to announce the
creation of a new digital resource entitled
Kants
Books,
available
at
our
website: http://publish.uwo.ca/~cdyck5/UW
OKRG. Following the catalogue supplied by
Arthur Warda in his Immanuel Kants
Bcher (Berlin: Martin Breslauer, 1922), the
Kants Books digital archive contains links
to books that were known to be in Kants
personal library at the time of his death as well
as texts which it is widely known Kant
possessed (such as copies of his own works,
books mentioned in letters, and textbooks he
taught from). Whenever possible, links to the
same (digital) edition of the texts from Kants
collection are supplied, though, when these are
not available, links to alternate editions are
provided (and noted as such). For more
information about this database or for
suggestions of amendments, please contact
Corey W. Dyck at cdyck5@uwo.ca.

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(5) CRITIQUE & CONTEMPORARY

KANTIAN PHILOSOPHY, AND NAKS:
A NEW ONLINE PROJECT AND
COLLABORATION
The editors of Critique, the online site for
discussing and reviewing new works on Kant
and German idealism, and the co-directors of
the Contemporary Philosophy Project, are extremely
pleased to announce their merger into a single,
online-based Kantian philosophy project,
Critique & Contemporary Kantian Philosophy
(C&CKP).
The new C&CKP project, which will go-live in
April
2016,
will,
alongside
the
author-meets-critics sessions and review essays
familiar from Critique, feature:
i.

ii.

iii.

a highly progressive and author-friendly

research-manuscript-development-&-publ
ishing scheme for new first-rate essays in
Kantian philosophy, Contemporary Studies
in Kantian Philosophy, as well as
a scheme for sponsoring and publishing
translations into English of recent
first-rate essays in Kantian philosophy
originally written in languages other than
English, and also
yearly international workshops in Kantian
philosophy,
with
an
explicitly
cosmopolitan, tri-continental character, in
Europe, North America, or South
America.

The first annual C&CKP workshop, Kant,

Cinzia, e Natureza Humana, was held at the
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo
Horizonte, Brazil, on 3-4 December 2015,
with participants from Argentina, Brazil,
Canada, Italy, Finland, and the USA.
The two online publishing schemes will be
developed in direct collaboration with NAKS,
and will provide a new and unique opportunity
for NAKS members to submit, develop, and
publish their work, as well as having direct
access to the discussions and reviews already
available on Critique.

December, 2015

(6) WOMEN INTELLECTUALS OF 18TH

CENTURY GERMANY
The Kant Research Group at the University of
Western Ontario is pleased to announce a new
database 'Women Intellectuals of 18th Century
Germany.' The database provides brief
biographies of some important female writers
who were active in Germany in the 18th
century, links to their works that are available
online, and offers a list of some available
secondary
literature.
For
suggestions,
additions, or any other comments on this
database, please contact Corey W. Dyck
(cdyck5@uwo.ca).
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CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS
CONFERENCE: AGENCY, PERSONS,
AND KANT
Place: The University of Notre Dame
Dates: April 8-9, 2016.
The program will include the following
speakers (and titles):
Speaker:
Lucy Allais (UCSD/Witwatersrand)
Autonomy, Agency, and Evil"
Chair:
Ryan Kemp (Wheaton)
Speaker:
Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame)
Once Again: The End of All Things
Chair:
Fred Rush (Notre Dame)
Speaker:
Stephen Engstrom (Pittsburgh)
Understanding Autonomy: Form and
Content of Practical Knowledge
Chair:
Patrick Kain (Purdue)
Speaker:
Paul Guyer (Brown)
Kant's Struggle for Freedom
Chair:
Andrew Chignell (Cornell)

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Speaker:
Barbara Herman (UCLA)
Animals and Agency
Chair:
Jane Kneller (Colorado St.)

_____________________________
NAKS STUDY GROUPS/
NAKS SESSIONS AT THE APA
MEETINGS

Speaker:
Pauline Kleingeld (Groningen)
Autonomy in Kant's Moral Theory: Its Rise
and Fall
Chair:
Patrick Frierson (Whitman)
Speaker:
Beatrice Longuenesse (NYU)
Kants Multiple Concepts of Person
Chair:
Anja Jauernig (NYU)
Speaker:
Robert Pippin (Chicago)
The Dynamic of Reason: On the Theoretical
and the Practical in Kant and Hegel
Chair:
Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern)
Speaker:
Dieter Sturma (Bonn)
The Practice of Self-Consciousness: Kant on
Nature and Freedom
Chair:
Sally Sedgwick (Illinois-Chicago)
Speaker:
Eric Watkins (UCSD)
The Unconditioned in Action
Chair:
Clinton Tolley (UCSD)

(1) THE SOUTHERN NAKS STUDY

GROUP
The 2016 Southern Study Group Meeting of
the North American Kant Society will take
place at the University of Georgia in Athens,
GA on February 19th & 20th. Oliver Sensen
(Tulane University) will deliver the key note
address.
For more information contact host Melissa
Seymour Fahmy (meseymou@uga.edu).
(2) MIDWEST NAKS STUDY GROUP
2016
The next meeting of the Midwest NAKS
Study Group (Fall 2016) will be hosted by
Emily Carson at McGill University in
Montreal, Canada.
(3) NAKS SESSIONS AT THE
EASTERN APA
Dates: Jan 6-9, 2016
Place: Washington, DC
Session 1:
Kant on the crooked wood of humanity
Thursday, Jan. 7, 7:30-10:30PM
Speakers:
Laura Papish (George Washington) Kant
on Self-Deception, Rationalization, and
the Hell of Self-Cognition."

Speaker:
Marcus Willaschek (Frankfurt)
Freedom as a Postulate
Chair:
Elvira Simfa (Riga)

Speaker:
Allen Wood (Indiana)
Universal Law
Chair:
Babak Bakhtiarynia (Notre Dame)

James DiCenso (Toronto)

"The crooked wood of humanity and
Kant's ideal ethical community."
Howard Williams (Aberystwyth) Kant's
unsociable-sociability in Hegel and Marx

Chair:
Pablo Muchnik (Emerson College)

Conference Organizer: Eric Watkins (UCSD),

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Session 2:
New Perspectives on Kants Psychology
Friday, January 8, 7-10PM
Speakers:
Corey Dyck (Western Ontario) "Rational
and Empirical Psychology in Kant's Silent
Decade."
Patrick Frierson (Whitman College)
"Kantian Feeling: Empirical Psychology,
Transcendental Critique, and
Phenomenology."
Commentators:
Patricia Kitcher (Columbia)
Jeanine Grenberg (St. Olaf College)
Chair:
Laura Papish (George Washington)
(4) NAKS SESSIONS AT THE
CENTRAL APA

(5) NAKS SESSIONS AT THE PACIFIC

APA
Dates: March 30-April 3, 2016
Place: San Fransisco
Session 1: Author-Meets-Critics
Author: Henry Allison (California, San
Diego)
Title: Kant`s Transcendental Deduction: An
Analytical and Historical Commentary
(Oxford University Press, 2015)
Critics:
Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame)
Paul Guyer (Brown)
Chair:
Lucy Allais (California, San
Diego/Witswatersrand)
Session 2: Author-Meets-Critics

Dates: March 2-5, 2016

Place: Chicago
Session 1: The Mary Gregor Lecture
(GII-12) Thursday, March 03, 9:00
AM-12:00 PM
Speaker:
Claudio LaRocca (Genova), ``Kant and the
Problem of Conscience''
Commentator:
Jens Timmerman (St Andrews)

Author: Nick Stang (Toronto)

Title: Kants Modal Metaphysics
(Oxford University Press 2016)
Critics:
Uygar Abaci (Richmond)
Ralf Bader (Oxford)
Andrew Chignell (Cornell)
Tobias Rosefeldt (Humboldt, Berlin)

Chair:
Pablo Muchnik (Emerson College)

Chair:
Helga Varden (Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign)

Session 2: Author-Meets-Critics,
(GIV-07) Thursday, March 03, 7:40
PM-10:40 PM

CALLS FOR APPLICATIONS/

ABSTRACTS/ PAPERS/
SUBMISSIONS

Author: Julian Wuerth (Vanderbilt)

Title: Kant on Mind, Action, and Ethics
(Oxford University Press, 2014)

(1) EASTERN NAKS STUDY GROUP

Critics:
Alix Cohen (University of Edinburgh)
Andrew Brooks (Carleton)
Chair:
Jens Timmerman (St. Andrews)
December, 2015

Dates: April 10-11, 2016.

Place: Yale University.
Submission deadline: Dec. 31, 2015.
The Eastern Study Group of the NAKS invites

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submissions for its 13th annual meeting to take

place at Yale University on Sunday and
Monday, April 10-11, 2016. Our host this year
is Professor Paul Franks.
Keynote speakers:
Paul Franks (Yale), TBD.
Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge), TBD.
The deadline for submissions is Thursday,
December 31, 2015. Please send all papers
electronically to the organizer, Oliver
Thorndike, oliverthorndike@jhu.edu.
Submissions should be prepared for blind
review and be limited to 5,000 words,
including footnotes and references (longer
submissions will not be considered). Please
prepare your file in PDF format, include an
abstract of a maximum of 300 words
(abstracts
without
the
accompanying
submission will not be considered), and a
word count at the end of the paper. Contact
information should be sent in a separate Word
file. Please indicate in your separate World file.
whether you are a graduate student
The
selection
committee
welcomes
contributions on all topics of Kantian
scholarship (contemporary or historically
oriented), including discussions of Kants
immediate predecessors and successors. This
year we would like especially to encourage
submissions related to Kants Critique of the
Power of Judgment. Reading time is limited to
30 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of
discussion. The best graduate student paper
will receive a $200 stipend and be eligible for
the Markus Herz Prize. Women, minorities,
and graduate students are especially
encouraged to submit.

Papers will be posted in the members only

section of the NAKS website and circulated in
advance among participants, who are expected
to have read them at the time of the
conference.
ENAKS receives support from NAKS and
host universities. For earlier programs, see:
http://word.emerson.edu/enaks/
For questions about ENAKS or the upcoming
meeting, please contact:
oliverthorndike@jhu.edu.
(2) NAKS BOOK PRIZE FOR SENIOR
SCHOLARS
Submission deadline: December 31, 2015
(for books published from January, 2014 to
December, 2015).
NAKS is pleased to anounce the third (now
annual) Book Prize for Senior Scholars
competition. This prize will be awarded for an
outstanding book dealing with any aspect of
Kants philosophy. Submissions will be judged
by a panel consisting of members drawn from
the NAKS Advisory Board, and the winner will
receive a prize of $500. The Awards Committee
reserves the right not to award a prize, if in its
judgment none is warranted.

Eligibility rules:
1.) Only single-authored monographs or
collections of essays written in English will
be considered.
2.) Authors must be members of NAKS at the
time of submission.
3.) Senior is defined here as: 40 or older
(regardless of tenure status), or tenured
(regardless of age).
4.) Current NAKS Executive and/or
Advisory Board Members are not eligible
to compete for the prize.
5.) Submission must be made by the
publisher, and four (4) hard copies or
Papers already read or accepted at other
e-copies of the book must be submitted
NAKS study groups or meetings may not be
to NAKS, via:
submitted. Presenters must be members of
Prof. Pablo Muchnik
NAKS in good standing. Selected papers are
Institute for Liberal Arts and
eligible to be considered for inclusion in the
Interdisciplinary Studies
book series Rethinking Kant, published by
Emerson College
Cambridge Scholars Publishers.
120 Boylston Street, 9th Floor (#907)
Boston, MA 02116-4624.
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(3) THIRD BIENNIAL MEETING

OF NAKS
Dates: May 27-29, 2016
Place: Emory University
Submission deadline: 11:59pm EST on
January 1, 2016
We aim to announce which papers have been
accepted by February 10, 2016.
Keynote Speakers:
Batrice Longuenesse (NYU)
Pauline Kleingeld (Grningen)
Jack Zammito (Rice)
Author-Meets-Critics I:
Hanna Ginsborg (Berkeley):
The Normativity of Nature
Critics:
Patricia Kitcher (Columbia)
Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame)
Author-Meets-Critics II:
Rudi Makkreel (Emory):
Orientation and Judgment in Hermeneutics
Critics:
Angelica Nuzzo (CUNY)
Eric Wilson (GSU)
The conference will be held at Emory
University Conference Center on May 27-29,
2016. Our local host/coordinator is Dilek
Huseyinzadegan.
Please check:
www.naksmeeting.kantpapers.org
for updates and more information on the
meeting. We also have a Facebook Page
entitled The North American Kant Society
Third
Biennial
Meeting
2016:
https://www.facebook.com/naksmeeting .

and Logics; 4. Philosophy of Science and

Nature; 5. Teleology; 6. Ethics and Moral
Philosophy; 7. Philosophy of Law and Justice;
8. Philosophy of Politics, History and Culture;
9. Religion and Theology; 10. Aesthetics; 11.
Kant and German Idealism; 12. Kant and
Phenomenology; 13. Kant in the Present.
Papers should not exceed 20 minutes reading
time (approx. 3000 words). Papers will be
anonymously reviewed; please keep any
identifying information on a separate page.
We especially encourage graduate student
submissions. If you are a graduate student,
please identify yourself as such in the personal
information page. A $200 travel award will be
provided for the best graduate paper and the
author will be considered as a candidate for the
annual Markus Herz Prize.
Submissions should include two attachments
(.doc, .docx, or .pdf): 1) A 3000-word paper,
including the notes, prepared for anonymous
review, accompanied by a 200-word abstract;
2) Cover page including the title of the paper,
word count, authors name, brief bio, and
contact information. Please email all
documents to: binaksemory@gmail.com
(4) HOPOS 2016
Dates: June 22-25, 2016
Place: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
http://hopos2016.umn.edu/
Submission deadline: January 4, 2016
Keynote Speakers:
Karine Chemla (REHSEIS, CNRS, Universit
Paris Diderot)
Thomas Uebel (Manchester)

The International Society for the History of

Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) will hold its
eleventh
international
congress
in
Papers from analytic, continental, and
Minneapolis, on June 22-25, 2016. The
historical approaches, in any area of Kants
Society hereby requests proposals for papers
and Kantian philosophy, are welcome. Please
and for symposia to be presented at the
identify two areas under which you wish your
meeting. HOPOS is devoted to promoting
paper to be considered: 1. Kants Precritical
research on the history of the philosophy of
Philosophy; 2. Metaphysics; 3. Epistemology
science. We construe this subject broadly, to
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include topics in the history of related

disciplines and in all historical periods, studied
through diverse methodologies. We aim to
promote historical work in a variety of ways,
but especially through encouraging exchange
among
scholars
through
meetings,
publications, and electronic media. In order to
encourage scholarly exchange across the
temporal reach of HOPOS, the program
committee especially encourages submissions
that take up philosophical themes that cross
time periods. If you have inquiries about the
conference or about the submission process,
please write to Maarten van Dyck:
maarten.vandyck@ugent.be.
To submit a proposal, please upload a PDF of
your paper or symposium proposal to the
following website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ho
pos2016
Proposals for papers should be prepared for
anonymous review. Proposals should include:
Title and abstract of the paper (maximum
500 words).
Proposals for symposia should be prepared for
anonymous review. Proposals should include:
Title of the symposium.
Symposium summary statement (max. 500
words).
Titles and abstracts of the papers
(maximum 500 words for each paper).
A symposium should consist of 3 or 4 papers.
Program Committee:
Maarten van Dyck (Ghent), "Kant and
Before" (chair)
Karen Detlefsen (Pennsylvania)
Andrea Falcon (Concordia)
Sophie Roux (cole Normale Suprieure,
Paris)
Marius Stan (Boston College)
Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech), "After Kant"
(chair)
Janet Folina (Macalester College)
Greg Frost-Arnold (Hobart and William Smith
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Colleges)
Matthias Neuber (Tbingen)
Jonathan Tsou (Iowa State)
(5) LEUVEN KANT CONFERENCE
Dates: June 2-3, 2016
Place: University of Leuven
Submission deadline: January 5, 2016
Keynote speakers:
Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge)
Robert Louden (Southern Maine)
Eric Watkins (California, San Diego)
The Institute of Philosophy of the University
of Leuven invites submissions for the fourth
Leuven Kant Conference. Papers are welcome
on any aspect of Kants philosophy. The
conference aims at stimulating fruitful
exchanges between established scholars, young
researchers, and PhD students. Presentation
time will be 25 minutes + 20 minutes for
discussion.
Abstracts (no more than 500 words) should be
sent in MSWord as attachment to
leuvenkantconference@kuleuven.be
Abstracts should be prepared for double-blind
review by removing any identification details.
The authors name, paper title, institutional
position and affiliation, as well as contact
information should be included in the body of
the e-mail.
Notification of acceptance by February 1,
2016.
Organizers: Karin de Boer (University of
Leuven), Arnaud Pelletier (Universit Libre de
Bruxelles), Simon Truwant (University of
Leuven), Dennis Vanden Auweele (University
of Leuven)
University of Leuven
Institute of Philosophy
Kardinaal Mercierplein 2
3000 Leuven
BELGIUM

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(6) WILFRID SELLARS ESSAY PRIZE

Submission deadline: January 15, 2016.
The North American Kant Society is pleased to
announce the seventh annual Wilfrid Sellars
Essay Prize competition. This prize will be
awarded for the best essay on any topic that
demonstrates the continued relevance of Kants
philosophy. Essays must be single-authored,
previously
unpublished
(work
under
consideration or forthcoming will be
considered), and cannot exceed 8,000 words in
length (including notes).
The Wilfrid Sellars Essay Prize is the natural
continuation of the existing Markus Herz Prize,
which is awarded to the best graduate student
submission to the NAKS study groups. The
intention behind the Wilfrid Sellars Essay Prize is
to help promote original Kantian or
Kant-inspired philosophical work of scholars in
the early stages of their careers. Submissions
will be blind-reviewed and judged by members
of a review committee drawn from the NAKS
Executive and Advisory Boards.
Eligibility rules:
The essay must be written in English,
single-authored, and has not been
published by January 15, 2016.
Junior is defined here as: PhD in hand;
and 40 or younger (regardless of tenure
status), or non-tenured (regardless of
age).
Authors must be members of NAKS at the
time of submission.
Please send entries electronically to:
Pablo Muchnik
(pablo_muchnik@emerson.edu).

The winner will be announced on June 15 and

will receive a prize of $500. The Award
Committee reserves the right not to award a
prize, if in its judgment none is warranted.
(7) KANT WORKSHOP FOR Ph.D.
STUDENTS
Dates: 21-23 April 2016
Place: Martin Luther University
Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Submission deadline: 31 January 2016
2nd International Workshop on the
Philosophy of Immanuel Kant for PhD
Students.
Hosted by the Kant-Gesellschaft,
collaboration with Aufklrung-ReligionWissen (ARW)

in

The Kant-Gesellschaft in collaboration with

Landesforschungsschwerpunkt
Aufklrung-Religion-Wissen (ARW) and
Immanuel-Kant-Forum (IKF) at the Martin
Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg is
pleased to announce its second international
workshop for PhD students. It is organized by
Professor Dr. Heiner F. Klemme at Martin
Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 21-23
April 2016. The aim of the workshop is to
encourage and to foster the exchange between
doctoral students working Kants philosophy
and established scholars.
Format: 30 minutes paper presentation
followed by 30 minutes of discussion

Entries should be submitted in Wordformat

and state the word count at the end.
Submissions must be accompanied by a cover
letter containing a three-part declaration
stating that: (i) the essay has not been
published by January 15, 2016, (ii) the author
already has a PhD in hand, and is either 40
years of age or younger (regardless of
employment status) or non-tenured (regardless
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of age), and (iii) the author is a member of

NAKS in good standing.

Keynote speakers:
Otfried Hffe (Tbingen)
Dietmar Heidemann (Luxembourg),
Kate Moran (Brandeis)
Jens Timmermann (St. Andrews).

Application: Doctoral students working on

a dissertation on Kants philosophy are
encouraged to send an abstract (max. 750
words) and a short CV in German or
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English via email attachment (pdf format)

to Prof. Dr. Heiner F. Klemme
(Heiner.Klemme@phil.uni-halle.de). Up to
seven papers will be selected for
presentation. Hotel costs will be covered, as
well as travel expenses up to a limit of
500,-. In addition, the workshop is open
to all who are interested. Registration prior
to the workshop required via email.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Heiner F. Klemme
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Seminar
fr
Philosophie
/
Immanuel-Kant-Forum
Emil-Abderhalden-Str. 26-27
D-06099 Halle (Saale), Germany

will be assured up to five slots for speakers.

Please send all papers electronically to Robert
Louden at Louden@Maine.edu. Notices of
acceptance will be issued by April 15, 2016.
Submissions should be prepared for blind
review and be limited to 4000 words, including
footnotes and references (longer submissions
will not be considered). Please prepare your file
in PDF format, include an abstract of a
maximum of 250 words, and a word count at
the end of the paper. Contact information
should be sent in a separate Word file.

http://www.exzellenz-netzwerk-arw.uni-ha
lle.de/

Presentations should not exceed 35 minutes,

followed by 15-20 minutes of discussion. All
accepted papers will be available in the
members only section of the NAKS website.
Papers already presented at other conferences
(including NAKS meetings) should not be
submitted. Presenters must be members of
NAKS in good standing.

(8) KANT MULTILATERAL

COLLOQUIUM

(9) KANTS POLITICAL THOUGHT

SEMINAR

Dates: August 7-9, 2016.

Place: Hofstra University, Hempstead NY.

Dates: June 5-17, 2016.

Place: Emory University, 214 Bowden Hall.

Submission deadline for US participants:

February 1, 2016

Application deadline: February 1st, 2016

(Decisions announced by February 22nd, 2016.)

http://www.phil.uni-halle.de/immanuel-ka
nt-forum__ikf_/

Hofstra University, with the sponsorship of

the North American Kant Society, invites
submissions for the next Kant Multilateral
Colloquium, to take place at Hofstra
University (Hempstead NY) on August 7-9,
2016. The theme of the meeting is: Kant on
Violence, Revolution, and Progress: Historical,
Political,
and
Metaphysical
Themes.
Revolution and progress are interpreted
broadly, in order to include not only their
historical or political meaning, but also Kants
Copernican Revolution in metaphysics,
science, aesthetics, religion, etc.
The Multilateral Colloquium is an annual
conference involving approximately forty
participants from Brazil, Germany, Italy,
Portugal, Spain, Russia and the USA. This is
the first time the meeting will be hosted in the
USA. Each of the seven participating countries
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Organizers: Dilek Huseyinzadegan and Angelica

Nuzzo (Brooklyn College and Graduate
Center, CUNY).
The Emory University Institute for the History
of Philosophy (IHP) will host its eighth annual
summer workshop on June 5-17, 2016, on the
topic of Kants Political Thought.
IHP Summer Workshops are designed to bring
together a group of faculty scholars
specializing in specific areas of the history of
philosophy for seminars focused around a
shared reading list. Ten participants and the
co-directors meet in mornings and afternoons
over the course of two four-day weeks for
discussions based upon close readings. The
workshop format eschews the delivery of
conference-style papers in favor of open,
group-based engagement. In so doing, the IHP
seeks to foster conversations that will inform

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future scholarly work. The IHPs past

workshops have focused on figures and
themes such as: Aristotle on the Emotions;
Renewing the Ancient Quarrel: Plato, Hegel,
Adorno; Peirce, James, and the Origins of
Pragmatism; Vico and the Humanist Tradition;
Montaigne and the Origins of Modernity;
Nietzsche and Heidegger on the Issue of
History; and Religion and Philosophy in
Neoplatonism.
This years meeting will consider Kants
political thought in relation to its
contemporary implications and legacy. We will
attempt to tease out the relationship between
his political philosophy and his writings on
history, geography, and anthropology. A few
other texts from other authors will supplement
our discussions.
The Institute is pleased to provide room,
board, and travel expenses for all participants
accepted into the workshop. Guests will be
housed in The New Marriott Courtyard
Decatur, in downtown Decatur, Georgia, a
couple of miles from Emorys campus.
Decatur is a vibrant town with several
restaurants and bars, all within walking
distance from the hotel. The hotel is also close
to a MARTA stop, Atlanta's public train
service. Participants will thus have access to
other parts of Atlanta, including the airport. All
hotel/campus transportation will be provided.
To apply, scholars should send a cover letter
addressing the relevance of the topic to their
current and/or future scholarly work, and a
CV to Professor Huseyinzadegan at the
address below (preferably by e-mail). The
application deadline is February 1st, 2016 with
decisions announced by February 22nd, 2016.
Co-Directors for 2016:
Dilek Huseyinzadegan
Department of Philosophy
214 Bowden Hall
561 South Kilgo Circle
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
dhuseyin1@emory.edu
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Angelica Nuzzo
Department of Philosophy
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn College, CUNY
Brooklyn, NY 11210
anuzzo@brooklyn.cuny.edu
(10) KANTIAN PEACE SECTION AT
THE ECPR
Submission deadline: 15 February
The Kantian Standing Group of the European
Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) is
organising a section on Kantian Peace for the
next ECPR General Conference (Prague 7-10
September 2016). 6 panels have been initially
allocated to this section by the ECPR, but 2
additional panels can be accepted.
We are inviting paper and panel proposals on
the theme of the section. More details about the
section can be found here:
http://ecpr.eu/Events/SectionDetails.aspx?Sec
tionID=595&EventID=95
More information about the conference are
available here:
https://ecpr.eu/Events/EventDetails.aspx?Ev
entID=95
To submit a proposal, you will need to login to
your MyECPR account, which can be done
here:
https://ecpr.eu/Login.aspx
If you do not have an MyECPR account, it can
be created very easily here:
https://ecpr.eu/LoginCreateNewAccount.aspx
An invitation: if you are not a member of the
Kantian Standing Group yet, you are invited to
join: it is free and not a difficult process. Once
you have logged in to your ECPR account,
press My ECPR button (top right of the screen)
and select My Groups. Select then See list of
all current Standing Groups and Research
Networks and look for Kantian Political
Thought click on Details and, then, on
Join. Many thanks for your support!
If you have any questions, please let me know:
s.baiasu@keele.ac.uk

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JOURNALS/BLOGS
KANT-STUDIEN
JAHRGANG 4 (2015)
Abhandlungen
Francisco Caruso/Roberto Moreira Xavier
On Kants First Insight into the Problem of Space Dimensionality and its Physical Foundations 547
Dennis Schulting, Mnchen
Probleme des kantianischen Nonkonzeptualismus im Hinblick auf die B-Deduktion 561
Antoine Grandjean, Nantes
Parler du tout, parler de rien: Linconsistance de toute cosmologie rationnelle et la quatrime antinomie de la
raison pure 581
Heiko Puls, Hamburg
Better never to have been? Kant ber menschliche Reproduktion, Glck und den Wert des Lebens 596
Berichte und Diskussionen
Ingomar Kloos, Halle a. d. Saale
Biographische Rtsel um den halleschen Kantianer Johann Heinrich Tieftrunk sind gelst 626
Bibliographie
Margit Ruffing, Mainz
Kant-Bibliographie 2013 632
Buchbesprechungen
Christoph Horn: Nichtideale Normativitt. Ein neuer Blick auf Kants politische Philosophie. (R. Brandt)
685
Kants Grundlegung einer kritischen Metaphysik. Hrsg. von Norbert Fischer. (B. Gerlach) 695
Ulli F. H. Rhl: Kants Deduktion des Rechts als intelligibler Besitz. Kants Privatrecht zwischen
vernunftrechtlicher Notwendigkeit und juristischer Kontingenz. (H. Wittwer) 699
Pauline Kleingeld: Kant and Cosmopolitanism: The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship. (A. Taraborrelli)
703
Laura Anna Macor: La fragilit della virt. Dellantropologia alla morale e ritorno nellepoca di Kant. (J.
Sirovtka) 707
Jan Vlker: sthetik der Lebendigkeit. Kants dritte Kritik. (Th. Hanke) 709
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Claus Langbehn: Vom Selbstbewutsein zum Selbstverstndnis. Kant und die Philosophie der Wahrnehmung.
(T. Morschek) 713
Contemporary Kantian Metaphyhsics. New Essays on Space and Time. Ed. by Roxana Baiasu, Graham Bird, A.
W. Moore. (. E. Gn) 717
----------------------------------------------------CRITIQUE
Editors:
Christian Onof
Dennis Schulting
Jacco Verburgt
Schedule for the forthcoming discussions on the Critique online blog http://virtualcritique.wordpress.com
Courtney Fugate, The Teleology of Reason. A Study of the Structure of Kants Critical Philosophy (de Gruyter, 2014)
Critics: Huaping Lu-Adler (Georgetown) and Marcel Quarfood (Stockholm)
Sorin Baiasu, Kant and Sartre. Re-Discovering Critical Ethics (Palgrave, 2011)
Critics: Sacha Golob (KCL) and Christian Skirke (UvA, Amsterdam)
Omri Boehm, Kants Critique of Spinoza (Oxford UP USA, 2014)
Critics: Nick Stang (Toronto) and Sebastian Gardner (UCL)
Lucy Allais, Manifest Reality: Kants Idealism and his Realism (Oxford UP, 2015)
Critics: Colin Marshall (U of Washington), Colin McLear (Nebraska, Lincoln), and Alexandra Newton
(Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Bryan Hall, The Post-Critical Kant: Understanding the Critical Philosophy through the Opus postumum (Routledge, 2014)
Critics: Jeffrey Edwards (Stony Brook, NY) and Kenneth Westphal (Boazii, Istanbul)
Christopher Insole, Kant and the Creation of Freedom. A Theological Problem (Oxford UP, 2013)
Critics: David Sussman (Illinois/Urbana-Champaign) and Wolfgang Ertl (Keio, Tokyo)
Nathaniel Goldberg, Kantian Conceptual Geography (Oxford UP USA, 2015)
Critics: John Callanan (KCL) and Andrew Stephenson (Oxford)

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Silvan Imhof, Der Grund der Subjektivitt. Motive und Potenzial von Fichtes Ansatz (Schwabe, 2014)
Critics: Daniel Breazeale (Kentucky) and Dietmar Heidemann/Oliver Motz (Luxembourg)
Allen Wood, The Free Development of Each. Studies on Freedom, Right, and Ethics in Classical German Philosophy (Oxford
UP, 2014)
Critics: Guenter Zller (Munich) and Howard Williams (Aberystwyth)
Stephen Palmquist, Comprehensive Commentary on Kants Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason (Wiley-Blackwell,
2015)
Critics: Philip Rossi (Marquette) and Robert Gressis (California State, Northridge)
Colin McQuillan, Immanuel Kant: The Very Idea of a Critique of Pure Reason (Northwestern UP, 2016)
Critics: Anita Leirfall (Bergen/NMBU Oslo) and Michael Olson (Macquarie)
Robert Hanna, Cognition, Content, and the A Priori. A Study in the Philosophy of Mind and Knowledge (Oxford UP,
2015)
Critics: David Landy (San Francisco State) and Dennis Schulting (Independent)
Fabian Freyenhagen, Adornos Practical Philosophy. Living Less Wrongly (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Critics: Henry Pickford (Duke) and Christian Skirke (UvA, Amsterdam)
Sidney Axinn, Sacrifice and Value: A Kantian Interpretation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010)
Critics: Helga Varden (Illinois/Urbana-Champaign) and more tbc
James Kreines, Reason in the World. Hegels Metaphysics and Its Philosophical Appeal (Oxford UP, 2015)
Critics: Nick Stang (Toronto) and more tbc
If you would like your book (monograph or any single-authored book that has scholarly relevance), published
after 2010 and whose topic falls within the scope of our aims, to be considered for a book symposium, please let
us know. Books written in either English, German, French, Italian or Spanish are eligible, but all postings will be
in English. We also invite potential discussants who have expertise in any area of Kant scholarship, Kantianism
and/or German Idealism, have a Ph.D. in Philosophy, are active in research, and generally publish in English, to
contact us by sending an email to: amc.critique@gmail.com

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----------------------------------------------------CON-TEXTOS KANTIANOS
ISSUE 2 (2015)
Editorial note, Roberto R. Aramayo (Institute of Philosophy / CSIC, Spain)
Entrevistas/Interviews
[FR] Entretien avec Claude Pich, Mara Hotes (Univ. de Munich, Allemagne) -- 11
Artculos/Articles : Kant y las declinaciones de la armona / Kant and the Meanings of Harmony
[ES] Hacia una crtica de la razn armnica, Alberto Pirni (Scuola Superiore di SantAnna, Italia) -- 20
[EN] Harmonia in commercio vs Harmonia absque commercio. Kants eclectical dealing with causality,
Gualtiero Lorini (Lisboa, Portugal) -- 32
[PT] Os tons harmnicos e o fundamento das representaes. Breve comentrio a uma anotao de Kant
sobre uma metfora musical de Eberhard, Ubirajara Rancan de Azevedo Marques (Estadual Paulista, Marlia,
Brasil) -- 48
[EN] The principle of equality governing the actions and counter-actions in Kants Practical Philosophy,
Jean-Christophe Merle (Vechta, Germany) -- 62
[IT] Kant. Il trascendentale e larmonia delle facolt, Francesco Valagussa (Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Italia) --72
[DE] Die bereinstimmung zwischen Einbildungskraft und Verstand und die Erkenntnis berhaupt , Oscar
Meo (Genua, Italien) -- 86
[ES] Correspondencia o armona. La literatura en la distincin kantiana de las bellas artes, Germn Garrido
(Complutense de Madrid, Espaa) -- 100
[IT] Unit e concordanza teleologica del mondo in Kant, Gerardo Cunico (Genova, Italia) -- 115
[ES] Armona en la dualidad frente a monismo naturalista: Kant y Habermas, Ana Mara Andaluz Romanillos
(Pontificia de Salamanca, Espaa) 128
[EN] Concepts of Aesthetics of Arts in Slovak Aesthetics of the 19 th Century and Kants Conception of
Harmonization , Jana Sokova (Preov, Slovakia) -- 151

[EN] Self-deception and self-knowledge: Jane Austens Emma as an Example of Kants Notion of
Self-Deception, Jeanine Grenberg (Saint Olaf, USA) -- 162
Documentos/Documents
[ES] El concepto kantiano de propiedad, Howard Williams (Univ. de Aberystwyth, Gran Bretaa). Traduccin
de Lorena Cebolla (Universit degli Studi di Trento, Italia)
pp. 347-359 / Doi: 10.5281/zenodo.33983

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Crtica De Libros/Book Reviews

[ES] De la teleologa tradicional a la teleologa trascendental. La orientacin a fines como aspecto consustancial
de la racionalidad humana, Ileana Beade (Rosario, Argentina). Resea de Fugate, C. D., The Teleology of Reason. A
Study of the Structure of Kant's Critical Philosophy, W. de Gruyter, 2014 360.
[EN] And the Corpus still Breathes, David Pena-Guzmn (Laurentian, Canada). Review of Jennifer
Mensch, Kants Organicism: Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Theory, U. of Chicago Press, 2013 365.
[ES] Una nueva lectura sobre la Deduccin Trascendental B, Miguel Herszenbaun (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
Resea de Mario Caimi, Kants B Deduction, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, -- 370.
[PT] Regresso a Kant. tica, Esttica, Filosofia poltica, Cludia Fidalgo da Silva (Porto, Portugal). Resenha de
Ribeiro dos Santos, L., Regresso a Kant tica, Esttica, Filosofia Poltica, Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da
Moeda, 2012 380.
[ES] La filosofia prctica del profesor Immanuel Kant, Luciana Martnez (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Resea de
O. Sensen/L. Denis (Eds.), Kants Lectures on Ethics, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014 389.
[PT] Antropologia e esttica na gnese do sistema kantiano, Mrcio Suzuki (So Paulo, Brasil) y
[ES] Una reconstruccin del problema del juicio reflexionante a la luz de las Lecciones de Antropologa, Alba
Jimnez (Autnoma de Madrid, Espaa). Doble resea de M. Snchez Rodrguez, I. Kant. Lecciones de Antropologa.
Fragmentos de esttica y antropologa, Granada, Comares, 2015 394.
[ES] Et in Arcadia Ego. La armonizacin de la Naturaleza a la espera de la Libertad en la filosofa de Immanuel
Kant, Ricardo Gutirrez Aguilar (IFS/CSIC, Espaa). Resea de Ana Mara Andaluz Romanillos, Las armonas de
la razn en Kant, Salamanca, UPS, 2013 401.
[ES] Teora crtica de las facultades, Guillermo Villaverde (Complutense de Madrid, Espaa). Resea de
Antonino Falduto, The Faculties of the Human Mind and the Case of Moral Feeling, Berlin/New York, W. de Gruyter,
2013 -- 406-414.
[IT] Critica della ragione e teoria dellintuizione, Federico Ferraguto (Pontifcia Univ. Catlica do Paran, Curitiba,
Brasil). Recensione di Anselmo Aportone, Kant et le pouvoir rceptif. Recherches sur la conception kantienne de la
sensibilit, Paris, LHarmattan, 2014 -- 415
[ES] La obra de Kant como progreso hacia s misma. La senda elptica, Jess Gonzlez Fisac (Cdiz, Espaa).
Resea de Karl Ameriks, Kants Elliptical Path, Clarendom Press, Oxford (UK), 2012 -- 420
Obituario/Obituary
[ES] Massimo Barale. In memoriam (1941-2015) (Univ. de Pisa, Italia), Nuria Snchez Madrid
(Complutense de Madrid, Espaa) 426.

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NAKS DUES INFORMATION

Membership dues can be paid electronically at www.northamericankantsociety.com or by sending a check
(made payable to the North American Kant Society) to
Treasurer
Robert Hanna
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The new dues structure is as follows:
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