NORTH AMERICAN KANT SOCIETY
2008 MIDWEST STUDY GROUP
PURDUE UNIVERSITY
October 18-19, 2008
NORTH AMERICAN KANT SOCIETY
2008 MIDWEST STUDY GROUP
PURDUE UNIVERSITY
October 18-19, 2008
As in the recent past, our meeting will feature an invited keynote speaker, several refereed papers and plenty of time for discussion and interaction.
Our keynote speaker is Prof. Allen W. Wood, the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor, Stanford University and Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University. Prof. Wood will be presenting "Kant and the Right to Lie" to the Purdue Philosophy Department Colloquium at 4:30PM on Friday, October 17, in Beering (BRNG) 2290. All are welcome to attend.
OUR PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE:
ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME
(NOTE: To view abstracts for the submitted paper sessions, please click on the titles)
Saturday, October 18 (Stewart Center STEW 214A)
12:00PM (EDT) “The Moral Import of the Third Critique”
1:30PM (EDT) “Three Proposals for Reading Section 2 of Groundwork III”
Jeremy Schwartz (University of Chicago)
3:00PM (EDT) “Skepticism and the Development of the Transcendental Dialectic”
Winner of our Graduate Student Travel Stipend and Nominee for the NAKS-Markus Herz Award
Brian Chance (University of Pennsylvania)
BREAK
5:30PM (EDT) KEYNOTE: "Kant and the Intelligibility of Evil"
7:00PM (EDT) Reception and Dinner
The group dinner is planned for 8PM at Khana Khazana Indian Grill, a very short walk from the Union.
(The dinner buffet is $10.50, entrées range from $9.95 to $13.95) If you plan to attend the reception or dinner, please let Pat Kain know, so we can make proper arrangements.
Sunday, October 19 (Stewart Center STEW 214A)
8:30AM (EDT) Continental Breakfast Reception
9:00AM (EDT) “Kant and Naïve Realism”
10:30AM (EDT) “’Pre-Conceptual’ Intuitions, The B Deduction and the Myth of the Given”
Nate Zuckerman (University of Chicago)
12:00PM (EDT) “Mimicking Korsgaard”
1:30PM (EDT) Departure
2008 Organizer: Patrick Kain (Purdue)
2008 Program Committee: Patrick Kain (Purdue), Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern), Daniel Sutherland (Illinois-Chicago)
2008 PROGRAM
We are thankful for the support of the sponsors for our 2008 Meetings:
The North American Kant Society
Department of Philosophy, Purdue University
Religious Studies Program, Purdue University
European Studies Program, Purdue University
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Purdue University
Experience Liberal Arts Program, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University