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. Kristi Sweet (Texas A & M University)
   

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1:30PM  (EDT) “Three Proposals for Reading Section 2 of Groundwork III”

1. Jeremy Schwartz (University of Chicago)
   

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3:00PM   (EDT) “Skepticism and the Development of the Transcendental Dialectic”

1. Winner of our Graduate Student Travel Stipend and Nominee for the NAKS-Markus Herz Award
   

2. Brian Chance (University of Pennsylvania)
   

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5:30PM (EDT) KEYNOTE: "Kant and the Intelligibility of Evil"

1. Allen W. Wood (Stanford University/ Indiana University)
   

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7:00PM (EDT) Reception and Dinner

1. The group dinner is planned for 8PM at Khana Khazana Indian Grill, a very short walk from the Union. 
   

2. (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”

1. Andrew Roche (Wheaton College, MA)
   

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10:30AM (EDT) “’Pre-Conceptual’ Intuitions, The B Deduction and the Myth of the Given”

1. Nate Zuckerman (University of Chicago)
   

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12:00PM (EDT) “Mimicking Korsgaard”

1. Jon Garthoff (Northwestern University)
   

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1:30PM (EDT) Departure

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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

Kant lecturing to Russian Officers by I. Soyockina and V. Gracov

EUROPEAN STUDIES PROGRAM