2nd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Study Group of the North American Kant Society
April 22 and 23, 2005
University of Pennsylvania

Program Coordinator : Sharon Anderson-Gold, anders@rpi.edu
Program committee members: Paul Abela, Pablo Muchnik, Mark White
Local Host: Paul Guyer - pguyer@nous.phil.upenn.edu
 

Program

Friday, April 22

1 pm Fred Rauscher, "Methodology and the A Priori in Kant's Ethics"
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University

2 pm Oran Moked, “Kantian Autonomy as a Task”
Graduate Student, Columbia University

3 pm Deborah Hawkins , "Kant’s Principles of Right and their Indisputable Foundation in the Reality of Freedom: Taking up Guyer’s Challenge” , Interim Assistant Professor , Wayne State College

4 pm Paul Guyer, "Proving Ourselves Free"
Professor, University of Pennsylvania

5:30 pm Reception
6:30 pm Dinner – place TBA

Saturday, April 23

9am Ted DiMaria , “Noumenal Ignorance, Transcendental Predication, and the Noumenal Self”, Assistant Professor, Gonzaga University

10amNathan Bauer “A New Reading of Kant's Subjective Deduction”
Graduate Student, University of Chicago

11 am Jennifer Mensch "Kant and the Problem of Idealism: On the Significance of the Göttingen Review" Assistant Professor, Villanova

Noon –1pm Lunch

*1pm Melissa Seymour, “The Happiness of Others: Kantian Foundations for Obligatory Beneficence”, Graduate Student, Indiana University

2pm Scott Stroud, "Kant on Rhetorical Force and Moral Cultivation"
Graduate Student, Temple University

3pm Robert Clewis, "What One Can Learn from Kant on Regime Change"
Assistant Professor, Florida

*recommended for Herz prize

Rooms will be held until March 23 at the University City Sheraton (Chestnut and 36th)-room rate is $155 - call to make reservations: 215-387-8000 and mention that you are with the U Penn Philosophy Department Sponsered Conference .