3rd Annual Meeting of the Eastern Study Group of the North American Kant Society
Boston University, Riverside Campus
April 28-29, 2006

Program Coordinator : Sharon Anderson-Gold, anders@rpi.edu
Program committee members: Jennifer Mensch, Pablo Muchnik, Mark White
Local Host: Manfred Kuehn
 

Program

 Friday, April 28

Welcome: Host, Manfred Kuehn, Boston University

Session 1 Chair, Sharon Anderson-Gold, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

1pm - Predrag Cicovacki, “Kant’s Debt to Leibniz”, Holy Cross College

2pm – Eric Wilson, “Conceiving of, Believing In, and Judging That: Kant’s Critique of Associationism”, Emory University
Recipient of the Graduate Student Travel Stipend for best paper

3pm – Rolf George, “A Last Shot at Hume’s ‘Reminder’ with Notes on Erdmann’s ‘Kant and Hume around 1792’”, Univesity of Waterloo

4pm – 5:30 Invited Speaker
Christine Korsgaard, "Natural Motives and the Motive of Duty :
Hume and Kant on Our Duties to Others", Harvard University

5:30-6pm Reception

7pm Dinner TBA

Saturday, April 29

Session 2 Chair, Pablo Muchnik , Sienna College

9am – Oliver Thordike, “ The significance of §45 of Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals”,
John Hopkins University

10am – Paul Abela, “The Tale of the Miner and the Jeweller” , Acadia University

11am – David Dick, “The Stoic Archer and Kant’s Target” , University of Michigan

12-1:30 pm Lunch and Business Meeting

Session 3 Chair, Paul Abela, Acadia University

1:30 pm– Jennifer Uleman “Everyday Noumena: The Fact and Significance of Ordinary Intelligible Objects, Purchase College

2:30 pm – Helga Varden, “A Kantian Conception of Rightful Sexual Relations: Sex, (Gay) Marriage and Prostitution”, University of Toronto

3:30 pm – Laura Denis, “Animality and Agency”, Agnes Scott College