Fifth Annual Meeting
Eastern Study Group of the North American Kant Society
New School for Social Research, NY
April 18th-19th, 2008
Program Coordinator: Pablo Muchnik, Siena College, pmuchnik@siena.edu
Program Committee Members: Ivonne Unna (Seton Hall University), Mark White (College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY), and Oliver Thorndike (John Hopkins University)
Local Host: Jay Bernstein
Friday, April 18th
Welcome: Jay Bernstein, New School for Social Research
Session Chair: TBA
· 1 PM: Colin McLear, Cornell University, “Identity, Empirical Cognition, and The Interpretation of Transcendental Idealism”¨
· 2 PM: Alberto Vanzo Junior Research Fellow, Philosophy Department, University of Essex, “Kant on the Comparison Argument about Truth”
· 3 PM: Corey W. Dyck, University of Western Ontario, “The Putative Science of the Soul: Kant’s Paralogisms and German Metaphysical Psychology”
· 4 PM: Keynote Speaker: Béatrice Longuenesse, New York University, “’I’, Self, Subject”
· 6 PM: Public Reception
Saturday, April 19th
First Session
Session Chair: TBA
· 10 AM: Dai Heide, Ohio State University,“Kant’s “Rejected” Alternative”
· 11 AM: Andrew Roche, University of Oklahoma, “Kant’s Principle of Sense”
· 12 PM: Waldemar Rohloff, University of Missouri-St. Lois, “Kant's Argument from Applicability”
· 1 PM: Lunch Break
Second Session
Session Chair: TBA
· 2.30 PM: Oliver Sensen, Tulane University, “Dignity and the Formula of Humanity”
· 3.30 PM: Sharon Anderson-Gold, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, “Kant’s Cosmopolitan Peace”
· 4.30 PM: Bart Vandenabeele and Stijn Van Impe, Universiteit Gent, “How to share an aesthetic judgment?”
Recommended Hotel
We have reserved a block of 25 rooms at the Wellington Hotel (mention New
School/NAKS reservation)
871 Seventh Avenue, at 55th street.
http://www.wellingtonhotel.com/ 800-652-1212
Please feel free to contact the Program Coordinator, Pablo Muchnik, if you have further questions, at pmuchnik@siena.edu.