naks newsletter december 2015

NAKS Advisory Board

Henry Allison, San Diego (Emeritus); Karl Ameriks, Notre Dame; Richard Aquila, Tennessee; Paul Guyer (President), Brown; Pauline Kleingeld, Groningen; Jane Kneller, Colorado State;

Patricia Kitcher, Columbia; Rhoda Kotzin, Michigan State (Emeritus); Manfred Kuehn, Boston (Emeritus); Robert Louden, Southern Maine; Ralf Meerbote, Rochester (Emeritus); Frederick Rauscher, Michigan State;

Hoke Robinson, Memphis (Emeritus); Eric Watkins, San Diego; Allen Wood, Stanford; Guenter Zoeller, Munich

THE NORTH AMERICAN KANT SOCIETY

President

Pablo Muchnik Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies Emerson College 120 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02116 pablo_muchnik@ emerson.edu

Vice President Helga Varden Departments of Philosophy, WGS University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 [email protected]

Treasurer Robert Hanna Robert.Hanna@ Colorado.edu http://colorado.academia.eeedu/RobertHanna

Bibliographer Steve Naragon Dept. of Religion and Philosophy Manchester College 604 E. College Ave. North Manchester, IN 46962 SSNaragon@ manchester.edu

NEWSLETTER Vol. XXXXIV, No. 44

DECEMBER 2015

FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK

Dear NAKS Members, With the holidays quickly approaching and the semester (almost) at an end, it is a good time to reflect on NAKS’ activities this year. 2015 has been extremely busy and productive: we have maintained a strong presence at all APA

meetings; our regional Study Groups have featured some of the best contemporary Kantian scholarship; our prizes in all categories (graduate students, junior scholars, and senior scholars) have seen healthy and vigorous competition; collaboration with other Kant societies around the world is at an all-time high; preparations for the third Biennial Congress at Emory (May 27-29, 2016) are fully underway; and we have started a collaboration with the Critique and Contemporary Kantian Philosophy (C&CKP) project in an effort to develop, translate, and publish cutting-edge scholarship online. These are significant achievements, which require hard work and express the strong commitment our members have to all things Kantian. On behalf of all NAKS officers, I want to express our gratitude for the intellectual efforts, generosity, and persistence of those who, through their service to the Society, have made this whirl of activity possible. If the health of a philosophical project is to be measured by the consistent

In This Issue: From the President’s Desk .…….. 1-2 Announcements……………….... 2-4 Conferences/Workshops ……….. 4-5 NAKS Study Groups/Sessions at the APAs……. 5-6 Calls for ApplicationsPapers/ Abstracts/Submissions ………..... 6-12 Journals/Blogs…………………. 13-17 NAKS Dues Form………. 18

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intensity of its pursuit of shared goals, NAKS is doing well indeed! Let me highlight a few important announcements:

• The winner of the 2015 Markus Herz Prize

is Naomi Fisher (Notre Dame). The Herz Prize is awarded to the best graduate student paper presented at NAKS regional meetings. We would like to thank the selection committee for their judiciousness and hard work.

• There are four important deadlines to

keep in mind:

o Our Biennial conference, the largest and most prestigious meeting NAKS organizes, will accept submissions until January 1, 2016. We encourage our members to send their work for blind-review consideration and take part of this exciting event.

o The deadline for submissions for the

book NAKS Book Prize is December 31, 2015.

o Submissions for the Wilfrid Sellars

Prize will be accepted until January 1, 2016.

o Finally, the deadline for submissions

for the Multilateral Colloquium at Hofstra University is February 1, 2016.

Please help us spread the word about all these events!

• We invite you to join us at our upcoming

sessions at the APA Eastern Division meeting in Washington D.C, as well as at the Central APA in Chicago, where Claudio La Rocca will deliver the Mary Gregor Lecture. You will find more details in the body of the newsletter.

As always, we encourage you to send us your

feedback and suggestions as to how we can make NAKS better serve your scholarly pursuits. We look forward to hearing from you.

With all best wishes,

Pablo Muchnik, President

_________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENTS

(1) SUBMISSION DEADLINES FOR

NAKS NEWSLETTERS

Please submit information intended for inclusion in the Newsletter by the 10th of the month of publication to Helga Varden at [email protected]. The deadlines for the four annual issues are: • For the March Issue: March 10 • For the June Issue: June 10 • For the September Issue: September 10 • For the December Issue: December 10

All announcements must be sent in a Word or .rtf file (not .pdfs). For conferences and calls for papers, please follow the following format:

• Conference title • Meeting dates • Meeting place • Brief description (if pertinent) • Schedule with names of chairs and

participants, complete institutional affiliation, and paper title (if applicable).

• Additional information

NB: Time-sensitive materials, such as job opportunities, are announced through our e-mail system as well as in the Newsletter when appropriate. To avoid electronic overload, we limit e-mail reminders about upcoming conferences to events directly related to NAKS, such as NAKS Study Group meetings, APA/NAKS-sponsored sessions, and the Biennial National NAKS Meeting. All other


events of interest to our community are published in the regular course of the newsletters and must be submitted by the respective deadlines. (2) MARKUS HERZ AWARD 2015: NAOMI FISCHER NAKS is very happy to announce that the winner of the 2015 NAKS Markus Herz Award Naomi Fischer. Naomi recently defended her dissertation, entitled "Kant, Schelling, and a New Philosophy of Nature" at the University of Notre Dame. Her dissertation explores themes of the the activity, nature, and cognition in Kant and Schelling, and applies lessons learned from this period to contemporary philosophical debates. She will receive her degree in January 2016, and beginning in Fall 2016 she will be an Assistant Professor at Clark University. Abstract: "Kant on Animals" Kant’s Critical philosophy seems to leave very little room for accounting for the mental lives of animals, since the understanding is required for experience and cognition. While Kant does not regard animals as Cartesian machines, he leaves them very little resources for getting around in the world in a coherent and responsive way. In this paper I present Kant’s account of animal minds. According to this picture, animals have representations of which they are not conscious, and these representations can give rise to inclinations through a form of reflection. While this account is impressive in its ingenuity, and it clarifies the role of various faculties and terms in the critical philosophy, it is ultimately unsatisfactory in accounting for the variety and complexity of animal behavior, as well as the gradual emergence of rationality.

(3) WALTER DE GRUYTER STIFTUNG KANT LECTURER 2015-16: ONORA O’NEILL The 2015-2016 Walter de Gruyter Stiftung Kant lecturer is Onora O’Neill (University of Cambridge). O’Neill will present her lecture at the 2016 Central Division meeting in Chicago, IL. De Gruyter has a long history of publishing Kant scholarship and embraces philosophical work in the Kantian tradition in the broadest sense. The de Gruyter Stiftung explicitly intends the Walter de Gruyter Stiftung Kant lecture series to be open to a broad approach to Kantian philosophy across the philosophical disciplines. This may also include contemporary philosophical work in the Kantian tradition. The Walter de Gruyter Stiftung Kant lecture series is offered every year at a divisional meeting on a rotating basis. More information can be found here: http://www.apaonline.org/news/news.asp?id=230972

(4) NEW DATABASE: KANT’S BOOKS The Kant Research Group at the University of Western Ontario is pleased to announce the creation of a new digital resource entitled “Kant’s Books,” available at our website: http://publish.uwo.ca/~cdyck5/UWOKRG. Following the catalogue supplied by Arthur Warda in his Immanuel Kants Bücher (Berlin: Martin Breslauer, 1922), the “Kant’s Books” digital archive contains links to books that were known to be in Kant’s personal library at the time of his death as well as texts which it is widely known Kant possessed (such as copies of his own works, books mentioned in letters, and textbooks he taught from). Whenever possible, links to the same (digital) edition of the texts from Kant’s collection are supplied, though, when these are not available, links to alternate editions are provided (and noted as such). For more information about this database or for suggestions of amendments, please contact Corey W. Dyck at [email protected].


(5) CRITIQUE & CONTEMPORARY KANTIAN PHILOSOPHY, AND NAKS: A NEW ONLINE PROJECT AND COLLABORATION The editors of Critique, the online site for discussing and reviewing new works on Kant and German idealism, and the co-directors of the Contemporary Philosophy Project, are extremely pleased to announce their merger into a single, online-based Kantian philosophy project, Critique & Contemporary Kantian Philosophy (C&CKP). The new C&CKP project, which will go-live in April 2016, will, alongside the author-meets-critics sessions and review essays familiar from Critique, feature: i. a highly progressive and author-friendly

research-manuscript-development-&-publishing scheme for new first-rate essays in Kantian philosophy, Contemporary Studies in Kantian Philosophy, as well as

ii. a scheme for sponsoring and publishing translations into English of recent first-rate essays in Kantian philosophy originally written in languages other than English, and also

iii. yearly international workshops in Kantian philosophy, with an explicitly cosmopolitan, tri-continental character, in Europe, North America, or South America.

The first annual C&CKP workshop, “Kant, Ciênzia, e Natureza Humana,” was held at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on 3-4 December 2015, with participants from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Italy, Finland, and the USA. The two online publishing schemes will be developed in direct collaboration with NAKS, and will provide a new and unique opportunity for NAKS members to submit, develop, and publish their work, as well as having direct access to the discussions and reviews already available on Critique.

(6) WOMEN INTELLECTUALS OF 18TH CENTURY GERMANY The Kant Research Group at the University of Western Ontario is pleased to announce a new database 'Women Intellectuals of 18th Century Germany.' The database provides brief biographies of some important female writers who were active in Germany in the 18th century, links to their works that are available online, and offers a list of some available secondary literature. For suggestions, additions, or any other comments on this database, please contact Corey W. Dyck ([email protected]). _________________________________ CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS

CONFERENCE: “AGENCY, PERSONS, AND KANT”

Place: The University of Notre Dame Dates: April 8-9, 2016.

The program will include the following speakers (and titles):

Speaker: Lucy Allais (UCSD/Witwatersrand) “Autonomy, Agency, and Evil" Chair: Ryan Kemp (Wheaton)

Speaker: Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame) “Once Again: The End of All Things” Chair: Fred Rush (Notre Dame)

Speaker: Stephen Engstrom (Pittsburgh) “Understanding Autonomy: Form and Content of Practical Knowledge” Chair: Patrick Kain (Purdue)

Speaker: Paul Guyer (Brown) “Kant's Struggle for Freedom” Chair: Andrew Chignell (Cornell)


Speaker: Barbara Herman (UCLA) “Animals and Agency” Chair: Jane Kneller (Colorado St.) Speaker: Pauline Kleingeld (Groningen) “Autonomy in Kant's Moral Theory: Its Rise and Fall” Chair: Patrick Frierson (Whitman) Speaker: Beatrice Longuenesse (NYU) “Kant’s Multiple Concepts of Person” Chair: Anja Jauernig (NYU) Speaker: Robert Pippin (Chicago) “The Dynamic of Reason: On the Theoretical and the Practical in Kant and Hegel” Chair: Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern) Speaker: Dieter Sturma (Bonn) “The Practice of Self-Consciousness: Kant on Nature and Freedom” Chair: Sally Sedgwick (Illinois-Chicago) Speaker: Eric Watkins (UCSD) “The Unconditioned in Action” Chair: Clinton Tolley (UCSD) Speaker: Marcus Willaschek (Frankfurt) “Freedom as a Postulate” Chair: Elvira Simfa (Riga)

Speaker: Allen Wood (Indiana) “Universal Law” Chair: Babak Bakhtiarynia (Notre Dame) Conference Organizer: Eric Watkins (UCSD),

_____________________________ NAKS STUDY GROUPS/ NAKS SESSIONS AT THE APA MEETINGS

(1) THE SOUTHERN NAKS STUDY GROUP The 2016 Southern Study Group Meeting of the North American Kant Society will take place at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA on February 19th & 20th. Oliver Sensen (Tulane University) will deliver the key note address. For more information contact host Melissa Seymour Fahmy ([email protected]). (2) MIDWEST NAKS STUDY GROUP 2016 The next meeting of the Midwest NAKS Study Group (Fall 2016) will be hosted by Emily Carson at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. (3) NAKS SESSIONS AT THE EASTERN APA Dates: Jan 6-9, 2016 Place: Washington, DC

Session 1: Kant on the crooked wood of humanity Thursday, Jan. 7, 7:30-10:30PM Speakers: • Laura Papish (George Washington) “Kant

on Self-Deception, Rationalization, and the Hell of Self-Cognition."

• James DiCenso (Toronto)

"The crooked wood of humanity and Kant's ideal ethical community."

• Howard Williams (Aberystwyth) “Kant's unsociable-sociability in Hegel and Marx”

Chair: • Pablo Muchnik (Emerson College)


Session 2: New Perspectives on Kant’s Psychology Friday, January 8, 7-10PM Speakers: • Corey Dyck (Western Ontario) "Rational

and Empirical Psychology in Kant's Silent Decade."

• Patrick Frierson (Whitman College) "Kantian Feeling: Empirical Psychology, Transcendental Critique, and Phenomenology."

Commentators: • Patricia Kitcher (Columbia) • Jeanine Grenberg (St. Olaf College)

Chair: • Laura Papish (George Washington) (4) NAKS SESSIONS AT THE CENTRAL APA Dates: March 2-5, 2016 Place: Chicago Session 1: The Mary Gregor Lecture (GII-12) Thursday, March 03, 9:00 AM-12:00 PM Speaker: Claudio LaRocca (Genova), ``Kant and the Problem of Conscience'' Commentator: Jens Timmerman (St Andrews) Chair: Pablo Muchnik (Emerson College)

Session 2: Author-Meets-Critics, (GIV-07) Thursday, March 03, 7:40 PM-10:40 PM

Author: Julian Wuerth (Vanderbilt) Title: Kant on Mind, Action, and Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2014) Critics: Alix Cohen (University of Edinburgh) Andrew Brooks (Carleton) Chair: Jens Timmerman (St. Andrews)

(5) NAKS SESSIONS AT THE PACIFIC APA Dates: March 30-April 3, 2016 Place: San Fransisco

Session 1: Author-Meets-Critics Author: Henry Allison (California, San Diego) Title: Kant`s Transcendental Deduction: An Analytical and Historical Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2015) Critics: • Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame) • Paul Guyer (Brown) Chair: • Lucy Allais (California, San

Diego/Witswatersrand) Session 2: Author-Meets-Critics Author: Nick Stang (Toronto) Title: Kant’s Modal Metaphysics (Oxford University Press 2016) Critics: • Uygar Abaci (Richmond) • Ralf Bader (Oxford) • Andrew Chignell (Cornell) • Tobias Rosefeldt (Humboldt, Berlin) Chair: • Helga Varden (Illinois,

Urbana-Champaign) CALLS FOR APPLICATIONS/ ABSTRACTS/ PAPERS/ SUBMISSIONS (1) EASTERN NAKS STUDY GROUP Dates: April 10-11, 2016. Place: Yale University. Submission deadline: Dec. 31, 2015. The Eastern Study Group of the NAKS invites


submissions for its 13th annual meeting to take place at Yale University on Sunday and Monday, April 10-11, 2016. Our host this year is Professor Paul Franks. Keynote speakers:

• Paul Franks (Yale), TBD. • Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge), TBD.

The deadline for submissions is Thursday, December 31, 2015. Please send all papers electronically to the organizer, Oliver Thorndike, [email protected].

Submissions should be prepared for blind review and be limited to 5,000 words, including footnotes and references (longer submissions will not be considered). Please prepare your file in PDF format, include an abstract of a maximum of 300 words (abstracts without the accompanying submission will not be considered), and a word count at the end of the paper. Contact information should be sent in a separate Word file. Please indicate in your separate World file. whether you are a graduate student The selection committee welcomes contributions on all topics of Kantian scholarship (contemporary or historically oriented), including discussions of Kant’s immediate predecessors and successors. This year we would like especially to encourage submissions related to Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment. Reading time is limited to 30 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of discussion. The best graduate student paper will receive a $200 stipend and be eligible for the Markus Herz Prize. Women, minorities, and graduate students are especially encouraged to submit. Papers already read or accepted at other NAKS study groups or meetings may not be submitted. Presenters must be members of NAKS in good standing. Selected papers are eligible to be considered for inclusion in the book series Rethinking Kant, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishers.

Papers will be posted in the “members only” section of the NAKS website and circulated in advance among participants, who are expected to have read them at the time of the conference. ENAKS receives support from NAKS and host universities. For earlier programs, see: http://word.emerson.edu/enaks/ For questions about ENAKS or the upcoming meeting, please contact: [email protected].

(2) NAKS BOOK PRIZE FOR SENIOR SCHOLARS

Submission deadline: December 31, 2015 (for books published from January, 2014 to December, 2015).

NAKS is pleased to anounce the third (now annual) Book Prize for Senior Scholars competition. This prize will be awarded for an outstanding book dealing with any aspect of Kant’s philosophy. Submissions will be judged by a panel consisting of members drawn from the NAKS Advisory Board, and the winner will receive a prize of $500. The Awards Committee reserves the right not to award a prize, if in its judgment none is warranted.

Eligibility rules: 1.) Only single-authored monographs or

collections of essays written in English will be considered.

2.) Authors must be members of NAKS at the time of submission.

3.) “Senior” is defined here as: “40 or older (regardless of tenure status), or tenured (regardless of age).”

4.) Current NAKS Executive and/or Advisory Board Members are not eligible to compete for the prize.

5.) Submission must be made by the publisher, and four (4) hard copies or e-copies of the book must be submitted to NAKS, via:

Prof. Pablo Muchnik Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies Emerson College 120 Boylston Street, 9th Floor (#907) Boston, MA 02116-4624.


(3) THIRD BIENNIAL MEETING OF NAKS Dates: May 27-29, 2016 Place: Emory University Submission deadline: 11:59pm EST on January 1, 2016 We aim to announce which papers have been accepted by February 10, 2016. Keynote Speakers: Béatrice Longuenesse (NYU) Pauline Kleingeld (Gröningen) Jack Zammito (Rice) Author-Meets-Critics I: Hanna Ginsborg (Berkeley): The Normativity of Nature Critics: Patricia Kitcher (Columbia) Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame)

Author-Meets-Critics II: Rudi Makkreel (Emory): Orientation and Judgment in Hermeneutics Critics: Angelica Nuzzo (CUNY) Eric Wilson (GSU) The conference will be held at Emory University Conference Center on May 27-29, 2016. Our local host/coordinator is Dilek Huseyinzadegan. Please check: www.naksmeeting.kantpapers.org for updates and more information on the meeting. We also have a Facebook Page entitled “The North American Kant Society Third Biennial Meeting 2016”: https://www.facebook.com/naksmeeting .

Papers from analytic, continental, and historical approaches, in any area of Kant’s and Kantian philosophy, are welcome. Please identify two areas under which you wish your paper to be considered: 1. Kant’s Precritical Philosophy; 2. Metaphysics; 3. Epistemology

and Logics; 4. Philosophy of Science and Nature; 5. Teleology; 6. Ethics and Moral Philosophy; 7. Philosophy of Law and Justice; 8. Philosophy of Politics, History and Culture; 9. Religion and Theology; 10. Aesthetics; 11. Kant and German Idealism; 12. Kant and Phenomenology; 13. Kant in the Present. Papers should not exceed 20 minutes reading time (approx. 3000 words). Papers will be anonymously reviewed; please keep any identifying information on a separate page. We especially encourage graduate student submissions. If you are a graduate student, please identify yourself as such in the personal information page. A $200 travel award will be provided for the best graduate paper and the author will be considered as a candidate for the annual Markus Herz Prize. Submissions should include two attachments (.doc, .docx, or .pdf): 1) A 3000-word paper, including the notes, prepared for anonymous review, accompanied by a 200-word abstract; 2) Cover page including the title of the paper, word count, author’s name, brief bio, and contact information. Please email all documents to: [email protected]

(4) HOPOS 2016 Dates: June 22-25, 2016 Place: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA http://hopos2016.umn.edu/ Submission deadline: January 4, 2016 Keynote Speakers: Karine Chemla (REHSEIS, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot) Thomas Uebel (Manchester) The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) will hold its eleventh international congress in Minneapolis, on June 22-25, 2016. The Society hereby requests proposals for papers and for symposia to be presented at the meeting. HOPOS is devoted to promoting research on the history of the philosophy of science. We construe this subject broadly, to


include topics in the history of related disciplines and in all historical periods, studied through diverse methodologies. We aim to promote historical work in a variety of ways, but especially through encouraging exchange among scholars through meetings, publications, and electronic media. In order to encourage scholarly exchange across the temporal reach of HOPOS, the program committee especially encourages submissions that take up philosophical themes that cross time periods. If you have inquiries about the conference or about the submission process, please write to Maarten van Dyck: [email protected]. To submit a proposal, please upload a PDF of your paper or symposium proposal to the following website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hopos2016 Proposals for papers should be prepared for anonymous review. Proposals should include: • Title and abstract of the paper (maximum

500 words). Proposals for symposia should be prepared for anonymous review. Proposals should include: • Title of the symposium. • Symposium summary statement (max. 500

words). • Titles and abstracts of the papers

(maximum 500 words for each paper). A symposium should consist of 3 or 4 papers. Program Committee: Maarten van Dyck (Ghent), "Kant and Before" (chair) Karen Detlefsen (Pennsylvania) Andrea Falcon (Concordia) Sophie Roux (École Normale Supérieure, Paris) Marius Stan (Boston College) Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech), "After Kant" (chair) Janet Folina (Macalester College) Greg Frost-Arnold (Hobart and William Smith

Colleges) Matthias Neuber (Tübingen) Jonathan Tsou (Iowa State)

(5) LEUVEN KANT CONFERENCE Dates: June 2-3, 2016 Place: University of Leuven Submission deadline: January 5, 2016 Keynote speakers: Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge) Robert Louden (Southern Maine) Eric Watkins (California, San Diego) The Institute of Philosophy of the University of Leuven invites submissions for the fourth Leuven Kant Conference. Papers are welcome on any aspect of Kant’s philosophy. The conference aims at stimulating fruitful exchanges between established scholars, young researchers, and PhD students. Presentation time will be 25 minutes + 20 minutes for discussion.

Abstracts (no more than 500 words) should be sent in MSWord as attachment to [email protected] Abstracts should be prepared for double-blind review by removing any identification details. The author’s name, paper title, institutional position and affiliation, as well as contact information should be included in the body of the e-mail. Notification of acceptance by February 1, 2016. Organizers: Karin de Boer (University of Leuven), Arnaud Pelletier (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Simon Truwant (University of Leuven), Dennis Vanden Auweele (University of Leuven) University of Leuven Institute of Philosophy Kardinaal Mercierplein 2 3000 Leuven BELGIUM


(6) WILFRID SELLARS ESSAY PRIZE Submission deadline: January 15, 2016. The North American Kant Society is pleased to announce the seventh annual Wilfrid Sellars Essay Prize competition. This prize will be awarded for the best essay on any topic that demonstrates the continued relevance of Kant’s philosophy. Essays must be single-authored, previously unpublished (work under consideration or forthcoming will be considered), and cannot exceed 8,000 words in length (including notes). The Wilfrid Sellars Essay Prize is the natural continuation of the existing Markus Herz Prize, which is awarded to the best graduate student submission to the NAKS study groups. The intention behind the Wilfrid Sellars Essay Prize is to help promote original Kantian or Kant-inspired philosophical work of scholars in the early stages of their careers. Submissions will be blind-reviewed and judged by members of a review committee drawn from the NAKS Executive and Advisory Boards. Eligibility rules: • The essay must be written in English,

single-authored, and has not been published by January 15, 2016.

• “Junior” is defined here as: “PhD in hand; and 40 or younger (regardless of tenure status), or non-tenured (regardless of age).”

• Authors must be members of NAKS at the time of submission.

Please send entries electronically to: Pablo Muchnik ([email protected]).

Entries should be submitted in Wordformat and state the word count at the end. Submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter containing a three-part declaration stating that: (i) the essay has not been published by January 15, 2016, (ii) the author already has a PhD in hand, and is either 40 years of age or younger (regardless of employment status) or non-tenured (regardless

of age), and (iii) the author is a member of NAKS in good standing. The winner will be announced on June 15 and will receive a prize of $500. The Award Committee reserves the right not to award a prize, if in its judgment none is warranted. (7) KANT WORKSHOP FOR Ph.D. STUDENTS

Dates: 21-23 April 2016 Place: Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Submission deadline: 31 January 2016 2nd International Workshop on the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant for PhD Students.

Hosted by the “Kant-Gesellschaft”, in collaboration with “Aufklärung-Religion- Wissen” (ARW)

The Kant-Gesellschaft in collaboration with Landesforschungsschwerpunkt „Aufklärung-Religion-Wissen” (ARW) and Immanuel-Kant-Forum (IKF) at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg is pleased to announce its second international workshop for PhD students. It is organized by Professor Dr. Heiner F. Klemme at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 21-23 April 2016. The aim of the workshop is to encourage and to foster the exchange between doctoral students working Kant’s philosophy and established scholars. Format: 30 minutes paper presentation followed by 30 minutes of discussion Keynote speakers: Otfried Höffe (Tübingen) Dietmar Heidemann (Luxembourg), Kate Moran (Brandeis) Jens Timmermann (St. Andrews). Application: Doctoral students working on a dissertation on Kant’s philosophy are encouraged to send an abstract (max. 750 words) and a short CV in German or


English via email attachment (pdf format) to Prof. Dr. Heiner F. Klemme ([email protected]). Up to seven papers will be selected for presentation. Hotel costs will be covered, as well as travel expenses up to a limit of € 500,-. In addition, the workshop is open to all who are interested. Registration prior to the workshop required via email. Contact: Prof. Dr. Heiner F. Klemme Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg Seminar für Philosophie / Immanuel-Kant-Forum Emil-Abderhalden-Str. 26-27 D-06099 Halle (Saale), Germany http://www.phil.uni-halle.de/immanuel-kant-forum__ikf_/ http://www.exzellenz-netzwerk-arw.uni-halle.de/

(8) KANT MULTILATERAL COLLOQUIUM Dates: August 7-9, 2016. Place: Hofstra University, Hempstead NY. Submission deadline for US participants: February 1, 2016 Hofstra University, with the sponsorship of the North American Kant Society, invites submissions for the next Kant Multilateral Colloquium, to take place at Hofstra University (Hempstead NY) on August 7-9, 2016. The theme of the meeting is: Kant on Violence, Revolution, and Progress: Historical, Political, and Metaphysical Themes. “Revolution” and “progress” are interpreted broadly, in order to include not only their historical or political meaning, but also Kant’s “Copernican Revolution” in metaphysics, science, aesthetics, religion, etc. The Multilateral Colloquium is an annual conference involving approximately forty participants from Brazil, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Russia and the USA. This is the first time the meeting will be hosted in the USA. Each of the seven participating countries

will be assured up to five slots for speakers. Please send all papers electronically to Robert Louden at [email protected]. Notices of acceptance will be issued by April 15, 2016. Submissions should be prepared for blind review and be limited to 4000 words, including footnotes and references (longer submissions will not be considered). Please prepare your file in PDF format, include an abstract of a maximum of 250 words, and a word count at the end of the paper. Contact information should be sent in a separate Word file. Presentations should not exceed 35 minutes, followed by 15-20 minutes of discussion. All accepted papers will be available in the members only section of the NAKS website. Papers already presented at other conferences (including NAKS meetings) should not be submitted. Presenters must be members of NAKS in good standing. (9) KANT’S POLITICAL THOUGHT – SEMINAR Dates: June 5-17, 2016. Place: Emory University, 214 Bowden Hall.

Application deadline: February 1st, 2016 (Decisions announced by February 22nd, 2016.)

Organizers: Dilek Huseyinzadegan and Angelica Nuzzo (Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY).

The Emory University Institute for the History of Philosophy (IHP) will host its eighth annual summer workshop on June 5-17, 2016, on the topic of “Kant’s Political Thought.

IHP Summer Workshops are designed to bring together a group of faculty scholars specializing in specific areas of the history of philosophy for seminars focused around a shared reading list. Ten participants and the co-directors meet in mornings and afternoons over the course of two four-day weeks for discussions based upon close readings. The workshop format eschews the delivery of conference-style papers in favor of open, group-based engagement. In so doing, the IHP seeks to foster conversations that will inform


future scholarly work. The IHP’s past workshops have focused on figures and themes such as: Aristotle on the Emotions; Renewing the Ancient Quarrel: Plato, Hegel, Adorno; Peirce, James, and the Origins of Pragmatism; Vico and the Humanist Tradition; Montaigne and the Origins of Modernity; Nietzsche and Heidegger on the Issue of History; and Religion and Philosophy in Neoplatonism.

This year’s meeting will consider Kant’s political thought in relation to its contemporary implications and legacy. We will attempt to tease out the relationship between his political philosophy and his writings on history, geography, and anthropology. A few other texts from other authors will supplement our discussions.

The Institute is pleased to provide room, board, and travel expenses for all participants accepted into the workshop. Guests will be housed in The New Marriott Courtyard Decatur, in downtown Decatur, Georgia, a couple of miles from Emory’s campus. Decatur is a vibrant town with several restaurants and bars, all within walking distance from the hotel. The hotel is also close to a MARTA stop, Atlanta's public train service. Participants will thus have access to other parts of Atlanta, including the airport. All hotel/campus transportation will be provided. To apply, scholars should send a cover letter addressing the relevance of the topic to their current and/or future scholarly work, and a CV to Professor Huseyinzadegan at the address below (preferably by e-mail). The application deadline is February 1st, 2016 with decisions announced by February 22nd, 2016. Co-Directors for 2016: Dilek Huseyinzadegan Department of Philosophy 214 Bowden Hall 561 South Kilgo Circle Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 USA [email protected]

Angelica Nuzzo Department of Philosophy 2900 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn College, CUNY Brooklyn, NY 11210 [email protected] (10) “KANTIAN PEACE” SECTION AT THE ECPR

Submission deadline: 15 February

The Kantian Standing Group of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) is organising a section on “Kantian Peace” for the next ECPR General Conference (Prague 7-10 September 2016). 6 panels have been initially allocated to this section by the ECPR, but 2 additional panels can be accepted.

We are inviting paper and panel proposals on the theme of the section. More details about the section can be found here: http://ecpr.eu/Events/SectionDetails.aspx?SectionID=595&EventID=95

More information about the conference are available here: https://ecpr.eu/Events/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=95

To submit a proposal, you will need to login to your MyECPR account, which can be done here: https://ecpr.eu/Login.aspx

If you do not have an MyECPR account, it can be created very easily here: https://ecpr.eu/LoginCreateNewAccount.aspx An invitation: if you are not a member of the Kantian Standing Group yet, you are invited to join: it is free and not a difficult process. Once you have logged in to your ECPR account, press My ECPR button (top right of the screen) and select “My Groups”. Select then “See list of all current Standing Groups and Research Networks” and look for “Kantian Political Thought” – click on “Details” and, then, on “Join.” Many thanks for your support! If you have any questions, please let me know: [email protected]


JOURNALS/BLOGS KANT-STUDIEN JAHRGANG 4 (2015)

Abhandlungen

Francisco Caruso/Roberto Moreira Xavier On Kant’s First Insight into the Problem of Space Dimensionality and its Physical Foundations — 547 Dennis Schulting, München Probleme des ‚kantianischen‘ Nonkonzeptualismus im Hinblick auf die B-Deduktion — 561 Antoine Grandjean, Nantes Parler du tout, parler de rien: L’inconsistance de toute cosmologie rationnelle et la quatrième antinomie de la raison pure — 581 Heiko Puls, Hamburg Better never to have been? Kant über menschliche Reproduktion, Glück und den Wert des Lebens — 596

Berichte und Diskussionen

Ingomar Kloos, Halle a. d. Saale Biographische Rätsel um den halleschen Kantianer Johann Heinrich Tieftrunk sind gelöst — 626

Bibliographie

Margit Ruffing, Mainz Kant-Bibliographie 2013 — 632

Buchbesprechungen

Christoph Horn: Nichtideale Normativität. Ein neuer Blick auf Kants politische Philosophie. (R. Brandt) — 685

Kants Grundlegung einer kritischen Metaphysik. Hrsg. von Norbert Fischer. (B. Gerlach) — 695

Ulli F. H. Rühl: Kants Deduktion des Rechts als intelligibler Besitz. Kants ‚Privatrecht‘ zwischen vernunftrechtlicher Notwendigkeit und juristischer Kontingenz. (H. Wittwer) — 699

Pauline Kleingeld: Kant and Cosmopolitanism: The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship. (A. Taraborrelli) — 703

Laura Anna Macor: La fragilità della virtù. Dell’antropologia alla morale e ritorno nell’epoca di Kant. (J. Sirovátka) — 707

Jan Völker: Ästhetik der Lebendigkeit. Kants dritte Kritik. (Th. Hanke) — 709


Claus Langbehn: Vom Selbstbewußtsein zum Selbstverständnis. Kant und die Philosophie der Wahrnehmung. (T. Morschek) — 713

Contemporary Kantian Metaphyhsics. New Essays on Space and Time. Ed. by Roxana Baiasu, Graham Bird, A. W. Moore. (Ö. E. Gün) — 717

----------------------------------------------------- CRITIQUE Editors: Christian Onof Dennis Schulting Jacco Verburgt Schedule for the forthcoming discussions on the Critique online blog http://virtualcritique.wordpress.com

Courtney Fugate, The Teleology of Reason. A Study of the Structure of Kant’s Critical Philosophy (de Gruyter, 2014)

Critics: Huaping Lu-Adler (Georgetown) and Marcel Quarfood (Stockholm)

Sorin Baiasu, Kant and Sartre. Re-Discovering Critical Ethics (Palgrave, 2011)

Critics: Sacha Golob (KCL) and Christian Skirke (UvA, Amsterdam)

Omri Boehm, Kant’s Critique of Spinoza (Oxford UP USA, 2014)

Critics: Nick Stang (Toronto) and Sebastian Gardner (UCL)

Lucy Allais, Manifest Reality: Kant’s Idealism and his Realism (Oxford UP, 2015)

Critics: Colin Marshall (U of Washington), Colin McLear (Nebraska, Lincoln), and Alexandra Newton (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Bryan Hall, The Post-Critical Kant: Understanding the Critical Philosophy through the Opus postumum (Routledge, 2014)

Critics: Jeffrey Edwards (Stony Brook, NY) and Kenneth Westphal (Boğaziçi, Istanbul)

Christopher Insole, Kant and the Creation of Freedom. A Theological Problem (Oxford UP, 2013)

Critics: David Sussman (Illinois/Urbana-Champaign) and Wolfgang Ertl (Keio, Tokyo)

Nathaniel Goldberg, Kantian Conceptual Geography (Oxford UP USA, 2015)

Critics: John Callanan (KCL) and Andrew Stephenson (Oxford)


Silvan Imhof, Der Grund der Subjektivität. Motive und Potenzial von Fichtes Ansatz (Schwabe, 2014)

Critics: Daniel Breazeale (Kentucky) and Dietmar Heidemann/Oliver Motz (Luxembourg)

Allen Wood, The Free Development of Each. Studies on Freedom, Right, and Ethics in Classical German Philosophy (Oxford UP, 2014)

Critics: Guenter Zöller (Munich) and Howard Williams (Aberystwyth)

Stephen Palmquist, Comprehensive Commentary on Kant’s Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)

Critics: Philip Rossi (Marquette) and Robert Gressis (California State, Northridge)

Colin McQuillan, Immanuel Kant: The Very Idea of a Critique of Pure Reason (Northwestern UP, 2016)

Critics: Anita Leirfall (Bergen/NMBU Oslo) and Michael Olson (Macquarie)

Robert Hanna, Cognition, Content, and the A Priori. A Study in the Philosophy of Mind and Knowledge (Oxford UP, 2015)

Critics: David Landy (San Francisco State) and Dennis Schulting (Independent)

Fabian Freyenhagen, Adorno’s Practical Philosophy. Living Less Wrongly (Cambridge UP, 2013)

Critics: Henry Pickford (Duke) and Christian Skirke (UvA, Amsterdam)

Sidney Axinn, Sacrifice and Value: A Kantian Interpretation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010)

Critics: Helga Varden (Illinois/Urbana-Champaign) and more tbc

James Kreines, Reason in the World. Hegel’s Metaphysics and Its Philosophical Appeal (Oxford UP, 2015)

Critics: Nick Stang (Toronto) and more tbc If you would like your book (monograph or any single-authored book that has scholarly relevance), published after 2010 and whose topic falls within the scope of our aims, to be considered for a book symposium, please let us know. Books written in either English, German, French, Italian or Spanish are eligible, but all postings will be in English. We also invite potential discussants who have expertise in any area of Kant scholarship, Kantianism and/or German Idealism, have a Ph.D. in Philosophy, are active in research, and generally publish in English, to contact us by sending an email to: [email protected]


----------------------------------------------------- CON-TEXTOS KANTIANOS ISSUE 2 (2015)

Editorial note, Roberto R. Aramayo (Institute of Philosophy / CSIC, Spain) Entrevistas/Interviews

[FR] «Entretien avec Claude Piché», María Hotes (Univ. de Munich, Allemagne) -- 11

Artículos/Articles : “Kant y las declinaciones de la armonía” / “Kant and the Meanings of Harmony”

[ES] «Hacia una crítica de la razón armónica», Alberto Pirni (Scuola Superiore di Sant’Anna, Italia) -- 20 [EN] «Harmonia in commercio vs Harmonia absque commercio. Kant’s eclectical dealing with causality», Gualtiero Lorini (Lisboa, Portugal) -- 32 [PT] «Os tons harmônicos e o “fundamento das representações”. Breve comentário a uma anotação de Kant sobre uma metáfora musical de Eberhard», Ubirajara Rancan de Azevedo Marques (Estadual Paulista, Marília, Brasil) -- 48 [EN] «The ‘principle of equality governing the actions and counter-actions’ in Kant’s Practical Philosophy», Jean-Christophe Merle (Vechta, Germany) -- 62 [IT] «Kant. Il trascendentale e l’armonia delle facoltà», Francesco Valagussa (Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Italia) --72 [DE] «Die Übereinstimmung zwischen Einbildungskraft und Verstand und die „Erkenntnis überhaupt“ », Oscar Meo (Genua, Italien) -- 86 [ES] «Correspondencia o armonía. La literatura en la distinción kantiana de las bellas artes», Germán Garrido (Complutense de Madrid, España) -- 100 [IT] «Unità e concordanza teleologica del mondo in Kant», Gerardo Cunico (Genova, Italia) -- 115 [ES] «Armonía en la dualidad frente a monismo naturalista: Kant y Habermas», Ana María Andaluz Romanillos (Pontificia de Salamanca, España) – 128 [EN] «Concepts of “Aesthetics of Arts” in Slovak Aesthetics of the 19th Century and Kant’s Conception of “Harmonization” », Jana Soškova (Prešov, Slovakia) -- 151 [EN] «Self-deception and self-knowledge: Jane Austen’s Emma as an Example of Kant’s Notion of Self-Deception», Jeanine Grenberg (Saint Olaf, USA) -- 162

Documentos/Documents

[ES] «El concepto kantiano de propiedad», Howard Williams (Univ. de Aberystwyth, Gran Bretaña). Traducción de Lorena Cebolla (Università degli Studi di Trento, Italia) pp. 347-359 / Doi: 10.5281/zenodo.33983


Crítica De Libros/Book Reviews

[ES] «De la teleología tradicional a la teleología trascendental. La orientación a fines como aspecto consustancial de la racionalidad humana», Ileana Beade (Rosario, Argentina). Reseña de Fugate, C. D., The Teleology of Reason. A Study of the Structure of Kant's Critical Philosophy, W. de Gruyter, 2014 – 360. [EN] «And the Corpus still Breathes», David Pena-Guzmán (Laurentian, Canada). Review of Jennifer Mensch, Kant’s Organicism: Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Theory, U. of Chicago Press, 2013 –365. [ES] «Una nueva lectura sobre la Deducción Trascendental B», Miguel Herszenbaun (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Reseña de Mario Caimi, Kant’s B Deduction, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, -- 370. [PT] «Regresso a Kant. Ética, Estética, Filosofia política», Cláudia Fidalgo da Silva (Porto, Portugal). Resenha de Ribeiro dos Santos, L., Regresso a Kant – Ética, Estética, Filosofia Política, Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 2012 – 380. [ES] «La filosofia práctica del profesor Immanuel Kant», Luciana Martínez (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Reseña de O. Sensen/L. Denis (Eds.), Kant’s Lectures on Ethics, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014 – 389. [PT] «Antropologia e estética na gênese do sistema kantiano», Márcio Suzuki (São Paulo, Brasil) y [ES] «Una reconstrucción del problema del juicio reflexionante a la luz de las Lecciones de Antropología», Alba Jiménez (Autónoma de Madrid, España). Doble reseña de M. Sánchez Rodríguez, I. Kant. Lecciones de Antropología. Fragmentos de estética y antropología, Granada, Comares, 2015 394. [ES] «Et in Arcadia Ego. La armonización de la Naturaleza a la espera de la Libertad en la filosofía de Immanuel Kant», Ricardo Gutiérrez Aguilar (IFS/CSIC, España). Reseña de Ana María Andaluz Romanillos, Las armonías de la razón en Kant, Salamanca, UPS, 2013 – 401. [ES] «Teoría crítica de las facultades», Guillermo Villaverde (Complutense de Madrid, España). Reseña de Antonino Falduto, The Faculties of the Human Mind and the Case of Moral Feeling, Berlin/New York, W. de Gruyter, 2013 -- 406-414. [IT] «Critica della ragione e teoria dell’intuizione», Federico Ferraguto (Pontifícia Univ. Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brasil). Recensione di Anselmo Aportone, Kant et le pouvoir réceptif. Recherches sur la conception kantienne de la sensibilité, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2014 -- 415 [ES] «La obra de Kant como progreso hacia sí misma. La senda elíptica», Jesús González Fisac (Cádiz, España). Reseña de Karl Ameriks, Kant’s Elliptical Path, Clarendom Press, Oxford (UK), 2012 -- 420 Obituario/Obituary

[ES] «Massimo Barale. In memoriam (1941-2015)» (Univ. de Pisa, Italia), Nuria Sánchez Madrid (Complutense de Madrid, España) – 426.


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