2022 Midwest Study Group Meeting of the North American Kant Society
October 28th-29th, 2022
Loyola University Chicago, Lake Shore Campus
Host: Naomi Fisher (contact email: nfisher1 [at] luc [dot] edu)
Keynote: Samantha Matherne (Harvard)
Friday, October 28: McCormick Lounge, Coffey Hall
8:45 a.m. arrival and coffee
9:15 welcome
9:30-11:30 session 1
“The Transcendental Deduction of the Ideas as a Regressive Argument”
Pirachula Chulanon, Assistant Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University
“Rational Theology as ‘Pseudo-Transcendental Philosophy’: A New Reading of the Transcendental Ideal”
Maya Krishnan, Graduate Student, All Souls College, University of Oxford (Herz nominee)
11:30-11:45 coffee break
11:45-12:45 session 2
“Kant’s Pietism: Allegedly Vague or Actually Profound?”
Fr. Bonaventure Chapman, O.P., Graduate Student, The Catholic University of America
12:45-2:00 lunch
2:00-4:00 session 3
“Kant on the Transparency of Experience”
Tim Jankowiak, Associate Professor, Towson University
“The Epistemic Role of Bodily Feeling in Dreams of a Spirit-Seer”
Adam Jurkiewicz, Graduate Student, The Catholic University of America
4:15-5:45 keynote
Keynote: “Kant Without Judgment: Rethinking Kantian Aesthetics”
Samantha Matherne, Harvard University
6:15 pm dinner
Saturday, October 29, Cuneo Hall Room 109
8:45-9:15 am arrive and coffee
9:15-11:15 session 4
“Kant on Affects and Passions”
Martina Favaretto, Graduate Student, Indiana University Bloomington
“Love of Honor, Virtue, and the Self”
Robert Vanderbeek, Graduate Student, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
11:15-11:40 coffee break
11:40-12:40 session 5
“Hidden Art, Special Talent: Kant on Imagination and Judgment”
Nicholas Dunn, Postdoctoral Fellow, Bard College
12:40-2:00 lunch
2:00-4:00 session 6
“Logical Necessity in Kant’s Account of the Moral Law”
Leonard Feldblyum, Graduate Student, Brown University
“The Self-Binding Self: Homo Phenomenon and Homo Noumenon in Kant’s Practical Philosophy”
Nataliya Palatnik, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee