Eastern Study Group of the North American Kant Society
Friday November 20, 2026 - Saturday November 21, 2026
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Join us for the two-day meeting of the North American Kant Society Eastern Study Group.
DAY 1: Friday, November 20 – Room 100
| 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Practical Philosophy “Kant’s Purely Practical Concept of Freedom” Noa Buckle (Toronto) *Nominated for Markus Herz Award* |
| 10:40 AM – 12:10 PM | Practical Philosophy “Is there a Right to Visit? Juridical Community, Spatial Fragmentation and Communication in Towards Perpetual Peace” Alice Pinheiro Walla (McMaster) |
| 12:10 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch Break |
| 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Metaphysics “Kant’s Possibility Proof and the Myth of the ‘Metaphysical Kant'” Maya Krishnan (Chicago) |
| 3:40 PM – 5:10 PM | Metaphysics “Analogical Grounding: Kant on the Relation between Phenomena and Noumena” Lorenzo Spagnesi (Trier) |
| 5:30 Pm – 7:30 PM | Keynote Address “The Juridical Interpretation of the Transcendental Deduction” Arthur Ripstein (Toronto) |
DAY 2: Saturday, November 21 – Room 100
| 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | The Possibility of Cognition “Schematism, Homogeneity, and a Third Thing” Fearghus Horan (Johns Hopkins University) *Nominated for Markus Herz Award and winner of the graduate travel stipend |
| 10:40 AM – 12:10 PM | The Possibility of Cognition “Humility and Relationality” Dai Heide (Simon Fraser) |
| 12:10 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch Break |
| 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Judgement “The Dilemma of Existential Judgments” Mario Schärli (HU-Berlin) |
| 3:40 PM – 5:10 PM | Judgement “Kant on Truth” Alexandra Newton (UC-Riverside) |
| 5:30 Pm – 7:30 PM | Keynote Address “Kant and Schopenhauer on Freedom of the Will” Anja Jauernig (NYU) |