NAKS Biennial VI is getting underway this week in Mexico City. This is the first time we’ve had an event in Mexico, as far as I can tell, and so we’re finally fully putting the “N” in “NAKS.” Huaping and I set this as one of our main goals during our time as officers, and I am grateful to Professor Efraín Lazos (UNAM-Mexico City) and his team for agreeing to host and coordinate the program. It is now available on the NAKS website.

You can view some of the Biennial sessions on the youtube channel, here: https://www.youtube.com/c/filosoficasunam

Huaping and I are a bit sad (and maybe a little happy) to be coming to the end of our time leading NAKS; please see the announcement below from the chair of the Board regarding the process for nominating the next officers.

2024 is just 9 months away… the Kant-Gesellschaft (which sponsors the International Kant Kongress) and the "Kant-València" research center have a new webpage listing events taking place during Kant’s tercentennial: https://kant2024.org/. NAKS is working with other Kant societies to put together an event at the World Congress of Philosophy in Rome (2024) as well. We are considering some other ideas as well and would be happy for suggestions from the membership.

VNAKS (Virtual NAKS) is still on pause, with a possible restart this summer. In the meantime check out the upcoming talks at the Digital Kant Zentrum (see announcement below).

I conclude with my quarterly reminder that we have abolished the membership fee for student members. Please encourage any undergraduate or graduate students who might be interested to sign up. This change in our revenue structure means that we also welcome senior, tenured members to consider upgrading to Honorary Königsberger status (i.e. Lifetime Membership). The dues of paying members help us award prizes, host NAKS sessions at the APA and other societies, defray costs for student participation in certain conferences (such as the Kant Kongress), maintain our website and membership database, and support our regional group meetings. So if your research fund (or personal charity budget) allows, we would encourage you to dare to know what it’s like to be a lifetime member of NAKS.

with best wishes,

Andrew Chignell, President-Secretary

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Nominations for new officers

“The current terms of the President and Vice President expire on July 1, 2023. In accordance with the NAKS constitution, an election will be held to fill both of these positions. Please send nominations for these positions to Professor Eric Watkins, Chair of the Board of Trustees, at ewatkins@ucsd.edu by April 10, 2023. Nominees must be members of the North American Kant Society and must agree to stand for election.”

Announcements

(1) Submissions to NAKS Newsletters: Deadlines and Instructions

Please submit information intended for inclusion in the Newsletter by the 10th of the month of publication to Huaping Lu-Adler at hl530@georgetown.edu.

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 1o

For the December Issue: December 1o

Please format your announcement using single space, Georgia font, size 12, and send it in a Word or .rtf file (not .pdf). We would appreciate it if you could format your announcement as close to the examples below as possible. Please do not use boldface except for the parts shown in those examples.

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For calls for applications/abstracts/papers, please specify whether it is a CFA (call for abstracts) or CFP (call for papers) and please provide the following information (in the given order):

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We do not announce individual talks or book symposia or other single-session workshops, unless they are sponsored by NAKS. To avoid electronic overload, we limit email reminders to matters immediately related to NAKS that cannot be announced in the newsletter. Information concerning all other events of interest to our community is published in the regular course of the newsletters and/or on our Facebook site, and must be submitted by the respective deadlines.

(2) Publisher Discount for NAKS Members

Oxford University Press is pleased to offer NAKS members an exclusive 30% discount on all titles. Take advantage of this discount by entering promotion code AAFLYG6 at checkout when purchasing books from https://global.oup.com/ushe/disciplines/philosophy.

Cambridge University Press is pleased to offer a 20% discount to NAKS members on its Kant titles. To browse titles and order, visit www.cambridge.org/NAKS16.

NAKS members can now receive a 30% discount on all Kant and Kant-related titles published by De Gruyter from 1906 to present, including Kantstudien-Ergänzungshefte. Members will also receive discounts on the more than 10,000 Philosophy titles published from 1785 until now by De Gruyter, De Gruyter imprints and participating University Presses distributed on the De Gruyter platform. Please visit https://www.degruyter.com/ to search for titles, or contact Todd Bludeau <Todd.Bludeau@degruyter.com> for quotes and/or to receive title lists.

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NAKS Meetings

(1) NAKS sessions at the Pacific APA (San Francisco)

Time: April 5-8

Location: San Francisco

Session 1: Book Symposium: Kant on Freedom, Nature and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique

Chair: Oliver Sensen (Tulane University)

Author: Kristi Sweet (Texas A&M University)

Critics: Morganna Lambeth (Purdue University); John H. Zammito (Rice University)

Session 2: Kant on (Knowledge of) Self

Chair: Kristi Sweet (Texas A&M University)

Speakers:

Katharina Kraus (Johns Hopkins University) “Kant on the Self: Knowing and Being”

Oliver Sensen (Tulane University) “Kant’s Transcendental Argument for a Self”

Patricia Kitcher (Columbia University) “Practical and Empirical Knowledge of the Cognitive Self”

For detailed schedule, see https://www.apaonline.org/page/2023P_DivProgram

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Other Conferences / Workshops

(1) Online Leuven Seminar in Classical German Philosophy

Time: Thursdays, 5:00-6:30pm CET (Spring 2023)

Location: On Zoom

March 23

Book Launch: The Methods of Metaphilosophy: Kant, Maimon, and Schelling on How to Philosophize about Philosophy (Klostermann 2022)

Jelscha Schmid (University of Basel)

Respondents: Naomi Fisher (Loyola University Chicago); Thomas Sturm (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona); Peter Thielke (Pomona College, Claremont, CA)

April 20

“Nature, Freedom, and Political Change in Alexander von Humboldt”

Elizabeth Millan (DePaul University Chicago)

May 4

Discussion based on a pre-circulated chapter: Fichte’s Original Presentation of the Foundational Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre: The Question of Method (Routledge 2022)

Marina F. Bykova (North Carolina State University)

Respondent: Christian Klotz (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil)

May 18

Book Launch: Kant’s Late Philosophy of Nature: The Opus postumum

Stephen Howard (KU Leuven)

Respondents: Giovanni Pietro Basile (Boston College); Michael Bennett McNulty (University of Minnesota); Jeffrey Edwards (Stony Brook University)

For more details, and to register for the Zoom link, please visit https://hiw.kuleuven.be/cmprpc/events/leuvenseminarinclassicalgermanphilosophy/index.html

(2) Workshop: Kant’s Theory of Imagination

Time: May 5-6, 2023

Location: Harvard University

This workshop is devoted to exploring Kant’s theory of imagination from theoretical, aesthetic, and practical perspectives. The program will include papers, comments on papers, and a wrap-up panel. Paper presenters include Stefanie Grüne (Freie Universität, Berlin), Thomas Land (University of Victoria), Samantha Matherne (Harvard), Janum Sethi (University of Michigan), Andrew Stephenson (University of Southampton), Jessica Williams (University of South Florida), and Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge). Commentators include Lucy Allais (University of Witwatersrand, Johns Hopkins University), Yoon Choi (Marquette University), Alix Cohen (University of Edinburgh), Katharina Kraus (University of Notre Dame), Colin Marshall (University of Washington), Thomas Pendlebury (University of Pittsburgh), and Eric Watkins (University of California, San Diego). The wrap-up panel includes Mavis Biss (Loyola University), Alexandra Newton (University of California, Riverside), and Reed Winegar (Fordham).

For the schedule, please see: kantimagination.com

All are welcome to attend who are not on the program. For questions or more information, please contact Samantha Matherne (smatherne@fas.harvard.edu).

(3) Leuven Kant Conference 2023

Time: June 1-3

Location: Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven (online and in-person)

June 1

Panel 1

Günter Zöller (University of Munich), “‘Legalitas iuridica […] legalitas ethica.’ Kant on Lawfulness as Universal Practical Principle”

Joel Klein (Federal University of Parana), “External Coercion and the Obligation of Right”

Panel 2

Lucia Volonté (JGU Mainz), “Transcendental Freedom and the Spontaneity of Thinking in the Pre-Critical Kant”

Johannes Nickl (University of St Andrews), “Conscience and the Fact of Reason. Making the Moral Law First-Personal”

Keynote

Inga Römer (Université Grenoble Alpes), “What Does Critical Moral Philosophy Mean for Transcendental Pphilosophy? Reflections on Kant’s Opus postumum”

Respondent: Henny Blomme (Université libre de Bruxelles)

June 2

Panel 3

Christopher Fremaux (University of Scranton), “Acting from Duty and the Form of Virtue: The Crusian Character of Kant’s Moral Philosophy”

Laurenz Ramsauer (University of Chicago), “Kant’s Derivation of Imperatives of Duty”

Panel 4

Laura Papish (George Washington University), “Kant’s Revised Account of Hope in Human Progress”

Roey Reichert (University of California Los Angeles), “Kant’s Anthropological Time: The Aeonic View of Humanity and the Weltrepublik”

Leonard Weiss (University of Sheffield), “Kant on the End of Philosophy”

Keynote

Márcio Suzuki (University of São Paulo), “Reflex Action and Transcendental Aesthetics. Kant and the Physiology of His Time”

Respondent: Paola Rumore (Università degli Studi di Torino)

June 3

Panel 5

Arnaud Pelletier (Université libre de Bruxelles), “Facing the Leibnizians: Kant and the Replies to On a Discovery”

Rodrigo Zanette de Araujo (University of Milan), “Kant’s Negative Account of the In-Itself”

Manja Kisner (Radboud University), “From an Architectonic to a Generative Account of a System”

Panel 6

Elisabeth Widmer (University of Oslo), “Kant on Citizenship: A Revised ‘Economic Dependency’ Reading”

Veronica Cibotaru (KU Leuven), “The Question of the Moral Right of Selling Our Own Body from a Kantian Perspective”

Keynote

Luca Fonnesu (Università degli Studi di Pavia), “Forms of Knowing and Forms of Believing in Kant’s Critical Philosophy”

Respondent: Andrew Chignell (Princeton University)

Organizers: Karin de Boer (KU Leuven), Pierpaolo Betti (KU Leuven), Henny Blomme (Université libre de Bruxelles), Arnaud Pelletier (Université libre de Bruxelles)

For more, see https://hiw.kuleuven.be/cmprpc/events/leuvenkantconference

(4) Book Symposium: Kant, Race, and Racism (Oxford, 2023)

Date: June 15-17 (register by May 1)

Location: The Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (hybrid format)

In Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere, Huaping Lu-Adler (Georgetown University) offers a thorough study of Kant’s views on race. She challenges some of the basic assumptions in how scholars have dealt with this topic, particularly the claim that racism contradicts Kant’s moral universalism. She shows how Kant’s raciology—divided into racialism and racism—is an integral part of his philosophical system. She also rejects the individualistic approach that treats Kant’s racism as a matter of personal prejudice. Instead, she uses the notion of racism as ideological formation to demonstrate how Kant, from his social location both as a prominent scholar and as a lifelong educator, participated in the formation of modern racist ideology. This means, as Lu-Adler contends in the forward-looking conclusion to her book, that scholars who research and teach Kant’s philosophy have an unshakable burden to take part in the ongoing antiracist struggles, through their teaching practices as well as their scholarship.

For more information about the book, see

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/kant-race-and-racism-9780197685211?cc=us&lang=en&#

At this symposium, various scholars who have themselves worked on Kant’s raciology will offer their takes on different aspects of the book. They include Pauline Kleingeld (Groningen), Marina Martinez Mateo (Munich), Reza Mosayebi (Bochum), and Ewa Wyrębska-Đermanović (Bochum).

The workshop is organized by Marie Göbel (Bochum) and Reza Mosayebi (Bochum).

Attendance is free but seats are limited, so we kindly ask you to register before May 1st by sending an e-mail to marie.goebel@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

For more information about the symposium, please visit:

https://kant-zentrum-nrw.de/veranstaltungen/workshops-2/

(5) International Workshop: Kant: Philosopher – Scientist

Time: September 5–7, 2024

Location: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

Invited Speakers: Fabian Burt (Frankfurt), Boris Demarest (Heidelberg), Stephen Howard (Leuven), Wolfgang Lefèvre (Berlin), Huaping Lu-Adler (Georgetown), Peter McLaughlin (Heidelberg), Michael Bennett McNulty (Minnesota), Jennifer Mensch (Sydney), Helmut Pulte (Bochum), Paola Rumore (Torino), Marius Stan (Boston), Thomas Sturm (Barcelona), Eric Watkins (San Diego), and Falk Wunderlich (Halle)

Contact: Prof.Dr. Wolfgang Lefèvre, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, wlef@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

(6) Digital Kant Zentrum NRW

The Kant Zentrum NRW is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Dr. habil. Stephan Zimmermann (Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg) on “Was versteht Kant unter einer „Ausnahme“? Zur Unterscheidung vollkommener und unvollkommener Pflichten in der Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten.” The talk will take place online (via Zoom) on Wednesday, March 29, 2023, from 18:00 – 20:00 CET. It is the first lecture in the series Digital Kant Lectures, organized by the Digital Kant Zentrum NRW, which takes place every last Wednesday of the month via Zoom. The program of the series can be found here.

(7) Kant’s Moral Vision as Affirmative Religion (University of Notre Dame)

Friday, March 31st

9:00 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. – Session 1

Harry Bunting, University of Ulster: “God, Freedom, and Immortality: Morality and its Metaphysically Necessary Conditions. Kant’s Transcendental Argument Re-Examined.”

Maya Krishnan, Oxford University: “Is the Postulate of God Genuinely about God? Infinite Properties and Moral Metaphysics”

10:25 a.m. – 11:35 a.m. – Session 2

Addison Ellis, The American University in Cairo: “The Self-Conscious Form of Rational Faith”

Anna Tomaszewska, Jagiellonian University: “What Kind of Religion Did Kant Have?”

11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Keynote Paper

Chris Firestone, Trinity International University: “Interpreting Kant’s Religion: Towards an Integrated Approach”

2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. – Keynote Paper

Jacqueline Mariña, Purdue University: “Conscience and Justification in Kant’s Critique of Theodicy”

3:00 – 4:45 – Session 3

Stewart Clem, Aquinas Institute of Theology: “Is Kant’s God Worthy of Worship? An Ambivalent Affirmation in Kant’s Religion”

Brandon Love, Hong Kong Baptist University: “Kant’s Methodology in Religion: Common Religion as Natural, Revealed, and Learned”

Jeffrey L. Wilson, Loyola Marymount University: “Objective Reality and Meaning in Kant’s Affirmative Religion: Archetype, Church, and Liturgy and their Relevance for Modern Judaism”

5:00 – Keynote Address

Stephen R. Palmquist, Hong Kong Baptist University: “In What Sense Does Kant have a Vision of ‘Affirmative Religion’? Reflections on an Evolving Hermeneutic Revolution”

Saturday, April 1st

8:30a.m. – 9:40 a.m. – Session 1

Robert Hartman, Ohio Northern University: “From Radical Evil to Constitutive Moral Luck in Kant”

Bas Tonissen, University of California, San Diego: “Being without Limit: Radical Evil and the Desire to ‘Be Like God’”

9:55 a.m. – 11:05 a.m. – Session 2

Carl Hildebrand, The University of Hong Kong: “Sympathy, Freedom, and the Infusion of Grace in Kant’s Rational Religion”

Conrad Damstra, Brown University: “Kant on Moral Conversion and Divine Forgiveness”

11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Keynote Paper

Lawrence Pasternack, Oklahoma State University: “Kant on The Sincerity of Faith”

1:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Keynote Paper

John Hare, Yale University: “The Moral Argument in Kant and R.M. Hare”

2:10 – 3:20 – Session 3

Meredith Trexler Drees, Center for Philosophy of Religion, Notre Dame: “Achtung and The Sublime: The Resurrection of a Suffering Servant”

Jaeha Woo, Claremont School of Theology: “A Kantian High Christology?”

3:35 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. – Session 4

Layne Hancock, University of Notre Dame: "Kant's Religion between Atheism and Lutheran Scholasticism"

Philip Rossi, Marquette University: “The Historicity of Finite Human Reason and the Shape of Theological Discourse”

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Calls For Applications / Abstracts / Papers / Submissions

(1) CFP: NAKS Wilfrid Sellars Junior Scholar Essay Prize

Submission deadline: May 26, 2023

The North American Kant Society is pleased to announce the 13th annual Wilfrid Sellars Essay Prize competition. This prize will be awarded for the best essay on any topic that demonstrates the continuing relevance of Kant’s philosophy. Essays must be single-authored, previously unpublished (work under review or forthcoming will be considered), and cannot exceed 8,000 words in length (including notes and works cited/bibliography). Submissions not within this word limit may not be considered.

The intention behind the Sellars 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 Committee and Board of Trustees.

Eligibility rules:

1) The essay must be written in English, single-authored, and not published (online or in print) prior to May 26, 2022.

2) ‘Junior’ is defined here as 5 years or fewer from receipt of the Ph.D. (or highest degree

earned) on the prize submission deadline.

3) Authors must be members of NAKS at the time of submission and during the period when the submissions are under review.

4) Authors cannot be past recipients of the Wilfrid Sellars Essay Prize.

Entries should be submitted in Word format and state the word count at the end. They should be formatted for blind review. Submissions must be accompanied by a cover letter that specifies the author’s name, email contact information, and title of the paper, and also includes a declaration stating that eligibility rules (1)-(4) above are satisfied. Please send entries electronically in this form.

The winner will receive a prize of $500. The committee reserves the right not to award a prize, if in its judgment none is warranted.

(2) CFA: Kant and Hegel on Nature (Combined UK Kant Society & Hegel Society of Great Britain Annual Conference)

Submission deadline: May 1, 2023

Conference date: September 6-8

Conference location: St Edmund Hall, Oxford

The aim of the conference is to examine the place of nature in the philosophies of Kant and Hegel. Conference papers may focus not only on their respective philosophies of nature, or on the role of nature in, for example, their moral, political or aesthetic theories. Papers may also compare their thought about nature with that of other philosophers such as Schelling or Günderrode, or draw their work into critical conversation with contemporary environmental philosophy, including indigenous philosophies of nature or ecofeminist perspectives. General papers on Kant and Hegel will also be considered.

Keynote Speakers: Karen Ng (Vanderbilt), Julia Peters (Heidelberg), Joe Saunders (Durham) – more to be announced shortly on the UKKS and HSGB websites.

Abstracts of 400-600 words, suitable for a talk of around 30 minutes (+ 15 minutes for questions), to be sent by May 1 to UKKS.HSGB.2023@gmail.com. Abstracts should be sent as a word document and prepared for blind review, with author details in the email. Authors will be informed by the end of May.

Membership of UKKS and/or HSGB is not a requirement of participation. For more information on membership see the UKKS and HSGB websites. Inquiries to: andrew.j.cooper@warwick.ac.uk

(3) CFP: Kant, Race, and Racism: Understanding and Reckoning (Rivista di estetica 3/2024)

Submission deadline: June 30, 2023

Advisory editors: Gabriele Gava (University of Turin), Huaping Lu-Adler (Georgetown

University), and Achim Vesper (Goethe University Frankfurt)

This special issue is scheduled to appear in 2024, the 300th anniversary of Kant’s birth. We believe that it is important to continue to address Kant’s account of race and his racist remarks even during this important celebration year.

The issue of race appears at various points in Kant’s writing. Famously, he dedicated three

texts to developing a theory of human races in 1775, 1785 and 1788. But it also surfaces in

many other texts, both published and unpublished during his life. In many of these writings, Kant clearly accepts a hierarchical ordering of the races, where white Europeans go on top. This ordering is further backed by racist remarks on people of color that are scattered throughout his corpus.

Kant’s remarks on race have been a subject of scholarly debate for a long time. Recently, the issue gained broader attention, especially in Germany, in the aftermath of the renewed “Black Lives Matter” movement that emerged after the killing of George Floyd. In the past, scholars tended to address the problem by taking one of two opposed sides. One was to call into question Kant’s moral and political theories in light of his racist views (Charles Mills, for instance, called for a radical revision of those theories). The other was to register those views as reprehensible but set them aside as mere personal prejudices that do not affect Kant’s core philosophy at all.

However, it is not enough simply to acknowledge that Kant held racist views. Nor is it clear that there is any non-question-begging way to insulate the supposed “core” of Kant's

philosophy from those views. We need to explore all the ways in which Kant’s views on race may be integral to his entire philosophical system. Furthermore, if it turns out that “race” is more central to Kant’s thought than previously assumed, we need answers to the question of how to reckon with the effects of his race thinking.

We welcome submissions that discuss Kant’s theory of race and his racist views along those lines.

Submissions should be written in English and prepared for blind review. They must not exceed 45,000 characters (approx. 7,000 words), including notes, bibliography and blank spaces. The evaluation will follow a triple blind process. Neither the reviewers nor the advisory editors will be informed about the identity of the authors.

To submit your paper, please register and login to:

http://labont.it/estetica/index.php/rivistadiestetica/login.

Please note: when asked “What kind of file is this”, select the relevant CFP.

Contact: redazionerivistadiestetica@gmail.com

(4) CFP: Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics (Kant Yearbook 2024)

Submission deadline: August 31, 2023

The Kant Yearbook is now accepting submissions for its sixteenth issue in 2024. The Kant Yearbook is an international journal that publishes articles on the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. It is the Kant Yearbook’s goal to intensify innovative research on Kant on the international scale. For that reason, the Kant Yearbook prefers to publish articles in English. However, articles in German will also be considered. Each issue is dedicated to a specific topic. The sixteenth issue’s topic is “Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics.”

All papers discussing “Philosophy of Mathematics” in relation to Kant’s work from a historical, systematic and/or contemporary perspective are welcome. The KANT YEARBOOK practices double-blind review, i.e., the reviewers are not aware of the identity of a manuscript’s author, and the author is not aware of the reviewers’ identity. Submitted manuscripts must be anonymous; that is the authors’ names and references to their work capable of identifying them are not to appear in the manuscript. Detailed instructions and author guidelines are available at:

https://wwwen.uni.lu/research/fhse/dhum/research_areas/philosophy/kant_yearbook

For further information contact the editor or the publisher Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston (www.degruyter.com).

Paper submissions should go to dietmar.heidemann@uni.lu

Editor: Dietmar H. Heidemann (University of Luxembourg).

Editorial Board etc.: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/kantyb

(5) CFP: Essences, Dispositions, and Laws in Kant (Synthese special issue)

Submission deadline: November 30, 2023

Guest editors: Lorenzo Spagnesi (Universität Trier); Kristina Engelhard (Universität Trier)

Essences, dispositions, and laws play a central role in Kant’s pre-Critical and Critical philosophy, especially in, but not limited to, his theoretical philosophy and philosophy of science. For several years there has been a reappraisal of these notions and their interconnections in Kant scholarship, which might be motivated by recent extensive debates in metaphysics and philosophy of science on the same issues. Yet, several questions have not been fully answered so far, e.g.: What are essences for Kant? Should they be distinguished from ‘natures’ or ‘grounds’? What kind of investigation of nature do they afford? What role do dispositions play? Can we provide unified foundations for essences and dispositions, or are dispositions primitive? What grounds laws of nature or their modality? And how can they be object of cognition? More generally, what are, if any, the relations between essences, dispositions, and laws in Kant’s philosophy? The aim of this topical collection is to shed light on these and other related questions, as well as to explore their implications for contemporary debates in essentialism, dispositionalism, laws of nature, and the metaphysics of modality.

To be considered in the journal, each submission should include a discussion of the relevance of the examination of Kant's views on essences, dispositions, and laws to contemporary debates. The discussion can occur in a specific section or be a general theme of the manuscript. Topics that may be addressed include (but are not limited to):

· Essences and natural kinds in Kant;

· Forces, faculties, and powers in Kant;

· Laws and the metaphysics of modality in Kant;

· Kant and contemporary philosophy of science;

· Kant and analytic essentialism;

· Kant and scientific realism;

· Kant and dispositionalism;

· Pre-Critical Kant and natural science and/or metaphysics;

· Kant and predecessors on essences, dispositions, and laws;

· Kantian approaches to essences, dispositions, and laws.

Submissions can be made at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/synt/default.aspx. Please select “Essences, Dispositions, and Laws in Kant” as type of manuscript. Papers in a topical collection undergo the same review process as any other submission to Synthese. Guidelines for submitting the manuscript can be found here: https://www.springer.com/journal/11229/submission-guidelines. For further information, please contact the guest editors: spagnesi@uni-trier.de, engelhard@uni-trier.de.

(6) CFP: The French Revolution in Kant, German Idealism, and Early German

Romanticism (Society for German Idealism and Romanticism 2023)

Submission deadline: January 15, 2024

The French Revolution not only caused unparalleled social and political upheaval, but also coincided with a singular period of intellectual developments. Philosophers like Reinhold referred to it as a ‘revolution in thought,’ while Goethe claimed to experience a ‘revolution’ in his own self-understanding. While for Kant the public reaction to the French Revolution was a ‘historical sign’ of the moral progress of the human race, his followers were quick to recognize a kinship between the reorganization of social and political life unfolding before their eyes and, for instance, the novel conditions proposed for philosophical thought in Kant’s Copernican Revolution. As witnesses to the Revolution, philosophers embarked upon a ‘completion’ and ‘correction’ of Kant’s conception of rational agency, freedom, equality, citizenship, and political sovereignty. At the same time, literary authors responded to the Revolution in a rich variety of ways. Some claimed to see in the French Revolution an event of universal human importance, equal to the birth of Christianity and the cultural efflorescence of classical Greece. Others advised caution and lamented the downfall of Europe’s most prestigious monarchy. Throughout the intellectual world around 1800, the fall of the ancien régime provided a testing ground for thought and the imagination.

We invite papers that broadly address the influence of the French Revolution on Kant and German Idealists as well as Early German Romantics, along with literary and philosophical writers in dialogue with them. Submitted papers may be up to 12,000-words long (including bibliography and references), preceded by a short (maximum 200-word) abstract, and prepared for a blind peer review process. For style guidelines please consult the journal web page.

Authors writing in philosophy as their disciplinary perspective should submit their papers to Lara Ostaric (lostaric@temple.edu) and those writing from the perspective of German studies or intellectual history should submit their papers to Joel Lande (lande@princeton.edu). The deadline for submission is January 15, 2024.

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Journals

Kantian Review

Volume 28, No. 1 (2023)

Editor: Richard Aquila

Book Reviews Editor: Corey Dyck

Editorial Assistant: Rhianwen Daniel

Articles

Alberg, Jeremiah

Did Rousseau Teach Kant Discipline?

Edwards, Maximilian

Synthetic Attributes and the Schematized Categories

Fahmy, Melissa Seymour

Never Merely as a Means: Rethinking the Role and Relevance of Consent

Hope, Simon

Perfect and Imperfect Duty: Unpacking Kant’s Complex Distinction

Kim, Hyoung Sung

Revisiting the Proof-Structure of Kant’s Transcendental Deduction

Kolomý, Vojtěch

Kant on Moral Feeling and Respect

Moran, Kate

Kant on Despondent Moral Failure

Zanette de Araujo, Rodrigo

Things in Themselves and the Inner/Outer Dichotomy in Kant’s Amphiboly of the Concepts of Reflection

Book Reviews

Ido Geiger, Kant and the Claims of the Empirical World: A Transcendental Reading of the Critique of the Power of Judgment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)

By: Nabeel Hamid

Rudolf A. Makkreel, Kant’s Worldview: How Judgment Shapes Human Comprehension (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021)

By: Reed Winegar

Jimmy Yab, Kant and the Politics of Racism: Towards Kant’s Racialised Form of Cosmopolitan Right (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)

By: Jameliah Inga Shorter-Bourhanou

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NAKS Dues Information

Membership dues can be paid electronically at www.northamericankantsociety.com or by sending a check (made payable to the North American Kant Society) to

Treasurer

Anne Margaret Baxley

1226 Dolman St.

St. Louis, MO 63104

We use these dues to support the website and to fund prizes, student travel stipends, and other Society activities (no money is paid to officers or Board members).

The dues structure is as follows:

Category 1: students or unemployed members, including all international members who fall under those descriptions. Dues: free.

Category 2: non-student, employed but non-tenure-track members with annual income up to $40,000, and all employed international members. Dues: $20.00 per year or $45 for a three-year membership.

Category 3: tenure-track or tenured members, with annual income up to $70,000. Dues: $35.00 per year or $90 for a three-year membership.

Category 4: tenure-track or tenured members, with annual income between $70,000 and $100,000. Dues: $40.00 per year or $105 for a three-year membership.

Category 5: tenure-track or tenured members, with annual income above $100,000. Dues: $60.00 per year or $165 for a three-year membership.

Honorary Königsberger (Lifetime membership): $1200. For those who truly dare to know.

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NAKS Board of Trustees

Current members:

Eric Watkins (President), UC-San Diego

Paul Guyer, Brown

Pauline Kleingeld, Groningen

Jane Kneller, Colorado State

Patricia Kitcher, Columbia

Robert Louden, Southern Maine

Frederick Rauscher, Michigan State

Allen Wood, Indiana

Guenter Zoeller, Munich

Rachel Zuckert, Northwestern

Members emeriti:

Henry Allison, San Diego

Karl Ameriks, Notre Dame

Richard Aquila, Tennessee

Rhoda Kotzin, Michigan State

Manfred Kuehn, Boston

Ralf Meerbote, Rochester

Hoke Robinson, Memphis