1st Annual Meeting of the Eastern Study Group
of the
North American Kant Society
April 16-17, 2004 (Friday and Saturday)
Fordham University, New York City
Lincoln Center Campus (60th Street and Columbus [9th] Avenue)
All Study Group sessions will be held in the South Lounge,
adjacent to the cafeteria in the Lowenstein Building of
Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus.
Friday, April 16
2:00 to 3:00 pm – Jeanine Grenberg (St. Olaf
College), “Kantian Virtue”
3:00 to 4:00 pm – Sam Kerstein (University of Maryland), “Treating Others as
Mere Means”
4:00 to 5:00 pm
– Jessica Miller (University of Maine), “Trust at the Intersection of
Respect and Moral Knowledge in Kant’s Ethical Theory”
5:00 to 6:30 pm – Patricia Kitcher (Columbia University), President of the
North American Kant Society,
“Two Aspects of Apperception”
6:30-7:00 pm –
Reception
7:00 –
Dinner
Saturday, April 17
10:00 to 11:00 am – Pablo Muchnik (Siena College), “On the Alleged Vacuity of Kant’s
Concept of Evil”
11:00 am to 12 noon – Jeremy Byrd (University of Georgia), “Kant’s Compatibilism in the New Elucidation
of the First Principles of
Metaphysical Cognition”
12 noon to 1:00 pm – Ernesto Garcia (Columbia University), “The Historical
Origins of Kant's 1785
Groundwork”
1:00 to 2:30 pm
– Lunch break
2:30 to 3:30 pm
–
C. E.
Emmer (Stony Brook University), “The Problem of Beauty and
Poetry in Kant”
3:30 to -4:30 pm – Andrew Chignell (Cornell University), “Belief in Kant”
4:30 to 5:30 pm
– Laura Ostaric (University of Notre Dame), “Kant on Genius: The Possessor or
the Possessed?”
A limited block of hotel rooms has been reserved for meeting
participants at the Skyline Hotel (49th Street and 10th
Avenue) for the nights of April 15-18th, at a discounted
rate of $115 per night (plus applicable taxes). To make
reservations, call the hotel at least 21 days in advance (212-586-3400
or 800-433-1982), and mention that you will be part of the “Fordham
University Conference.”
Please note: depending on various factors, you may be able to find
cheaper overnight accommodations in New York by enquiring about the
rates at other hotels, or even by visiting the Skyline Hotel’s own
web-site:
http://www.skylinehotelny.com
For more information about local arrangements, please contact:
Michael Baur (718-817-3295;
mbaur@fordham.edu)
