This is a conference to celebrate the career of honored Columbia professor Patricia Kitcher. Professor Kitcher is a renowned scholar of Immanuel Kant who has made many significant contributions to the contemporary understanding of Kant's conception of subjectivity, transcendental psychology, and philosophy of mind. In addition to many important papers, Professor Kitcher is also the author of Kant's Transcendental Psychology, Kant's Thinker, and Freud's Dream.

Please RSVP to the conference by November 4th (hard deadline) via https://forms.gle/jTLKyZ1xA2BM4DpD9

The Zoom link can be found here:    https://philosophy.columbia.edu/content/conference-honor-patricia-kitcher-roberta-and-william-campbell-professor-emerita-humanities

Due to heightened security measures, this is necessary in order to make sure that all conference attendees will have access to campus. You will receive a QR code from Public Safety for campus access. You must bring your QR code and a valid ID for security. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Francey Russell (frussell@barnard.edu) and Sabina Bremner (sbremner@upenn.edu).

Conference Schedule:

All events will be in Sulzberger Parlor, on the 3rd floor of Barnard Hall. 

Friday, November 8th

9:00: Arrival and greetings
9:15: Opening remarks by Francey Russell (Barnard-Columbia) and Sabina Vaccarino Bremner (Penn)
9:30-10:30: Béatrice Longuenesse (NYU), "Freud's Concept of the Unconscious”
10:30-11:30: Tobias Rosefeldt (HU-Berlin), “What is the Objective Unity of Apperception?”
11:30-11:45: Break
11:45-12:45: Katharina Kraus (Johns Hopkins), “Kant and Patricia Kitcher on the Self”
12:45-2:00: Lunch
2:00-3:00: Andrew Chignell (Princeton), “Is Kitcher’s Self Substantial Enough?”
3:00-4:00: Axel Honneth (Columbia), "The Standpoint of Moral Progress: A Defense in a Kantian Spirit"
4:00-4:20: Tea and cookies
4:20-5:20: Karl Ameriks (Notre Dame), "Starting Over Again in Philosophy: Immanuel Kant, Patricia Kitcher, and Absolute Freedom”

Reception

Saturday, November 9

9:30: Arrival and greetings
9:45: Opening remarks by Christopher Peacocke (Columbia)
10:00-11:00: Hannah Ginsborg (Berkeley), "History of Philosophy as a Source of Meaning"
11:00-12:00: Marcus Willaschek (Frankfurt) [online], "Who is a Person? Universality and Exclusion in Kant's Ethics"
12:00-12:15: Break
12:15-1:15: Sebastian Rödl (Leipzig) - TBA
1:15-2:30: Lunch
2:30-3:30: Frederick Neuhouser (Barnard-Columbia), "Kant's and Nietzsche's Genealogies (or Theodicies) of Justice and Autonomy"
3:30-4:30: Paul Guyer (Brown), “Kitcher, Nozick, and Apperception”
4:30-4:20: Tea and cookies
4:50-5:50: Closing address by Patricia Kitcher (Columbia)
Reception