Eastern North American Kant Society

November 14-15, 2025

Swarthmore College

Program

All sessions take place at the Inn at Swarthmore College.

Please note that there is a 10-minute break between each session.

Friday, November 14:

12:00pm-1:00pm Check in

1:00pm-1:50pm James McCord (University of Pittsburgh) “Kant on Knowing One’s Judgments”

2:00pm-2:50pm Claudi Brink (University of New Hampshire) “Reconsidering the Place of

Agency in the Transcendental Analytic”

3:30pm-5:00pm First Keynote Address: Karen Stohr (Georgetown University) “Another’s Perfection”

Dinner 5:00pm

Saturday, November 15:

8:30am Check-in/light breakfast

9:00am-9:50am Eirini Martsoukaki (University of Toronto) “Vulnerability in Kantian Friendship”

10:00am-10:50am: Luca Forgione (University of Naples Federico II) “Kant’s Thinking Being:

Logicist and Expressivist Perspectives on the ‘I Think’”

11:00am-11:50am Eli Benjamin Israel (Temple University)“Toward Moral Perfection: An Atemporal

Reading of Kant’s Postulate of Immortality”

Lunch 12:00pm-1:00pm

1:00pm-1:50pm Lis Benossi (Stanford University) “Self-Deception as Voluntary Assent: Toward

a Unified Account”

2:00pm-2:50pm Antonio Monaco (Indiana University--Bloomington) “The Realm of Ends and

Collective Intentionality” (nominee for Marcus Herz Prize)

3:30pm-5:00pm Second Keynote Address: Janum Sethi (University of Michigan) “Did Kant

Solve the Problem of Induction?”

Reception 5:00pm

Hosts: Krista Thomason and Swarthmore College Philosophy Department

ENAKS Board: Kate Moran, Regional Chair (Brandeis), Mavis Biss (Loyola Maryland) James Hebbler (Saint Joseph’s University), Samantha Matherne (Harvard University), Edgar Valdez (Saint Peter’s University), Owen Ware (University of Toronto), Reed Winegar (Fordham University),