The Midwest Study Group of the North American Kant Society's 2026 annual meeting will take place December 11–12, 2026, at the University of Chicago hosted by Professor Maya Krishnan and Professor Thomas Pendlebury.
Conference Schedule
Friday 11 December
8:45–9:15 Coffee leading into opening remarks est. 9:10
9:15–10:15 Joseph Hamilton, The Sociality of Prudential Reason
10:30–11:30 Amy Duong, Practice makes virtue: Kant on the role of practice in moral development
11:45–12:45 J. Edward Allore, Kant and the a priori Ground of Imputation
12:45–14:00 Lunch | Sandwiches in the main room
From 13:15 KantLab demo | Optional, but fun! Stay with your sandwich for a short demo during lunch.
14:00–15:00 Martina Favaretto, The Motive of Duty is Not a Commitment to Rightness De Dicto
15:15–16:15 Andrew Stahl, Objective Validity and the Neo-Liberal Reading of Kant
16:15–16:30 Coffee
16:30–18:30 Keynote: Houston Smit
Conference dinner
Saturday 12 December
9:15–9:45 Coffee
9:45–10:45 Davide Dalla Rosa and Lewis Wang, Kant’s Theory of Meaning
11:00–12:00 Laura Benzenberg and Mario Schärli, Chains of Reason: Kant on Prosyllogisms and the Unconditioned
12:00–13:00 Lunch
13:00–14:00 Hyoung Sung Kim, Addition, Subtraction, and Transformation
14:15–15:15 August Buholzer, Kantian Functionalism Reconsidered
15:15–16:00 Coffee
16:00–17:00 James Messina, Transformative Rationality and Forms of Intuition in Kant
17:00–18:00 Kant Atlas launch leading into reception [‘Sektempfang’]
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