November 20-21, University of Toronto, hosted by Nick Stang

Keynotes: Anja Jauernig and Arthur Ripstein.

Speakers: Noa Buckle (best graduate student paper (tie)), Dai Heide, Fearghus Horan (best graduate student paper (tie)), Maya Krishnan, Mario Schärli, Lorenzo Spagnesi, Alexandra Newton, Alice Pinheiro Walla

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.  

Keynote speaker is Houston Smit, Program, TBA.

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Times TBA

Kant’s Theory of Freedom

Chair: Paul Guyer (Brown University)

Lucy Allais (Johns Hopkins University; University of the Witwatersrand) 

"Teleological Causation: A Kantian Account"

Chris Onof (Imperial College London)

“The Key Role of Inner Sense in Kant’s Theory of Freedom”

John Walsh (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)

"Freedom and Imputability in Kant"

Author Meets Critics Session: 

Jessica Tizzard’s Kant’s Moral World

Chair: Claudi Brink (University of New Hampshire)

Author:

Jessica Tizzard (Universität Tübingen)

Commentators: 

Clinton Tolley (UCSD)

Karl Schafer (UT Austin)

Times TBA

Kant’s Theory of Freedom

Chair: Paul Guyer (Brown University)

Lucy Allais (Johns Hopkins University; University of the Witwatersrand) 

"Teleological Causation: A Kantian Account"

Chris Onof (Imperial College London)

“The Key Role of Inner Sense in Kant’s Theory of Freedom”

John Walsh (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)

"Freedom and Imputability in Kant"

Author Meets Critics Session: 

Jessica Tizzard’s Kant’s Moral World

Chair: Claudi Brink (University of New Hampshire)

Author:

Jessica Tizzard (Universität Tübingen)

Commentators: 

Clinton Tolley (UCSD)

Karl Schafer (UT Austin)

2027 NAKS Pacific Study Group March 11-12, 2027, UC-Irvine, hosted by Dai Heide. More information soon.

Times TBA

Kant’s Theory of Freedom

Chair: Paul Guyer (Brown University)

Lucy Allais (Johns Hopkins University; University of the Witwatersrand) 

"Teleological Causation: A Kantian Account"

Chris Onof (Imperial College London)

“The Key Role of Inner Sense in Kant’s Theory of Freedom”

John Walsh (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)

"Freedom and Imputability in Kant"

Author Meets Critics Session: 

Jessica Tizzard’s Kant’s Moral World

Chair: Claudi Brink (University of New Hampshire)

Author:

Jessica Tizzard (Universität Tübingen)

Commentators: 

Clinton Tolley (UCSD)

Karl Schafer (UT Austin)

The Biennial will be held at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia on 10/7/27-10/9/27.  More information soon.