North American Kant Society upcoming events

NAKS Eastern Study Group Meeting (20 Nov 2026)

Fri, 20 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

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.

For the full program, click here.

NAKS Midwest Study Group meeting (11 Dec 2026)

Fri, 11 Dec 2026 05:00:00 GMT

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.

2027 Eastern APA NAKS Sessions (13 Jan 2027)

Wed, 13 Jan 2027 05:00:00 GMT

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 Central APA NAKS Sessions (24 Feb 2027)

Wed, 24 Feb 2027 05:00:00 GMT

Times TBA

Kant on the Relation between Nature and Intellect

Chair: Davide Dalla Rosa (Princeton University)

Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern University)

"Kant on Reason and Understanding"

Lorenzo Spagnesi (University of Trier)

"Maxims of Inquiry: A New Perspective on Kant's Antinomy of Mechanism and Teleology"

Mathis Koschel (University of Southern California)

“Objectivity and uniformity of nature in Kant and Hume”

Author Meets Critics Session:

Alex Englert’s The Reality of the Ideal: A Study of Kant's Highest Good

Chair: Aaron Wells (Metropolitan State University)

Alex Englert (University of Richmond)

Kristi Sweet (Texas A&M)

Courtney Fugate (Florida State University)

NAKS Pacific Study Group Meeting (11 Mar 2027)

Thu, 11 Mar 2027 05:00:00 GMT

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

2027 Pacific APA NAKS Sessions (24 Mar 2027)

Wed, 24 Mar 2027 04:00:00 GMT

Kant’s Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science

Chair: Daniel Sutherland (University of Illinois Chicago)

Daniel Warren (UC Berkeley)

"The Relation between the Dynamics and Mechanics Chapters in Kant's MFNS"

Katherine Dunlop (University of Texas, Austin)

"Kant's Dynamical Theory of Matter and Lambert's Alternative"

Bennett McNulty (University of Minnesota Twin Cities)

“Kant on Light in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science”

Judgment and Assent in Kant

Chair: Pirachula Chulanon (Toronto Metropolitan University)

Thomas Land (University of Victoria)

“Is the Capacity to Judge a Capacity to Assent?”

Claudi Brink (University of New Hampshire, Durham)

"The Case for Judgment as Assent in Kant: A Reassessment”

Tyke Nunez (University of South Carolina)

"Concepts as cognitions and the transcendental logic of truth"

2027 NAKS Biennial (07 Oct 2027)

Thu, 07 Oct 2027 04:00:00 GMT

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