Pacific Study Group
About the Study Group
The Pacific Study Group (PSG) of the North American Kant Society is an informal group that meets once per year, typically in late winter, to facilitate interaction among students and scholars of Kant. The PSG typically features five or six presentations, one of which is usually from a graduate student. The PSG was founded by Eric Watkins in 2002 and its first meeting was hosted at the University of California at San Diego. The PSG has met every year thereafter at universities up and down the west coast (and online during the pandemic) and has featured many influential papers.
Contact
Dai Heide, Regional Chair
2025 NAKS Pacific Study Group Meeting
San Francisco State University, March 14-15, 2025
Humanities Building 391
Friday, March 14th
9:00 – 10:30 Bas Tonissen (UC – San Diego): “The Change of Heart: Kant, Mendelssohn, and the Possibility of Atemporal Change.”
10:45 – 12:15 Maya Krishnan (University of Chicago): “Kant on Rational Singularity: Theology as Transcendental Philosophy.”
12:15 – 2:15 Lunch.
2:15 – 3:45 Jessica Williams (University of South Florida): “Kant’s Aesthetic Communitarianism.”
4:00 – 5:30 Keynote Address: Corey Dyck (Western University): “Maria von Herbert and Kantian Pessimism.”
Saturday, March 15th
10:30 – 12:00 Anastasia Berg (UC – Irvine): “Kant’s Gesinnung: The Sense of an Ending.”
12:00 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 Dylan Shaul (UC – Riverside): "Kant on the Practical Dangers of Theoretical Knowledge of God and the Immortal Soul."
3:45 – 5:15 Colin Marshall (University of Washington): “Schopenhauer, Kant and Locke on Changeable Essences.”