UKKS Annual Conference 2025 (Sheffield)

We are pleased to announce the UK Kant Society Annual Conference for 2025, on the theme: ‘The Keystone of Critical Philosophy: Kant’s Theory of Freedom’. The conference will take place at the University of Sheffield, Sept. 1st-2nd. The conference will be hosted on campus at The Diamond. If you wish to attend, please, register using the link below.

Registration form: https://forms.gle/5VjMBrJHWjciriP37

Programme: ukks_programme.pdf

​Monday, 1st Sept.

• 09:00-09:30 - Registration and welcome
• 09:30-09:40 - Opening Remarks
• 09:40-10:55 - Laura Papish (George Washington University) - An Indigenous American Critique of Kantian Civil Freedom
• 10:55-11:15 - Coffee break
• 11:15-12:00 - Ying Xue (University of Warwick) - The relationship between freedom and ontology in Kant and its reception in German Idealism
• 12:00-12:45 - John Walsh (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg) - Kant on Knowledge of Freedom
• 12:45-13:45 - Lunch
• 13:45-14:30 - Vinicius Carvalho (University of Groningen) - Kant’s Argument for the Innate Right to Freedom
• 14:30-15:15 - Jens Pier (Royal Holloway, University of London) - The Abyss of Rational Faith: Kant’s Moral Glaube as a Problem of Intelligibility
• 15:15-15:30 - Coffee break
• 15:30-16:15 - Amy Duong (University of St Andrews) - The Confident Realisation of Freedom and Virtue
• 16:15-17:00 - Kutlu Tuncel (Bilkent University) - The Third Antinomy Reconsidered: Transcendental Illusion, Deflationary Reading, and Grounding
• 17:00-17:30 - AGM

Tuesday, 2nd Sept.

• 09:00-09:30 - Registration and welcome
• 09:30-10:45 - Christopher Insole (University of Durham) - Kant on Freedom and God: Religion Beyond the Limits of Mere Christianity'
• 10:45-11:00 - Coffee break
• 11:00-11:45 - Kristi Sweet (Texas A&M) - Revolution and the Weight of the World: A Kantian Justification for Moral Enthusiasm
• 11:45-12:30 - Tijn Smits (Amsterdam) - Freedom's Unique Form of Practical Cognition
• 12:30-13:30 - Lunch
• 13:30-14:15 - Elisabeth Widmer (LSE) - Kant on Republicanism, Economically Stratified
• 14:15-15:00 - Lorenzo Sala (Università degli studi di Milano) - What Epistemic Access to Freedom? Reassessing Kant in Light of His Historical Context
• 15:00-15:15 - Coffee break
• 15:15-16:00 - TJ Bailey (University of Glasgow) - When (and why) are we externally free?
• 16:00-16:45 - Noa Buckle (University of Toronto) - Kant's Purely Practical Concept of Freedom
• 17:00-17:30 - Roundtable and final remarks

For any further queries, please contact [email protected].

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