Conference Schedule: Practical Applications of Kant’s Philosophy
IDEA: The Ethics Centre, University of Leeds, 24th and 25th September 2026.
17 Blenheim Terrace, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT.
Day 1
10:30 - 10:50 | Welcome
10:50 -11:00 | Opening Remarks
11:00 – 12: 15 | Keynote Session 1: Prof Pablo Gilabert (Montreal) (room 1)
The Significance of Art for Democracy: Some Kantian Insights
12:15 - 12:30 | Coffee Break
12:30 - 13:15 | Parallel Speaker Session 1
Paper 1: Connor Tannas (Princeton): Kant on Slavery, Race, and the Scope of Moral Personhood (room 1)
Paper 2: Jooseppi Räikkönen (LSE): The History of Homo Duplex: Kant, Rousseau, and Enlightenment in the Anthropocene (room 2)
13:15 - 14:00 | Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 | Parallel Speaker Session 2
Paper 3: Mincan Li (Bristol): A Right to Work Somewhere: reconstructing Kant’s Cosmopolitan Right in the context of Migrant Domestic Labour (room 1)
Paper 4: Haiyi Qin (Amber) (Edinburgh): Kant’s sovereignty dilemma: state authority and international inconclusiveness? (room 2)
14:45 - 15:30 | Parallel Speaker Session 3
Paper 5: Dr James Andow (Manchester): Kantian climate ethics and the problem of retrospective non-identity (room 1)
Paper 6: Dr Martin Sticker (Bristol): Do striking academics treat their students as a mere means? (room 2)
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45 | Parallel Speaker Session 4
Paper 7: Dr Elisabeth Widmer (LSE): Kant’s Political Paternalism: A Form-Based Reading (room 1)
Paper 8: Dr Garrath Williams (Lancaster): Transnational business corporations: a Kantian lens (room 2)
16:45 - 17:15 | Closing remarks
17:15 - 17:45 | AGM
Day 2
10:30 - 11:45| Keynote 2: Prof Nuria Sánchez Madrid (Madrid) (room 1)
Kantian Traces in Rosa Luxemburg: Towards a Mature Political Mobilisation of the People
11:45 – 12:00 | Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:45 | Parallel Speaker Session 5
Paper 9: Eleni Gkoutzouni: Is Diabolical Evil Possible? A New Quasi-Transcendental Reading of Kant’s Theory of Evil (room 1)
Paper 10: Alvaro Rodriguez Gonzalez (Sheffield): Why (exactly) should Kantians care about animals? (room 2)
12:45 - 13:30 | Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 | Parallel Speaker Session 6
Paper 11: Paolo Pavesi (Milan): Kant and the Misuse of Assertions: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Intellectual Dishonesty (room 1)
Paper 12: Lia Nordmann (Cambridge): Kant on beauty-based duties to animals (room 2)
14:15 - 15:00 | Parallel Speaker Session 7
Paper 13: Byron Hyde (Bangor): A Kantian Constraint on Academic Activism (room 1)
Paper 14: Lei Shi (Temple): Judgment Without Anthropocentrism: A Kantian Critique of AI Understanding (room 2)
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:15 | Parallel Speaker Session 8
Paper 15: Dr Luke Davis (Groningen): What’s Wrong with Selling a Tooth? (room 1)
Paper 16: Dr Thomas Bailey (Glasgow): Artificial Consciousness and Rational Desire: a Kantian View (room 2)
16:00 - 16:45 | Roundtable & closing remarks
The conference is supported by Aristotelian Society, Kantian Review, and UK Kant Society.
IDEA: The Ethics Centre, University of Leeds, 24th and 25th September 2026.
17 Blenheim Terrace, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT.
Day 1
10:30 - 10:50 | Welcome
10:50 -11:00 | Opening Remarks
11:00 – 12: 15 | Keynote Session 1: Prof Pablo Gilabert (Montreal) (room 1)
The Significance of Art for Democracy: Some Kantian Insights
12:15 - 12:30 | Coffee Break
12:30 - 13:15 | Parallel Speaker Session 1
Paper 1: Connor Tannas (Princeton): Kant on Slavery, Race, and the Scope of Moral Personhood (room 1)
Paper 2: Jooseppi Räikkönen (LSE): The History of Homo Duplex: Kant, Rousseau, and Enlightenment in the Anthropocene (room 2)
13:15 - 14:00 | Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 | Parallel Speaker Session 2
Paper 3: Mincan Li (Bristol): A Right to Work Somewhere: reconstructing Kant’s Cosmopolitan Right in the context of Migrant Domestic Labour (room 1)
Paper 4: Haiyi Qin (Amber) (Edinburgh): Kant’s sovereignty dilemma: state authority and international inconclusiveness? (room 2)
14:45 - 15:30 | Parallel Speaker Session 3
Paper 5: Dr James Andow (Manchester): Kantian climate ethics and the problem of retrospective non-identity (room 1)
Paper 6: Dr Martin Sticker (Bristol): Do striking academics treat their students as a mere means? (room 2)
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45 | Parallel Speaker Session 4
Paper 7: Dr Elisabeth Widmer (LSE): Kant’s Political Paternalism: A Form-Based Reading (room 1)
Paper 8: Dr Garrath Williams (Lancaster): Transnational business corporations: a Kantian lens (room 2)
16:45 - 17:15 | Closing remarks
17:15 - 17:45 | AGM
Day 2
10:30 - 11:45| Keynote 2: Prof Nuria Sánchez Madrid (Madrid) (room 1)
Kantian Traces in Rosa Luxemburg: Towards a Mature Political Mobilisation of the People
11:45 – 12:00 | Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:45 | Parallel Speaker Session 5
Paper 9: Eleni Gkoutzouni: Is Diabolical Evil Possible? A New Quasi-Transcendental Reading of Kant’s Theory of Evil (room 1)
Paper 10: Alvaro Rodriguez Gonzalez (Sheffield): Why (exactly) should Kantians care about animals? (room 2)
12:45 - 13:30 | Lunch
13:30 - 14:15 | Parallel Speaker Session 6
Paper 11: Paolo Pavesi (Milan): Kant and the Misuse of Assertions: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Intellectual Dishonesty (room 1)
Paper 12: Lia Nordmann (Cambridge): Kant on beauty-based duties to animals (room 2)
14:15 - 15:00 | Parallel Speaker Session 7
Paper 13: Byron Hyde (Bangor): A Kantian Constraint on Academic Activism (room 1)
Paper 14: Lei Shi (Temple): Judgment Without Anthropocentrism: A Kantian Critique of AI Understanding (room 2)
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:15 | Parallel Speaker Session 8
Paper 15: Dr Luke Davis (Groningen): What’s Wrong with Selling a Tooth? (room 1)
Paper 16: Dr Thomas Bailey (Glasgow): Artificial Consciousness and Rational Desire: a Kantian View (room 2)
16:00 - 16:45 | Roundtable & closing remarks
The conference is supported by Aristotelian Society, Kantian Review, and UK Kant Society.