“The Revolutionary Kant”. In tribute to the late Graham Bird.
King’s College London, 6th-7th September 2022
Call For Papers/Symposia
The organizing committee of the 2022 UKKS Conference welcome paper and symposia proposals. The conference takes its name from Graham Bird’s influential book “The Revolutionary Kant”. We especially welcome papers and symposia on themes that engage with Bird’s work, but the conference is open to submissions on any topics on Kant’s philosophy more generally.
“The Revolutionary Kant” presents a comprehensive interpretation of and critical engagement with Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and transcendental idealism:
The central theme in the commentary is to highlight a conflict between what I call “traditionalist” and “revolutionary” accounts of the Critique. The former ascribe to Kant an exhaustive idealist dualism of mental states, “ideas”, and transcendental things in themselves and then note the inevitable tensions and contradictions from Kant’s apparent attempts to escape from that tradition. The latter regards Kant as explicitly denying that exhaustive division in his complex contrast between empirical and transcendental forms of both idealism and realism. Such an account relies on a grasp of Kant’s central “transcendental/empirical” distinction which is generally dismissed by traditionalists as inscrutable. The revolutionary approach avoids many of the traditional conflicts in Kant because it ascribes almost nothing of the traditional idealist framework to Kant. … It has seemed clear to me since the 1950s that there is only one acceptable way of resolving that conflict, namely the rejection of the traditionalist position, reflected in the title The Revolutionary Kant. (Bird 2006, xii)
Topics that might engage fruitfully with Bird’s work include, but are not limited to:
For symposium proposals: please send an overview along with abstracts for constituent papers (up to 2000 words in total) suitable for anonymous refereeing to ukkantsociety@gmail.com. Please ensure that the document name is of the format [ukkssymposium_title]. Symposia should be suitable for a session of 90 minutes in total (including Q&A).
The deadline for all submissions is April 8th 2022.
Queries can be posed to Jessica Leech via ukkantsociety@gmail.com
Graduate Bursaries
Due to the kind support of the Analysis Trust, we will be able to offer a small number of bursaries to graduate student attendees. More details will be available when the conference opens to registration.
With thanks to our sponsors: The British Society for the History of Philosophy; The Mind Association; The Analysis Trust; King's College London; and the UK Kant Society.
King’s College London, 6th-7th September 2022
Call For Papers/Symposia
The organizing committee of the 2022 UKKS Conference welcome paper and symposia proposals. The conference takes its name from Graham Bird’s influential book “The Revolutionary Kant”. We especially welcome papers and symposia on themes that engage with Bird’s work, but the conference is open to submissions on any topics on Kant’s philosophy more generally.
“The Revolutionary Kant” presents a comprehensive interpretation of and critical engagement with Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and transcendental idealism:
The central theme in the commentary is to highlight a conflict between what I call “traditionalist” and “revolutionary” accounts of the Critique. The former ascribe to Kant an exhaustive idealist dualism of mental states, “ideas”, and transcendental things in themselves and then note the inevitable tensions and contradictions from Kant’s apparent attempts to escape from that tradition. The latter regards Kant as explicitly denying that exhaustive division in his complex contrast between empirical and transcendental forms of both idealism and realism. Such an account relies on a grasp of Kant’s central “transcendental/empirical” distinction which is generally dismissed by traditionalists as inscrutable. The revolutionary approach avoids many of the traditional conflicts in Kant because it ascribes almost nothing of the traditional idealist framework to Kant. … It has seemed clear to me since the 1950s that there is only one acceptable way of resolving that conflict, namely the rejection of the traditionalist position, reflected in the title The Revolutionary Kant. (Bird 2006, xii)
Topics that might engage fruitfully with Bird’s work include, but are not limited to:
- Kant’s theoretical distinctions: analytic/synthetic, a priori/empirical, necessary/contingent, transcendental/empirical.
- Interpretations of transcendental idealism.
- Twentieth century interpretations of Kant’s theoretical philosophy.
- Sally Sedgwick (Boston University)
- Jim O’Shea (University College Dublin)
- Alix Cohen (University of Edinburgh)
- Sorin Baiasu (Keele University)
For symposium proposals: please send an overview along with abstracts for constituent papers (up to 2000 words in total) suitable for anonymous refereeing to ukkantsociety@gmail.com. Please ensure that the document name is of the format [ukkssymposium_title]. Symposia should be suitable for a session of 90 minutes in total (including Q&A).
The deadline for all submissions is April 8th 2022.
Queries can be posed to Jessica Leech via ukkantsociety@gmail.com
Graduate Bursaries
Due to the kind support of the Analysis Trust, we will be able to offer a small number of bursaries to graduate student attendees. More details will be available when the conference opens to registration.
With thanks to our sponsors: The British Society for the History of Philosophy; The Mind Association; The Analysis Trust; King's College London; and the UK Kant Society.
