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Andrew Cooper Essay Prize Winner!
We have a clear winning essay for our newly named Andrew Cooper Essay Prize:
- Why did Kant care about animals?", by Álvaro Rodríguez-González (University of Sheffield).
Álvaro will receive £500, and his essay will be published in Kantian Review (subject to editorial review). Congratulations Álvaro!
We also selected a runner up: Henning Kirschbaum (Mainz), with this paper "How to Know That Others Are Transcendentally Free:
Kant’s Causal Externalism about Knowledge".
The essay prize is kindly supported by Kantian Review, and is open to authors within five years of the award of their doctoral degree who are either affiliated with a UK Higher Education Institution, or a member of the UK Kant Society. Through the prize, we hope to encourage, reward, and promote early career Kant scholars.
New Executive Committee Members
We are delighted to announce the appointment of two new executive committee members: Rozemin Keshvani will be taking over as Social Media Editor; and Amy Duong will be taking up the new role of Newsletter Officer.
Amy is a PhD student at Bristol working on Kant’s moral psychology and his account of moral improvement. Before this, she wrote her MPhil thesis on Kant’s account of virtue at St Andrews.
Rozemin is a PhD researcher at Warwick University who was, until recently, supervised by Andrew Cooper. She is researching Kant's vital philosophy, critically interrogating the connection between force, feeling and life throughout Kant's oeuvre, with focus on Kant's mature philosophy. The title of her thesis is 'Force, Feeling and Life: Kant, from the True Estimation of Living Forces to the Opus postumum'. She completed her MPhil studies under Howard Caygill at the CRMEP at Kingston, with her dissertation, titled 'Genius, Judgement and Production: Kant and the logic of hypotyposis'. Originally from Victoria Canada, Rozemin is now based in London.
Tragic News: Andrew Cooper
Andrew Cooper passed away in November in a hiking accident in Australia.
This is such a loss. He was a wonderful human being - full of life and cheer - but also a great philosopher, and one of us. Andrew had served for years on the Executive Committee of the UKKS, and helped make it a better and brighter place.
Warwick have put up a memorial page for him, as have his family. The UKKS will pay tribute to him in due course.
This is such a loss. He was a wonderful human being - full of life and cheer - but also a great philosopher, and one of us. Andrew had served for years on the Executive Committee of the UKKS, and helped make it a better and brighter place.
Warwick have put up a memorial page for him, as have his family. The UKKS will pay tribute to him in due course.
UKKS Graham Bird Lecture 2025
This year, the lecture will be delivered by Kristi Sweet (Texas A&M University), and the topic will be:
We have a registration page here. Please register, and we'll email you the link to the meeting and further details.
- Desire and Rigorism in Kant's Practical Philosophy
We have a registration page here. Please register, and we'll email you the link to the meeting and further details.
Essay Prize Winner!
This year sees the very first award of the UK Kant Society Essay Prize.
We are delighted to announce that the winning essay is "Nomads, Territory, and the Kantian State", by Anna Milioni, King's College London.
Anna wins £500, and her essay will be published in Kantian Review. Congratulations to Anna!
We also selected two runners up: Facundo Rodriguez from the University of Cambridge, and Mario Schärli, currently a visiting fellow at Princeton University. Congratulations to Facundo and Mario for their excellent papers.
The essay prize is kindly supported by Kantian Review, and is open to authors within five years of the award of their doctoral degree who are either affiliated with a UK Higher Education Institution, or a member of the UK Kant Society. Through the prize, we hope to encourage, reward, and promote early career Kant scholars. We hope you enjoy Anna's paper, and encourage you to explore the work of Facundo and Mario as well.
Look out for a call for papers later this year for the 2025 prize!
Celebrating Kant's 300th Birthday: UKKS Conference (Dublin)
Dublin Kant-Fest, a celebration of the renowned German philosopher Immanuel Kant's 300th birthday, took place in Dublin on Monday, May 20, and Tuesday, May 21, 2024. The event was held at the historic Newman House, located in St. Stephen’s Green, in the heart of Dublin City Centre.
Jointly organized by Lilian Alweiss (Trinity College Dublin), James O’Shea (University College Dublin), John Callanan (King’s College London), and in collaboration with the UK Kant Society, the festival brought together some of the most distinguished Kant scholars from around the world.
The two-day event featured an array of insightful papers from philosophers including Baroness Onora O'Neill, Professor Lucy Allais, Professor Ido Geiger, and Professor Tobias Rosefeldt, among many others. Their contributions spanned a wide range of Kantian themes, stimulating discussions on Kant's enduring legacy.
The success of the Dublin Kant-Fest was made possible through the generous support of several institutions. Funding was gratefully received from the Departments/Schools of Philosophy at UCD, TCD, and KCL, as well as their respective colleges. Additional financial support came from the British Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP), the German Embassy in Ireland, Cambridge University Press, and the UK Kant Society (UKKS).
See here for the official write up, and pictures.
This year sees the very first award of the UK Kant Society Essay Prize.
We are delighted to announce that the winning essay is "Nomads, Territory, and the Kantian State", by Anna Milioni, King's College London.
Anna wins £500, and her essay will be published in Kantian Review. Congratulations to Anna!
We also selected two runners up: Facundo Rodriguez from the University of Cambridge, and Mario Schärli, currently a visiting fellow at Princeton University. Congratulations to Facundo and Mario for their excellent papers.
The essay prize is kindly supported by Kantian Review, and is open to authors within five years of the award of their doctoral degree who are either affiliated with a UK Higher Education Institution, or a member of the UK Kant Society. Through the prize, we hope to encourage, reward, and promote early career Kant scholars. We hope you enjoy Anna's paper, and encourage you to explore the work of Facundo and Mario as well.
Look out for a call for papers later this year for the 2025 prize!
Celebrating Kant's 300th Birthday: UKKS Conference (Dublin)
Dublin Kant-Fest, a celebration of the renowned German philosopher Immanuel Kant's 300th birthday, took place in Dublin on Monday, May 20, and Tuesday, May 21, 2024. The event was held at the historic Newman House, located in St. Stephen’s Green, in the heart of Dublin City Centre.
Jointly organized by Lilian Alweiss (Trinity College Dublin), James O’Shea (University College Dublin), John Callanan (King’s College London), and in collaboration with the UK Kant Society, the festival brought together some of the most distinguished Kant scholars from around the world.
The two-day event featured an array of insightful papers from philosophers including Baroness Onora O'Neill, Professor Lucy Allais, Professor Ido Geiger, and Professor Tobias Rosefeldt, among many others. Their contributions spanned a wide range of Kantian themes, stimulating discussions on Kant's enduring legacy.
The success of the Dublin Kant-Fest was made possible through the generous support of several institutions. Funding was gratefully received from the Departments/Schools of Philosophy at UCD, TCD, and KCL, as well as their respective colleges. Additional financial support came from the British Society for the History of Philosophy (BSHP), the German Embassy in Ireland, Cambridge University Press, and the UK Kant Society (UKKS).
See here for the official write up, and pictures.