LEUVEN KANT CONFERENCE 2022: THE EARLY RECEPTION OF KANT’S CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY (1781–1804)
May 26-28, 2022 University of Leuven Format: on-campus and online (Zoom) Debates on Kant’s philosophy that took place during his lifetime largely played out between (a) Kant’s followers, (b) critics aligned with Lockean empiricism, Humean skepticism, or Leibnizian rationalism, and (c) early post-Kantians who attempted to overcome the perceived limits of Kant’s achievements. Drawing on a distinction made by Kant himself, Reinhold in The Foundation of Philosophical Knowledge (1791) framed the reception of Kant’s philosophy by distinguishing between those who dogmatically accepted its ‘letter’ and independent minds, like himself, who sought to grasp its ‘spirit’. However, this influential distinction obscures the enormous variety of the positions that were adopted at the time as well as their complex interrelations. Self-proclaimed Kantians also moved beyond the letter of Kant’s text; Kant was attacked from many different directions; and those who appealed to the ‘spirit’ of Kant’s philosophy often defended widely diverging positions. Moreover, early post-Kantians may well have been indebted to Kant’s predecessors, defenders, and critics to a larger extent than is commonly acknowledged. Finally, various philosophers who took Kant’s insights in new directions during his lifetime do not fit Reinhold’s distinction and are today mostly forgotten by anyone but a few specialists. The conference aims to foreground aspects of Kant’s early reception that tend to be overlooked by scholarship on either Kant or German idealism and, thus, to shed light on the full spectrum of responses to Kant’s critical philosophy from 1781 until his death in 1804. The conference will feature a combination of on-campus and online talks. The online talks will be fully online, i.e., all participants will join a Zoom meeting regardless of their location. All talks will take place between 1 pm and 7 pm to accommodate different time zones. Program (please see the website for more details): May 26 Elise Frketich (“Human Abilities” Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Berlin): Reinhold on intellectual intuition Luis Fellipe Garcia (KU Leuven): Ernst Platner’s history of the mind: an underappreciated link between Kant and Fichte Maria Caterina Marinelli (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): The irrational root of the I. Salomon Maimon’s theory of consciousness Sebastiano Ghisu (Università degli Studi di Sassari): A Spinozistic reading of Kant: August Wilhelm Rehberg Karin de Boer (KU Leuven): Schmid’s Kantian metaphysics Jannis Pissis (University of Crete): Salomon Maimon on the relation between formal and transcendental logic May 27 Marialena Karampatsou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): The guiding role of things in themselves: An underappreciated theme in the (entire) pre-Fichtean criticism of Kant’s idealism Tom Giesbers (Open University of the Netherlands): Experience over reason: Selle as a lost link in Jacobi’s reception of Kant’s philosophy Pierpaolo Betti (KU Leuven): The Kant-Eberhard Controversy: a critical reappraisal of Eberhard’s notion of ‘ground’ Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (University of Bucharest): “Neither a sceptic, nor a dogmatic, rather both at the same time” – The Critical Kant and the Berlin Academy Michael Nance (University of Maryland): Kantian Accounts of Right, 1790-1796 John Walsh (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg): The thorn in Kant's side: J.A.H. Ulrich on the possibility of free immoral action Jörg Noller (LMU Munich): Intelligible fatalism: Schmid on freedom and determinism May 28 Santi Di Bella (Università degli Studi di Palermo): Heydenreich and the Critique of Pure Reason as “mirror” and “map” for the History of Philosophy Michael Kryluk (Stony Brook University): Kant, Fichte and the vocation of the human being Barbara Santini (Università di Padova): Flatt's critique of Kant on the existence of God: the rehabilitation of the cosmological proof and the refutation of the moral proof Reed Winegar (Fordham University): Schelling's criticisms of Kantian moral belief Günter Zöller (LMU Munich): “Political reason” contra “political experience.” Kant and F. Schlegel on republicanism and democratism Elisabeth Theresia Widmer (University of Vienna): Proto-socialist tendencies in Johann Benjamin Erhard’s justification of revolution Michael Gregory (University of Groningen): Kant and Schlegel on majority rule Conference venue: Institute of Philosophy, PI 00.32, Andreas Vesaliusstraat 2, Leuven. Registration and Conference Dinner: Registration, coffee, and lunches are free of charge, but please register at the conference website. For the program, registration and practical information, see: http://hiw.kuleuven.be/eng/events/leuvenkantconference Email: [email protected] Organizers: Karin de Boer (University of Leuven), Pierpaolo Betti (University of Leuven), Luis Fellipe Garcia (University of Leuven), and Pavel Reichl (University of Leuven). -- https://www.vidal-rosset.net/mailing_list_educasupphilo.html
