[PHILOS-L] Leuven Kant Conference 2025: Kant's Metaphilosophy

[Luis Fellipe Garcia]

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LEUVEN KANT CONFERENCE 2025: KANT’S METAPHILOSOPHY

May 29-31, 2025

KU Leuven

Format: on-campus and online (Zoom)


The eleventh edition of the yearly Leuven Kant Conference aims to facilitate open exchanges between established scholars, early career researchers, and PhD students. The conference will feature a combination of on-campus and online talks on the topic of this year’s event. 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.

 

Conference topic – Kant’s Metaphilosophy:

Whereas the quest for a new philosophical method was a goal shared by many modern philosophers, Kant was arguably among the first to take reflections on philosophy to be part of philosophy as such. He conceived of the Critique of Pure Reason as a court for settling philosophical controversies (Axi) and aimed to establish a new kind of philosophy, which he called transcendental philosophy. In another context, he termed this new philosophy a “metaphysics of metaphysics” (AA 10: 269). Kant further used the term “critical philosophy” (AA 05: 5) to denote his inquiries into both the theoretical and practical domains of human rationality. In addition, Kant distinguished between a scholastic and a cosmic concept of philosophy and conceived of the latter as “the science of the relation of all cognition to the essential ends of human reason” (A 839/B 867), thereby suggesting that philosophy is pertinent to existential questions. No less significantly, in the Critique of the Power of Judgment Kant claims that the concept of purposiveness is key to bringing together the theoretical and practical uses of reason, which suggests that teleological motives are central to Kant’s conception of philosophy as a whole. This raises the question as to whether these various accounts of philosophy are coherent. In view of this apparent plurality, the conference aims to foreground Kant’s views on the tasks and status of philosophy.


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 online and on-campus participants are kindly requested to register at the conference website. For the program, registration and practical information, see: https://hiw.kuleuven.be/cmprpc/events/leuvenkantconference



Email: leuvenkant...@kuleuven.be


Program (please see the website for more details):


May 29

Karin de Boer (KU Leuven) 
Kant’s Conception of Transcendental Cognition

Conrad Mattli (University of Basel) 
Kant on Historical and Rational Cognition 

Günter Zöller (LMU Munich)
Artificer or Legislator of Reason. Kant on the Scholastic and the Cosmic Concept of Philosophy in Light of the Platonic Distinction between Philodoxy and Philosophy

Luis Garcia (KU Leuven) 
What is Transcendental Philosophy according to Kant?

Pedro Farhat (University of São Paulo) 
Two Perspectives on Kant's Conception of Philosophy in the 1760s 

Davide Puzzolo (University of Padova) 
Kant on the Unity of Transcendental Philosophy in the Opus Postumum


May 30

Henny Blomme (Université libre de Bruxelles) 
Does Kant’s Philosophy meet his own Criteria for a Science?

Mang Su (Temple University)
The Duality of Necessity of the Transcendental Illusions: What is Kant’s Secure Course to Metaphysics as Science?

Siddhant Khamkar (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) 
How Metaphysics Grounds the Application of Mathematics in Kant’s Proper Science

Christoph Kann (University of Dusseldorf)
Between Experimentalism and Historicism. Kant's Metaphilosophical Approach(es)

François Ottmann (University of Toulouse) 
A Critical Problem: Method and Its Philosophy 

James Kreines (Claremont McKenna College) 
Metaphilosophy and Kant’s Critical Revolution


May 31

Shterna Friedman (Harvard University) 
Wisdom through Doubt: How Common Reason Becomes Philosophical

Omer Lipsker (Tel Aviv University) 
Kant’s Socratic Method as a Response to Polemics

Claudia Laos (PUC Peru) 
Antinomy as a Proof of Dialogical Didactics

Anna Bucarelli (University of Rome)
The First Commandment «Nosce Te Ipsum». Transcendental Philosophy as Decision, Ascetism and Wisdom of the World

Nataliya Palatnik (University of Wisconsin) 
Kant’s ‘Newtonian’ Transformation in Moral Philosophy

Marie Hervé (University of Bordeaux) 
What is the Task of Philosophy in the Public Space? An Approach based on Kant's Conflict of Faculties


Organizers: Luis Garcia (KU Leuven), Henny Blomme (Université libre de Bruxelles), Leone Zellini (KU Leuven).

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