Please find below information on the several events organised by the Keele-Oxford-St Andrews
Centre for Kantian Studies and the Keele Forum for Philosophical Research:
1. The Royal Institute of Philosophy Invited Lecture Series
2. Schopenhauer Conference (Nov 22 2014)
3. Kant Festival (Nov 28/9 2014)
A. Workshop: Kantian Insights into the Relation between Law and Ethical Commitments
B. 'Jean-Jaques Rousseau' Annual Lecture
C. Philosophy Forum Annual Conference
D. Launch of the Keele Centre for Kantian Studies in Association with Oxford University and
University of St Andrews
4. Reading Group
5. Study Group
All inquiries to: Sorin Baiasu: s.baiasu@keele.ac.uk / +44(0)1782-733 364 or to the organisers of the
individual events (contact details below).
----------------------------1. THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY INVITED LECTURE SERIES 2014/15
FORUM FOR PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH, KEELE UNIVERSITY
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHILOSOPHY XII
Tuesdays 6:00-7:30 pm, Room CBA0.060, Chancellor's Building, Keele University ST5 5BG
All welcome! Wine
SEMESTER 1
14 October 2014: Professor Scott Sehon, Bowdoin College
Non-causal Compatibilism
28 October 2014: Dr Katerina Deligiorgi, University of Sussex
Kantian Freedom without Transcendental Idealism
11 November 2014: Dr Graeme Forbes, University of Kent
Captain Dunbar and the Passage of Time
9 December 2014: Dr Oskari Kuusela, University of East Anglia
The Argument from Conceptual Unity: A Moderate Particularist Account of the Role of Moral
Principles
SEMESTER 2
3 February 2015: Dr Jonathan Way, University of Southampton
Two Ways to Connect Reasons and Reasoning (TBC)
17 February 2015: Dr Jerry Valberg, UCL
Deception
3 March 2015: Dr Philip Goff, Central European University
Arguing for Cosmopsychism
17 March 2015: Professor Robert Stern, University of Sheffield
Why Does Ought Imply Can?
The 2014/15 Lecture Series is organised with the support of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, the
Keele Research Institute for Social Sciences, the School of Politics, IR & Philosophy @ Keele (SPIRE)
and the Keele Forum for Philosophical Research.
---------------------------------------------------2. SCHOPENHAUER CONFERENCE
KEELE-OXFORD-ST. ANDREWS CENTRE FOR KANTIAN STUDIES
SCHOPENHAUER'S FOURFOLD ROOT: 200 YEARS ON
Saturday 22 November, Room CM 0.12, Claus Moser Research Centre, Keele University ST5 5BG
Organiser: Jonathan Head (j.m.head@keele.ac.uk)
9:00-10:00: Keynote: Sebastian Gardner (UCL)
Schopenhauer's Fourfold Root in Historical Context
10:00-10:15: Coffee
10:15-12:30: Session 1
Jonathan Head (Keele): Idealism in the Fourfold Root
Dennis Vanden Auweele (KU Leuven): “A Most Beloved Piece of Nonsense” – Schopenhauer on the
Ontological Argument
Luis de Sousa (New University of Lisbon): Schopenhauer, Subjectivity and the Theory of
Consciousness
12:30-13:45: Lunch
13:45-16:00: Session 2
Eric von der Luft (SUNY Upstate): God, Heidegger, Schopenhauer, and the Fivefold Root of the
Principle of Sufficient Reason
Nick Heath (Keele): Optimalism and Schopenhauer's Will: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle (Tbc)
Marco Casucci (Perugia): Idea and Concept in Arthur Schopenhauer, from the Early Writings to
WWR
16:00-16:15: Coffee
16:15-17:45: Session 3
David Woods (Southampton): Schopenhauer on Leibniz and Evil
Graham McAleer (Loyola): Reid and Schopenhauer on Sensation
The conference is organised with the support of the Keele-Oxford-St Andrews Centre
for Kantian Studies, the Research Centre for SPIRE, and the Keele Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences Research Office.
---------------------------------------------------3. KANT FESTIVAL
A. KEELE-OXFORD-ST. ANDREWS CENTRE FOR KANTIAN STUDIES
WORKSHOP: KANTIAN INSIGHTS INTO THE RELATION BETWEEN LAW AND ETHICAL COMMITMENTS
28 November, Conference Room, Claus Moser Research Centre, Keele ST5 5BG
Organiser: Ruhi Demiray (m.r.demiray@keele.ac.uk)
9:00 Registration
9:25 Welcome
9.30 Sorin Baiasu (Keele/Vienna): Kant on Law's Complex Dependence on Ethics
Commentator: Harry Lesser (Manchester)
10:45 Tea/Coffee break
11:00 Stefano Bacin (Milan): On the Development of Kant's Distinction between Ethics and Right
Commentator: Alice Pinheiro Walla (Cork)
12:15 Lunch Break
13:30 Sari Kisilevsky (New York): Legal Rules and Legal Personality: Kant and the Notion of Legal
Subjects
Commentator: Sofie Christine Möller (Florence)
14:45 Thomas Mertens (Nijmegen): On the Unity of Kant's Metaphysics of Morals
Commentator: Daniel Herbert (Sheffield)
16:00 Tea/Coffee Break
16:15 Adrian Piper (Berlin): Playing by the Rules III: Unequal and Conflicting Games
Commentator: Joe Saunders (Sheffield)
17:30-18:00 Closing Comments: Ruhi Demiray (Keele/Kocaeli)
B. KEELE PHILOSOPHY FORUM
KEELE PHILOSOPHY FORUM'S 2014 'J.-J. ROUSSEAU' ANNUAL LECTURE
28 November, 18:30-19:30, Conference Room, Claus Moser Research Centre, Keele University ST5
5BG
Howard Williams (Aberystwyth)
Interpreting Kant's Political Philosophy
C. CONFERENCE: THEMES FROM THE WORK OF HOWARD WILLIAMS
KEELE PHILOSOPHY FORUM'S 2014 CONFERENCE
29 November, Conference Room, Claus Moser Research Centre, Keele University ST5 5BG
9:30 Sarah Holtman (Minnesota): Idealisation, Civic Respect and Kantian Citizenship
Commentator: Garrath Williams (Lancaster)
10:45 Tea/Coffee Break
11:00 Reidar Maliks (Oslo): Kant's Reflections on the Revolution in France
Commentator: Antonino Falduto (Halle-Wittenberg)
12:15 Lunch Break
13:30 Luigi Caranti (Catania): Kantian Peace and Liberal Peace
Commentator: Katerina Deligiorgi (Sussex)
14:45 Susan Shell (Boston College): Kant on Citizenship, Society and Redistributive Justice
Commentator: Paola Romero (LSE)
16:00: Tea/Coffee
16:15 Howard Williams (Aberystwyth): Kant's Political Philosophy: A Reply to My Interpreters
17:15 Conference Ends
D. KEELE-OXFORD-ST. ANDREWS CENTRE FOR KANTIAN STUDIES
OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF THE CENTRE FOR KANTIAN STUDIES
9:00 Edward Kanterian (Kent) & Sorin Baiasu (Keele/Vienna): Comments on A. W.
Moore's Kant Chapter in The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics (CUP 2012)
Response: A. W. Moore (Oxford)
10:30 Tea/Coffee
10:45 James Tartaglia (Keele): Rorty's Ambivalent Relationship with Kant
Commentator: Caitlin Hamblin (Edinburgh)
11:45 Jens Timmermann (St Andrews): The Demands of Kant's Ethics
Commentator: Alix Cohen (Edinburgh)
12:45 Lunch Break
14:00 Giuseppina D'Oro (Keele): The Philosopher As Jedi Knight: Collingwood's (Kant-Inspired)
Idealist Metaontology
Commentator: Andrew Stephenson (Oxford)
15:00 Anil Gomes (Oxford): Naïve Realism in Kantian Phrase
Commentator: Max Edwards (UCL)
16:00 Tea/Coffee Break
16:15 Leslie Stevenson (St Andrews): Kant's Sensational Philosophy
Commentators: Thomas Land (Cambridge)
17:15 Closing
The events are organised by the Keele Forum for Philosophical Research and the Keele-Oxford-St
Andrews Centre for Kantian Studies with the support of the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship
"A Kantian Approach to Current Tensions Between Legal Obligations and Religious Commitments,
the Research Centre for SPIRE, the School of Politics, IR and Philosophy (SPIRE) and the
ECPR Kantian Standing Group.
---------------------------------------------------4. READING GROUP
The Keele Forum for Philosophical Research is running a reading group throughout the academic
year. The next text that will constitute the focus of discussion will be Bernard Williams's Ethics and
the Limits of Philosophy.
Organiser: Stephen Leach (s.d.leach@keele.ac.uk) & Sorin Baiasu (s.baiasu@keele.ac.uk)
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5. STUDY GROUP
The Keele-Oxford-St Andrews Centre for Kantian Studies is running a study group on Kant's Religion
within the Bounds of Bare Reason. The study group will start to meet at the end of October and
brings together researchers who are working on topics in the philosophy of religion.
Organiser: Ruhi Demiray (m.r.demiray@keele.ac.uk) & Sorin Baiasu (s.baiasu@keele.ac.uk)
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