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Cambridge Element on Kant’s Ideas of Reason out now!
This Cambridge Element introduces Kant’s ideas of reason and offers a perspectivalist interpretation, reconciling metaphysical and fictional readings of ideas of theoretical reason.
Award Ceremony for the Immanuel Kant Essay Competition at German Embassy Washington
The Goethe-Institut USA invited students to delve into the complexities and enduring relevance of the Enlightenment. The award ceremony took place at the German Embassy in Washington D.C.
Kant 300: Tercentennial Gala at Johns Hopkins!
The North American premiere of ‘Immanuel Kant’ by Thomas Bernhard took place at Johns Hopkins on March 8, 2024.
The staged reading was followed by the conference “Kant and the World Today” at Johns Hopkins University (8-9 March).
The Life of the Mind in the History of Philosophy
Could we understand thinking as an activity of life, rather than as an abstract logical operation? How could we make sense of the (human) mind as something living, or as fundamentally instantiated by living beings? This colloquium draws together various models of the ‘life of the mind’ from across the history of philosophy.
Katharina T. Kraus: Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation: The Nature of Inner Experience (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
This book explores the intricate relationship between becoming an individual person and knowing oneself as such by studying Kant’s distinctive account of psychological personhood.
Book Symposium on ‚Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation’ (CUP, 2020), Université Paris VIII.
Stefanie Buchenau (Université Paris 8), Patrick Frierson (Whitman College), and Allen Wood (Indiana University, Bloomington) commented on my book.
An expressivist interpretation of Kant’s “I think” (Wolfgang Freitag, Katharina Kraus). Noûs (2020).
This paper develops and defends an expressivist interpretation of Kant’s “I think”. It argues that “I think”, expresses the self‐consciousness that, without assertively representing the subject itself, indicates that representational contents are unified in a single consciousness of a single subject.
Workshop Kant on the Self: Moral and Psychological Perspectives, University of Notre Dame
This workshop featured seven talks on Kant’s notion of the self from a psychological and from a moral perspective. The two perspectives have traditionally been understood to be in tension with one another.
Workshop Perspectives on First-Person Thought, University of Mannheim
Is there anything special about the way we think and talk about ourselves, and in particular about our own inner world?