The Athens Colloquium on Kant and German Idealism is hosted by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Athens, Greece. It is an online colloquium, convening on Webex, that aims at creating a friendly platform for discussing recent high-quality publications in the research area of Kant and German Idealism. Formally, the colloquium takes place once a month from October to December and from February to June. To this formal plan may, however, be added other events, such as workshops, conferences, and interviews relevant to the theme of the colloquium. Ample time will be given to all discussions.
Monday 16 October 2023, 18:00
Luigi Caranti (University of Catania)
Opening remarks by Paul Guyer (Brown University)
WEBEX LINK: https://uoa.webex.com/uoa/j.php?MTID=m91842b0b16d658b3f38a25a53f195227
Organizers: Ioannis Trisokkas, Sebastian Stein, Stavros Panayiotou, Kostas Morfis
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Luigi Caranti (PhD, Boston University) is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Catania. He has been a visiting researcher at various Universities worldwide, including Columbia University and Goethe University Frankfurt. He specializes in Immanuel Kant’s philosophy, as well as in human rights and justice theories. He was the principal investigator in several EU-funded projects and currently leads an MC RISE project entitled ‘Kant in South America’. He has recently published a monograph entitled ‘The Kantian Federation’ (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and a three-volume collective work on Immanuel Kant’s relationship with the contemporary world (Routledge, 2022).
Paul Guyer is the Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Brown University and the Florence R.C. Murray Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. He studied at Harvard University, where he also received his PhD. He has published many books on Kant and is also the author of A History of Modern Aesthetics in three volumes (2014) and A Philosopher Looks at Architecture (2021). From 1992 to 2016, he was the General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. His book entitled ‘Kant’s Impact on Moral Philosophy’ will appear in 2024 by Oxford University Press.
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