Kant's Theory of Imagination:
A Workshop

Friday, May 5

 

9:45-10: Opening Remarks

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10-11:30:

Andrew Stephenson (University of Southampton), "Imagination and the Unity of Cognition," 

Commentator: Lucy Allais (Johns Hopkins University and University of the Witwatersrand)

Chair: Sally Sedgwick (Boston University)

 

11:45-1:15: Stefanie Grüne (Freie Universität, Berlin), "Imagination, Understanding, and Sensible Synthesis" 

Commentator: Eric Watkins (University of California, San Diego)

Chair: Colin McLear (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)

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1:15-2:45: Lunch

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2:45-4:15:

Thomas Land (University of Victoria), ""The Productive Imagination and the Representation of Extensive Magnitudes”

Commentator: Thomas Pendlebury (University of Pittsburgh)

Chair: Paul Guyer (Brown University) 

 

4:15-4:45: Coffee 

 

4:45-6:15:

Janum Sethi (University of Michigan), ""A Scandal of Philosophy: Kant's Refutation of External World Skepticism"

Commentator: Katharina Kraus (Johns Hopkins)

Chair: Daniel Sutherland (University of Illinois, Chicago)

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Saturday, May 6

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10-11:30: 

Samantha Matherne (Harvard University), "An Apology for Free Play: Kant on Imaginative Creativity in Aesthetic Appreciation" 

Commentator: Alix Cohen (University of Edinburgh)
Chair: Nicholas Dunn (Bard) 

 

11:45-1:15: 

Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge University), "Imagination and the Ideas of Reason" 

Commentator: Yoon Choi (Marquette University)

Chair: Kate Moran (Brandeis University) 

 

1:15-2:45: Lunch  

 

2:45-4:15:

Jessica Williams (University of South Florida), "Imagining Together: Kant on Common Sense and Perceptual Normativity,"

Commentator: Colin Marshall (University of Washington)

Chair: Sam Stoner (Assumption University) 

 

4:15-4:45: Coffee  

 

4:45-6:15:

Wrap-Up Panel: Mavis Biss (Loyola University), Alexandra Newton (University of California, Riverside), and Reed Winegar (Fordham University)

Chair: Francey Russell (Barnard/Columbia University)