Kant’s Transcendental Dialectic

Simon Fraser University

Harbour Centre 2270 (Sauder Industries Policy Room)

October 7th and 8th, 2022

Friday, October 7th

9:00 – 9:30                   Welcome! Coffee and light breakfast.

9:30 – 11:00                 Eric Watkins (UC San Diego): “The Supreme Principle of Pure Reason and the                                                               Paralogisms.”

                                           Chair: Dai Heide (Simon Fraser)

                                           Comments: Damian Melamedoff-Vosters (Winnipeg)

11:15 – 12:45               Alix Cohen (Edinburgh): “Kant’s Account of Transcendent Metaphysics: Heteronomy and                                               Theoretical Reason.”

                                            Chair: Alex King (Simon Fraser)

                                            Comments: Janum Sethi (Michigan)

12:45 – 2:15                 Lunch

2:15 – 3:45                   Karin Nisenbaum (Syracuse): “Realizing Our Capacity to Know the Good: Kant on the                                                   Dialectic of Pure Practical Reason.”

                                            Chair: Branch Archer (Simon Fraser)

                                            Comments: Dai Heide (Simon Fraser)

4:00 – 5:30                   Jim Kreines (Claremont McKenna): “The PSR, Reason’s Principle, and the Priority of the                                                  Dialectic in Kant: More Metaphysical, More Critical.”

                                            Chair: Tessa Whittle (Simon Fraser)

                                            Comments: Thomas Land (Victoria)

7:30 –                          Dinner at Kiku (1368 W. Pender St.)

Saturday, October 8th

9:00 – 9:30                   Coffee and light breakfast.

9:30 – 11:00                 Kimberly Brewer (Indiana): “Kant’s Doctrine of Ideas and the Imago Dei Tradition.”

                                            Chair: Dai Heide (Simon Fraser) Comments:

                                            Reed Winegar (Fordham)

11:15 – 12:45               Sasha Newton (UC Riverside): “Transcendental Illusion as Linguistic Appearance.”

                                             Chair: Shivanshu Mishra (Simon Fraser)

                                             Comments: Banafsheh Beizaei (NYU)

12:45 – 2:15                 Lunch

2:15 – 3:45                  Rosalind Chaplin (UNC): “Is Kant’s Supreme Principle of Pure Reason the Principle of                                                     Sufficient Reason?”

                                            Chair: Sherif Salem (Simon Fraser)

                                            Comments: Des Hogan (Princeton)

4:00 – 5:30                   James Messina (Wisconsin): “Transcendental Illusion and the Argument from Spinozism.”

                                            Chair: Ritam Chakraborty (Simon Fraser) Comments:

                                            Dai Heide (Simon Fraser)

7:30 –                          Dinner: ChongQing Restaurant (2808 Commercial Dr.)