ANNOUNCEMENT: The conference organizers have determined that this meeting will be held virtually. For complete details, please see their web site: Click here

Please note: 

• Members of the American Society for Aesthetics, who are not already members of NAKS, can join NAKS at the graduate student rate to register for the “Day of Aesthetics.” ($10)
• Registration closes May 29

The Board of Trustees of the American Society for Aesthetics has approved the award of $4,500 in support of Aesthetics Day at the Fifth Biennial Meeting of the North American Kant Society (NAKS) June 5-8, 2020. Additional support is being provided by seven departments at the University.

Congratulations to Sabina Vaccarino Bremner, doctoral student in philosophy at Columbia University, for winning the ASA student travel grant for the best student paper on Kant and aesthetics.

The grant from ASA will support an aesthetics keynote talk, a student travel grant of $500 for the best student paper on Kant and aesthetics, and a luncheon for participants in the Meeting that day. ASA members will be welcome to attend Aesthetics Day at a reduced registration fee.

The Meeting, to be held at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, is being organized by Melissa Zinkin, Associate Professor of Philosophy, and Rachel Zuckert, Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University and President of NAKS.

Kant and the Value of Humanity

Keynote speakers: Karin de Boer, Katrin Flikschuh, Paul Guyer

Saturday, June 6 will feature “Aesthetics Day at NAKS,” sponsored by the American Society for Aesthetics, which will include several talks on Kant and Aesthetics.

Members of the American Society for Aesthetics will receive a reduced registration fee for the events on Kant and Aesthetics on Saturday June 6, 2020.

As additional information becomes available, it will be posted here and in other venues.