Date: May 9, 2025.

Time: 9 am – 5 pm (US EST)

Location: Polak building 3-20

The event is co-organized by Fiorella Tomassini (Groningen) and Nicholas Vrousalis (Erasmus University Rotterdam).

This workshop will explore recent scholarship on Kant’s theory of property, including his justification of property rights and its relationship to his theory of the state.

9.00 – 10.00 Ralf Bader (Fribourg)

Rightful freedom and the postulate of private right

Chair: Katharina Bauer

10.15 – 11.15 Rafeeq Hasan (Amherst)

Why Freedom Requires Private Property

Chair: Vinicius Carvalho

11.30 – 12.30 Elisabeth Widmer (LSE)

Kant’s Economically-Classist State

Chair: Garrath Williams

Lunch

13.30 – 14.30 Fiorella Tomassini (Groningen)

Right and maxims of action

Chair: Luke Davies

14.45 – 15.45 Nicholas Vrousalis (EUR)

Private Property and Communism in Kant’s Rechtslehre

Chair: Leon van Rijsbergen

16.00 – 17.00 Howard Williams (Cardiff)

Kant and Property Theory

For more information, contact info [at] inaf [dot] info