University of East Anglia

Honorary Professorial Fellow, School of Philosophy

Professorial Fellow, Philosophy

School of Philosophy

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Thank you for your visit! Please see my 'Statement of Research Aims', the first of my 'papers' posted on this site, for information about the aims, methods and topics of my research. A link to my CV is to the left, at the bottom of this page. Thanks for your interest!!    --- Ken Westphal

I am best reached by e-mail: westphal.k.r@gmail.com

Associate Member, Centre for Philosophy of Education, Institute of Education, University of London.

Vom 1.10.12 bis 31.07.13 bin ich Gastwissenschaftler an der Universität Bielefeld, Abteilung Philosophie.

Upcoming Talks:

> ‘Freedom and Universal Causal Determinism: Constitutive Premiss or Explanatory Ideal?’ Presented to the international conference, ‘Ideals and the Ideal in Kant’, Boğaziçi University (Istanbul), 23–26 May.  http://www.phil.boun.edu.tr/activities/kantinturkey/idealinkant/

> ‘Friendship, Community and Justice’. Presented to the International Conference, ‘Communauté et Amitié / Ortaklik ve Dostluk’, sponsored by the Institut Français de Turquie and MonoKL; 9 June 2012; Notre Dame de Sion Lisesi, Istanbul.

> „Autonomie und Freiheit verkörperter Personen. Bemerkungen zu Hegel und den heutigen Lebenswissenschaften“. Vortrag auf der interdisziplinären Tagung, »Normativität und Institutionen: Hegels Autonomiebegriff in den Herausforderungen der Life Sciences«. Institut für Philosophie, Universität Leipzig, mit freundlicher Förderung der VW-Stiftung. 19–22 Juli, 2012.

> ‘Mutual Recognition and Rational Justification in Substantive Domains’. Conference: ‘Recognition/Anerkennung’, Tilburg Universiteit, 5–7 Sept. 2012. http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/about-tilburg-university/schools/humanities/sar3/mel/events/recognitionconf/

> ‘Conventionalism and the Impoverishment of the Space of Reasons’. Presented in the session, ‘Inquiries within the Logical Space of Reasons’, to the First European Pragmatism Conference: The Relevance of American Philosophy, sponsored by the Nordic Pragmatism Network and the Associazione Pragma, Rome, 19–21 September 2012. Co-symposiasts: Michael Williams, Maria Baghramian and James O'Shea. http://www.nordprag.org/epc1.html#1

Recent Talks:

> ‘Kant’s Moral Constructivism and Rational Justification’. Department of Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, November 2011.

> „Urteilskraft, gegenseitige Anerkennung & rationale Rechtfertigung“. Philosophisches Seminar der Uni Halle, Juli 2011.

> ‘Norm Acquisition, Rational Judgment and Moral Particularism’. Gregynog Conference on Philosophy of Education, July 2011.
http://www.philosophy-of-education.org/conferences/Conference_details.asp?id=18

> „Soziale Praktiken, Grundprinzipien der Gerechtigkeit & rationale Rechtfertigung: Bermerkungen zum Moralkonstruktivismus bei Hume & Kant“. Uni Witten/Herdecke, Juni 2011.

> ‘Causal Realism & the Limits of Empiricism: Some Unexpected Insights from Hegel’. Presented to the international conference, ‘Realism in its multiple forms: mere homonymy or common commitments?’, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, June 2011. http://www.nordprag.org/realism.html

*  Vorlesung, SS 2011 Uni-Göttingen:
»Kants *Kritik der reinen Vernunft* in Bezug auf Hauptthemen der heutigen sprachanalytischen Philosophie«. https://www.expertenkulturen.uni-goettingen.de/de/205737.html
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