BEIJING INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
ON KANT'S MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES

Organized by
Institute of Foreign Philosophy, Peking University
Department of Philosophy, Peking University
Goethe Institut, Peking

May 17-19, 2004
Yin-Jie Conference Center, Peking University (北大英杰交流中心)

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:

May 16
Registration, Starting with 2:00pm

May 17

8:00-8:30am: Opening Ceremony
Chair: Xu Xiangdong
Speaker: Hao-Ping, Vice President, Peking University
Speaker: Zhao Dun-Hua, Chair, Department of Philosophy, Peking University
Speaker: Representative from Goethe Institut, Peking
Speaker: Cultural Counselor, Embassy of Germany in China
8:30-8:45am: Photographing and Tea Break

8:45-12:30am: Conference Reports
Chair: Prof. Stephen Engstrom

8:45-9:45am: Volker Gerhardt (Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany)
A Critical Philosophy of Life：Kant’s Theory of Human Existence

9:45-10:45am: Zhao Dun-Hua (Peking University, China)
Kant's Copernican Revolution as a De-Humanization of Reason

10:45-10:50am: Tea Break

10:50—11:50am: Richard L. Velkley (Catholic University of America, USA)
The Historical Project of Kant's Critique of Reason

11:50-12:30am: Deng Xiao-Mang (Wuhan University, China)
Three Levels of Kant’s Conception of Freedom

12:30am-1:20pm: Lunch Time

1:30-5:45pm: Conference Reports
Chair: Prof. Thomas Pogge

1:30-2:30pm: Andrew Reath (University of California at Riverside, USA)
Agency and Universal Law

2:30-3:30pm: Mark Timmons (University of Arizona, USA)
The Categorical Imperative and Universalizability

3:30-3:40pm: Tea Break

3:40-4:40pm: Stephen Engstrom (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Willing a Maxim as a Universal Law: Universal Legislation as the Form of
Practical Knowledge

4:40-5:40pm: Pierre Keller (University of California at Riverside, USA)
Self-Consciousness and Morality

6:00-9:00pm: Reception from Goethe Institut, Peking

May 18

8:00-12:10am: Group Meetings

Group A
Chair: Prof. Richard L. Velkley

8:00-9:00: Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
Kant’s Concept of Autonomy Revisited

9:00-10:00: Tamar Schapiro (Stanford University)
Corrupting the Categorical

10:00-10:10: Tea Break

10:10-11:10: Emmanuel Renault (Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences
humaines, Lyon, France)
Maturity and Autonomy

11:10-12:10: Liu Zhe (Katholiek Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Table of Categories of Freedom and Introduction to Autonomy

Group B
Chair: Prof. Zhai Zhen-Ming

8:00-9:00am: Hans Feger (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
Moral Image of History: Kant's Theory of a Historical Sign

9:00-10:00am: Qian Guang-Hua (Anhui University, China)
Kant’s Philosophy as an Open System

10:00-10:10am: Tea Break

10:10-11:10am: Stephen R. Palmquist (Hong Kong Baptist University, China)
Kant, Sexism and the Ethics of Polygamy

11:10-12:10am: Ding Dong-Hong (Central Party School, China)
Kant’s Transcendental Subjective Deduction and Inquiry into the Origin of
Knowledge

1:30-5:40pm: Conference Reports
Chair: Prof. Emmanuel Renault

1:30-2:30pm: Manfred Baum (Bergische Universit?t Wuppertal, Germany)
“There is to be no war”: Kant’s Theory of the Highest Political Good

2:30-3:30pm: Thomas Pogge (Columbia University, USA)
Kant on Perpetual Peace and International Justice

3:30-3:40pm: Tea Break

3:40-4:40pm: Martin Moors (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
The Highest Political Good: Perpetual Peace – between a Metaphysics of Freedom
and Historical Experience

4:40-5:40pm: William McBride (Purdue University, USA):
Kant’s Moral Philosophy and the Question of Pre-Emptive War

6:00-7:30 pm: Dinner Time

May 19

8:00-12:10am: Group Meetings

Group A
Chair: Prof. Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann

8:00-9:00: Bernd D?rflinger (University of Trier, Germany)
Morality’s Priority to Religion

9:00-10:00: Han Shui-Fa (Peking University, China)
TBA

10:00-10:10: Tea Break

10:10-11:10: Cheng Jia-Ming (Xiamen University, China)
TBA

11:10-12:10: Yu Wu-Jing (Fudan University, China)
Kant’s ‘Causality through Freedom’ and Its Role in Moral Philosophy

Group B
Chair: Prof. Stephen R. Palmquist

8:00-9:00am: Jiang Yi (Chinese Academy of Social Science, China)
The Kantian Shadow in Bernard Williams’ Ethics

9:00-10:00am: Cai-Zeng (Peking University)
Maxims and Universalizability Test

10:00-10:10am: Tea Break

10:10-11:10am: Liu Chuan-Guang (South China Normal University, China)
An Attempt to unscramble Teleologically Kant’s Deontological Moral Philosophy

11:10-12:10am: Zhu Gao-Zheng (Taiwan):
The Implications of Kant’s Critical Philosophy for the Opening and Reform in
China

12:15am-1:15pm: Lunch Time

1:15-6:30pm: Conference Reports
Chair: Prof. Bernd D?rflinger

1:15-2:15pm: Tze-Wan Kwan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Kant’s Possible Contributions to Natural Law Debates

2:15-3:15pm: David Cummiskey (Bates College, USA)
Dignity, Contractualism, and Consequentialism

3:15-3:20pm: Tea Break

3:20-4:20pm: Jens Timmermann (University of St. Andrews, UK)
Kant's Duties to the Self

4:20-5:20pm: Robert B. Louden (University of Southern Maine, USA)
Moral Strength: Virtue as a Duty to Oneself

5:20-5:25: Tea Break

5:25-6:20pm: Zhai Zhen-Ming (Zhongshan University, China)
Objective and Subjective Ends: A Way a Kantian Can Accommodate Utilitarian
Considerations

6:20-6:30pm: Closing Ceremony

6:30-8:00pm: Reception from Institute of Foreign Philosophy, Peking
University