Book Symposium – Garrath Williams, Kant Incorporated (philosophy/political theory)
Monday 24 November 2025, 2:10pm to 4:50pm
Venue
To be held online via ZoomOpen to
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To register, please email maen.kant@gmail.com.
Event Details
Symposium on Kant Incorporated, by Garrath Williams Monday 24 November, 2025 – online via zoom
In Kant Incorporated, Garrath Williams (Philosophy / School of Global Affairs, Lancaster) argues that Kant's philosophy offers an illuminating way to understand corporations of every sort – not just profit-making businesses, but also universities, charities, political parties, churches, and more.
After a short overview of the book, four experts on Kant will respond: Lucy Allais (Johns Hopkins/Witwatersrand, author of Manifest Reality: Kant’s Idealism and his Realism), Carla Bagnoli (Modena & Reggio Emilia, author of Ethical Constructivism), Jordan Pascoe (SUNY Binghamton, author of Kant’s Theory of Labour), and Arthur Ripstein (Toronto, author of Kant and the Law of War, as well as Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy).
The symposium will take place on Monday 24 November, from 2-5pm (UK time). To register and for a detailed programme, please email: maen.kant@gmail.com.
Kant Incorporated is available open access on Cambridge Core, and was written as part of the AHRC/DFG-funded project, Using People Well, Treating People Badly.
Speakers
University of Toronto
Arthur Ripstein is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He was appointed to the rank of University Professor in 2016 and awarded the Killam prize in humanities in 2021 by the Canada Council for the Arts. Professor Ripstein’s interests include torts, legal theory, political philosophy and Kant. His books include Kant and the Law of War (Oxford 2021), Private Wrongs (Harvard 2016), and Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy (Harvard 2009).
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
In addition to numerous articles in Kantian ethics, moral epistemology, action theory and moral psychology, Carla Bagnoli has published Ethical Constructivism (Cambridge University Press 2022), and four monographs in Italian on moral dilemmas and the limits of ethical theory (2000), dilemmas and practical reasoning (2006), the authority of morality (2007), and responsibility (2019).
Philosophy, Lancaster University
Garrath Williams is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Lancaster University. He has published widely in moral philosophy, political theory, applied ethics, and public policy. He edited Hannah Arendt: Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers (Routledge, 2006). With Kristin Voigt and Stuart Nicholls, he co-authored Childhood Obesity: Ethical and Policy Issues (Oxford University Press, 2014). Most recently, he published Kant Incorporated (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
SUNY Binghamton
Jordan Pascoe is a feminist philosopher who works in moral, social, and political philosophy, applied ethics and bioethics, feminist epistemology, Kantian philosophy, and philosophy of race. She writes about sex, disasters, domestic and caregiving labor, and intersectionality. Her current research is in the philosophy of A.I. and the philosophy of social movements.
Johns Hopkins / Witwatersrand
Lucy Allais is a philosopher who holds academic positions at both the University of the Witwatersrand and Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include the philosophy of Immanuel Kant as well as forgiveness, punishment, and bioethics.
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