Kant and Philosophy in a Cosmopolitan Sense. The 11th Kant Congress in Pisa

The 11th Kant Congress took place in Pisa from the 22ndto the 26th of May 2010 (www.kant2010.it) and was attended by hundreds of registered participants. It was organised on behalf of the Kant-Gesellschaft by the Società Italiana di Studi Kantiani in collaboration with the University of Pisa.The organizers chose Kant’s cosmopolitan concept of philosophy as the general topic of the congress. This choice was more then appropriate, insofar as this is a theme which is of central importance for understanding the unity of Kant’s thought. The selected topic thus offered an ideal unifying framework for a congress that aimed at representing the state of the art of the research on Kant and Kantian philosophy. This of course does not mean that the contributions were all related to the main theme. They were divided in 14 different sections, which reflected the current research on Kant on a multiplicity of subjects: from metaphysics to ethics, from epistemology to political
philosophy, from the philosophy of science to the philosophy of law, from Kant’s place in the
history of philosophy to the philosophy of religion, etc. The congress counted also 23 keynote addresses (by Henry Allison, Karl Ameriks, Manfred Baum, Rémi Brague, Robert Brandom, Reinhard Brandt, Mario Caimi, Wolfgang Carl, Bernd Dörflinger, Jean Ferrari, Alfredo Ferrarin, Paul Guyer, Barbara Herman, Norbert Hinske, Claudio La Rocca, Béatrice Longuenesse, Eiji Makino, Massimo Mori, Onora O’Neill, Thomas Pogge, Hans Jörg Sandkühler, John Searle and Ricardo Terra), while one section was of course dedicated to Kant’s concept of philosophy. The scientific sections were accompanied by some side events organized in Pisa and in neighbouring cities. These included some conferences open to the wider public (one on human right with Thomas Pogge and one on cosmopolitanism) and a presentation of a posthumous collection of some of Silvestro Marcucci’s papers.