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“From Justice to Fairness: Does Kant’s Doctrine of Right Imply a Theory of Distributive Justice?”, paper presented at Kant on Nature and Freedom: A Conference in Honor of Paul Guyer, Brown University, October 2013. (Co-authored with Mike Nance.)
“Singularity without Equivalence: on the relations between the formulae of the categorical imperative in Groundwork II”, presented at the Second Biennial Meeting of the North American Kant Society, Cornell University, May 2013.
“The Metaphysics of Vice”, presented at the Eastern Division Meeting of the North American Kant Association, Princeton, March 2012.
“Locke and Natural Law”, Colloquium talk at Suffolk University, October 2011.
“Kant’s Two Concepts of Virtue,” scheduled for presentation at the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego, April 2011.
“Freedom as both Fact and Postulate,” presented at XI International Kant Congress, Pisa, Italy, May 2010.
“The Structural Diversity of Historical Injustices,” presented at Berger Prize Special Session, at American Philosophical Association,Pacific Meeting, Vancouver, April 2009.
“Facts and Principles of Justice,” presented at American Philosophical Association,Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, April 2009.
“Grotius on Justice, Legitimacy, and Political Obligation,” presented at Association for Political Theory Conference, October 2008.
“Hume’s Regulative Ideal of Justice,” presented at the Canadian Philosophical Association 2007 Congress, May 2007.
“Feinberg’s Challenge: Why we need a Mixed Theory of Legal Punishment,” presented at Tennessee Philosophical Association Meeting 2006, Vanderbilt University, November 11th 2006.
“On Kant’s Distinctions between Perfect and Imperfect and Narrow and Wide Duties,” paper presented at American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Chicago, April 27th 2006.
“Faith in Reason: Questioning Practical Reason as Fact, Norm, End, and Function of Human Rights,” presented at the Special Workshop Habermas and Rawls on Human Rights and Democracy’ at the XXII World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Granada, Spain, May 2005.
“Habermas on Human Rights: A Critical Exposition,” paper presented at ISSEI 9th International Conference, August 2004, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona Spain.
“Kant's Political Philosophy – Systematic Liberalism and Radical Conclusions,” paper presented at Kant Symposium, University of Aarhus, Denmark, May 2004.
“Why National Liberalism is Non-sense”, Paper presentation at the XXII World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, August 2003, Lund, Sweden.
”Why Modern Politics are Messy,” Paper Presented at Roskilde University Symposium, April 2004.
“The Just Society?” presented at the Annual meeting of the Danish Philosophical Society 2003, March 2003, Odense, Denmark.
Sample presentation: Kant's System of Ends
I argue that the various ends of Kant’s moral philosophy are systematically ordered by the underlying idea of freedom as moral self-determination and that the different ends and values of Kant’s moral philosophy must be understood in light of the different modalities of freedom as moral self-determination.
