Kant, Kantianism, and Morality

Kant, Constitutivism, and the Shmagency Objection Many interpreters have recently defended constitutivist interpretations of Kant's moral theory, but they have largely overlooked the most prominent challenge to constitutivism: the shmagency objectio...

We have a new publication from a member of our research group 📚

Vinicius Carvalho - 'Kant, Constitutivism, and the Shmagency Objection' - Forthcoming in the European Journal of Philosophy.
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Open access!🔑

A Brief Guide to Achenwall’s Natural Law (Chapter 1) - Kant's Lectures on Political Philosophy Kant's Lectures on Political Philosophy - August 2025

"Kant's Lectures on Political Philosophy: A Critical Guide" (ed. Frederick Rauscher) has recently been published by CUP with the chapter "A Brief Guide to Achenwall’s Natural Law", written by Pauline Kleingeld, Mike Gregory, and Fiorella Tomassini.

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Here's another recent publication from one of our members: a paper arguing that Kantian universalism has ample room to accommodate cultural pluralism.

Leon van Rijsbergen, 'Kantian Universalism in Context', in Con-Textos Kantianos, revistas.ucm.es/index.php/KA...

What is the role of humour and play in #politics? According to researcher Beer Prakken, 'it plays a vital role' and can explain why people are drawn to someone like Donald #Trump 🎭

‘People are more receptive to extreme ideas when humour is used to convey them.' 👇
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X—Kant’s Analytic Method and the Argument of Groundwork I Abstract. In the famous first section of the Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant sets out to identify the principle of morality, but each of the

We have a recent (open access 🔑) publication from a member of our research group: a new paper on the structure of Kant’s argument in the first section of the Groundwork.

Pauline Kleingeld, ‘Kant’s Analytic Method and the Argument of Groundwork I’, in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society.

Workshop 'Kant on Systematicity and Progress' at the University of Cologne (9-10 October 2025).

Pauline Kleingeld will give a talk entitled 'Republican Elements in Kant’s Groundwork: Progress in the System'.

For the complete schedule and instructions on how to participate, visit the link below:

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KANT, KANTIANISM, AND MORALITY Kant, Kantianism and Morality is a research group in Groningen led by Pauline Kleingeld

Welcome to our Bluesky profile! 👋 We’re a group of researchers at the University of Groningen working on Kant and Kantian moral & political philosophy. Here you’ll find updates about our events and publications. Curious to learn more? Check out our website: www.kant-in-groningen.com