North American Kant Society


North American Kant Society is an organization whose purpose is to advance the study of Kantian thought and scholarship. It was established by the philosopher Hoke Robinson in 1985 at the Sixth International Kant Conference hosted on the campus of the Pennsylvania State University.
The internationally noted Kantian scholar Lewis White Beck contributed to the founding of the North American Kant Society in 1985 while fostering cooperative research into the works of Kant among scholars in both the United States and Germany during the twentieth century.
The journal Kantian Review is published by the North American Kant Society in collaboration with Cambridge University Press.
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Awards

The Henry Allison Senior Scholar Prize

This prize is granted annually for an outstanding article or book dealing with different aspects of Kant’s philosophy, with articles and books awarded in alternating years.

Sellars Prize Winners

  • 2019 Samuel Kahn, "Kant, an Unlucky Philosopher of Luck"
  • 2018 Robert Clewis, “Beauty and Utility in Kant’s Aesthetics: The Origins of Adherent Beauty”
  • 2016 Erica Holberg, "The Importance of Pleasure in the Moral for Kant's Ethics"
  • 2015 Mavis Biss, “Kantian Moral Striving”
  • 2014 Justin Shaddock, "Kant and the Most Difficult Thing That Could Ever Be Undertaken on behalf of Metaphysics"
  • 2013 Owen Ware, “Self-Love and Self-Conceit in Kant’s Moral Psychology."
  • 2012 Eric Entrican Wilson, “Kant on Autonomy and the Value of Persons.”
  • 2011 Ernesto V. Garcia, "A New Look at Kantian Respect for Persons."
  • 2010 Matthew C. Altman, "What Kant Has to Teach Us About Same-Sex Marriage."