EPLab • Reading Group

José Lamego

Kant and human rights

The session will take place on February 24, from 11 am to 12:30 pm, and it will be hosted by José Lamego, who will talk about “Kant e os direitos humanos” (“Kant and human rights”). The session will be exclusively face-to-face and will take place in room SC of Colégio Almada Negreiros. The session will be in Portuguese but questions can be made in English.


Presentation abstract here.


If you want to host one of the sessions, to be included on the group’s mailing list or to receive the text that will be discussed, please write to joaolemos@fcsh.unl.pt.

Next sessions
4 May, 11:00 am-12:30 pm – Regina Queiroz
Benjamin L. McKean, "Kant, coercion, and the legitimation of inequality" (Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 25(4), 2022, pp. 528-550.

26 May, 11:00 am-12:30 pm – Francisco Lisboa
Karl Schafer, "Kant: constitutivism as capacities-first philosophy" (Philosophical Explorations, 22(2), 2019, pp. 117-193.)

30 June, 11:00 am-12:30 pm – Filipe Faria
Michael Ruse, “Kant and Evolution” (Justin E. H. Smith (Ed.), The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 402-416).