EPLab • Reading Group

Regina Queiroz on Benjamin L. McKean

Kant, coercion, and the legitimation of inequality

The session will take place on May 4, from 11 am to 12:30 pm, and it will be hosted by Regina Queiroz, who will talk about the text “Kant, coercion, and the legitimation of inequality” by Benjamin L. McKean (in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 25 (4) 2022, pp. 528-550).


The sessions will take place online. To join the session on Zoom, click 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 contact João Lemos at joaolemos@fcsh.unl.pt. The session will be in Portuguese but questions can be made in English. All sessions will be recorded and will be available on IFILNOVA’s YouTube channel.

Next sessions
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).