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The transnational corporation as neo-colonial boomerang.
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto – October 2025 – youtubeKantian free markets. Department of Philosophy seminar, McMaster University – October 2025
Kant Incorporated – main themes. Book symposium with Lucy Allais, Carla Bagnoli, Jordan Pascoe & Arthur Ripstein. Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto – November 2025 – (my introductory overview on youtube – a published version of the symposium will appear shortly in Jurisprudence)
Public goods as public obligatory ends. Workshop for this project, Berlin – January 2026
Recent publications on Kant
forthcoming Right and the authorisation to coerce. C Horn, M Ruffing & R Schäfer (eds), Proceedings of the 14th International Kant Congress (Bonn, 2024)
2026 Review of Melissa Zinkin, Depth: A Kantian Account of Reason. Philosophical Review 135(3)
2025 Kant Incorporated. Elements in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Cambridge University Press (3min video abstract / 20m video overview)
2024 Employment, status, hierarchy: on Jordan Pascoe, Kant’s Theory of Labour (with reply by Jordan Pascoe in same issue). Con-Textos Kantianos 20, 7-15
2023 Kant's account of reason. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (major revision, originally 2008)
2023 C Mieth & G Williams. Beyond (non-)instrumentalization: migration and dignity within a Kantian framework. Ethical Theory & Moral Practice 26(2), 209-224
2023 C Mieth, M Sticker & G Williams. Kant and global poverty: guest editors’ introduction to special issue. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 26(2), 169–75
2022 What is fundamental in criminal law? [review essay: A.P. Simester, Fundamentals of Criminal Law: Responsibility, Culpability, and Wrongdoing]. Criminal Justice Ethics 41(3), 278-290 (– advocating a more Kantian view of the issues)
2022 C Mieth & G Williams. Poverty, dignity, and the kingdom of ends. J-W van der Rijt & A Cureton (eds), Human Dignity and the Kingdom of Ends: Kantian Perspectives and Practical Applications (Routledge, 206-223)
2019 The social creation of morality and complicity in collective harms: a Kantian account. Journal of Applied Philosophy 36(3), 457-470
See my website for other publications on Kant, and also on other themes.
Earlier presentations as part of our project
Kantian free markets. (North American Kant Society Biennial Conference, Montreal, October 2025; Society for Applied Philosophy annual conference, Gdansk, June 2025; Royal Institute of Philosophy / University of Keele seminar, February 2025; Immanuel Kant, 300 Years from Now, University of Catania, October 2024)
The transnational corporation as neo-colonial boomerang. (Reconceiving Business Corporations in Times of Political Contestation, Utrecht University, May 2025)
Neo-colonial climate damage. (Conference: Cosmopolitanism, Migration, Climate Change, University of Cagliari, May 2025)
The Groundwork lays the ground for right. (14th International Kant Congress, Bonn, September 2024; Amsterdam Kant Conference, June 2024)
“They that have power to bind…”: artificial legal persons threaten Kantian civil equality. (Workshop: Means, Ends and Trolleys, University of Bonn, September 2024) – Kant-Zentrum NRW video
Kantianism as a method: Hermann Cohen and the form of capitalism. (Left-Kantianism Workshop, Cardiff University, July 2024; conference: What's Left of Kant?, University of Chicago, March 2024)
The intractable injustice of corporate food systems. (Food, Family, and Justice conference, John Cabot University, Rome, June 2024)
Does freedom support rights to incorporate? (Workshop: Kant’s Practical Philosophy, Leeds University, May 2024)
Business corporations – a Kantian view. (Conference: Kant and the World Today, Johns Hopkins University/North American Kant Society, Baltimore, March 2024)
What is a free market, really? Kant's critique of neoliberalism. (University of Warwick Philosophy Society, February 2024; Purchase SUNY Philosophy Colloquium, March 2024; also to workshop to this project, University of Bochum, February 2024)
“Charities for the wealthy classes”: corporate shareholding as the capture of state power. (Philosophy Department, University of Amsterdam, January 2024; Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Conference, Antwerp, June 2023; conference for this project, University of Bristol, July 2023)
Corporations and Kant’s categories of right. (Workshop for this project, Lancaster University, November 2023)
Response to Alix Cohen, "In Defense of Epistemic Autonomy: A Kantian Proposal." (Conference: Kant on Epistemic Autonomy and Authority, University of Cologne, September 2023)
Comments on Jordan Pascoe, Kant's Theory of Labour. (Online symposium, September 2023)
Response to Jordan Pascoe, "Kant and Marx on Racialized Labor." (Kant and Marx: Revisiting the Intersection, Erasmus University Rotterdam, July 2023)
Employment as a Kantian status relation. (Workshop on Kant's Practical Philosophy, Ruhr-University Bochum, February 2023)
Kantian right as the authorisation to use coercion. University of Bonn workshop, The Tasks of Practical Reason in Kant (October 2022); St Andrews Kant in Progress (August 2022)
Corporate activity and climate destabilisation: a Kantian analysis. (Launch workshop of Digitales Kant-Zentrum NRW, University of Siegen, September 2022)
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