Founder(s) | Lewis White Beck (Cofounder) |
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Established | 1985 |
Mission | The study of Kantian philosophy |
President | Daniel Sutherland |
Chair | Robert Clewis |
Key people | Huaping Lu-Adler |
Website | https://northamericankantsociety.org/ |
North American Kant Society (NAKS) is an organization whose purpose is to advance the study of Kantian thought and scholarship. It was established in 1985. [1] [2] [3]
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. [4] [5] [6]
The journal Kantian Review is published by the North American Kant Society in collaboration with Cambridge University Press. [7]
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