As is well known to any student of Kant, Mary Gregor’s translations of the Groundwork, Critique of Practical Reason, the Metaphysics of Morals, and several other works, have exerted tremendous influence on contemporary scholarship and constitute a substantial contribution to The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. Mary Gregor also was the author of important interpretive work on Kant’s practical philosophy: her 1963 Laws of Freedom, for instance, remains one of the best monographs on Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals.

In recognition of the importance of her work, NAKS has sponsored a lecture series at the APA Central Division Meeting for the past twelve years. The series originated thanks to an anonymous donation after Gregor’s death in 1994. Pauline Kleingeld, NAKS president at the time, decided to name an annual lecture series after Mary Gregor, and to use the donated funds specifically for this purpose.

The main goal of the series is to invite distinguished Kant scholars from outside of North America to speak to NAKS members and their guests on relevant issues in Kant’s practical philosophy. Rolf-Peter Hostmann was the first lecturer in 2002. Since then, NAKS has featured:

• 2016:  Claudio LaRoccha, "Kant and the Problem of Conscience"
•  Jens Timmerman, Comments on Claudio La Rocca
• 2014: Bernd Ludwig, "Why Groundwork III Failed: The Dogmatism of Kant’s Pre-1787 Theory of Freedom"
•  Arthur Ripstein, Comments on Bernd Ludwig
• 2012: Heiner Klemme, "Kant on Moral Self-Determination and Self-Knowledge"
  
  
• 2011: Jens Timmermann, "Kantian Dilemmas? Moral Conflict in Kant's Ethical Theory"
• Frederick Rauscher, Comments on Jens Timmermann
  
• 2010: Georg Mohr, "Kant on Music as Beautiful Art"

2009: Graham Bird

2008: Katrin Flikschuh

2007: Zeljko Loparic

2006: Marcus Willaschek

2005: Jürgen Stolzenberg

2004: Manfred Kuehn

2003: Howard Williams

2002: Rolf-Peter Hostmann

For various budget reasons, and in order to better support our projects and serve our members, in 2014 the NAKS Executive Committee decided to make the Gregor Lecture a biennial event, instead of an annual event as we have done so far. The 2014 Gregor Lecture is the first in that biennial cycle.

Members will find some of the Gregor lectures in the members-only section of our website