Álvaro Rodríguez-González Barredo

Publications & Conferences

Publications

  • Rodríguez-González, Álvaro (2026) “Beyond a Newton of Biology. Kant’s Unified Account of the Natural Sciences”, in Teruel, Pedro Jesús; Waibel, Violetta L.; Gallego, Pere (eds.): Immanuel Kant, damals und jetzt. Zu seinem dreihundertsten Geburtstag / Immanuel Kant, Then and Now. On the Tricentenary of His Birth. València: Tirant lo Blanch. [forthcoming]
  • Rodríguez-González Barredo, Álvaro (2023) “Can Kant tell us what to do? Intentions, dilemmas and the long journey towards moral perfection. Revista de Estudios Kantianos 8(1), pp. 23-35 [PDF] [Website]

Conferences

  • Rodríguez-González, Álvaro (Jun. 12-13 2025). “Insensitivity to Animals, Insensitivity to Responsibility: A Kantian Argument.” Symposium on Conditioned Responsibility. First-Personal Knowledge, Self-Deception and Ignorance. Universitat de València.
  • Rodríguez-González, Álvaro (Apr. 3-5 2025). “Respecting Animality in the Person of Any Other: Kant’s Systematic Commitment against Animal Cruelty.” Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy. University of Cambridge.
  • Rodríguez-González, Álvaro (Nov. 20 2024). “Producing Noumena before a Court of Law: Reflective Judgment and Kant’s Theory of Imputation.” Recht Erkannt. Universität St. Gallen.
  • Rodríguez-González, Álvaro (Oct. 14-18 2024). “Beyond a Newton of Biology. Kant’s Unified Account of the Natural Sciences.” Kant, then and now. Kant-València 300th anniversary conference. Universitat de València.
  • Rodríguez-González, Álvaro (Jun. 19 2024). “Foot-stomping responsibility: why we may still need metaphysics.” PGR/Staff Research Showcase Event. University of Sheffield.
  • Rodríguez-González, Álvaro (May 20-21 2024). “An open future and two demands of reason.” Kant-Fest Dublin/UK Kant Society Annual Conference. Celebrating Kant at 300: ”Kant on Reason, Freedom & Nature”. University College Dublin, Newman House.
  • Rodríguez-González, Álvaro (May 10 2024). Who’s to blame now? Kant on the empirical conditions of responsibility. Invited talk: Kant’s Practical Philosophy Workshop, IDEA Centre. University of Leeds.
  • Rodríguez-González, Álvaro (Apr. 8 2024). “How to find a free being: reflective judgment and the sensible signs of freedom” Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy. University of Liverpool.
  • Rodríguez-González, Álvaro (Sept. 5 2023). “Alive and free: are organisms autonomous according to Kant?” Lisbon Kant Group Graduate Conference. Kant, Animal Moral Status, Environmental Ethics and Vulnerability. Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. [PDF]
  • Rodríguez-González, Álvaro (May 4 2023). “Humans as free animals: transcendental idealism and the grounds of responsibility”, Transcendental Idealism and Ethics Workshop. Trinity College Dublin. [PDF]
  • Rodríguez-González, Álvaro (Apr. 28 2023). “Kant on Freedom and Identity: Sensible and Intelligible Paradoxes”, Continental Research Group Workshop. University of Durham.
  • Rodríguez-González, Álvaro (Mar. 22 2023). “Value scepticism and the experience of other animals: Korsgaard on teleology”, Understanding Value XI. University of Sheffield. [PDF]
  • Rodríguez-González Barredo, Álvaro (Jun. 9 2022). “Making Sense of our Timeless Wills”, Freedom, Action and Control. Conceptions of Rational Agency in Kant and the German Enlightenment. University of Bucharest.
  • Rodríguez-González Barredo, Álvaro (Sept. 27 2021). “Formative power and the causality of freedom: positive freedom after Kant’s Third Critique.” UKKS ECR Workshop.