https://uni-siegen.webex.com/uni-siegen/j.php?MTID=mde073cbd52482c342d0005cdb3d8ac73
 

Abstract: 
 

My overall project is to argue that in ethics, as in epistemology, Kant was a nativist who saw experience as awakening innate capacities that provide the basic structures that enable humans to understand the natural and social worlds.  In this paper, I argue that the three formulae of the highest law of morality are not the products of convention, but of human predispositions, ‘Anlagen.’ I do so by pursuing two questions about the formulae of the moral law: How is each formula derived from the concept of a categorical imperative? What is the argument for the truth of each formula?