BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260408T050307Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260123T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260124T170000 SUMMARY:Self-Consciousness in Kant and Post-Kantianism UID:20260408T061018Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-r5qzs TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Wächterstr. 30\, Leipzig\, Germany\, 04107 DESCRIPTION:

Kant is frequently credited with articulating self-consciousness as the fundamental principle not only of philosophy\, but of human mindedness overall. Thought\, cognition\, action\, and judgment are all taken to be modes or actualizations of the self-conscious unity of the human mind. Starting with Reinhold and Jacobi\, the immediate post-Kantian aftermath was characterized by a concern with the ramifications and problems of making self-consciousness the center of philosophy. Fichte&rsquo\;s concern with summons and recognition\, as well as the unity of subject and object\, both taken up and transformed by Hegel and Schelling\, emerged as further focal points. Ultimately\, Kant&rsquo\;s master idea proved fruitful for virtually all avenues of philosophical thought.

Recent decades of scholarship on Kant and post-Kantianism have been marked by a renewed interest in the philosophical purpose of emphasizing self-consciousness: what are the reasons that classical German philosophy places apperceptive unity at its center? One answer is that the self constitutes an exalted and important topic of philosophical theory-building: on this view\, we need to become clear about our own mind in order to provide a foundation for our thoughts about\, and actions towards\, the world. Another answer denies this opposition of self-consciousness and world-consciousness: on this view\, philosophy from Kant onwards does not take the self as a separable entity\, nor self-consciousness as one region of philosophical inquiry among others\, but rather treats apperceptive unity as the all-encompassing unity of mind and world. The question at issue between these two options is whether\, and if so in what sense\, there is an outside to self-consciousness.

This issue of the significance and limits of self-consciousness has profound ramifications for virtually all philosophical questions. To engage with Kant and the post-Kantians\, we need to understand whether questions of existence\, knowledge\, beauty\, faith\, or good and evil lie within the scope of self-consciousness or lead us beyond it. The conference brings together leading scholars and junior researchers from different interpretive traditions to discuss the status of self-consciousness in (post-)Kantian thought.

Speakers:
Matthew Boyle (Chicago)
G. Anthony Bruno (Royal Holloway London)
Dina Emundts (FU Berlin)
Andrea Kern (Leipzig)
Karen Koch (Basel)
Eliza Starbuck Little (Warwick)
Thomas Oehl (LMU Mü\;nchen)
Julia Peters (Heidelberg)
Jens Pier (Royal Holloway London)
Tobias Rosefeldt (HU Berlin)

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