CFP: VIII International Symposium on Classical German Philosophy

The International Symposia on Classical German Philosophy were initiated by the German/Latin-American Research and Doctoral Network in Philosophy (FILORED), a cooperative network of the Fern Universität in Hagen (Germany), the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany), the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (Argentina), the Universidad Diego Portales (Chile), the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile), the Universidade Federal do Ceará (Brazil), the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (Brazil), the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Colombia), the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico) and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Peru).

The objective of the Symposium will be to discuss the actuality of the epistemology of the philosophical movement from Kant to Hegel. That topic will be examined by means of an exegetical and conceptual analysis of the ideas of the authors of that movement (especially Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel) as well as an analysis of their historical sources and their later appropriation (especially by Marxism, neo-Kantianism, post-structuralism and neo-pragmatism).

Up-to-date main speakers (selection): Emiliano Acosta (Belgium), Eduardo Assalone (Argentina), Ileana Beade (Argentina), Antoine Cantin-Brault (Canada), Emanuel Copilaș (Romania), Luca Corti (Italy), Oscar Esquisabel (Argentina), Charles Feldhaus (Brazil), Héctor Ferreiro (Argentina), Julián Ferreyra (Argentina), Max Gottschlich (Austria), Hyun Höchsmann (China), Thomas Sören Hoffmann (Germany), Francesca Iannelli (Italy), Luca Illetterati (Italy), Eyüp Ali Kılıçaslan (Turkey), Chong-Fuk Lau (Hong-Kong), Diana López (Argentina), Gilles Marmasse (France), Giovanna Miolli (Italy), Fernando Moledo (Germany), Hernán Pringe (Argentina), Karl Schawelka (Germany), Humberto Schubert Coelho (Brazil), Jimena Solé (Argentina), Michael Wladika (Austria), Christopher Yeomans (United States).

Main Themes and Sections

1. Sources and historical aspects of the epistemology of Kant and the post-Kantian idealists.

2. The realism-idealism debate in 18th and 19th Century German philosophy.

3. Idealist theories of feeling, perception, imagination and conceptual thought.

4. Knowledge, self-determination and freedom in German idealism.

5. Practical reason and political order from Kant to Hegel.

6. Later critiques and appropriations of Kant's and post-Kantian idealists´ epistemologies.

Submission requirements

1. Proposals may be submitted in Spanish, Portuguese, German or English.

2. The author’s name, paper title, institutional position and affiliation, contact information as well as a short CV (200-300 words) should be included in the body of the e-mail.

3. Abstracts should contain 500-700 words and be prepared for blind review by removing any identifying details. (Presentation time should be no more than 30 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion).

4. Submission deadline: 21 August, 2022. (Notification of acceptance or rejection will be given separately approximately two weeks following receipt of each submission.)

5. Submissions should be sent by e-mail to: [email protected] / [email protected]