Graduate Workshop: Kant, German Idealism and Romanticism

Manchester Research Group for European Philosophy

Graduate Workshop: Kant, German Idealism and Romanticism 

Date and Venue

Friday 28 November 2025

University of Manchester, Samuel Alexander Building, A7

09:30 to 09:50 Arrival
09:50 to 10:00 Welcome

Panel 1: Kant: Limiting Concepts and the Fact of Reason (10:00 to 11:30)
10:00 to 10:30 Zachary E. Altman (University of Pennsylvania), The Role of Limiting Concepts in Kant
10:30 to 11:00 Ying Xue (University of Warwick), The Reception and Transformation of Kant’s “Fact of Reason” Argument in Schelling and Hegel
11:00 to 11:30 Kutlu Tuncel (Bilkent University), Kantian Conceptualism and Nonconceptualism

11:30 to 11:45 Break

Panel 2: Early German Idealism: Freedom and System (11:45 to 13:15)
11:45 to 12:15 Jinhua Hao (University of Freiburg), From Moral Condition to Systematic Principle: Schelling on Freedom, 1794 to 1795
12:15 to 12:45 Dino Jakusic (Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick), Hegel’s Logic and Wolff’s Ontology: A Case for a Reformist Reading
12:45 to 13:15 Caterina Piccini (University of Roma Tre), Exploring the Transcendental: A Dialogue Between Kant and Hegel

13:15 to 14:15 Break

Panel 3: After Idealism: Post Kantian Receptions (14:15 to 16:15)
14:15 to 14:45 Octavio Andrés García Aguilar (University of Manchester), Hegel, Darwin, and the British Idealists: Reception and Adaptation
14:45 to 15:15 Fridolin Neumann (University of Warwick), Heidegger’s Realism and his Appropriation of Kant
15:15 to 15:45 Dominic Kearney (University of Southampton), Monism and Motivation: Schopenhauer’s Ontology of Intention
15:45 to 16:15 Aylin Yildirim (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg), To Be Recognized by My Desire: Fanon, Hegel and the Colonial Relation

16:15 to 17:00 Keynote talk: Elisabeth Theresia Widmer (Postdoctoral Fellow at London School of Economics, Department of Government). Title and abstract to follow.