Graduate Workshop: Kant, German Idealism and Romanticism

Manchester Research Forum for European Philosophy

Graduate Workshop: Kant, German Idealism and Romanticism

Date and Venue: Friday 28 November 2025, Williamson Building, 4.08 Seminar Room, University of Manchester. 176 Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9QQ.

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.

11:25 to 11:30 Panel Q&A

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.

13:10 to 13:15 Panel Q&A

13:15 to 14:15 Lunch 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.

16:10 to 16:15 Panel Q&A

16:30 to 17:15 Keynote Talk: Elisabeth Widmer (Associate Editor of Kantian Review, Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics), Kant on Egalitarianism, Economically Stratified.

Funded by the Manchester Doctoral College of The University of Manchester, Post-Graduate Researcher Community Fund.