1st London/Bristol Post-Kantianism Workshop

1st London/Bristol Post-Kantianism Workshop
Royal Holloway, University of London 
27 November 2026
10am–6pm
Organisation: Alex Schubert & Jens Pier

Speakers:
Keynotes:
Charlotte Alderwick (UWE)
G. Anthony Bruno (RHUL)

Phoeb Stone (UWE)
Patrick Hall (RHUL)
Jens Pier (RHUL)
Alex Schubert (UWE)

Venue:
Founder’s Building | Large Boardroom
Royal Holloway, University Of London
Egham Hill | TW20 0EX

In the aftermath of Kant’s Critiques, post-Kantian thinkers engaged with many issues, brought to the fore by his critical philosophy, that have lost none of their appeal and pertinence: among them are the situatedness of the human subject, the nature of thought, the problem of facticity, the relationship between nature and mind, and the trilemma between determinism, freedom as arbitrariness, and intelligible fatalism. If anything, these matters have become more pressing in recent years: environmental catastrophe, unfettered exploitation and oppression, and the loss of privacy and autonomy to algorithmic information processing lend them renewed force. The 1st London/Bristol Post-Kantianism Workshop is designed as the inaugural event of a workshop series bringing together junior and senior researchers from both cities working on these rich issues in post-Kantian thought.

Schedule:
10.00am    Welcome
10.15am    Alex Schubert: “Transcendental Idealism Naturalized: An Emergentist Reading of Nature and Mind in Schelling 1799/1800”
11.00am    Coffee break
11.15am    G. Anthony Bruno: “Schelling, Intelligible Fatalism, and the Antinomy of Action”
12.45pm    Lunch break
2.00pm      Phoeb Stone: “The Eternal Emergence of Temporality: The Potencies of the Ages of the World”
2.45pm      Patrick Hall: “Skeletal Shadows of the Shining Flesh: Feuerbach’s Low View of the Concept”
3.30pm      Coffee break
3.45pm      Charlotte Alderwick: “Agency, Freedom and Evil in Schelling’s Freedom Essay”
5.15pm      Jens Pier: “Fichte and Levi on Radical Misrecognition”
6.00pm      Closing