CFP: Models of human and divine intellect in Kant and Hegel

We are pleased to announce the international graduate workshop “Models of human and divine intellect in Kant and Hegel: Intersections between Transcendental Philosophy and Rational Theology” which will take place from the 16th to 18th of February 2017 at the University of Tübingen, Germany. It is funded by the University of Tübingen Excellence Initiative “Zukunftskonzept”.  

In recent years there has been much debate about how and whether Hegel’s absolute idealism is either a radicalization or reversal of Kant’s transcendental idealism. At the centre of this debate are questions concerning the relation of logical space to reality, mind’s place in nature, the nature of conceptual content, and the bounds of intelligibility. The workshop aims to explore these topics through the comparison of Kant’s and Hegel’s models of human and divine intellect. It departs from the hypothesis that their respective accounts of the ‘transcendental’ and ‘metaphysical’ deductions of the categories correlate with their conceptions of finite and infinite knowledge, modeled as human and divine intellect. The workshop will thus explore the systematic role assigned to concepts from traditional rational theology within the projects of transcendental logic and ontology.  


We invite contributions by PhD students in philosophy and related disciplines concentrating on the philosophical issues at stake. Preference is given to systematic, rather than historical-exegetical approaches.  

The workshop will combine keynote lectures and graduate student presentations. The confirmed keynote speakers are: Karin de Boer (KU Leuven), Paul Franks (Yale University), Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick), Anton F. Koch (University of Heidelberg), Philipp Schwab (University of Freiburg), Henning Tegtmeyer (KU Leuven).   


Every PhD student’s presentation will receive prepared comments from a keynote speaker. The costs of accommodation will be covered for all presenting graduate students.  

Organizers: Lucian Ionel (Freiburg), Simon Schüz (Tübingen), Maximilian Tegtmeyer (Pittsburgh).  

Abstract deadline: 15th of September 2016 / 500 words
Notification: 1st of October 2016
Paper deadline (once accepted): 15th of January 2017 / 3000 words   

Please address your inquiries and applications to: [email protected]

Please send your abstract and a short CV, each as word and pdf file.

Web link: https://goo.gl/a2TRGi