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Andreas Arndt
HU Berlin
is retired Professor of Philosophy at the Theological Faculty of Humboldt-Universität and currently Research Professor at the Georgian Technical University. He works on Hegel, Early Romanticism, Schleiermacher, Young Hegelians, Marx and Marxism, Hermeneutics and Dialectics. Last book publications: Die Reformation der Revolution. Friedrich Schleiermacher in seiner Zeit (The Reformation of Revolution. Friedrich Schleiermacher in his Time; 2019); Freiheit (Freedom; 2019); Schleiermachers Philosophie (Schleiermacher’s Philosophy; 2021).
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Georg Bertram
FU Berlin
is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy (with specializations in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Language) at Freie Universität Berlin. He works on theoretical philosophy and aesthetics in Post-Kantian Philosophy, esp. Hegel, and on theoretical philosophy and aesthetics in different traditions of contemporary philosophy. He is author of Art as Human Practice. An Aesthetics (2019, German edition: 2014) and of Hegels „Phänomenologie des Geistes. Ein systematischer Kommentar (2017).
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Giacomo Croci
Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg
is Postdoc Researcher at Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg. He works on post-Kantian philosophy of mind, and philosophy and history of psychiatry. He discussed his PhD thesis The Constitution of Subjectivity as Historicity. Following F. Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism and M. Heidegger’s Being and Time at FU Berlin.
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Dina Emundts
FU Berlin
is Professor of History of Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin. She works on Kant and German Idealism. Her interests include early modern philosophy (Leibniz, Descartes, Vico) as well as 19th century philosophy and Phenomenology. She is author of Kants Opus postumum (2004) and Erfahren und Erkennen. Hegels Begriff der Wirklichkeit (2022).
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Moran Godess-Riccitelli
Uni Potsdam
is an independent research fellow at the Institut für Philosophie, Universität Potsdam and a postdoctoral fellow at the department of philosophy, Bar-Ilan University. She works on Kant’s aesthetics, practical philosophy, and moral theology (esp. in the Kritik der Urteilskraft). Her main interest in philosophy is the confluence between aesthetics and morality in Kant and German Idealism and its manifestation both in theoretical inquiry and practical attitudes. Currently she works on Kant’s ‘philosophy of culture’ and aesthetic communicability. She has published numerous articles on aesthetics, morality, and theology in Kant.
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Stefanie Grüne
FU Berlin
is wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at Free University of Berlin. She works on Kant’s theoretical philosophy and on philosophy of perception. She is author of Blinde Anschauung. Die Rolle von Begriffen in Kants Theorie sinnlicher Synthesis (2009).
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Johannes Haag
Uni Potsdam
is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at University of Potsdam. He works on Kant and German Idealism (Fichte, Hölderlin, Goethe) as well as contemporary theories of intentionality. He is the author of Erfahrung und Gegenstand. Das Verhältnis von Sinnlichkeit und Verstand (2007).
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Jakob Huber
FU Berlin
is Principal Investigator of the Junior Research Group „Democratic Hope“ at Freie Universität Berlin. He works on Kant’s practical philosophy and its relation to contemporary political philosophy. He is author of Kant’s Grounded Cosmopolitanism – Original Common Possession and the Right to Visit (OUP 2022).
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Philipp Höfele
FU Berlin
is Teaching and Research Assistant (“Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter”) at Freie Universität Berlin within the framework of the PRIME program, initiated by the DAAD. He works on German Idealism, the philosophies of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as ethics of nature and technology in the context of the “Anthropocene” debate. He is author of Wollen und Lassen. Zur Ausdifferenzierung, Kritik und Rezeption des Willensparadigmas in der Philosophie Schellings (2019).
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Rahel Jaeggi
HU Berlin
is Professor for Social and Political Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität as well as the Director of the Centre for Social Critique at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She works with (although not necessarily on) Hegel and defends a Hegelian-pragmatist account within Critical Theory. She is the author of Critique of Forms of Life (English 2018, German 2014), Alienation (English 2014, German 2005), Welt und Person (1997) and has co-authored Capitalism, A Conversation in Critical Theory with Nancy Fraser (English 2018, German 2020).
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Anton Kabeshkin
Uni Potsdam
is assistant professor at the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Potsdam. He works mainly on classical German philosophy as well as on early modern philosophy and philosophy of science. He has defended a dissertation on Hegel’s philosophy of nature as an anti-reductionist project and further developed this and related themes in a series of subsequent articles.
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Marialena Karampatsou
HU Berlin
is a Berlin-based Postdoc. Thus far, her work has focused on Kant’s transcendental idealism and the early, pre-Fichtean criticism thereof. She is the author of Der Streit um das Ding an sich: Systematische Analysen zur Rezeption des kantischen Idealismus 1781–1794 (2022).
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Holden Kelm
BBAW
is a Postdoc researcher at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He is currently working on a DFG project on Friedrich Schleiermacher’s lectures on aesthetics in the context of Kant, Solger, and Hegel. His research interests also include the reception of Hegel’s Phenomenology in 20th century France, and Digital Humanities. He is author of Hegel und Foucault. Die Geschichtlichkeit des Wissens als Entwicklung und Transformation (2015).
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Thomas Khurana
Uni Potsdam
is Professor of Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Mind at Universität Potsdam. He works on various issues in Kant, Hegel, and Post-Kantian European Philosophy. He is the author of Das Leben der Freiheit: Form und Wirklichkeit der Autonomie (2017).
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Veronika Klauser
FU Berlin
received her doctorate from the faculty of philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2021. The topic of her dissertation was “Zur Rekonstruktion des Verstandesbegriffs in der Philosophie Hegels“ (advisors: Prof. Dr. Andreas Arndt and Prof. Dr. Tobias Rosefeldt). She currently works as a lecturer and study advisor at the FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management in Berlin. Furthermore, she teaches philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. Her research focuses on classical German philosophy (especially Kant, Hegel, Fichte) and philosophy of religion.
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Karen Koch
FU Berlin
is currently a Fritz-Thyssen fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin working on a project on the relation between mechanism and inner purposiveness in Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature. Her research focus is on Kant and German Idealism. She has also interests in contemporary philosophy of biology and feministic issues. Her thesis “Denken in Zwecken. Bedeutung und Status der Teleologie in der theoretischen Philosophie Kants und Hegels“ will be published next year in the Hegel-Studien Beihefte.
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Thomas Meyer
HU Berlin
is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (junior lecturer) at Humboldt-Universität. He works on Hegel’s practical philosophy and on parts of his theoretical philosophy, as well as on contemporary metaethics, legal philosophy and action theory. He is author of Verantwortung und Verursachung. Eine moral- und rechtsphilosophische Studie zu Hegel (2020).
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Nicolas Garcia Mills
FU Berlin
is currently an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow in the Institut für Philosophie at the Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses mostly on the practical philosophies of Hegel and Kant and their contemporary relevance. Before coming to Berlin, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He has also taught in the Department of Philosophy at Tufts University and in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). He received his PhD in 2019 from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
Esther Neuhann
FU Berlin
is wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (postdoctoral) at Freie Universität Berlin. She works on political, legal and social philosophy/critical theory, Fichte’s practical philosophy, as well as feminist philosophy. Before coming to Berlin, she completed a project on “Fichte and Human Rights” at Universität Hamburg, see https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/451551446?language=en.
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Thomas Raysmith
Touro College Berlin
is a lecturer in philosophy at Touro University Berlin. He works on Kant’s theoretical philosophy, German Idealism and Romanticism, as well as contemporary philosophy of language and philosophical logic.
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Tobias Rosefeldt
HU Berlin
is Professor of Classical German Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität. He works on Kant’s theoretical and practical philosophy and its reception in Post-Kantian Philosophy, and also on contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of language. He is author of Das logische Ich. Kant über den Gehalt des Begriffes von sich selbst (2000).
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Luz Christopher Seiberth
Uni Potsdam
is Junior Fellow at Universität Bern and postdoc at Unversität Potsdam . He works on Kant’s and Hegel’s theoretical philosophy and its reception in Post-Kantian Philosophy, especially in the philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars. His areas of research include contemporary pragmatism, methodology, metaphysics and epistemology. He is author of Intentionality in Sellars. A transcendental account of finite knowledge (Routledge 2021), and co-editor of Fraught with Ought: Writings from Wilfrid Sellars on Mind, Meaning, and Metaphysics (OUP, forthc.) and Reading Kant with Sellars: Reconceiving Kantian Themes (Routledge, forthc.) As founder and organiser he runs the monthly International Sellars Colloquium (https://www.wilfridsellars.org/isc) and the Hegel Kreis Berlin (https://sites.google.com/view/hegel-kreis-berlin).
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Elena Tripaldi
FU Berlin
is Thyssen Post-Doc Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research is currently focused on Hegel’s metaphysics and its interactions with contemporary analytic metaphysics (especially contemporary monism), object-oriented ontology, and speculative realism. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled “‘The Truth of Substance’: Hegel’s critique of metaphysics and his ontology of subjectivity” focused on the relationship between logic and metaphysics in Hegel.
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Larissa Wallner
Assoziiert
is a berlin-based Postdoc. Her work is concerned with Kantian theoretical philosophy and aesthetics, especially with the conditions that make the invention and articulation of new intellectual positions including aesthetic forms possible. She cooperates with Prof. Dina Emundts, is a regular participant of the Hegel Circle and teaches at the LMU Munich. She is author of Dimensionen der Zeit. Kants und Husserls Zeitphilosophie, Passagen 2018.
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Tobias Wieland
FU Berlin
is Postdoc and an interdisciplinary research coordinator at Freie Universität. He works on Hegel’s philosophy (focused, but not limited to, aesthetics, religion, and philosophical method), on Critical Theory and contemporary feminism. Tobias is author of Die Pluralität des Absoluten. Hegels Theorie sozialen Wandels (2022).
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Friederike Allner
FU Berlin
works on a PhD project with the title ‘Critique of Abstraction — Ways of Concretion. Elements of Concrete Normativity with Hegel, Gadamer and Derrida”. Advisors: Georg Bertram (philosophy), Bertram Lomfeld (law studies). She is also interested in Early Modern Philosophy, especially Leibniz and Spinoza.
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Lucas Amoriello
FU Berlin
is currently working on a PhD project about the relation, tension, and entanglement between art and society according to Hegel’s Aesthetics. This project is titled “Die Welt der Kunst. Hegels sozialer Kunstbegriff” (advisor: Georg W. Bertram). His study and research interests further encompass Critical Theory, especially Adorno and Benjamin.
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Anne Becker
HU Berlin
works on a PhD project with the title ‘Die Logik der Grenze und die Grenze der Logik, Zur Aktualität von Hegels Metaphysik- und Gesellschaftskritik‘ (advisor: Andreas Arndt, co-advisor: Tobias Rosefeldt), which deals with the science of logic and its relation to reality. She teaches an online seminar on the science of logic at Augustana University in Neuendettelsau and is also involved in the DAAD ProBral project “Thinking the Infinite”. She is also interested in Leibniz, Kant and Fichte, political philosophy, philosophy of religion and the relation of Classical German Philosophy to Critical Theory, especially Walter Benjamin.
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Rodrigo Maruy van den Broek
HU Berlin
works on a PhD with the title “Recht und sozialer Wandel: Zur immanenten Kritik eines modernen Widerspruchs” (advisors: Rahel Jaeggi, Christoph Möllers). He is also interested in the reception of Hegel’s Logic and Philosophy of Right in the Frankfurt School tradition of Critical Theory.
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Anqi Fu
HU Berlin
works on a PhD project on the theme ‘Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics’ (advisor: Tobias Rosefeldt). She is also interested in various questions about Kantian intuition and cognition.
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León Antonio Heim
Uni Potsdam
works on a PhD project with the title “Selbstbestimmte Abhängigkeit – Die Freiheit der Liebe und Sorge in Hegels Begriff der Familie“ (supervisors: Thomas Khurana, Dirk Quadflieg). In it, he attempts to bring into conversation the current discussion on Hegel’s concept of life with contemporary feminist accounts of care and reproduction. He is generally interested in Hegelian and Marxist accounts of anthropology and nature.
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Christoph Honold
Assoziiert
works on a PhD project with the title »The living measure. On the immanent normativity of labor according to Hegel and Marx« (advisors: Dirk Quadflieg (Leipzig), Thomas Khurana (Potsdam)). The aim of the project is to clarify the normative foundations of critical theory on the basis of an analysis of the human form of life. Christoph Honold’s research focuses on German idealism and critical theory.
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Emanuel Kapfinger
FU Berlin
works on a PhD project which connects Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and contemporary culture critique (supervisor: Frieder Otto Wolf). He also works on theory of fascism, 1968, materialist dialectics, Critical Theory, and Marxism.
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Patrycja Pendrakowska
HU Berlin
works on a PhD project with the working title „The Chinese speaking appropriation of Hegel. The case studies of He Lin’s introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Lesser Logic”.
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Elena Romano
FU Berlin
is research assistant and Phd candidate at the Freie Universität in the Arbeitsbereich of Prof. Dr. Dina Emundts. She is currently working on a project on Kant’s account of aesthetic normativity.
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Marharyta Rouba
HU Berlin
works on a PhD project with the title ‘The concept of the ‘transcendental subject’ in Kant’s philosophy: a systematic and historical investigation’ (advisor: Tobias Rosefeldt). Her interests are also in the field of the early reception of the Critique of Pure Reason and contemporary metaphysics.
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Marco Santi
HU Berlin
works on a PhD project with the title ‘Objective and subjective validity in Kant’s doctrine of assent’ (advisor: Tobias Rosefeldt), wherein he proposes a new analysis of (in)sufficient reasons for assent (Fürwahrhalten) that form the basis of Kant’s system of epistemic attitudes.He is also interested in the manuscripts of Kant’s lectures on logic and metaphysics.Furthermore, he is one of the editors of Leibniz’s scientific writings (Leibniz-Edition, Reihe VIII) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
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Isabel Sickenberger
Uni Potsdam
is a research associate at the Chair of Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy of Mind at the University of Potsdam. Her main research interests are in the field of post-Kantian philosophy, especially German Idealism and Hegel, philosophy of mind, social philosophy, and Critical Theory. In her dissertation (advisor: Thomas Khurana) she is working on the question of the form of spiritual life.
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Long Teng
HU Berlin
is working on a PhD Project with the title “The Relation between Private Welfare and State Welfare in Hegel’s Theory of the State” (advisor: Tobias Rosefeldt). He is also interested in Metaethics and Kant’s practical philosophy.
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Lilja Walliser
HU Berlin
works on a PhD project on linguistic alienation and the capacity for conflict in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (advisor: Georg W. Betram). She is also interested in philosophy of language, theories of recognition, philosophy of deconstruction, and critical theory.
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Angela Breitenbach
HU Berlin
is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. She works on Kant and modern philosophy and on themes in philosophy of science, aesthetics and environmental philosophy. In 2023 she is as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Time of visit: 01/2023-03/2024
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Sabina Vaccarino Bremner
Uni Potsdam
is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She works on Kant’s ethics, philosophy of science, and aesthetics, as well as figures in the post-Kantian tradition, including Marx, Beauvoir, and Foucault, and connections to contemporary issues including ideology critique, the relativized a priori in science, conceptual revision, and autonomy and self-constitution. Sabina is visiting Potsdam for the academic year 2023-2024 as a fellow of the Humboldt foundation, sponsored by Professor Thomas Khurana. Time of Visit: 05/2023-11/2024
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Josep Clusa
HU Berlin
did his PhD at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, on Aristotle’s ethics. He is currently working on Kant’s concept of substance and collaborating in a Spanish-speaking commentary of the Analytic of Principles. Time of Visit: 04/2023 – 07/2023
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Anton Fomin
FU Berlin
Time of visit: Summer 2023
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Gerad Gentry
HU Berlin
is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Humboldt-Universität. He works on the theoretical, ethical, and aesthetic forms of the concept of innere Zweckmäßigkeit in the philosophy of Hegel and Kant. He also works on the inheritance of these forms in contemporary philosophy. He is the author of “Hegel’s End of Art and Artworks as Internally Purposive Wholes” Journal of the History of Philosophy (July 2023). Time of visit: 09/2022-08/2023
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Magdalena Hoły-Łuczaj
FU Berlin
is Assistant Professor at UITM in Rzeszów, Poland/NAWA Bekker Research Fellow. Project: “The Dimensions of Post-Heideggerism. In the centenary of Being and Time”. Time of Visit: Winter 2022/23
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Lucian Ionel
Assoziiert
is a research fellow at the Leipzig University since 2023. He was a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities “Human Abilities” in Berlin (2021-2022), a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pittsburgh as a DFG fellow (2019-2021), and a member in the DFG Excellence Cluster “BrainLinks-BrainTools” (2017-2018). He received his doctorate from the University of Freiburg, in cotutelle with the University of Strasbourg (November 2017). His research interests include the philosophy of mind, anthropology, action theory, phenomenology and ontology. Kant and Hegel are central to his philosophical concerns.
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James Kreines
Assoziiert
is professor of philosophy at Claremont McKenna college, and works on German Idealism. In 2014, he was a visitor at the Lehrstuhl für Klassische Deutsche Philosophie at the Humboldt University, Berlin. Since then, most summers he is based in Berlin for at least some parts of May, June and/or July, while attending conferences and colloquia.
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Giovanna Luciano
HU Berlin
is Assistant Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Padova. Her research interests focus on Classical German Philosophy (especially Kant and Hegel), critical theory and critical pedagogy. She has been working on Hegel’s logic, the concept of critique in Kant’s and Hegel’s philosophy, and issues of humanism, emancipation, social criticism and education between Classical German Philosophy and contemporary critical theory. She is currently working on the idea of a “critical education” in Hegel’s philosophy. She is co-coordinator of the research group on Classical German Philosophy at the University of Padova (hegelpd.it) and co-founder of the Australian Hegel Society (australianhegelsociety.com). Time of visit: July 2023
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Karl von der Luft
Assoziiert
is a PhD Student in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His interests include German Idealism (especially Hegel), Practical Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Philosophical Criticism. Time of Visit: 05/23-09/23.
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Karen Ng
Uni Potsdam
is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She works on 19th and 20th century European philosophy, focusing on Hegel and German idealism, as well as Marx and critical theory. She also has interests in Kant and social and political philosophy. She is the author of Hegel’s Concept of Life: Self-Consciousness, Freedom, Logic (OUP 2020), which won the 2021 Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize. Between 2023 and 2025 she will be an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy, University of Potsdam. Time of Visit: 02/2023-08/2023; 06/2024-08/2024, 06/2025-08/2025
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Andrew Norris
Uni Potsdam
Time of Visit: 10/2023-09/2024
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Armin Schneider
Assoziiert
did his BA and MA at Humboldt University Berlin. Currently he is doing a PhD at Brown University. His research interests include the works of Hegel, especially the Science of Logic, and debates within contemporary continental philosophy as it intersects with psychoanalysis, science and politics. Time of visit: 05/2023-08/2023
Nicholas Stang
HU Berlin
is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto. He works on metaphysics and epistemology at the intersection of classical German philosophy (esp. Kant and Hegel) and analytic philosophy. He is currently writing a book titled How is Metaphysics Possible? A Critique of Analytic Reason, which applies Kant’s critique of reason to contemporary analytic metaphysics. He is also working on the Acosmism problem in Spinoza and German idealism, as well as on Kant’s metaphysical deduction of the categories. Time of visit: 09/2023-08/2024
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Pedro Stepanenko
HU Berlin
Time of visit: 11/2022-06/2023
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Bas Tönissen
is a PhD student at UC San Diego, and a DAAD doctoral fellow at the Humboldt Universität Berlin for the year 2023-2024. He is writing a dissertation on Kant’s theory of action and radical evil. He has further interests in early modern philosophy generally, moral psychology, and inclusive pedagogy. Time of Visit: 10/2023-09/2024
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