Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar
The Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar (PKEPS) is a seminar series devoted to the study and discussion of Post-Kantian European Philosophy, welcoming speakers from within Oxford and elsewhere to present work in a workshop format. Colleagues and graduate students with an interest in this tradition are very welcome to take part.
Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar Convenors: Jack Wearing, Joseph Schear, Manuel Dries, Kate Kirkpatrick and Mark Wrathall
Trinity Term 2025 - Term Card
Past Terms
| Week 2 (6th May) | Jessica Leech (KCL) | Transcedental arguments, modal knowledge, and explanation |
| Week 6 (3rd June) | Sabina Vaccarino Bremmer (Penn) | Beauvoir's Concept of Ambiguity |
| Week 7 (10th Jun) | Kaitlyn Creasy (CSU, San Bernardino) | Emotional Dominance in Nietzsche |
| Week 8 (17th Jun) | Richard Elliott (Birbeck) | Ressentiment, Recognition, and the 'New Human' in Frantz Fanon |
| Week 2 (28th Jan) | Anthony Bruno (Royal Holloway University) | Reason Is But One: Hegel's Subjectivism Charge Against Fichte |
| Week 4 (11th Feb) | Andreja Novakovic (UoC Berkeley) | Hegel on the 'Unhappy Chapter' of Family Property |
| Week 6 (25th Feb) | Inga Romer (Freiburg University) | What is a metaphysics of Dasein? Heidegger after Being and Time |
| Week 8 (11th March) | Fabian Freyenhagen (Essex) | The History of Madness Revisited: A Foucault-inspired Critical History of Our Psychiatric Present |
| Week 2 (22nd Oct) | Stephen Mulhall (Oxford) | Reading German, Speaking American: Heidegger, Nietzsche and Emerson |
| Week 2 (30th April) | Maya Krishnan (Oxford) | Divine agency and the moral law |
| Week 4 (14th May) | Eliza Little (University of Warwick) | How to Acquire the World: Hegel's Pragmatic Theory of Figurative Synthesis and Kant's Doctrine of Right |
| Week 6 (29th May) | Ontological Pluralism Conference | |
| Week 8 (11th June) | Markus Gabriel (University of Bonn) | Realism about Sense and Ontological Nonsense |
| Week 2 (23rd Jan) | Joe Saunders (Durham) | Freedom in Kant: A Practical Critique |
| Week 4 (6th Feb) | Christopher Fowles (Oxford) | Perspective and Perspectivism |
| Week 6 (20th Feb) | Bill Bristow (University of Wisconsin) | The Experience of Self-Loss in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit |
| Week 8 (5th March) | Thomas Khurana (University of Potsdam) | Freedom Still Enmeshed in Servitude. The Coloniality of Freedom and its True Critique |
| Week 2 (17th Oct) | Jan Kandiyali (Durham) | What Makes Communism Possible? The Self-Realisation Interpretation |
| Week 4 (31st Oct) | Daniela Dover (Oxford) & Jonathan Gingerich (Rutgers) | Freedom and Futurity: Simone de Beauvoir's Moral Psychology |
| Week 6 (14th Nov) | James Laing (Oxford) | The Approbative Animal |
| Week 8 (28th Nov) | David Collins (Oxford) | Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity: An Existentialist Virtue Ethics? |
| Week 2 (2nd May) | Jacob McNulty (UCL) | The Liberation of the Senses? Hegel and Marx on Refinement |
| Week 4 (16th May) | John Richardson (NYU) | Heidegger on Nietzsche's Eternal Return |
| Week 6 (30th May) | Genia Schonbaumsfeld (Southampton) | Companions in Guilt: Aestheticism and Cartesianism as Two Sides of the Same Coin |
| Week 8 (13th June) | Daniele Lorenzini (University of Pennsylvania) | Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault |
| Week 2 (24th Jan) | Seminar CANCELLED | CANCELLED |
| Week 4 (7th Feb) | Jean-Philippe Narboux (Bordeaux) | Intentionality, Self-Consciousness, and Negation in Sartre's Being and Nothingness |
| Week 6 (21st Feb) | Manon Garcia (Freie Univ. Berlin) | Political and Moral Existentialism as a Heideggerianism: on Beauvoir and Heideggerian Ontology |
| Week 8 (9th March) | David Cerbone (West Virginia) | Impulse Control: Wittgenstein (and Heidegger) on Resisting Realism and Idealism |
| Week 2 (18th Oct) | Mark Wrathall | Heidegger Encounters van Gogh's Shoes (or, art as phenomenological Ontology) |
| Week 4 (1st Nov) | Anton Friedrich Koch (Heidelberg University) | Our Common Extended Conciousness and the Readability of Things |
| Week 6 (15th Nov) | Sarah Pawlett-Jackson (St Mellitus College) | Fine-Tuning Group-Directed Empathy |
| Week 8 (29th Nov) | David Bather Woods (University of Warwick) | A Schopenhauerian Solution to Schopenhauerian Politics |
| Week 4 (17th May) | Thomas Pendlebury (Pittsburgh) | The Original Actuality: Transcedental Synthesis and Formal Intuition in Kant's Transcedental Deduction |
| Week 5 (24th May) | Sacha Golob (KCL) | Moral Progress: A New Analysis |
| Week 6 (31st May) | Sophie Loidolt (Darmstadt) | Heidegger and Kant. Fundamental ontology as a phenomenological version of transcedental philosophy |
| Week 8 (14th Jun) | Stephan Kaufer | What is existential about depth and distance? |
| Week 2 (25th Jan) | Alison Stone (Lancaster) | The Women of German Idealism and Romanticism |
| Week 4 (8th Feb) | Anna Bortolan (Swansea) | Selves Hijacked: Affects and Personhood in 'Self-Illness Ambiguity |
| Week 6 (22nd Feb) | Kate Kirkpatrick (Oxford) | Early Existentialisms |
| Week 8 (8th March) | Alexander Prescott-Crouch (Oxford) | Genealogy and Essence |
| Week 2 (19th Oct) | Peter Drews (Essex) | Rational Science and Worldly Being in Hegel and in Schelling's Late Philosophy |
| Week 4 (2nd Nov) | Tobias Keiling (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn) | Being before Time? Heidegger on ontological independence |
| Week 6 (16th Nov) | Sophie Grace Chappell (Open University) | What is it like to be a human being? |
| Week 8 (30th Nov) | Beri Marusic (Edinburgh) | Embodied Radical Freedom: A Reading of Sartre |
| Week 2 (4 May) |
Jonathan Mitchell (Manchester) |
The Phenomenal Contribution of Attention: A Husserlian Account |
| Week 4 (18 May) |
Samantha Matherne (Harvard) |
The Normativity of Color: Phenomenological Perspectives |
| Week 6 (1 June) |
Robert Watt (Trinity College) |
Bergson on memory |
| Week 4 (9th February) |
Nicolai Knudsen |
''Shared Action - An Existential Phenomenological Account'' |
| Week 8 (9th March) |
Jack Wearing |
''Ontology as a Guide to Politics? Judith Butler on Vulnerability, Interdependency, and Nonviolence'' |
| Week 4 (3rd November) |
David Batho (UCSB) |
''The Light of Reason in the Shadow of Death - Heidegger on Mortal Norms'' |
| Week 8 (1st December) |
Lilian Alweiss (Dublin) |
''The Self and Transcendental Habits'' |
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Adrian Moore (Oxford) vs. Anil Gomes (Oxford) & Andrew Stephenson (Southampton) |
On the Necessity of the Categories | |
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Matthieu Queloz (Oxford) |
Nietzsche’s Pragmatic Genealogies | |
| Week 6 (25th February) |
Lilian Alweiss (Trinity College Dublin) |
Self-Consciousness without an I |
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Iain Thomson (University of New Mexico) |
Heidegger on Death and the Nothing |
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Rachel Cristy (KCL) |
‘The Moral Earth, Too, Is Round’: Nietzsche and James on the Practice and Purpose of Philosophy |
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Alex Dowding (Oxford) |
Aesthetic Infinities and Temporal Distension |
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| Week 6 (19th November) |
Sean Kelly (Harvard) |
The Proper Dignity of Human Being: Later Heidegger and the Philosophical Tradition |
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David Egan (CUNY-Hunter) |
'Rule-Following, Anxiety, and Authenticity' | |
| Week 4 (5th February) | Charles Siewert (Rice) | 'Visual Recognition and Content' |
| Anthony Vincent Fernandez (Oxford) | Doing Applied Phenomenology: From the Universal to the Particular' | |
| Week 8 (5th March) | Justin White (BYU) | 'Agency and the Problem of Self-Ignorance' |
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Samantha Matherne (Harvard) |
'Edith Landmann-Kalischer’s Moderate Objectivism About Aesthetic Value' |
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Cate Gibson (Oxford) |
'Ambiguous Union: A Phenomenological Account of Early Childhood' | |
| Week 6 (13th November) | Dan Zahavi (Oxford & University of Copenhagen) | 'You, Me and We' |
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Chris Fowles (Oxford) |
'Nietzsche on Affects and the Interpretation of the Body' |
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Mark Alznauer (Northwestern) |
"Hegel on Aesthetic Reconciliation" | |
| Week 6 (29th May) | Alix Cohen (Edinburgh) | "Kant on the nature of emotions" |
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Andreja Novakovic (UC Riverside) |
"Hegel on Passion in History" |
Adrian Moore (Oxford)
Stephen Houlgate (Warwick)
Marcin Moskalewicz (Oxford)
Stephen Mulhall (New College)
Michael Forster (Chicago)
Laura Macor (Oxford)
Jacob Burda (Oxford)
Miguel de Beistegui (Warwick)
Alessandra Tanesini (Cardiff)
Paul Franks (Yale),
Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway)
Catherine Audard (LSE)
Brian Leiter (Chicago)
Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge)
Christina Howells (Oxford)
Joerg Schaub (Essex)
Eva Buddeberg (Frankfurt)
Christian Skirke (Amsterdam)
Peter Poellner (Warwick)
Peter Kail (Oxford)
Hanneke Grootenboer (Oxford)
Steven DeLay (Oxford)
Alison Denham (Oxford)
Beatrice Han-Pile (Essex)
Wayne Martin (Essex)
Sasha Mudd (Southampton)
Michael Rosen (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard)
Mark Wrathall (UC Riverside: Fowler-Hamilton Fellow, Christ Church)
Axel Honneth (Frankfurt/Columbia)
Paul Katsafanas (Boston)
Katerina Deligiorgi (Sussex)
Robert Watt (Oxford)
Sacha Golob (KCL)
De Lea Ypi (LSE)
Irene McMullin (Essex)
Katherine Withy (Georgetown)
Lucy Allais (Sussex)
Komarine Romdenh-Romluc (Nottingham)
Dennis McManus (Southampton)
Sabina Lovibond (Oxford) Lambert Wiesing (Germany)
Elizabeth Cykowski (Oxford)
Francesco Maiolo (Utrecht)
Cristina Crichton (Oxford)
Fabian Freyenhagen (Essex)
David Egan (Oxford)
Roxana Baiasu (Oxford)
Dean Moyar (Johns Hopkins University)
Thomas Land (Cambridge)
Christopher Janaway (Southampton)
Lorna Finlayson (Cambridge)
Andrew Huddleston (Oxford)
Michael Thompson (Pittsburgh)
Robert Pippin (Chicago)
Nicholas Bunnin (Oxford)
Jason Gaiger (Oxford)
Manuel Dries (Oxford)
Severin Schroeder (Reading)
Sebastian Gardner (UCL)
Pamela Anderson (Oxford)
Mark Wrathall (UC Riverside)
Simon Glendinning (LSE)
George Pattison (Oxford)
Katherine Morris (Oxford)
Robert Stern (Sheffield)
Edward Kanterian (Kent)
Michael Inwood (Oxford)
Wayne Martin (Essex)
Stephen Mulhall (Oxford)
Ken Gemes (Birkbeck)
Raymond Geuss (Cambridge)
Anna Wehofsits (LMU Munich)
Richard Gipps (Oxford)
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra (Oxford)
Brian O'Connor (Dublin)
