Events
Warwick Post-Kantian Seminar
The Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy organises a series of lectures by external speakers on diverse topics. In the current academic year, we have the following talks:
Christopher Fowles (Warwick) 鈥� "Nietzsche on Perspectivism" [] [HandoutLink opens in a new window]
Ingvild Torsen (Oslo) 鈥� "Art Measures" []
Nicolai Krejberg Knudsen (Aarhus) 鈥� "Shall We? Invitations, Equality, and the Routes to Joint Action" [
David Collins (Cambridge) 鈥� " Beauvoir's Ethics and Current Moral Philosophy" []
Charlotte Alderwick (Bristol) 鈥� " Agency, freedom and evil in Schelling's Freedom Essay" []
Aaron Ridley (Southampton) 鈥� " Nietzsche, Genealogy and the Genetic Fallacy" []
Sabina Vaccarino Bremner (Penn) 鈥� " Beauvoir's Constructivism: On Grounding Metaethics in the
Co-Constitution of the Social World" [ONLINE] []
Andrew Werner (Houston) 鈥� Hegel's True Critique: The Undogmatic Construction of the Categories []
For details, including information for how to join online, see "Upcoming events" on the right-hand side.
Workshops
At the start of autumn term, the Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy organises a workshop to kick off the academic year and welcome new students in the MA Continental Philosophy and other courses. Past topics included: "Does history matter to philosophy?", "What is critique?", "What is (continental) philosophy?".
Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference
The Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy has over the years supported the running of the Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference, a conference event for post-graduate students from other universities- See their websiteLink opens in a new window for details.
Past events
Warwick Post-Kantian Philosophy Seminar 2025-2026
John Callanan (KCL) 鈥� "Varieties of Metacritique"
Beth Lord (Aberdeen) 鈥� "Spinoza鈥檚 Image of Thought: ratio and the Example of the Fourth Proportional"
Book panel: David Bather Woods (Warwick), Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy鈥檚 Greatest Pessimist
Wayne Martin (Essex) 鈥� "Reinventing the Will: Recognitive Volitional Practices and Inclusive Legal Agency"
Dan Wolt (Bilkent) 鈥� "Nietzsche on Nobility"
Julia Peters (Heidelberg) 鈥� "Hegel on the Pain of Being an 鈥業鈥�"
Martin H盲gglund (Yale) 鈥� "The Mortality of the Soul: Rethinking The Makropulos Case"
Warwick Post-Kantian Philosophy Seminar 2024-2025
Joe Saunders (Durham) 鈥� 鈥淲hat's wrong with the Master? A Critical Analysis of Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic鈥�
Andrea Esser (Jena) 鈥� 鈥淜ant鈥檚 Concept of Progress and the Limits of Critical Thinking鈥�
Jensen Suther (Harvard) 鈥� 鈥淭he 鈥榃ork鈥� of Art: The Artwork as 峒愇轿佄澄滴刮� in Hegel and Heidegger鈥�
Gregor Moder (Ljubljana) 鈥� 鈥淏rothers and Sisters. On Hegel鈥檚 Reading of Antigone鈥�
Paul Kottmann (New School) 鈥� 鈥淓thics and Contemporary Aesthetic Culture鈥�
Karin Nisenbaum (Syracuse) 鈥� 鈥淕etting at the Root of Evil: Kant and Fichte on the Murderer at the Door鈥�
Yohei Kageyama (Kwansei Gakuin) 鈥� 鈥淛apanese Philosophers Thinking with and against Heidegger:
The Evolution and Dissolution of Ontological Pluralism鈥�
David Bather Woods (Warwick) 鈥� 鈥淪chopenhauer and the Frankfurt School鈥�
Inga R枚mer (Freiburg) 鈥� 鈥淲hat is a Metaphysics of Dasein? Heidegger after Being and Time鈥�
Warwick Post-Kantian Philosophy Seminar 2023-2024
Ellie Anderson (Pomona) 鈥� 鈥淭he Critical Phenomenological Turn鈥�
Gregory Moss (Hong Kong) 鈥� 鈥淔rom Identity to Ground: The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Hegel's Science of Logic鈥�
Eliza Starbuck Little (Warwick) 鈥� 鈥淪eeing with the Eyes of Reason, or, Hegelian Conceptual Amelioration鈥�
Timothy Stoll (Warwick) 鈥� 鈥淢yth and Metaphysics in The Birth of Tragedy鈥�
Anthony Bruno (Royal Holloway) 鈥� book workshop on Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant
Sean D. Kelly (Harvard) 鈥� 鈥淭he Proper Dignity of Human Being鈥�
Nicolas de Warren (Penn State) 鈥� 鈥淭he Phenomenology of the After-Life鈥�
Toril Moi (Duke) 鈥� 鈥淪imone de Beauvoir and the Experience of Otherness鈥�
Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins) 鈥� 鈥淭he Transcendence of Spinoza's God鈥�
Kris McDaniel (Notre Dame) 鈥� 鈥淓dith Stein and the Philosophy of Time鈥�
Warwick Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar 2022-23
Mark Kelly (Western Sydney University) - "We, Voluntary Victorians: Foucault鈥檚 History of Sexuality Volume 1 Revisited"
Tobias Keiling (Warwick) - "Gadamer on Openness as Epistemic Virtue"
Maudemarie Clark (University of California) - "Art and Affirmation: Does Nietzsche Overcome his Early Nihilistic Account of Tragedy in his Later Work?"
Charlotte Knowles (Groningen) - "How to Dress Like a Feminist: Towards a Relational Account of Complicity"
Dean Moyer - "Consent and Content: Expressive Validity in Hegel's Theory of Justice"
Thomas Khurana - "Spirit is Artist: On the Aesthetic Dimension of Ethical Life and Why the State is not a Work of Art"
Andreja Novakovic (University of California) - "Hegel on Transformative Experiences"
Alison Stone (Lancaster) - "The Philosophy of Helene Druskowitz"
Warwick Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar 2021-22
Michelle Kosch (Cornell) - "Recognition after Fichte"
Tuomo Tiisala (Helsinki) - "Truth, the Whole Truth, and "Politics of Truth": Foucault on the Revaluation of Values"
Johanna Oksala (Loyola University Chicago) - "The Subjects of Capitalism: From Marx to Foucault"
Samantha Matherne (Harvard) - "The Normativity of Color: Phenomenological Perspectives"
Mark Wrathall (Oxford) - "The 'Existential' versus the 'Modal' Interpretation of Heidegger's Conception of Death"
Gordon Finlayson (Sussex) - "Understanding Meaning in the History of Philosophy"
Andrew Huddleston (Warwick) - "The Idea of a 'Religion of Art': The Case of Wagner"
Elena Ficara (Paderborn)/Robert Stern (Sheffield) - "Hegel on Being" (Response by Stephen Houlgate)
Rachel Cristy (KCL) - "Nietzsche and William James on Scientism as Fanaticism"
Workshop Genealogy (3-4 June 2021)
Papers by Amy Allen (Penn State), Sacha Golob (KCL), Guy Longworth (Warwick), Daniele Lorenzini (Warwick), Matthieu Queloz (Oxford), Daniel Rodriguez-Navas (New School), Sabina Vaccarino Bremner (Groningen), Lee Wilson (Edinburgh)
Conference Beyond the Punitive Society (7 January 2021)
A joint session of Abolition Democracy 13/13 with the with Miguel de Beistegui, Claire Blencowe, Henrique Carvalho, Stuart Elden, Daniele Lorenzini, Goldie Osuri, Irene Dal Poz, Federico Testa, and Bernard E. Harcourt.
Warwick Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar 2020-2021
Robert C. Miner (Baylor University) - "In the South: Nietzsche and the Homines Religiosi in The Gay Science V"
Thomas Nail (University of Denver) - "Lucretius our Contemporary"
Naomi Waltham-Smith (Warwick) - "The Rhythm of Democracy - The Pulse of Deconstruction"
Wahida Khandker (Manchester Metropolitan University) - "Sketches of Lived Time"
Manon Garcia (Harvard Society of Fellows) - "Masculinity as an Impasse: Beauvoir's Understanding of Men鈥檚 Situation in The Second Sex"
Miguel de Beistegui (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - "The Spirit of Revenge and its Political Destiny: Between Spinoza and Nietzsche"
Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge) - "Kant's Idea of Unity"
Fiona Hughes (Essex) - "The Significance of the Use of Relief for the Structure of Intentions in Late Palaeolithic Cave Art"
Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson (Syracuse) - "Contested Legacies: Constellations of Terrorism in the Postbellum United States" Response by Quassim Cassam (Warwick)
Warwick Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar 2019-2020
Simon Critchley (New School for Social Research) - "Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us". Responses by Andrew Cooper (Warwick) and David Fearn (Warwick)
Stephen Houlgate (Warwick) - "Kant and Hegel on the Antinomies of Reason"
B茅atrice Han-Pile (Essex) - "鈥楾he Doing is Everything鈥�: A Middle-Voiced Reading of Agency in Nietzsche"
Jeffrey A. Bell (Southeastern Louisiana University) - "Making Sense of Politics: Towards a Deleuzian-Humean Political Theory"
Daniele Lorenzini (Warwick)/David Owen (Southampton) - "Genealogy as Re-Problematization: Autonomy, Aspect-Change and Limits"
Nina Power (Roehampton) - "Philosophies of the Wolf: Hobbes, Freud, and Deleuze & Guattari"
Simone Kotva (Cambridge) - "An Enquiry Concerning Nonhuman Understanding: Philosophy, Ecstasy, and Ecological Thinking"
Upcoming Events
Warwick Post-Kantian Seminar - Nicolai Krejburg (Aarhus)
Warwick Post-Kantian Seminar - David Collins (Cambridge)
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