Speakers
Sorin Baiasu (Keele University)
is Professor of Philosophy at Keele University (UK). He is the Director of the Keele-Oxford-St Andrews Kantian (KOSAK) Research Centre, Secretary of the UK Kant Society and Co-convenor of the Kantian Standing Group of the European Consortium for Political Research. He is author of Kant and Sartre: Re-discovering Critical Ethics (2011) and editor or co-editor of several volumes, including The Kantian Mind (with Mark Timmons, forthcoming),Kant on Practical Justification (again with Mark Timmons, 2013), as well as Politics and Metaphysics in Kant (with Howard Williams and Sami Pihlström, 2011). He published articles in, among others, Kant-Studien, Kantian Review, Studi Kantiani and The Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain.
Jenny Bunker (Roehampton University)
is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Roehampton, having obtained a PhD from the University of Southampton in 2015 for a thesis entitled Schopenhauer’s Spinozism. Along with Anna Pakes and Bonnie Rowell, she edited the collection ‘Thinking Through Dance: the Philosophy of Dance Performance and Practices’. Her research is currently focused on the account of salvation to be found in Arthur Schopenhauer’s World as Will and Representation.
Alex Englander (University of Bonn)
is originally from London and studied mostly in Cambridge, though he also enjoyed a period as a visiting scholar in Berkely. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on the topic of theodicy in Leibniz, Kant and Hegel. Since then, he has been a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bonn. His primary interest is in Kantian and Hegelian theories of autonomy.
Tom Giesbers (Utrecht University)
obtained his doctorate from Utrecht University with a dissertation entitled 'The Wall or the Door: German Realism around 1800', which focussed heavily on the type of realism that was founded by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi. Before that, he studied philosophy at Tilburg University and Radboud University and literature and film at Leiden University. His interests span the history of philosophy of the 18th, 19th and 20th century and typically focus on the intersections between theory and practice, as well as the relationship between meta-philosophical and social issues.
Halla Kim (Sogang University, Seoul/University of Nebraska at Omaha)
is Professor of Philosophy at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea, and University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA. He is the author of the monograph, Kant and the Foundations of Morality (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2015) and also published an anthology (with S. Hoeltzel), Kant, Fichte and the Legacy of Transcendental Philosophy (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2014). His two more recent edited volumes include Explorations in Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics (with C. Hutt and B. D. Lerner) (London: Routledge, 2017) and Transcendental Inquiry: Its Origin, Method, and Critiques (with S. Hoeltzel) (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Manja Kisner (LMU Munich)
obtained her PhD from LMU Munich in 2016. Her dissertation on the development of the notion of will from Kant and German Idealists to Schopenhauer was published as a monograph (Der Wille und das Ding an sich, Königshausen & Neumann Verlag, 2016). Since 2014 she is lecturing at LMU Munich and she was a visiting scholar at KU Leuven in 2017. Since October 2017 she is a postdoctoral researcher at LMU Munich (BGF grant).
Markus Kohl (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
began his studies in Munich and Trier before completing a B.Phil. (Masters) in philosophy and a Masters in literary studies at Oxford. He obtained his PhD in philosophy from UC Berkeley in 2012. From 2012 to 2017, he was assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; since Fall 2017 he is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His current research is focused on Kant's doctrine of freedom.
Amit Kravitz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem/LMU Munich)
studied Philosophy and History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He spent research stays at the University of Freiburg, the University of Heidelberg, and the University of Munich. Together with Jörg Noller he is the editor of "The Concept of Judaism in Classical German Philosophy" (2017).
Ansgar Lyssy (LMU Munich)
I studied philosophy and literature at the TU Berlin, where I also got my doctorate degree in 2011. The topic of my thesis was 'causation and teleology in Leibniz' and a reworked version of this thesis came out as a book in 2016. In 2012, I had a position as interim professor at LMU Munich, in 2013-14 I was a postdoc at the Université de Montréal, and from 2014 on I have been a postdoctoral researcher (wiss. Mitarbeiter) here at LMU again, working on Kant and the Enlightenment, funded by a generous research grant from the German Research Foundation. I also edited Friedrich Bouterwek's "Idee einer Apodiktik", Vol. I, which should be out very soon.
Jörg Noller (LMU Munich)
studied Philosophy, German Literature, German History and Protestant Theology in Tübingen and Munich. He spent research stays at the University of Chicago and Notre Dame. He published his Dissertation on Kant's Conception of Freedom and its Critics in 2015. Since then, he is writing his Second Book (Habilitation) on Personal Life Forms.
John Walsh (Tampa/Florida)
is originally from Kentucky and completed his Bachelor's degree at the University of Kentucky. He is a PhD student at the University of South Florida, where he is writing his dissertation on Kant's and Reinhold's theories of free will. John is currently doing doctoral research at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Daniel Wenz (Buenos Aires/Hagen)
after receiving his M.A. in philosophy from the University of Bonn (M.A.) he spent some time as visiting scholar at the University of Pittsburgh (USA) and the UCA (Argentina). He obtained his PhD from the UCA and the FernUniverität in Hagen (Doppelpromotion) with a comparative thesis on Hegels Science of Logic and Robert Brandoms expressive semantics. His recent research concerns the form of diagraphical reasoning in Mathematics (especially category theory) in the context of the philosophy of mathematics of German (esp. Kant and Hegel) and British (esp. Bradley and Bosanquet) Idealism.
Günter Zöller (LMU Munich)
Günter Zöller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Munich. He studied at the University of Bonn, the École normale supérieure, Paris and Brown University. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton University, Emory University, Seoul National University, McGill University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Bologna, Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Venice International University. His book publications include Objective Reference in Kant (in German, 1984), Fichte's Transcendental Philosophy (1998), The State as a Means to an End. Fichte on Freedom, Right and Law (in German, 2011), Critical Spirit. Knowing and Acting in Kant, Fichte and Nietzsche (in Croatian, 2012), Fichte lesen (in German, 2013, in Japanese, 2014, in Spanish, 2015, in Italian, 2017), Res Publica. Plato's "Republic" in Classical German Philosophy (2105), The Cambridge Companion to Fichte (with David James, 2016) and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy. From Kant to Nietzsche (in German, forthcoming).