We are glad to give notice of the 3rd International Chicago-Stuttgart Conference Classical German and Early Analytic Philosophy, which will take place at the Universität Stuttgart (Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 24 D, Raum “Casino”), on July 9-11, 2026.
The conference is organized by James Conant (University of Chicago), Thomas Dittler (Universität Stuttgart), Christian Martin (Universität Stuttgart), and Ana Vieyra (Universität Stuttgart).
Young scholars interested in the conference topic are very welcome to participate as listeners and discussants. To attend, please register before June 25, 2026, by writing to Thomas Dittler at st197123@stud.uni-stuttgart.de.
Below you can find the description and the program of the event.
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For some time, Classical German and Early Analytic Philosophy seemed to represent two fundamentally different schools of thought. However, a more profound analysis reveals a continuity in their philosophical explorations. Both paradigmatic authors of Classical German Philosophy, such as Kant and Hegel, as well as pioneers of Analytic Philosophy, such as Frege and Wittgenstein, engaged deeply with questions about the nature of thinking, the role of language for thought, the feasibility of a science of logic beyond mathematical boundaries, and the complex interplay between thought and being.
The graduate conference aims to promote dialogue among early career scholars on the historical and systematic connections between Classical German Philosophy (especially the works of Kant and Hegel) and Early Analytic Philosophy. The conference will focus on the continuing relevance of both traditions of thought for systematic problems in current philosophical discussion. This year, the conference shall focus on paradigmatic topics such as the nature of logic as a philosophical inquiry of thought, the relation between logical forms and the sensible aspect of experience, the philosophical comprehension of the conditions for action and right, and the integration between the forms of subjective thought and the objective world.
The conference is hosted by the Chair of Philosophy and History of Philosophy at the University of Stuttgart (Prof. Christian Martin). Several senior scholars, including James Conant (Chicago), Matthias Haase (Chicago), and Marvin Tritschler (Stuttgart), will participate in the event as discussants.
Program
Thursday, July 9
09.15 – 09.30: Christian Martin & Ana Vieyra, Welcome and Introduction
Ethical Life
09.30 – 10.45: Isabel Sharp (University of Chicago), How to Ground Kant’s Formula of Humanity
Moderator: Sebastian Bürkle
11.00 – 12.15: Andrew Werner (University of Houston), Right’s Reason: Hegel on the Family
Moderator: Christoph Wagner
Themes from Hegel’s Logic
14.00 – 15.15: Thomas Dittler (Universität Stuttgart), What is the Speculative in Hegel’s Philosophical Logic?
Moderator: Marvin Tritschler
15.30 – 16.45: Marco-Lorenz Seikel (Universität Stuttgart), Self-Consciousness as Original Division
Moderator: Pia Schneider
17.00 – 18.15: Michael Kolodziej (University of Chicago), Life as a Logical Concept: The Hegelian Alternative to Thompson’s Fregean Approach
Moderator: Ana Vieyra
Friday, July 10
Systematic Unity in Thought and Nature
09.30 – 10.45: Hayes Phillips (University of Chicago), Systematicity and Discursivity
Moderator: Felix Mair
11.00 – 12.15: Marc Thiele (Universität Stuttgart), Continuity, the Continuous, and the Continuum – Kant and Hegel
Moderator: Alexey Weissmüller
Topics from Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy
14.00 – 15.15: Alexey Weissmüller (Universität Potsdam), Kant and the Schematization of the Categories
Moderator: Florian Ganzinger
15.30 – 16.45: Pia Schneider (UC Berkeley), Grasping Incongruence: Kant’s Argument in §13 of the Prolegomena
Moderator: Giuliano Infantino
17.00 – 18.30: Karl von der Luft & Adam Katwan (University of Chicago), Beyond Identity and Difference: The Metaphysics of Kant’s Transcendental Distinction
Moderator: Marco-Lorenz Seikel
Saturday, July 11
Acts of Speaking and Thinking
10.00 – 11.15: Florian Ganzinger (Universität Stuttgart), Speaking and Answering as Self-Consciously Joint Acts
Moderator: Konstanty Kuzma
11.30 – 12.45: Christoph Wagner (Universität Stuttgart), Acts and Rules: A Critique of Peter Hanks’s Neo-Russellian Account of Propositional Content
Moderator: Riuhong Xu
Kant and the Arts
14.15 – 15.30: Emily Shein (University of Chicago), Inexhaustible Poetry and Aesthetic Ideas in Kant’s Hierarchy of the Arts
Moderator: Michael Kolodziej
For further information, please visit the website of the event.
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