We are very glad to give notice of the International Conference Schelling on Freedom and Autonomy, which will take place on November 14th-15th, 2025, at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Unter den Linden, 6; Raum 2249a).
The event is organized by Tobias Rosefeldt, Johannes-Georg Schülein, in cooperation with the research group “Human Abilities”.
For further information, please visit the website of the event.
To register, please email alice.gutzmer@student.hu-berlin.de.
Below you can find the presentation of the event and the program.
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Schelling ranks among the major figures of classical German philosophy. Today, he is arguably best known for his philosophies of nature, art, mythology, and philosophical theology. At the same time, he is famous—and infamous—for having revived strong metaphysical ambitions in post-Kantian philosophy, confidently drawing on Spinoza and Plato. Yet it has, to this day, been widely underestimated that he also engaged seriously with practical philosophy. On the occasion of his 250th birthday—and 184 years after he delivered his inaugural lecture at the University of Berlin—this conference is dedicated to Schelling’s practical philosophy and explores what he still has to tell us today about freedom and autonomy.
9:30 – 9:45 Uhr Begrüßung und Einführung
9:45 – 11:00 Uhr Thomas Buchheim (LMU München): Schellings Untersuchungen über die menschliche Freiheit – Rückfall in vorkantische Schwärmereien oder Fortschritt zu einer moderneren Auffassung von Moral und menschlicher Selbstverantwortung?
Kaffeepause / Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:30 Uhr Andreas Schmidt (Jena): Praktische Vernunft und die innere Dualität Gottes in Schellings Freiheitsschrift
Mittagspause / Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:15 Uhr Ulrich Schlösser (Tübingen): Schelling on the Combination of Idealism and Realism in the Conception of Freedom and the Real Possibility of Evil
Kaffeepause / Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:45 Uhr Charlotte Alderwick (UWE Bristol): Schelling on freedom, evil, and exhibition: a response to Stern
Kaffeepause / Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:15 Uhr Birgit Sandkaulen (Bochum): Vorzüge und Aporien der ‚intelligiblen Tat’ in Schellings Freiheitsschrift
Saturday, 15 November 2025
9:30 – 10:45 Uhr Karin Nisenbaum (Syracuse): What May I Hope for? Schelling’s Answer to Kant’s Question
Kaffeepause / Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:15 Uhr Tobias Rosefeldt (HU Berlin): Die Form des Willens als dessen Inhalt. Schellings Auseinandersetzung mit Kants Autonomiekonzeption in der ‚Neuen Deduction des Naturrechts‘
Mittagspause
14:00 – 15:15 Uhr Johannes-Georg Schülein (Bochum): Die Verwerfungen der Willkür und die Versöhnung der Kunst: Moralischer Pessimismus in Schellings System des transzendentalen Idealismus
Kaffeepause / Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:45 Uhr G. Anthony Bruno (Royal Holloway, London): ‘Authentic
Mystery’: Schelling on the Intelligible Fatalism Dispute
Kaffeepause / Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:15 Uhr Kyla Bruff (Carleton, Ottawa): Freedom Beyond the Law in Schelling’s Late Philosophy
18:30 Uhr Ende der Tagung
