We are glad to give notice of the workshop Boundary Concepts in Classical German and Analytic Philosophy, which will take place at Royal Holloway, University of London on 13 February 2026.

The event will be held in the Founder’s Building (Large Boardroom), Egham Hill (TW20 0EX).

Please find below the program of the workshop.

Schedule

10:00 am — Introduction

10:15 am — Talk
Elisabeth Widmer (LSE), Kant’s General Will as a Boundary Concept of the Noumenal Republic

11:45 am — Coffee break

12:00 pm — Talk
G. Anthony Bruno (RHUL), A First Principle Without Existence is Empty, Existence Without a First Principle is Blind: Schelling’s Critique of Hegel

1:30 pm — Lunch break

3:00 pm — Talk
Jessica Leech (KCL), Belief in Transcendental Idealism

4:30 pm — Coffee break

4:45 pm — Talk
Jens Pier (RHUL), “Surely There Is No Human Being Who…”: Fichte versus Diamond on Misrecognition and the Limits of Humanity

6:15 pm — Open discussion and closing

7:00 pm — Conference dinner

The workshop is free and open to all.
To register, please email the organizer at jens.pier@rhul.ac.uk.