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We are glad to inform that the International PhD-workshop “Rediscovering Fichte” will be held at the Free University of Brussels (Campus Etterbeek, room 5C402) on December 8^th, 2016.

The event is organized by The Centre for Ethics and Humanism & The Centre for Logics and Philosophy of Science (VUB), with financial support of the Doctoral School of Human Sciences (VUB).

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Programme

I. Lunch Session: On Fichte’s Intellectual Relation to Kant

12:00 Welcome: Emiliano Acosta & Liesbet De Kock (Free University of Brussels)

12:15 Manja Kisner (Ludwig Maximilian Universität München): The Overlooked Importance of Fichte for the Ongoing Debate on Transcendental Idealism

12:45 Luis Fellipe Garcia (Université Catholique de Louvain): From the Critique of Pure Reason to the Presentation of the System of the Human Spirit – Fichte’s Conceptual Transformation of Critical Philosophy

13:15 Gesa Wellman (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): Towards Practical Idealism: Fichte’s Interpretation of Kant’s Metaphysical System

13:45 Tom Giesbers (Utrecht University): Fichte’s Response to Realism

II. Revaluating Fichte

14:30 Bianca Bellini (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano): Fichte’s Veiled Prominence: Education through Archetypes

15:30 Niklas Sommer (Philipps Universität Marburg): The Horen-Dispute and the Role of Aesthetics

16:00 Selda Salman (Middle East Technical University, Ankara): Fichte on Imagination: Does the Centrality of Imagination solve Kantian Problems?

III. On specific aspects of Fichte’s philosophical system

16:45 Rory Phillips (University College London): Fichte’s Moral Metaphysics

17:15 Esther Shallan (Oxford Brookes University): Fichte on Property Rights

IV. Closing Lecture

18:00-19:00 Diogo Ferrer (Universidade de Coimbra): Paradox, Incompleteness and Labyrinth in Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre

Registration and further information

Registration: no fee, but needed (max. 20 participants).