GUESTS 2022-2023

Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books and articles on German idealism and later German philosophy, including Kant's Theory of Form; Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness; Modernism as a Philosophical Problem; and Idealism as Modernism: Hegelian Variations.  In addition he has published on issues in political philosophy, theories of self-consciousness, the nature of conceptual change, and the problem of freedom. He was twice an Alexander von Humboldt fellow, is a winner of the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities, and was recently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the American Philosophical Society. He is also a member of the German National Academy of Arts and Sciences.


Rozemund Uljée works as University Lecturer in Continental Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy, Leiden University, the Netherlands. She is the author of: Thinking Difference with Heidegger and Levinas (SUNY, 2020), and different articles and book chapters in the domain of phenomenology and post-phenomenology.  


Anne Clausen successfully defended her dissertation on Subjectivity and Conscience in Hegel and Levinas in 2021 and she is currently working as a research assistant at the University of Göttingen. Her current research, for which she focuses mainly on authors in the phenomenological and existentialist tradition, is on Time and the Good Life.


Gregory S. Moss is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before joining the faculty at CUHK in 2016 he was a lecturer in philosophy at Clemson University from 2014-2016. He completed PhD in philosophy in August 2014 under Distinguished Research Professor Richard Dien Winfield and was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Bonn, Germany (2013-2014). Gregory Moss's scholarly work is mainly focused on systematic metaphysical and epistemological questions that stem from the Post-Kantian German and Ancient Greek philosophical traditions. He is the author of Hegel's Foundation Free Metaphysics,: The Logic of Singularity, ( Routledge 2020), which won the Hegel PD prize for 2022.  


Marina F. Bykova is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University and the Editor-in-chief of two philosophical journals: Studies in East European Thought (Springer) and Russian Studies in Philosophy (Routledge). Her main area of specialization is the history of the nineteenth century continental philosophy, with a focus on German idealism, especially on Fichte and Hegel. Her most recent books include The German Idealism Reader: Ideas, Responses and Legacies (Bloomsbury, 2019), Hegel’s Philosophy of Spirit: A Critical Guide (ed., Cambridge UP, 2019), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Fichte (ed., Bloomsbury, 2020), and The Palgrave Hegel Handbook (co-ed. with K. Westphal; Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). She has also published books on Russian intellectual tradition, including Philosophical Thought in Russia in the Second Half of the 20th Century: A Contemporary Views from Russia and Abroad (co-ed. with V.A. Lektorsky; Bloomsbury, 2019) and The Palgrave Handbook of Russian Thought (co-ed. with M. Forster and L. Steiner; Palgrave MacMillan, 2021). Her new book, Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature: A Critical Guide is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2023.  


Dr. Timothy L. Brownlee is Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University, Cincinnati, USA, where he also directs the Philosophy, Politics, and the Public Honors Program. His articles on Hegel and German Idealism address a range of issues in ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics. His monograph, Recognition and the Self in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (Cambridge University Press, 2022), presents a new account of the dynamic of recognition in Hegel’s early masterwork. 


Robert Stern is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, where he has been since 1989. Prior to that he did his BA and PhD at Cambridge, and held a research fellowship at St John’s College Cambridge. His main research interests are in the history of philosophy - particularly Kant and Hegel, and also Kierkegaard, and more recently K. E. Løgstrup, Iris Murdoch, Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Luther. He connects these historical inquires with more systematic questions in metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, particularly topics such as realism vs idealism, the use of transcendental arguments, and the nature of moral obligation. His books include three works on Hegel; a collection of papers on Kant; a discussion of transcendental arguments; an investigation into Kant, Hegel and Kierkegaard on obligation; and a study of Løgstrup. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2019, and has served as President of the British Philosophical Association and of the Aristotelian Society. 


Gabriele Gava is Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin. He has published articles in leading philosophical journals on Kant, Peirce, pragmatism and epistemology. His first book, Peirce’s Account of Purposefulness: A Kantian Perspective, was published in 2014 by Routledge. His second book, Kant’s Critique of Pure reason and the Method of Metaphysics, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. He is Assistant Editor of the journal Studi Kantiani.


G. Anthony Bruno is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at Royal Holloway University of London and co-director of the London Post-Kantian Seminar. He is author of Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant, under contract with Oxford University Press. He has edited volumes on skepticism, transformation, and Schelling for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Routledge. He has published and forthcoming articles on Kant, German idealism, neo-Kantianism, and phenomenology in British Journal for the History of Philosophy, European Journal of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Philosophy Compass, Fichte-Studien, and elsewhere.


John Walsh is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, where he was previously Coordinator of the International Graduate School Obligation of Societal Norms. He earned his Ph.D. in 2018 from the University of South Florida with a dissertation on Kant’s and Reinhold’s theories of free will. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at Brown University and at the University of Fribourg. His current research investigates free will and its relation to morality in Classical German Philosophy.


Ivan Boldyrev is Assistant Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen. He is the author of Ernst Bloch and His Contemporaries (2014); Hegel, Institutions and Economics (with Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, 2014); and Die Ohnmacht des Spekulativen: Elemente einer Poetik von Hegels Phänomenologie des Geistes (2021). He also recently co-edited, with Sebastian Stein, Interpreting Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (2021). Apart from German Idealism and critical theory, he also works on the history and philosophy of economics. 


Philipp Weber is a research assistant at the Institute for German Literature at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in 2016 from Humboldt-University with a dissertation on cosmologies in German Romanticism. At the moment he is a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen, Germany. He is the author of Kosmos und Subjektivität in der Frühromantik (2017); and has also co-edited Raum und Würde. Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zum Verhältnis von Normativität und räumlicher Wirklichkeit. (2019); Hundert Jahre „transzendentale Obdachlosigkeit“. Georg Lukács‘ ‚Theorie des Romans‘ neu gelesen (2018); Kosmos und Kontingenz. Eine Gegengeschichte (2016).


Professor Marcela García-Romero was born and raised in Mexico City. She earned a BA in Philosophy at the University of Navarre, Spain. She received her PhD in Philosophy in 2008 from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany, where she then worked as assistant professor. In 2012, she returned to Mexico to teach at Universidad Iberoamericana. From 2014 to 2016 she was a full-time research fellow at the Institute for Philosophical Research in Mexico's National University (UNAM). Before coming to LMU, she was a researcher and professor at UNAM and at Universidad Michoacana in Morelia, Mexico, where she coordinated the PhD in Philosophy program. Professor García-Romero's work centers on two main areas of philosophy. One main focus is German idealism, particularly the philosophy of the late Schelling and discussions regarding reality, life, human activity, freedom, and the limits of reason. Her other area of specialization is Ontology, specifically discussions on what it is to be and to exist, and the degree to which our concepts can grasp actual being. Professor García-Romero has published extensively on these topics in German, English and Spanish. She is a member of the editorial board of the academic journal Philosophisches Jahrbuch and a member of the executive committee of the North American Schelling Society. She is currently working on a book project on the late Schelling's reception of Aristotelian metaphysics.