Guests 2023-2024

Luigi Caranti (Ph.D. Boston University) is professor of political philosophy at the Università di Catania. He has worked as visiting researcher in various international institutions including Columbia University and the Goethe Universität Frankfurt. His area of specialization is the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. while areas of expertise include human rights and contemporary theories of justice. Principal investigator of various EU funded projects, Caranti is currently PI of the MC RISE grant “Kant in South America”. His most recent publications include The Kantian Federation (CUP 2022) and the co-edition of three volumes on Kant and the the contemporary world (Routledge 2022). 

Paul Guyer is the Jonathan Nelson Professor emeritus of Humanities and Philosophy at Brown University, as well as Florence R.C. Murray Professor of Humanities emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.  He earned his AB and PhD degrees at Harvard University.  He is the author of many books on Kant as well as A History of Modern Aesthetics (3 vols., 2014) and A Philosopher Looks at Architecture (2021), and was General Co-Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant (1992-2016).  His book Kant's Impact on Moral Philosophy will be published by Oxford University Press in 2024. 

Brigitta Keintzel was in charge of two research projects, 2005-2008: Gender in Hegel and Levinas, 2014-2020: Gender: G.W.F. Hegel, Franz Rosenzweig and Jacques Derrida, financed by the FWF Austria, and she is guest editor of Levinas Studies 15, Levinas in dialogue with other philosophers with the contribution therein "Dialogue as the 'Dialectic of the Soul' or the 'Root of Ethics'- Hegels Legacy and Levinas’s Veto", further publications in Levinas Studies 11 "Like a Virgin. Levinas's Anti-Platonic Understanding of Love and Desire", Levinas Studies 14, "The Other as Categorical Imperative - Levinas's Reading of Kant," Rosenzweig Yearbook 2018 "Duration and Moment. Rosenzweig's Understanding of the And", ¡n German, and articles in Hegel Yearbook 2010 and 2019 (forthcoming). Most recently, she has submitted her Habilitation: Why we need resistance for thinking and acting. Hobbes, Kant, Hegel, Rosenzweig, Levinas. 

Andreja Novakovic is Associate Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley, affiliated with Berkeley’s Program in Critical Theory, as well as section editor in Continental philosophy for Philosophy Compass and member of the board of directors of the Internationale Hegelvereinigung.  She is the author of Hegel on Second Nature in Ethical Life (Cambridge University Press).  Currently she is working on Hegel’s concept of experience in his Phenomenology of Spirit and thinking about its connection to the tradition of feminist standpoint theory.  She is also interested in film and is writing a volume about Chantal Akerman for the Bloomsbury Series “Philosophical Filmmakers”. 

Karen Koch is a research and teaching fellow (Assistentin/PostDoc) associated with the chair of history of philosophy at the University of Basel. From 2016-2022, she was a research and teaching fellow (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Free University Berlin. In 2022/23, she was a Fritz-Thyssen fellow at the Free University. She received her PhD in 2021 at the Free University Berlin with a thesis on Denken in Zwecken. Bedeutung und Status der Teleologie in der theoretischen Philosophie Kants und Hegels (published by Meiner, 2023). Her work focuses mainly on Classical German Philosophy and there on metaphysical, epistemological, but also feminist issues. 

Sally Sedgwick is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Boston University. She has held visiting positions at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the universities of Bonn, Bern and Luzern. Her publications include three monographs: Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: An Introduction (2008, Cambridge), Hegel’s Critique of Kant (2012, Oxford), and Time in History in Hegelian Thought and Spirit (2023, Oxford). She is editor of the volume, The Reception of Kant’s Critical Philosophy: Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel (2000). With Dina Emundts, she co-edited the International Yearbook of German Idealism/Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus from 2013-19. 

Christopher Yeomans is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. He is the author of three monographs from Oxford University Press on German philosophy: Freedom and Reflection: Hegel and the Logic of Agency (2012), The Expansion of Autonomy: Hegel’s Pluralistic Philosophy of Action (2015), and The Politics of German Idealism: Law & Social Change at the Turn of the 19th Century (2023).  He is also the author of papers in critical theory (with Justin Litaker) and Hegel’s philosophy of nature and mathematics (with Ralph Kaufmann). 



Rafeeq Hasan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Amherst College. As a scholar of political philosophy and its history, he is particularly interested in the themes of freedom, property, and equality in both the Anglo-American and European traditions. His work has appeared in venues including The Philosophical Review, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, and European Journal of Philosophy. His next major project is book manuscript entitled Reconciling Freedom & Equality: Why American Liberalism Needs German Political Philosophy. During the 2023-2024 academic year, he is pursuing a Master of Studies in Law at Yale Law School.






Panagiotis Thanassas is a Professor of History of Philosophy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Born in 1967  in Patras, Greece, he studied Law in Athens and Philosophy in Tübingen, where he received his Ph.D. in 1996 with a dissertation on Parmenides. He has also taught at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2003-18) and at the Universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg, Cyprus, and Munich (LMU, Vertretungsprofessur, 2015). His research interests focus on Greek philosophy (PreSocratics, Plato, Aristotle), German Idealism (Hegel), Heidegger, and Philosophical Hermeneutics. He is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and has also received fellowships from IKY, Evangelisches Studienwerk “Villigst”, DAAD, DFG, and Princeton University (Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Fellow, 2019). See also https://thanassas.gr/en.



Patricia Kitcher is Roberta and William Campbell Professor Emerita of Humanities and Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Columbia University. She is the author of Freud’s Dream: A Complete Interdisciplinary Science of Mind, and two books on the relation between Kant’s theories of cognition and of the self, Kant’s Transcendental Psychology (1990) and Kant’s Thinker (2011). She is currently at work on a third book on Kant’s self that takes account of recent work on the subject, including Katharina Kraus’s new book on self-knowledge and self-formation in Kant. Her work on Kant’s psychological theories extends considerations of his moral psychology.   



Addison Ellis received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019. Before going to The American University in Cairo (AUC), he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City, and a lecturer at the University of Illinois. His research is focused on Kant and post-Kantian European Philosophy (especially Heidegger). Within these areas, Ellis places particular emphasis on the study of self-consciousness and what Kant calls its ‘spontaneity.’ He is interested in how these themes figure not only in Kant’s theoretical philosophy, but also in his practical and religious thought and, more broadly, how these Kantian ideas are taken up, transformed, or rejected by the post-Kantian tradition. 

Luca Forgione is an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Languages and Philosophy of Mind at the Department of Humanities of the University of Basilicata (Italy). Additionally, he teaches Philosophy of Mind at the University of Naples, Federico II (Italy). He obtained his doctorate in philosophy of language from the University of Naples, Orientale. His research primarily centers on the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and self-knowledge, with a specific focus on Kant and Wittgenstein. His published works include various articles in international journals, along with three contributions presented at the 11th, 12th and 14th International Kant Congresses organized by the International Kant Society. His most recent book is titled "Kant and the Problem of Self-Knowledge" (London/New York, Routledge). 


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, was published in 2023 by Cambridge University Press. He is Associate Editor of the journal Studi Kantiani.



J. Colin McQuillan is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio  Texas. His research focuses on German philosophy in the eighteenth century, especially Baumgarten’s aesthetics and Kant’s critical philosophy. He is the author of Immanuel Kant: The Very Idea of a Critique of  Pure Reason (2016) and Early Modern Aesthetics (2015); the editor of Baumgarten’s Aesthetics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives (2021); and the co-editor of  Critique in German Philosophy (with Maria del Rosario Acosta, 2020) and The Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics (with Joseph Tanke, 2012).