Center

Recent years have seen a new wave of interesting work on post-Kantian philosophy, overcoming various dividing lines that have limited our perspective. The Potsdam Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy offers a new home to this critical engagement with the post-Kantian tradition in all of its diversity and complexity. It seeks to develop its insights and its limitations in relation to the pressing epistemic, social, political and ecological concerns of our time. To that end, the Center hosts a variety of conferences, workshops and lecture series and brings together a diverse group of international research fellows in Potsdam every year, working on individual and collaborative projects and elaborating what we can know, shall do, may hope.

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The Limits of Autonomy

Materialist and Negativist Perspectives

October 22-23, 2026 Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
Conference Conferences

Material Intentionality IV: Production

Dec 10-11, 2026 Paris-Center, University of Chicago
Fines Hominis Lecture Fines Hominis Lectures

Philippe Descola: Human Natures

Fines Homines Lecture

February 4, 2027 University of Potsdam

Machiavelli 500

Republicanism: Past, Present, and Future

June 21-22, 2027 University of Potsdam
Conference Conferences

First, Second, and Third Person

June 7-8, 2027 University of Potsdam
Conference Conferences

Loss of Self, Loss of World

July 8-9, 2027 Wissenschaftsetage

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