Upcoming Events
Losing Oneself: Philosophy and Self-Alienation
I am co-organizing a conference (with Jens Pier) on the fragility of recognition and hence of being a self. It will be hosted by Royal Holloway University of London. Details coming soon.
Book Panel
There will be a panel for my new book, Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant, at the University of Potsdam on 20 June 2025. Panellists will be James Kreines (Claremont McKenna), Johannes-Georg Schülein (Bochum), and Andrew Werner (Houston). Event page here.
London Post-Kantian Seminar
I co-direct the London Post-Kantian Seminar (with Andrew Cooper), a workshop series that rotates through philosophy departments across London, showcasing new work by established scholars, early career researchers, and graduate students specializing in post-Kantian thought. Its inaugural four years (2019-23) are funded by an AHRC Research Networking Grant. The first annual LPKS public talk was given by Markus Gabriel (Bonn) on 15 November at Senate House, entitled "Who is Afraid of Artificial Intelligence? On Being Human in a Digital Age". The second annual LPKS public talk will be given by Vanessa Wills (George Washington) on 25 October at Senate House (title TBA). See upcoming workshop information at the LPKS website here.
Past Events
The Guises of Nihilism in Late Modern Thought
I am co-organizing a conference (with Richard Elliott) on the guises of nihilism in late modern thought. It will be a London Post-Kantian Seminar event hosted at Keynes Library, Birkbeck University of London, on 7 March 2025. It will be funded by the British Society for the History of Philosophy and by Royal Holloway University of London. Speakers will be Eliza Little (Warwick), Kate Withy (Georgetown), Richard, and myself. Registration link here.
Book Manuscript Workshop
There was a workshop for my book manuscript, Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant at the University of Warwick in January 2024. Discussants were Tobias Keiling (Warwick) and Eliza Starbuck Little (Warwick). Event page here.
Book Manuscript Workshop
There was a workshop for my book manuscript, Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant, hosted by Nick Stang at the University of Toronto in September 2022. Discussants were Tarek Dika (Toronto), Karen Ng (Vanderbilt), and Owen Ware (Toronto). Event page here.
Royal Holloway Philosophy Speaker Series
I organized the Royal Holloway Philosophy Speaker Series 2018-2022. Recordings of talks are available on RHUL's Philosophy Youtube Channel. The 2021-22 schedule was as follows:
Luke Roelofs (NYU): "The Gendering of Violence and Consent: What We Can Learn From the #BBCCoverUp", 12 November 2021
Thi Nguyen (Utah): "Transparency is Surveillance", 14 January 2022
Quill Kukla (Georgetown): "Telling Gender: The Pragmatics and Ethics of Gender Ascriptions", 4 March 2022
APA Panel for the North American Kant Society
I co-organized a panel (with Sabina Vaccarino Bremner) for the North American Kant Society on reason as self-making, held at the APA Eastern Division Meeting in New York in January 2021. The schedule was as follows:
Michelle Kosch (Cornell) - "Autonomy and Recognition after Kant"
Pierre Keller (UC Riverside) - "Kantian Constructivism and the Dynamic Structuralism of the Copernican Revolution"
Sabina Vaccarino Bremner (Groningen) - "Critique as Epistemic Virtue: Kant and Foucault on the Autonomy of Thought"
G. Anthony Bruno (RHUL) - "Making Itself Explicit: Fichte on Reason, Maturity, and Rational Cognition"
Program here.
Kant and Post-Kantian Philosophy Workshop
I organized a workshop on Kant and post-Kantian philosophy at Royal Holloway in January 2020, funded by the Royal Institute of Philosophy. The schedule was as follows:
9:15: Peter Dews (Essex) - "The Paradox of Autonomy in Hegel and in Schelling’s Late Philosophy"
10:45: Robert Stern (Sheffield) - "The Achilles' Heel of Transcendental Idealism"
1:30: Paul Franks (Yale) - "From World-Soul to Universal Organism: Towards an Understanding of Schelling's Philosophy of Nature"
3:00: G. Anthony Bruno (RHUL) - "Facticity and Genesis: Tracking Fichte’s Method in the Berlin Wissenschaftslehre"
Event page here.
APA Panel for the North American Neo-Kantian Society
I organized a panel for the North American Neo-Kantian Society on the neo-Kantian bridge between German idealism and phenomenology. It was held at the APA Pacific Division Meeting in Vancouver in April 2019. Panelists were Samantha Matherne (Harvard), Scott Edgar (Saint Mary's), David Suarez (Toronto), and myself. Program here.
Summer Institute on Spinoza and German Idealism
With Nick Stang, I organized the Summer Institute on Spinoza and German Idealism at the University of Toronto in May 2016, which brought together scholars and graduate students to examine Spinoza’s writings and their impact on Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling. Our keynote speakers were Eckart Förster (Johns Hopkins University) and Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins University). Program here.
Schelling, Nature, and Naturalism
I organized Schelling, Nature, and Naturalism, a conference on the concepts of nature and naturalism in the work of F.W.J. Schelling at the University of Bonn in July 2015. It was supported by the Institute for Science and Ethics and the International Centre for Philosophy North Rhine-Westphalia.
Skeptical Solutions: Provocations of Philosophy
I co-organized Skeptical Solutions: Provocations of Philosophy (with A.C. Rutherford), a conference on skepticism at the University of Bonn in November 2014. It was funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the German Research Foundation, and the International Centre for Philosophy North Rhine-Westphalia.
Losing Oneself: Philosophy and Self-Alienation
I am co-organizing a conference (with Jens Pier) on the fragility of recognition and hence of being a self. It will be hosted by Royal Holloway University of London. Details coming soon.
Book Panel
There will be a panel for my new book, Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant, at the University of Potsdam on 20 June 2025. Panellists will be James Kreines (Claremont McKenna), Johannes-Georg Schülein (Bochum), and Andrew Werner (Houston). Event page here.
London Post-Kantian Seminar
I co-direct the London Post-Kantian Seminar (with Andrew Cooper), a workshop series that rotates through philosophy departments across London, showcasing new work by established scholars, early career researchers, and graduate students specializing in post-Kantian thought. Its inaugural four years (2019-23) are funded by an AHRC Research Networking Grant. The first annual LPKS public talk was given by Markus Gabriel (Bonn) on 15 November at Senate House, entitled "Who is Afraid of Artificial Intelligence? On Being Human in a Digital Age". The second annual LPKS public talk will be given by Vanessa Wills (George Washington) on 25 October at Senate House (title TBA). See upcoming workshop information at the LPKS website here.
Past Events
The Guises of Nihilism in Late Modern Thought
I am co-organizing a conference (with Richard Elliott) on the guises of nihilism in late modern thought. It will be a London Post-Kantian Seminar event hosted at Keynes Library, Birkbeck University of London, on 7 March 2025. It will be funded by the British Society for the History of Philosophy and by Royal Holloway University of London. Speakers will be Eliza Little (Warwick), Kate Withy (Georgetown), Richard, and myself. Registration link here.
Book Manuscript Workshop
There was a workshop for my book manuscript, Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant at the University of Warwick in January 2024. Discussants were Tobias Keiling (Warwick) and Eliza Starbuck Little (Warwick). Event page here.
Book Manuscript Workshop
There was a workshop for my book manuscript, Facticity and the Fate of Reason After Kant, hosted by Nick Stang at the University of Toronto in September 2022. Discussants were Tarek Dika (Toronto), Karen Ng (Vanderbilt), and Owen Ware (Toronto). Event page here.
Royal Holloway Philosophy Speaker Series
I organized the Royal Holloway Philosophy Speaker Series 2018-2022. Recordings of talks are available on RHUL's Philosophy Youtube Channel. The 2021-22 schedule was as follows:
Luke Roelofs (NYU): "The Gendering of Violence and Consent: What We Can Learn From the #BBCCoverUp", 12 November 2021
Thi Nguyen (Utah): "Transparency is Surveillance", 14 January 2022
Quill Kukla (Georgetown): "Telling Gender: The Pragmatics and Ethics of Gender Ascriptions", 4 March 2022
APA Panel for the North American Kant Society
I co-organized a panel (with Sabina Vaccarino Bremner) for the North American Kant Society on reason as self-making, held at the APA Eastern Division Meeting in New York in January 2021. The schedule was as follows:
Michelle Kosch (Cornell) - "Autonomy and Recognition after Kant"
Pierre Keller (UC Riverside) - "Kantian Constructivism and the Dynamic Structuralism of the Copernican Revolution"
Sabina Vaccarino Bremner (Groningen) - "Critique as Epistemic Virtue: Kant and Foucault on the Autonomy of Thought"
G. Anthony Bruno (RHUL) - "Making Itself Explicit: Fichte on Reason, Maturity, and Rational Cognition"
Program here.
Kant and Post-Kantian Philosophy Workshop
I organized a workshop on Kant and post-Kantian philosophy at Royal Holloway in January 2020, funded by the Royal Institute of Philosophy. The schedule was as follows:
9:15: Peter Dews (Essex) - "The Paradox of Autonomy in Hegel and in Schelling’s Late Philosophy"
10:45: Robert Stern (Sheffield) - "The Achilles' Heel of Transcendental Idealism"
1:30: Paul Franks (Yale) - "From World-Soul to Universal Organism: Towards an Understanding of Schelling's Philosophy of Nature"
3:00: G. Anthony Bruno (RHUL) - "Facticity and Genesis: Tracking Fichte’s Method in the Berlin Wissenschaftslehre"
Event page here.
APA Panel for the North American Neo-Kantian Society
I organized a panel for the North American Neo-Kantian Society on the neo-Kantian bridge between German idealism and phenomenology. It was held at the APA Pacific Division Meeting in Vancouver in April 2019. Panelists were Samantha Matherne (Harvard), Scott Edgar (Saint Mary's), David Suarez (Toronto), and myself. Program here.
Summer Institute on Spinoza and German Idealism
With Nick Stang, I organized the Summer Institute on Spinoza and German Idealism at the University of Toronto in May 2016, which brought together scholars and graduate students to examine Spinoza’s writings and their impact on Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling. Our keynote speakers were Eckart Förster (Johns Hopkins University) and Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins University). Program here.
Schelling, Nature, and Naturalism
I organized Schelling, Nature, and Naturalism, a conference on the concepts of nature and naturalism in the work of F.W.J. Schelling at the University of Bonn in July 2015. It was supported by the Institute for Science and Ethics and the International Centre for Philosophy North Rhine-Westphalia.
Skeptical Solutions: Provocations of Philosophy
I co-organized Skeptical Solutions: Provocations of Philosophy (with A.C. Rutherford), a conference on skepticism at the University of Bonn in November 2014. It was funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the German Research Foundation, and the International Centre for Philosophy North Rhine-Westphalia.
