RESEARCH GROUP CRITICAL IDEALISM
The research group “Critical Idealism” (GEIC) specializes in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and different variants of transcendental philosophy. The group was established in 2014 and is part of the research line “Contemporary Theories of Rationality” of the Instituto of Philosophy. Current research topics include Kantian Philosophy, German Idealism, and Neo-Kantianism. The group develops projects at both national and international levels and organizes symposiums for the dissemination and exchange of its results. Reading and discussion seminars are held in which both undergraduate and graduate students and professors participate. The group’s activities are framed within cooperation agreements with the Germano-Latin American Network for Research and Doctoral Studies in Philosophy (FILORED), Leiden University (Netherlands), Free University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong), Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil), and Alberto Hurtado University.
Professors and Researchers
Hugo Herrera, School of Law.
Jacinto Páez Bonifaci, Institute of Philosophy.
Hernán Pringe, Institute of Philosophy. (Research Group Director)
Associated Members from other institutions
Juan Adolfo Bonaccini (†), Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil); Alejandra Baehr, Alberto Hurtado University (Chile); Mario Caimi, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina); Antonino Falduto, University of Ferrara (Italy), Juan Manuel Garrido, Alberto Hurtado University (Chile); Mario González Porta, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (Brazil); Heiner Klemme, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany); Christian Krijnen, Free University of Amsterdam (Netherlands); Luciana Martínez, University of Lisbon (Portugal); Fernando Moledo, FernUniversität in Hagen (Germany); Eduardo Molina, Alberto Hurtado University (Chile); Gregory Moss, City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong); Laura Pelegrín, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina); Marcos Thisted, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina); Nicolás Trujillo, Andrés Bello University (Chile).
Doctoral Students
Feyie Ferrán, Institute of Philosophy, UDP
Daniel Pantoja, Institute of Philosophy, UDP
Nicolás Silva, Department of Philosophy, UAH
Fernando Turri, Institute of Philosophy, UDP
Master’s Students
Juan Andrés Vargas, Institute of Philosophy, UDP
Publications
As a result of cooperation among group members, and beyond individual publications, the following collective volumes can be noted:
Problems of Reason: Kant in Context (Antonino Falduto ed.), Kant-Studien Ergänzungshefte, de Gruyter, Berlin, 2024 (in press).
The Being of Negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy, (Gregory Moss ed.), Springer, 2022.
Kant und Hegel über Freiheit (W. Flach y C. Krijnen, eds.), Critical Studies in German Idealism 29, 2021.
Investigaciones kantianas (F. Neto, H. Pringe, eds.), Editora UFPE, Recife, 2018.
Special Issue: Subjectivities, CR: The New Centennial Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, Fall 2017.
Perspectives néokantiennes (J.M. Garrido ed.), Hermann, Paris, 2017.
Crítica y Metafísica (C. Jáuregui, F. Moledo, H. Pringe, M. Thisted eds.), Olms, Hildesheim, 2015.
Completed Doctoral Theses
Nicolás Vargas’ thesis “The problems of the origin of knowledge in transcendental philosophy and its interpretation in Martin Heidegger’s lectures between 1925 and 1929”, defended at the Universidad Diego Portales (Chile) on December 17, 2018.
Constanza Terra’s thesis “Life, will to power, and disappropriation: a reading on the late-mature notion of life in Nietzsche”, defended at Leiden University (Netherlands) on May 15, 2019.
Nicolás Trujillo’s thesis “The life of an infinite task: the problem of consciousness in Paul Nattorp’s General Psychology”, defended at Leiden University (Netherlands) on December 9, 2020.
Jacinto Páez’s thesis “Wilhelm Windelband’s historical philosophy: the Path from Neo-Kantianism to Neo-Hegelianism”, defended at FernUniversität in Hagen (Germany) on June 2, 2021.
Diego Pérez’s thesis “Hermeneutic reaches of Carl Schmitt’s legal thought”, defended at FernUniversität in Hagen (Germany) in June 2022.
Laura Pelegrín’s thesis “Paul Natorp´s Reformulation of the Kantian Distinction between Intuition and Concept”, defended at Leiden University (Netherlands) on July 6, 2023.
Ongoing FONDECYT Projects
Friedrich Hölderlin and the problem of access to being. Critical study based on three interpretations. Fondecyt Project 1230072.
Activities 2024
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