The workshop “Kant on Inner Sense, Self-Consciousness, and Self-Affection” will take place at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on December 9–10, 2025. The workshop will bring together discussions of inner sense, self-affection, and self-consciousness in Kant’s critical philosophy. These themes have attracted considerable attention in the literature, yet they continue to raise questions and invite divergent — sometimes contradictory — interpretations. The workshop will address such issues as the features and content of inner sense; the functioning of self-affection; the contributions of both inner sense and self-affection to the formation of conscious representations as well as to empirical and transcendental self-consciousness; Kant’s notion of an indeterminate empirical inner intuition (or the perception of the self) in its relation to the formal, pure structure of self-consciousness. Furthermore, by examining the distinction between the formal unity of apperception and inner intuition, the workshop will shed light on the complex interplay between activity and receptivity in self-consciousness.
The organizers are Tobias Rosefeldt and Marharyta Rouba (HU Berlin).
The program will include a reading session of excerpts from Kant on inner sense and self-affection, as well as presentations by the following speakers: Janum Sethi (University of Michigan), Tobias Rosefeldt (HU Berlin), Yibin Liang (Beijing Normal University), Jonas Indregard (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Juuso Rantanen (King’s College London / HU Berlin), and Marharyta Rouba (HU Berlin).
All the information about the workshop and registration (online or in person) can be found on the following page:
https://www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/de/arbeitsbereiche/idealismus/veranstaltungen/workshop-kant-on-inner-sense-self-consciousness-and-self-affection-1We look forward to lively discussions!
