Summer School “Fichte on Deduction”

4- 5 August 2022

A Summer School on “Fichte on Deduction” will be held in Vienna from August 4 to August 5, 2022 (Thursday-Friday). In addition to lectures, there will be reading sessions in which previously published essays or new work by the speakers will be discussed.

The event will be held in English.

Venue: Alte Kapelle, Universitätscampus, Wien/Vienna, Österreich/Austria

August 4, 2022

  • 09.30-10.00 - Opening
  • 10.00-12.20 - Lecture and reading session
    Violetta Waibel. Fichte’s Analytic-Synthetic Method in his ‚Grundlage‘ and some hidden suppositions
    Session chair: Rojin Mazouji
  • 14.00-16.20 - Lecture and reading session
    Jürgen Stolzenberg. The Problem of Deduction in Fichte's Early Wissenschaftslehre: From Fichte’s “Eigne Meditationen über ElementarPhilosophie (1793/94)” to the History of Self-Consciousness
    Session chair: Andrea Araf
  • 16.40-19.00 - Lecture and reading session
    Stefan Lang. Fichte's deductions in §4 of the „Grundlage der gesamten Wissenschaftslehre“
    Session chair: Harald Schmidt


August 5, 2022

  • 10.00-12.20 - Lecture and reading session
    Daniel Breazeale. Construction in Intuition: On the Method of the Jena Wissenschaftslehre
    Session chair: John Walsh
  • 14.00-16.20 - Lecture and reading session
    Gabriel Gottlieb. Fichte's Logic of Recognition
    Session chair: Esma Kayar
  • 16.40-19.00 - Lecture and reading session
    Christian Klotz. The Deduction of Apperception in Fichte’s late Philosophy
    Session chair: Gesa Wellmann


Limited number of participants. More information: stefan.lang@univie.ac.at

This event is the first of two to be held at the University of Vienna as part of an FWF-funded project on deduction in Early German idealism (1789-1795). https://pf.fwf.ac.at/de/wissenschaft-konkret/project-finder/51598
The second event will take place in Vienna in October 2022. The topic of the second workshop will be “Reinhold and Maimon on Deduction”. Further information will be announced at a later date.