[PHILOS-L] UPCOMING ONLINE READING GROUP: Language and Thought Before and After Kant

[alice cambi]

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We are pleased to announce that our online fortnightly reading group, “Language and Thought Before and After Kant”, is starting again on 13/11/2025. 

The reading group is organized by the Linguistic Kant Consortium, a research initiative within the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University, Belgium. It brings together a PhD and a Postdoctoral project, both funded by the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO), obtained by Alice Cambi and Levi Haeck Gormez respectively, under the supervision of Professor Gertrudis Van de Vijver.

The central aim of the consortium is to explore the intersection of Kant’s transcendental philosophy and philosophy of language and/or linguistics. This area of study has seen a growing wave of interest in recent years, and the Linguistic Kant Consortium seeks to propel it by (a) organizing the aforementioned fortnightly reading group dedicated to Kant's reflections on language, as well as his intellectual sources (e.g., Locke, de Condillac, Rousseau), key interlocutors (e.g., Herder, Hamann), and the developments in post-Kantian philosophy (e.g., von Humboldt, Hegel). To enrich the discussions, the reading group will also (b) feature regular lectures by leading experts, who will provide valuable insights and context to the texts under scrutiny.

This semester we will be reading Herder’s essay Treatise on the Origin of Language in four sessions. 

We warmly invite all interested students and colleagues to join us for the discussions (a) or lectures (b). To be included in the mailing list, receive the Teams link, and the schedule of the reading group, send an email to [Levi....@UGent.Be] or [Alice...@UGent.Be].

Warm regards,

Alice, Levi & Gertrudis

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