Curriculum vitae
Alexander Maximilian Hutterer. A full version is available on request.
Research areas
Kant, Fichte, German Idealism, epistemology.
Employment
2025–
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Chicago
Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Early Career Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy. Project: Fichte’s Development of the Concept of Objectivity. Mentor: Thomas Pendlebury.
Education
2020–25
PhD Philosophy, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
Thesis: Knowledge and Cognition in Kant. Supervisors: Angela Breitenbach, Paulina Sliwa, Jessie Munton. Examiners: Rae Langton (internal), John Callanan (external).
Jan–Apr 2022
Visiting PhD Student, University of Toronto
Topic: Virtual Idealism — Fichte’s Idealism and Virtual Objects. Supervisor: Owen Ware.
2019–20
MPhil Philosophy, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
Dissertation: What Grounds Epistemic Normativity? Supervisor: Jessie Munton. Matthew Bunscombe Prize for Best Performance in the MPhil.
2015–18
BA Philosophy, Politics and Economics, King’s College London
Dissertation: Why Does Kant Think That the Impossibility of the Highest Good Would Entail the Falsity of the Moral Law? Supervisor: Jessica Leech. Best Overall Undergraduate Performance in Year 3 (PPE).
Publications
Forthcoming
Objective Reality as Nomic Actuality
In Proceedings of the 14th International Kant-Congress: Kant’s Project of Enlightenment, ed. Christoph Horn, Margit Ruffing and Reiner Schäfer. Berlin: De Gruyter. Peer-reviewed.
In review
Kant’s Concept of Concrete Judgement (Fürwahrhalten)
See Research for work in progress.
Awards and funding
2020–24
Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Full fee and maintenance award
2020–24
UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council
Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership (OOCDTP), full fee award
2022
UKRI and Mitacs research grant
Exchange placement in Toronto
2019–20
Matthew Bunscombe Prize for Best Performance in the MPhil
University of Cambridge
2019–20
Baillie Gifford Cambridge UK Masters Award
Fees plus maintenance grant
2019–20
Baillie Gifford Cambridge European Masters Studentship
£6,000 fee grant
2018
Best Overall Undergraduate Performance in Year 3 (PPE)
King’s College London
Talks
Jun 2026
Fichte’s Zero-Sum Principle of Right?
Fichte and Social Thought: Seventeenth Biennial Meeting of the North American Fichte Society, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Dec 2025
Kant’s Pragmatic Taxonomy of Opining, Believing, and Knowing
Three Centuries of Kant: Knowledge, Science, and Values. Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade.
Sep 2024
Objective Reality as Nomic Actuality
14th International Kant Congress, Bonn.
Apr 2024
Is Kantian Assent a Propositional Attitude?
Graduate Seminar, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.
Jul 2023
Kant’s Concept of Objective Reality
Kant in Progress Workshop, Humboldt University, Berlin.
Jan 2023
Kant’s Concepts of “Objective Reality” and “Nature in Its Most General Sense”
Graduate Seminar, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.
Teaching
2026–27
Nature, Feeling, and Freedom: German Idealism Between Kant and Hegel
Course, Spring Quarter, University of Chicago
2023–24
Virtue Ethics
Lectures, IB Paper 3 (“Ethics”), Philosophy Tripos, University of Cambridge
2022–23
Descartes’ Meditations
Discussion group for first-year students, University of Cambridge
2021–24
Supervisions, Cambridge Philosophy Tripos
II-4 European Philosophy from Kant; IB-1 Knowledge, Language, World; IB-7 Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Economics
Full details on the Teaching page.
Service to the profession
Reviewer for Philosophers’ Imprint, Kant-Studien and Kantian Review.
Languages
German (native), English (C2).
Referees
Contact details available on request.
Cambridge
Prof. Angela Breitenbach
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge. PhD thesis supervisor.
Cambridge
Prof. Rae Langton
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge. Internal PhD examiner.
London
Dr John Callanan
Department of Philosophy, King’s College London. External PhD examiner.
Toronto
Dr Owen Ware
Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto. Research placement supervisor.