Upcoming events in Metaphysics and Epistemology

15 Oct

CFP: Arkete: Philosophy of Perception: Representation, Reality, and Cognitive Structure

Topics: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind

16 Oct

Conference: 15th Annual Florida State University Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Agency Conference

The Philosophy Graduate Student Association, Florida State University

Topics: Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind, Normative Ethics

16 Oct

Conference: 13th Biennial Graduate Epistemology Conference, University of Rochester

Department of Philosophy, University of Rochester

Topics: Epistemology

16 Oct

Conference: The Architecture of Propositional Thought: From Cognitive Maps to Language and Reasoning

HybridPhilosophy, The University of Missouri Columbia

Topics: Philosophy of Mind

19 Oct

OnlineTU Dortmund

Inferences & Capacities

Eva Schmidt (TU Dortmund)

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind

20 Oct

CFP: Diakrisis: Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy

Topics: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Continental Philosophy

21 Oct

Symposium: Deep Disagreement and the Limits of Argumentation

Department of Normativity and Human Rights Research, INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY OF THE SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, V.V.I.

Topics: Epistemology, Logic and Philosophy of Logic, Social and Political Philosophy

21 Oct

Conference: 4th International Conference on Ancient Philosophy & Other

HybridDepartment of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split

Topics: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Science, Logic, and Mathematics

21 Oct

Conference: Experimenting Philosophy of Religion: Altering Politics, Ecology and Aesthetics in Transition

Vienna Doctoral School of Theology and Research on Religion, University of Vienna

Topics: Philosophy of Religion

22 Oct

Conference: Rationality and Normativity Conference

Philosophical Department, University of Hradec Králové

Topics: Epistemology, Meta-Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

22 Oct

Conference: 17th Annual McGinley-Rice Symposium on Justice for Vulnerable Populations

Duquesne University School of Nursing

The Face of the Person Who Has Experienced Disaster

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology, Philosophy of Social Science, Value Theory

26 Oct

Conference: Innovation and tradition: intersections, interactions and disputes in culture

HybridEscuela de Humanidades y Educación, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Campus Cuernavaca

Topics: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Social Science, Social and Political Philosophy

28 Oct

Conference: 1st Annual Algorithmacy Conference

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology, Science, Logic, and Mathematics

28 Oct

Conference: 1st Annual Algorithmacy Conference

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology, Science, Logic, and Mathematics

28 Oct

CFP: 1st Annual Algorithmacy Conference

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology, Science, Logic, and Mathematics

29 Oct

Conference: Rational Action and Belief – Recognising and Responding to Reasons

Department of Philosophy, Heidelberg University

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Action

29 Oct

Conference: Difficult Actions: Definition, Value, and Rationality

Vrije University Amsterdam

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Action, Value Theory, Miscellaneous

30 Oct

Conference: Can social ontology change the world?

Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University

Topics: M&E, Miscellaneous, Philosophy of Social Science, Social and Political Philosophy

31 Oct

CFP: Special Issue of Análisis Filosófico: “Oppressive Argumentation: Silencing and Oppressive Speech in Argumentation”

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

31 Oct

CFP: The Philosophy of the History of Philosophy (Archivio di Filosofia 1/2027)

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology

1 Nov

CFP: Epistemic Injustice and AI

Department of Philosophy of Mind and Language, Radboud University

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Social and Political Philosophy

1 Nov

CFP: Rutgers Analytic Theology Symposium 2027

Rutgers Center for Philosophy of Religion

Rutgers Analytic Theology Symposium

Topics: Philosophy of Religion

4 Nov

Conference: The 4th annual conference of the The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind

OnlineInternational Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind

Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science

5 Nov

Conference: Hegel on Historicity

Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University, Athens

10th Conference of the International Network Hegel’s Relevance

Topics: 19th Century Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Social and Political Philosophy

5 Nov

Conference: Ideal Meanings and Real Contents: The Transcending Ability of Mind and Language

Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology

5 Nov

Conference: Biological Naturalism about Consciousness

Department of Philosophy, UCLA

Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Computing and Information

6 Nov

Conference: Central New York Philosophy of Language Workshop

Department of Philosophy, University of Rochester

Topics: Philosophy of Language

6 Nov

Conference: Social Categories of the Future

Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz

Topics: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality, Social and Political Philosophy

7 Nov

Conference: University of Pennsylvania Metaphysics Workshop

University of Pennsylvania

Topics: Metaphysics

10 Nov

CFP: Synthese Topical Collection: "Contemporary debates, Rylean Ideas"

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology

11 Nov

Conference: VII Simposio Internacional Ilusión, Autoengaño y Verdad

HybridDepartament of Philosophy, Postgraduates Programs, Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB)

Simposios Internacionales del Grupo de Investigación Filosófica USB-USAL-USACH

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology

12 Nov

Conference: Praise and Praiseworthiness Workshop, CFA

Aarhus University

Topics: Philosophy of Action, Meta-Ethics, Normative Ethics

12 Nov

Conference: Satellite Sessions of The Sacra Doctrina Project for the American Catholic Philosophical Association

Catholic University of America

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Philosophical Traditions

14 Nov

Conference: Asian Epistemology Network Meeting 2026

School of Philosophy, Zhejiang University

Asian Epistemology Network Meeting

Topics: Epistemology

16 Nov

Talk: Is ascribing inferences to brains or non-human animals a fallacy?

OnlineTU Dortmund

Inferences & Capacities

Hans-Johann Glock (University of Zürich)

Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science

17 Nov

Conference: Otherness

Conferences, Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience

Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Continental Philosophy

19 Nov

Conference: Normative Reasons and Morality

Department of Philosophy, Goethe University of Frankfurt

Topics: Epistemology, Meta-Ethics, Normative Ethics

19 Nov

Conference: Grimoires as scholarship, scholarship as grimoires

FACULTY OF THEOLOGY AND RELIGION, University of Oxford

The Oxford Symposium of Occult Studies

Topics: Philosophy of Religion

20 Nov

Conference: Boundaries of Artificial Intelligence: From Computational Models to Mind Emulation and Superintelligent Systems

Department of Cognitive Science, University of the National Education Commission

Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science

27 Nov

Conference: Learning from History: The Philosophies of Historiography and the Historical Sciences

Foundation for the Philosophy of Historical Sciences and Historiography, University of Ostrava

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology, General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science

27 Nov

CFP: Kant, la nature, la physique

Department of Philosophy, Universitat de Valencia

Research Group "Kant-València"

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Physical Science

28 Nov

Conference: Anti-Democratic Communication

HybridUniversity of Waterloo

Topics: Philosophy of Language, Social and Political Philosophy

7 Dec

Conference: Embodiment and Cognition in Hegel's Philosophy of Mind

Institute of Philosophy, University of Luxembourg

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology

14 Dec

Talk: Twitches, Fidgets, Habits, Skills: Exploring the scope of common-sense psychology

OnlineTU Dortmund

Inferences & Capacities

Emma Borg (University of Reading)

Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science

15 Dec

CFP: Fiction and Lies: the ASIFF/SIRFF Fourth International Congress

School of Philosophy Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh

The Association for Studies in Fiction and Fictionality (ASIFF) / La Société Internationale des Recherches sur la Fiction et la Fictionnalité (SIRFF)

Topics: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics

15 Jan 2027

CFP: Synthese Topical Collection: Against the Grain: Developing the Prospects of Non-Naturalistic Metaphysics of Science

Topics: Metaphysics, General Philosophy of Science

16 Jan 2027

CFP: CFP Discipline Filosofiche, XXXVII, 1, 2027: Phenomenological Analyses of Emotions in their Ontological and Metaphysical Implications, ed. by Giuliana Mancuso

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Miscellaneous, M&E, Miscellaneous, Value Theory, Miscellaneous

28 Jan 2027

Conference: Collective Agency in Classical and Continental Philosophy (Vilnius, 2027)

Vilnius University

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind

31 Jan 2027

CFP: The Aesthetics of Contamination

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology, Philosophical Traditions, Value Theory

17 Feb 2027

Conference: Sein und Zeit Today: Relevance and Resonance

FISPPA Department (Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology), University of Padua

Topics: 20th Century Philosophy, M&E, Miscellaneous, Philosophical Traditions, Miscellaneous