Upcoming events in Metaphysics and Epistemology

15 Apr

CFP: Call for Papers: "Philosophy of Translation" (2-2026)

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Aesthetics

16 Apr

Conference: Thinking About God: Historical Perspectives

HybridSchool of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh

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

16 Apr

Conference: AI and Philosophy

Department of Philosophy, University of New Orleans

Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Computing and Information, Applied Ethics

17 Apr

Conference: Philosophy and Emotion at Nottingham

Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Applied Ethics

17 Apr

Conference: Theory and Practice after the Practice Turn – Where Social Theory and Empirical Philosophy meet

OnlineNormative Orders, Goethe University of Frankfurt

Topics: Epistemology, Metaphilosophy, General Philosophy of Science

17 Apr

Conference: New Work on Discrimination

Yale University

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

22 Apr

Conference: Debating Dynamic Semantics

CUNY, Graduate Center, Saul Kripke Center

Topics: Philosophy of Language, Logic and Philosophy of Logic

23 Apr

Conference: Workshop on AI Agents and Companions

University of Hong Kong

Topics: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Computing and Information, Value Theory, Miscellaneous

23 Apr

Conference: Souls and psychological phenomena in Greek antiquity

University of South Florida

The Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at the University of South Florida

Topics: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind

24 Apr

Conference: 8th Annual Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop: Montreal Edition!

McGill University

Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop

Topics: Epistemology, Meta-Ethics, Value Theory, Miscellaneous

24 Apr

Conference: Ethics, Epistemology, and Engineering

Department of Philosophy, University of Delaware

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Miscellaneous, Applied Ethics

25 Apr

CFP: "Where Is the AI? Metaphysics, Individuation, and the Unity of Artificial Systems" (Special Issue, Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy)

Topics: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Computing and Information

25 Apr

Conference: 19th Gateway Graduate Conference: The Wonder of Language

Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri St. Louis

Topics: Philosophy of Language

30 Apr

CFP: Hegel and contemporary theories of cognition

Topics: 19th Century Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science

30 Apr

CFP: Continental Philosophy of Action

Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Topics: Philosophy of Action, Continental Philosophy, European Philosophy

1 May

Conference: Rutgers Epistemology Conference 2026

Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University — New Brunswick

Topics: Epistemology

4 May

Conference: SIFA-SISFA Workshop on Platonism in Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mathematics: Ancient and Contemporary

Department of Philosophy, Communication, and Performing Arts, Roma Tre University

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology

7 May

Conference: Reason in Perception

Department of Philosophy (Section Phenomenology), University of Graz

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science

12 May

Conference: Diachronic Emergence

SPiN, University of Namur

Topics: Metaphysics, General Philosophy of Science

12 May

Conference: Hyperintensionality and (Meta)-Metaphysics

Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University

Topics: Metaphilosophy, Metaphysics, Logic and Philosophy of Logic

14 May

Conference: STAL 2026

University of Granada

Topics: Philosophy of Language, Social and Political Philosophy

15 May

Conference: Theoretical Rationality and Practical Reason

Department of Philosophy, Sofia University

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Action, General Philosophy of Science

15 May

Conferences, Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience

Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Continental Philosophy

17 May

Conference: SLACRR 2026

UMSL, WUSTL, SLU

Topics: Epistemology, Meta-Ethics

20 May

Conference: ISSUES ON THE (IM)POSSIBLE XII

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology

21 May

Conference: Salzburg Workshop on Inner Speech

Department of Philosophy, University of Salzburg

Topics: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science

21 May

Conference: British Analytic Theology Symposium (BATS) 2026

Department of Philosophy, University of York

British Analytic Theology Symposium

Topics: Philosophy of Religion

26 May

Conference: SUSANNE K. LANGER: Artistic Angles, Philosophical Circles, Poetic Dots, and Technical Lines

HybridDepartment for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics at TU Wien

The Susanne K. Langer Circle

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Science, Logic, and Mathematics

26 May

Conference: SUSANNE K. LANGER: Artistic Angles, Philosophical Circles, Poetic Dots, and Technical Lines

Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics at TU Wien

The Susanne K. Langer Circle

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Science, Logic, and Mathematics

26 May

Conference: New Perspectives in Philosophy of Psychiatry (AAPP 2025/ VMST-14)

HybridCenter for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas

Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry Annual Conference

Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Science, Miscellaneous

27 May

Conference: "Speech and Politics" with Miranda Fricker

Sciences Po's 12th Graduate Conference of Political Theory

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Value Theory

27 May

Conference: 8th Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe) annual workshop

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences

Topics: Epistemology, M&E, Miscellaneous, General Philosophy of Science

28 May

Conference: The Wisdom, and Madness, of Crowds: a workshop on group beliefs, echo chambers and collective identities

Erasmus School of Philosophy (ESPhil), Erasmus University Rotterdam

Topics: Epistemology, Social and Political Philosophy

28 May

Conference: Workshop on Meaning, LLMs, and Experience

Department of Philosophy, Paderborn University

Topics: Philosophy of Language, European Philosophy, Normative Ethics

31 May

CFP: Special Issue on Imagination, Creativity and Artificial Intelligence (Philosophical Psychology)

Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Computing and Information

1 Jun

CFP: Synthese Topical Collection on Neuroscience and Its Philosophy

Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Computing and Information, Philosophy of Science, Miscellaneous

1 Jun

CFP: Nostalgia of the Infinite: Philosophical Investigations into Metaphysics and Historicity

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Miscellaneous, Metaphysics, Philosophical Traditions, Miscellaneous

4 Jun

Conference: Information Segregation: Mechanisms and Consequences

African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg

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

8 Jun

Conference: University of Missouri 2026 Virtual Summer School on the Foundations of the Mind Sciences

OnlineUniversity of Missouri, Columbia

Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Computing and Information

8 Jun

Conference: ISTP 2026 Conference: Theorizing in Dark Times – Art, Narrative, Politics

Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute

Biannual Conference of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology

Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Social Science

9 Jun

Conference: Metaphysics Colloquium: Apologetics and the Rathional Defense of the Tenets of Christian Faith

Institute for Saint Anselm Studies, Saint Anselm College

Metaphysics Colloquium: Saint Anselm College

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion

10 Jun

Conference: 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

10 Jun

Conference: Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 4

HybridDepartment of Linguistics & MindCORE, University of Pennsylvania

Topics: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science

11 Jun

Conference: Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Novel (Bio)ethical Solutions for Novel Challenges

https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/reid-hall, Columbia University

Existential Threats and Other Disasters: Novel (Bio)ethical Solutions for Novel Challenges

Topics: Epistemology, General Philosophy of Science, Applied Ethics

15 Jun

Conference: Ethnographilosophy

Freie Universität Berlin

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

15 Jun

Conference: Valencia Philosophy Lab Summer School: Mind and Rationality

Valencia Philosophy Lab, Department of Philosophy, Universitat de Valencia

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind

15 Jun

Conference: From Virtual to Virtue: Ethics, Epistemology, Education

Centre for Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence and the Ethics of New Technologies, University of Ljubljana

Topics: Epistemology, Applied Ethics, Normative Ethics

15 Jun

Summer School: Summer School: Mereology and Beyond

Institute of Philosophy (ISFI), University of Italian Switzerland, Lugano

Topics: Metaphysics

15 Jun

Conference: Conference on Deep Metaphysics

Bonaire, Buddy's Dive Resort

Topics: Metaphysics

17 Jun

Conference: PLM8 - 8th Philosophy of Language and Mind Network Conference

Department of Philosophy, Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona)

Topics: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind