Upcoming events in Metaphysics and Epistemology

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

4 Nov

Conference: 4th ISPSM Online Conference

OnlineInternational Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind

Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Biology, 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: Primo Convegno della Società Italiana di Fenomenologia: "Fenomenologia, logica e psicologia"

Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università Degli Studi Di Napoli Federico II

Topics: 20th Century Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Logic and Philosophy of Logic

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: Non-intentional modes of consciousness in phenomenology: affectivity, imagination, unconscious, embodiment

Department of Philosophy, Eotvos Lorand University of Sciences

Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Continental Philosophy

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

21 Nov

Conference: 11th De La Salle University Undergraduate Conference

HybridDepartment of Philosophy, De La Salle University

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

25 Nov

Conference: Simposio Internacional MemoriEs 2026

OnlineUniversity of Western Australia

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

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

3 Dec

Talk: He metaphysical project of digital worlds

Literature, Publishing & Translation Commission | LPT, Saudi Ministry of Culture

The Riyadh International Philosophy Conference

Codrin Dinu Vasiliu (Romanian Academy - Iasi Branch)

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology

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

1 Jan 2027

CFP: CFP: Fate and Narrative Identity

Topics: Metaphysics, European Philosophy, Value Theory

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

31 Jan 2027

CFP: Clinical Pragmatics and the Cognitive Sciences

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

10 Feb 2027

Conference: Conspiracies, Facts, and Truth III

HybridPhilosophy, University of Waikato

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language

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

18 Feb 2027

Conference: Charter 77 at 50: Transnational Human Rights, Social Imagination, and Civic Resistance in the (Post-)Global Age

The Institute of Contemporary History and the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences

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

18 Feb 2027

Conference: Relational Normativity: Epistemic and Practical

Department of Philosophy, Universität Zürich (UZH), Philosophisches Seminar

Topics: Epistemology, Meta-Ethics, Normative Ethics

22 Feb 2027

Conference: CAELO 1: First Andean Congress for Epistemology and Logic

Society for Epistemology and Logic

CAELO: Andean Congress for Epistemology and Logic

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Science, Logic, and Mathematics

1 Mar 2027

CFP: Mind without Inner Representation? Psychological Discourse, Rationality, and Mental Anti-Representationalism (Special Issue of JCCP)

Topics: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind

1 Mar 2027

CFP: Special issue of Agatheos: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion: "Philosophy of Mind Meets Philosophy of Religion"

Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion

3 Mar 2027

Conference: Rethinking Agency under Non-Ideal Conditions

Department of Philosophy (Section Phenomenology), University of Graz

Topics: Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind, Social and Political Philosophy

4 Mar 2027

Conference: 36th Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual International Conference

The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE)

APPE Annual Conference

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology, Applied Ethics, Normative Ethics

4 Mar 2027

Conference: 2027 Meeting of the Society for Philosophy of Religion

Society for Philosophy of Religion

Topics: Philosophy of Religion

5 Mar 2027

Conference: Artificial Intelligence and The Philosophy of Technology/Künstliche Intelligenz und die Philosophie der Technik

HybridEKO-Haus der Japanischen Kultur e.V.

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

23 Mar 2027

Conference: Epistemic Injustice and AI

Department of Philosophy of Mind and Language, Radboud University

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

25 Mar 2027

Conference: The Metaphysical Society of America

College of Arts & Sciences, Gonzaga University

Habits of Being and the Being of Habits

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Metaphysics, M&E, Miscellaneous

2 Apr 2027

Conference: JAM (Junkyard Anniversary Meeting) - Philosophy of Imagination Conference

Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, Claremont McKenna College

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics

23 Apr 2027

Conference: Authority, Expertise, and Deference in Politics

Department of Philosophy, University of Richmond

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology, Value Theory