Upcoming events in Metaphysics and Epistemology

20 Jul

Talk: Chains-of-Thought, Inner Speech, and Artificial Epistemic Agency

OnlineTU Dortmund

Inferences & Capacities

Cameron Buckner (University of Florida)

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

21 Jul

Conference: Heart of Science: Book Workshop

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Topics: Epistemology, General Philosophy of Science

21 Jul

Conference: ISOS Social Ontology 2026

Jagiellonian Centre for Law, Language and Philosophy, Jagiellonian University

ISOS Conference

Topics: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy of Law

24 Jul

Conference: Time Work: Debt, inheritance, and intergenerational practice

Nordic Summer University

Studies in Remoteness: Sensoria of absence, distance, and neglect

Topics: Epistemology, Aesthetics, Applied Ethics

27 Jul

Conference: School of Materialist Research Summer Institute 2026

HybridPhilosophy, Communications and Media, Cultural Studies, Logic and Language, School for Materialist Research, Arizona State University - CPT, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Goldsmiths University, Polytechnic Milan, Sandberg Institute - Amsterdam

The Limits Of the Political Summer School (July 27), Living Design: Ontological Design Redux (August 3), Realism, Materialism, Epistemology: What is Living and What is Dead in Contemporary Thought? (August 17P

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

31 Jul

CFP: Tourism, Religion, and Politics: The Influence of Political Environments on Religious Tourism

Topics: Philosophy of Religion

31 Jul

CFP: Call for Commentaries - Target Article: Francesco Berto, "Impossible Worlds Are Here to Stay"

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology, Logic and Philosophy of Logic

31 Jul

CFP: Philosophies: Temporal Ontology

Topics: Metaphysics

31 Jul

CFP: The Aesthetic Aspects of Metaphor: Philosophical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Dialogue

Topics: Philosophy of Language, Aesthetics

31 Jul

CFP: Philosophia Reformata special issue "Faith, Philosophy, and AI"

Topics: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion

31 Jul

CFP: Synthese Topical Collection - Artificial Joint Intentionality: Skilled Social Interactions in the Age of AI

Topics: M&E, Miscellaneous

31 Jul

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

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

31 Jul

CFP: 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

31 Jul

CFP: Nonsense in Language and Thought

Topics: Epistemology, Metaphilosophy, Philosophy of Language

1 Aug

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

Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology

3 Aug

Conference: Idols of Modernity: The Human Desire for Meaning and the Migration of the Holy (Summer School)

Forum for Christian Studies (foXs)

Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Social and Political Philosophy, Value Theory, Miscellaneous

7 Aug

Conference: Metaphysics of Logic

Department of Philosophy, Universität Bonn

Logic and Metaphysics

Topics: Metaphysics, Logic and Philosophy of Logic

8 Aug

CFP: 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

10 Aug

Conference: Folk Epistemology and Science Skepticism

Department of Philosophy, University of Cologne

Cologne Summer School in Philosophy (CSSiP)

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

20 Aug

Conference: Agential Capacities in Context

HybridUniversity of Turku

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

23 Aug

Conference: From Disciples to Followers: Questioning the Digital Experience of Religions Online

University Centre Saint Ignatius Antwerp

UCSIA Summer School

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

24 Aug

Conference: 12th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy (ECAP12)

Complutense University of Madrid

European Congress of Analytic Philosophy

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

27 Aug

Conference: Just Theorising 2026

IDEA: The Ethics Centre, University of Leeds

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophical Traditions, Social and Political Philosophy

28 Aug

Talk: 'Here and There:' Food, Safety and Community in Contemporary Performance Art 「あちらとこちら」：現代パフォーマンス・アートにおける食、安全、そしてコミュニティ

Hybrid Novum Iuridicum (Faculty of Law), Adam Mickiewicz University

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu (Stanford University)

Topics: Metaphysics, European Philosophy, Philosophy of Physical Science

30 Aug

CFP: 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

31 Aug

CFP: Relational Normativity: Epistemic and Practical

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

Topics: Epistemology, Meta-Ethics, Normative Ethics

31 Aug

CFP: ‘Mysticism of Open Eyes’ in: 'Universitas Gedanesis'

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

1 Sep

Conference: Fourth Austrian Summer School in Phenomenology

OnlineDepartment of Philosophy, University of Graz

Topics: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Meta-Ethics

1 Sep

CFP: Authority, Expertise, and Deference in Politics

Department of Philosophy, University of Richmond

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology, Value Theory

1 Sep

CFP: Kantian Journal. Special Issue "Immanuel Kant on Jesus Christ and Christianity"

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, European Philosophy

1 Sep

CFP: The Metaphysical Society of America

College of Arts & Sciences, Gonzaga University

77th Annual Conference

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

2 Sep

Conference: British Society for the Theory of Knowledge Biennial Conference 2026

Exeter College, University of Oxford

British Society for the Theory of Knowledge

Topics: Epistemology

2 Sep

Conference: MANCEPT Workshop - Epistemic Injustice and Backlash

University of Manchester

MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory

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

2 Sep

Conference: MANCEPT 2026: Political Ordinary Language

University of Manchester

MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory

Topics: Philosophy of Language, Social and Political Philosophy

3 Sep

Conference: 2nd Praxis International Conference "Enacting Emotions in Today’s World"

University of Évora

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology, Philosophical Traditions, Value Theory

4 Sep

Conference: Early Modern Naturalisms: Spinozist and Humean

Corvinus University of Budapest

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Epistemology, Metaphysics

7 Sep

OnlineTU Dortmund

Inferences & Capacities

Ulf Hlobil (Concordia University)

Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science

9 Sep

Conference: Group Agency and Metaethics

Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology, Value Theory

9 Sep

Conference: AISC 2026 - Natural and Artificial Intelligence: between Skills and Biases

University of Turin

Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Science:

Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science

10 Sep

Conference: The Given

Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion

10 Sep

Conference: Workshop “What is Good Reasoning?”

University of Bern

Topics: Epistemology, Meta-Ethics

10 Sep

Conference: Faces of Subjectivity. A workshop on inner awareness in the context of monistic theories of phenomenal consciousness

Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Topics: Philosophy of Mind

10 Sep

Conference: 10th Theistic Ethics Workshop

Department of Philosophy, Wake Forest University

Theistic Ethics Workshop

Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Value Theory

11 Sep

CFP: Special Issue of the Journal of Philosophy in Schools: Aesthetic Education

Topics: Epistemology, Aesthetics

11 Sep

Conference: 18th Midwest Epistemology Workshop

The Ohio State University

Topics: Epistemology

14 Sep

Conference: Truth, Use-Conditions, Hyperintensionality: Visegrad Inspirations in Philosophy of Language

Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw

Analytic Philosophy in Visegrad Countries

Topics: Philosophy of Language, Logic and Philosophy of Logic

15 Sep

Conference: Critical Political Epistemology

Professorship for Epistemology & Theory of Science, University of Freiburg (Germany)

Topics: Epistemology, General Philosophy of Science, Value Theory

15 Sep

Talk: A Puzzle Concerning Reason and the Emotions

Department of Law, Philosophy, and International Studies, University of Inland Norway

The Lillehammer Lecture in Philosophy

Ram Neta (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Topics: Epistemology, General Philosophy of Science

16 Sep

Conference: Radical Scepticism, Intellectual Courage, and Conspiracy Theory

HybridDepartment of Philosophy, University of Southampton

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology, Value Theory

17 Sep

CFP: Virtues, Education and Wellbeing

Department of Philosophy, University of Rijeka (Croatia)

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