Upcoming events in Social and Political Philosophy

7 Aug

Talk: Self-versus-Self Conflicts

Department of Philosophy, University of Adelaide

The Gavin David Young Lectures

Barry Lam (University of California, Riverside)

Topics: Philosophy of Action, Normative Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

9 Aug

Conference: Aesth/Ethics: hospitality in art and society

HybridEreignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts

Topics: Aesthetics, Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

15 Aug

CFP: ECPR Political Theory Online Seminar

Topics: Social and Political Philosophy

18 Aug

Conference: Yaoundé PhD Seminar

Ethics and Public Policy Laboratory, Faculty of Philosophy, Catholic University of Central Africa

Topics: Applied Ethics, Normative Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

19 Aug

Summer School : SOCRATES Summer School 2025: Ignorance, Uncertainty & Public Trust in Science

Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University Hannover

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

26 Aug

Conference: Digitalization of Work and the Prospects of Democratizing the Economy

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

ECPR General Conference 2025

Topics: Social and Political Philosophy

28 Aug

CFP: Comedy: Darkness and Light

International Society of Philosophy in Film

International Society for Philosophy in Film

Topics: Philosophical Traditions, Miscellaneous, Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy

28 Aug

Conference: Comedy: Darkness and Light

International Society of Philosophy in Film

International Society for Philosophy in Film

Topics: Philosophical Traditions, Miscellaneous, Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy

29 Aug

CFP: Philosophical Contributions to Degrowth (2025 Special Issue)

Topics: Philosophy of Social Science, Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

30 Aug

Conference: Centering Experience in Mental Health: Uniting Psychiatry and Consciousness Science

Mediterranean Society for Consciousness Science (MESEC)

Topics: Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Social and Political Philosophy

31 Aug

CFP: Sense-Making and Collective Virtues among AI Innovators. Aligning Shared Concepts and Common Goals

Topics: Applied Ethics, Normative Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

31 Aug

CFP: New Work on Discrimination

Yale University

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

3 Sep

Conference: (Not) Caring to Know: Vice Epistemology meets Situated Affectivity

HybridCentre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice

Topics: Epistemology, Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

3 Sep

Conference: MANCEPT Workshops 2025

University of Manchester

MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory

Topics: Normative Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

3 Sep

Conference: Social and Political Issues in Philosophy of Language at MANCEPT Workshops 25

University of Manchester

Topics: Philosophy of Language, Social and Political Philosophy

3 Sep

Conference: New Directions in Human Rights Theory Panel at MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory

Manchester Centre for Political Theory, University of Manchester

Topics: Social and Political Philosophy

3 Sep

Conference: MANCEPT workshop in Political Theory and Mental Health

University of Manchester

MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory

Topics: Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

3 Sep

Conference: MANCEPT Workshop: The City as a Normative Political Space: Institutions, Relations, and Republicanism

MANCEPT, University of Manchester

MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory

Topics: Social and Political Philosophy

3 Sep

Conference: The Shifting Politics of Commercial Culture

University of Manchester

MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory

Topics: Normative Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

3 Sep

Conference: The Ethics of Academia (MANCEPT Workshop)

University of Manchester

MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory

Topics: Applied Ethics, Normative Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

3 Sep

Conference: Democratic Legitimacy and the Real World

Topics: Social and Political Philosophy

3 Sep

Conference: MANCEPT Workshop — The Philosophy and Political Economy of Food

MANCEPT, University of Manchester

Topics: Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

3 Sep

Conference: Philosophy of Degrowth Panel – MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory

University of Manchester

MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory

Topics: Social and Political Philosophy

3 Sep

Conference: Political Philosophy of Crime and Criminalisation (MANCEPT Workshop)

University of Manchester

MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory

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

3 Sep

Conference: Theories of Public Reason Panel at the MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory

University of Manchester

Topics: Social and Political Philosophy

5 Sep

Conference: Philosophy and Progress - Criteria of Improvement of Human Condition Versus Progressivism

https://philocentar.com/felix-romuliana/, Felix Romuliana International School of Philosophy

Topics: European Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy

10 Sep

Conference: The Ethics of Moral Criticism: Moral Grandstanding, Social Punishment and Beyond

HybridCentre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice

Topics: Applied Ethics, Normative Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

11 Sep

Conference: Responsible AI in Health Care

Erasmus University of Rotterdam

Topics: Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Value Theory, Miscellaneous

11 Sep

Conference: The Philosophy of Right and Wrong: Hegel on Crime, Transgression, and Injustice

Independent Research Group Criminal Law Theory, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law

Topics: 19th Century Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Social and Political Philosophy

12 Sep

Conference: Radical democracy & the Rechtsstaat

Radboud University Nijmegen

Topics: Philosophy of Law, Social and Political Philosophy

17 Sep

Conference: 9th Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics

HybridSANART Association of Aesthetics and Visual Culture

Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics

Topics: Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy

17 Sep

CFP: Forgotten Animals

School of History, Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester

Topics: Philosophical Traditions, Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

17 Sep

Conference: Forgotten Animals

School of History, Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester

Topics: Philosophical Traditions, Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

18 Sep

Conference: 23rd Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy

Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universita' degli Studi di Pavia

Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy

Topics: Applied Ethics, Normative Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

18 Sep

Conference: The Ethics of Migration and Demographic Change

Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, Research in Political Philosophy and Ethics Leuven (RIPPLE), KU Leuven

Topics: Applied Ethics, Normative Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

18 Sep

Conference: International Conference “Democratizing Energy, Energizing Democracy"

Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Miscellaneous, Philosophical Traditions, Miscellaneous, Social and Political Philosophy

19 Sep

Conference: Cornell Workshop on Mind & Value IV: The Metaphysics and Normativity of Functions

Cornell University

Cornell Workshop on Mind & Value

Topics: M&E, Miscellaneous, Meta-Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

19 Sep

Conference: Zicklin Center Workshop in Normative Business Ethics

The Wharton School, Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, University of Pennsylvania

Topics: Applied Ethics, Normative Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

21 Sep

Conference: AI and Human Values: Exploring technological, social, and normative perspectives

Marsilius Academy, Universität Heidelberg

Marsilius Academy

Topics: Philosophy of Language, Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

22 Sep

Conference: The Philosophy of Privacy

Department of Philosophy, University of Salzburg

Topics: Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Value Theory, Miscellaneous

23 Sep

Conference: Workshop II: Adverse Allies: Logical Empiricism and Austrian Economics

HybridInstitute of Philosophy and Scientific Method, Johannes Kepler University of Linz

Topics: General Philosophy of Science, Logic and Philosophy of Logic, Social and Political Philosophy

25 Sep

Conference: Collaboration and Complicity of Elites in Authoritarian and Totalitarian Regimes

University of Pardubice

Topics: Philosophy of Science, Miscellaneous, Normative Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

25 Sep

Conference: Authority and Authoritarianism: Moral, Political and Epistemic Issues

Faculty of Philosophy, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan

Topics: Applied Ethics, Normative Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

25 Sep

Conference: Conference on Populism, Nationalism, and the Future of Democracy

OnlineJournal for Cultural and Religious Theory, The Whitestone Foundation

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

25 Sep

Conference: Politische Ästhetik zwischen Entdeckung und Konstruktion (auf der XII. Tagung für Praktische Philosophie)

Universität Passau

Tagung für Praktische Philosophie

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

26 Sep

Conference: International Conference on Medical Ethics

HybridUniversity of Beira Interior

Topics: Applied Ethics, Normative Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

28 Sep

Conference: Analytical Anarchism: Workshop & Edited Volume CFA (new dates)

Dept. of Philosophy, Lund University

Topics: Normative Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

1 Oct

Conference: 2nd Dortmund Conference on Philosophy and Society with Kate Vredenburgh (LSE)

Department of Philosophy and Political Science, TU Dortmund

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Computing and Information, Social and Political Philosophy

10 Oct

Conference: Haptic Trouble

Sorbonne Nouvelle University

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

15 Oct

CFP: Modern Culture and Communication

HybridSt. Petersburg State University

Topics: Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy, Value Theory, Miscellaneous