Upcoming events in History of Western Philosophy

20 May

Conference: Multidisciplinary Mill(s)

Somerville College, Oxford

John Stuart Mill Annual Lecture

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

20 May

CFP: The Oxford Spinoza Conference 2025

Oxford University

The Oxford Spinoza Conference

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, European Philosophy

20 May

Conference: The Oxford Spinoza Conference 2025

Oxford University

The Oxford Spinoza Conference

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, European Philosophy

20 May

Conference: VMST 13: Ian Hacking's Philosophical Legacy

HybridUniversity of Texas at Dallas

Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology Annual Conference

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

22 May

Conference: XXXIX Session of the S.A. Kugel International School of Sociology of Science and Technology "The Humanistic Potential of Scientific Knowledge (Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of Albert Schweitzer's Birth)"

HybridSt. Petersburg Branch of S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences

Topics: 20th Century Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Computing and Information

22 May

Conference: Anxiety and Trauma With and Beyond Kierkegaard

Krakow University of Economics & Clermont School of Business

Existential Philosophy for Times of Change and Crisis, 5th Edition 2025

Topics: 19th Century Philosophy, 20th Century Philosophy, Continental Philosophy

22 May

Conference: The Architecture of Desire Normativity and Ethical Foundations in Antiquity

Department of Philosophy, Universidad de Navarra

Topics: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

22 May

Conference: Spinoza and Simone Weil: Influences and Interconnections

University of Oxford

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, 20th Century Philosophy, Continental Philosophy

23 May

Conference: Aristotle's Methods of Philosophical Inquiry

Department of philosophy, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Topics: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, History of Western Philosophy, Miscellaneous

23 May

Conference: The Idea of Moral Progress in the Utilitarian Tradition

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Topics: 19th Century Philosophy, 20th Century Philosophy, European Philosophy

23 May

Conference: Simone Weil : éduquer par la philosophie

Université Catholique De Lyon

Topics: 20th Century Philosophy, European Philosophy, Value Theory

26 May

Conference: Democracy’s Discontent. Questions for the Political Philosophy of Our Times

Reset Dialogues on Civilizations

Venice Seminars

Topics: 20th Century Philosophy, European Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy

28 May

CFP: Aquinas: Strategies and Methods

Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw

Topics: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Metaphysics, General Philosophy of Science

28 May

Conference: Aquinas: Strategies and Methods

Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw

Topics: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Metaphysics, General Philosophy of Science

29 May

Conference: Leuven Kant Conference 2025: Kant's Metaphilosophy

HybridInstitute of Philosophy, KU Leuven

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Metaphilosophy

29 May

Conference: Leuven Kant Conference 2025: Kant's Metaphilosophy

HybridKU Leuven

Leuven Kant Conference

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

29 May

Conference: Phenomenological Accounts and Dimensions of the Social and Political

Manhattan Campus, St. John's University

North American Society for Early Phenomenology 2025 Annual Conference

Topics: 20th Century Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy

31 May

CFP: Susan Stebbing’s Influence on Contemporary Philosophy Topical Collection in Synthese

Topics: 20th Century Philosophy, Metaphysics, General Philosophy of Science

31 May

CFP: Call for Papers: /”Dissolving the false gold“: on the relationship between philosophy and detective novel

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions

1 Jun

CFP: Trajectories of Political Thought. Philosophical Theories Between Decline and Progress

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Miscellaneous, European Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy

1 Jun

CFP: The 8th Finnish-Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy at Heidelberg

Department of philosophy, University of Heidelberg

Finnish-Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy

1 Jun

CFP: Logic and Meaning: Colloquium on Gottlob Frege’s Legacy

OnlineUniversidad Nacional Federico Villarreal

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Miscellaneous, Philosophy of Language, Logic and Philosophy of Logic

1 Jun

CFP: North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics

Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Metaphysics, Continental Philosophy

2 Jun

Conference: Rahel Levin Varnhagens ›Denkblätter‹. Schreibformen und Kontexte

Germanistik, Universität Gießen, Universität Siegen

Topics: 19th Century Philosophy, Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality, Social and Political Philosophy

2 Jun

Conference: Center for Canon Expansion and Change (CCEC) 2025 Summer Program

Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

2 Jun

Talk: Pragmatism, Truth and Politics, The Chris Hookway Memorial Lecture

Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield

Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto, St. George Campus)

Robert B. Talisse (Vanderbilt University)

Topics: 19th Century Philosophy, Philosophy of the Americas, Social and Political Philosophy

3 Jun

Conference: At the Crossroads of Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy of Mathematics

HybridLaboratoire STL, Université de Lille 1

Topics: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, Philosophy of Mathematics

5 Jun

Conference: Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference

HybridKeble College, Oxford

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions

6 Jun

Conference: Duties to self: historical and contemporary perspectives

University of Utrecht

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Value Theory

6 Jun

Conference: CRMEP Graduate Conference | Title: Life and Death

Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy, 20th Century Philosophy

6 Jun

Conference: Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy - Workshop

McGill University

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, History of Western Philosophy, Miscellaneous

9 Jun

Conference: Freedom and Technology - Hermeneutics, Anthropology, Politics

University of Turin

International Seminar of the "Luigi Pareyson" Research Centre

Topics: 20th Century Philosophy, Metaphysics, Continental Philosophy

10 Jun

Conference: Margaret Cavendish on Literature

Department of Philosophy, University of Southampton

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Aesthetics

11 Jun

Conference: Philosophy, Religion and the Future: The 10th Conference of the Nordic Society of Philosophy of Religion

Department of Theology, Uppsala University (Sweden)

Conference of the Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion

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

12 Jun

Conference: Workshop: Metaphysics and Method in Modern Philosophy and Phenomenology

Paderborn University

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy, 20th Century Philosophy

12 Jun

Conference: Philosophy and Christianity. Past – Present – Future

Institute of Philosophy, Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie

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

12 Jun

Conference: York University Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

York University

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

13 Jun

Conference: “Feminist Critiques of Kant’s Views on Women and Human Progress”

OnlineUniversity of Warsaw

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality, Social and Political Philosophy

13 Jun

Conference: The Somerville Group: Influences, impact, and legacy

Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Miscellaneous, Aesthetics, Normative Ethics

15 Jun

CFP: What Was and What is Left Hegelianism? Historical, Systematic, and Critical Configurations

Topics: 19th Century Philosophy, 20th Century Philosophy, European Philosophy

15 Jun

CFP: Imagination in the History of Philosophy

Institute of Philosophy, HUN-REN Research Centre for The Humanities

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

15 Jun

CFP: 2nd Conference of the Young Network for Wittgensteinian philosophy

Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia

Topics: History of Western Philosophy

15 Jun

CFP: Call for Papers: Schelling and his Kantian Legacy: Metaphysical and Epistemological Perspectives – Special Issue of Discipline Filosofiche (35, 2025-2)

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Miscellaneous, M&E, Miscellaneous, Philosophical Traditions, Miscellaneous

19 Jun

Conference: The First Northern Seminar in Late Modern Philosophy

Philosophy Department , Durham University

The Northern Seminar in Late Modern Philosophy

Topics: History of Western Philosophy

20 Jun

Conference: Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference 2025

Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick

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

21 Jun

Conference: The NYC Early Modern Workshop in Berlin

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

25 Jun

Conference: Aristotle and Aristotelians on pre-Aristotelian Theorizing

Dept of Philosophy, Marquette University

Annual Marquette Summer Seminar on Aristotle and the Aristotelian Traditions

Topics: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions

25 Jun

Conference: Arendtian Counciliarism: Visions and Care for Democracy

University of Verona

Topics: 20th Century Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy

26 Jun

Conference: Dutch Seminar Early Modern Philosophy 2025

Faculty of Philosophy - Department of History of Philosophy, University of Groningen

Topics: History of Western Philosophy

27 Jun

Conference: Teleology and Value in Biological Knowledge from Aristotle to Today

Department of philosophy, Université de Genève

Topics: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy, History of Western Philosophy, Miscellaneous, Philosophy of Biology