Women have long contributed to the development of theology and philosophy\, yet their voices have often been marginalized\, mediated through restrictive frameworks\, or silenced altogether. At the same time\, women have consistently found innovative means of expression &mdash\; from letters\, diaries\, and poetry to public lectures\, activism\, and today&rsquo\;s digital platforms &mdash\; to engage in theological and philosophical discourse.
This seminar approaches communication not only as a neutral means of expression\, but also as a form of power: the choice of medium\, style\, and platform can grant authority\, negotiate legitimacy\, or challenge dominant structures. From early modern women writing in private correspondence to contemporary digital influencers shaping theological debates\, the act of communication becomes a way to establish intellectual presence\, resist exclusion\, rethink society\, or reshape normative traditions.
The rise of digital culture has introduced new dynamics. Social media\, for example\, can amplify women&rsquo\;s perspectives and create alternative networks of recognition\, while also enabling ideologically charged phenomena &mdash\; such as the &ldquo\;tradwife&rdquo\; movement &mdash\; that recast debates about gender\, religion\, and philosophy. Situating such case studies within longer histories of women&rsquo\;s communicative practices allows us to explore continuities\, ruptures\, and tensions between tradition\, innovation\, and the struggle for authority.
The seminar thus invites critical reflections on the interplay of gender\, communication\, and power\, considering both historical trajectories and contemporary challenges. Contributions may address individual thinkers\, broader cultural movements\, or theoretical frameworks that illuminate how female voices have engaged with and transformed theological and philosophical discourse.
28.04.2026\, 4.30-6pm (Paris time): 2 lectures
\nFloris Verhaart &ndash\; Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer: Memoirist\, Translator\, and Religious Polemicist
\nMargaret Matthews &ndash\; Rhetoric\, Method\, and Genre in Gabrielle Suchon&rsquo\;s Treatise on Ethics and Politics
\n\n05.05.2026\, 4.30-6pm (Paris time): 2 lectures
\nElodie Pinel &ndash\; Vernacular Theology and Authority: Marguerite Porete\, Mechthild of Magdeburg\, Hadewijch of Antwerp
\nLila Braunschweig &ndash\; A Voice of One&rsquo\;s Own: Philosophizing as Feminized Subjects (Impostor Syndrome &\; Authority)
\n\n12.05.2026\, 4.30-6pm (Paris time): 2 lectures
\nElżbieta Filipow &ndash\; Women&rsquo\;s Writing of Harriet Taylor Mill and its Various Modes of Self-expression
\nShamoni Sarkar &ndash\; Karoline von Gü\;nderrode: Fragmentation\, Philosophy\, and Early German Romanticism
\n\n19.05.2026\, 4.30-6pm (Paris time): 2 lectures
\nMaxim Demin &ndash\; Philosophy\, God-Seeking\, and Developmental Psychology: Stolitsa and Volkovich in Late Imperial Russia
\nPatricia Guevara Wozniak &ndash\; The Metaphysical Tenacity of Barbara Skarga &ndash\; Metaphysics in Totalitarianism
\n\n02.06.2026\, 4.30-6pm (Paris time): 2 lectures
\nJake Nicholas Brooks &ndash\; Autonomy Beyond Kant: Butler\, Tronto\, and Interdependence
\nKaimé\; Guerrero Valencia &ndash\; Intervening Assemblages of Trans-formation/Action: Beatriz Nascimento (1942-1995)
\n\n09.06.2026\, 4.30-6pm (Paris time): 2 lectures
\nMarianne Najm Abou-Jaoude &ndash\; Beneficent Communication as Power
\nRoula Azar Douglas &ndash\; Women&rsquo\;s Digital Voices and the Reconfiguration of Public Debate
\n\nFor further information about the talks and the speakers\, please visit the webpage: \;
Slavery and Abolition in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
\nMay 13-15\, 2026
\nEmory University
\nAtlanta\, Georgia
\nCall for Papers
\nRecent studies of eighteenth-century philosophy have generated incisive questions about the limitations of the moral and political insight of British and European philosophers who were invested in (or silent about) transatlantic slavery. During this period\, the rapidly expanding traffic and enslavement of African people appears as a topic of common knowledge and discussion in religion\, law\, economics\, literature\, and drama. Writings by enslaved and self-emancipated women and men attested to the violence and degradation of the conditions of slavery\, as well as to the hypocrisy of much of Western moral and political discourse. This symposium invites proposals (500 words) for 25-minute presentations that consider writing about slavery and abolition both as and in conversation with eighteenth-century philosophy. \;
\nWe expect to host 15-20 scholars whose presentations engage with these topics directly or indirectly: \;
\nMarronage and Slave Rebellions
\nTheology and Abolition
\nEconomic Theory and Slavery
\nBlack Abolitionists (in context)
\nGender and Enslavement
\nMarriage and Slavery
\nNatural law and Slavery
\nMoral Philosophy and Slavery
\nWomen Philosophers on Slavery
\nColonialism and Slavery
\nReparation and Restitution
\nColorism and 18th-Century Theories of Race
\nPolitical Slavery
\nWar and Slavery
\nLocal Histories of Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century (Georgia)
\nSubmission Deadline: October 15th\, 2025
\n[Submit Proposals Online]: https://forms.gle/YodCMraMr34W2pA77
\nOrganizers:
\nAminah Hasan-Birdwell (Emory University)
\nCarrie Shanafelt (Yeshiva University)
\nKeynote Speaker:
\nRobert Bernasconi (Pennsylvania State University)
\nPlenary Lecture:
\nHuaping Lu-Adler (Georgetown University)
\nTacuma Peters \;(Hunter College)
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Aminah Hasan-Birdwell;CN=Carrie Shanafelt: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260503T171747Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20260515T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20260515T170000 SUMMARY:Self(less)-Care: Ancient and Contemporary Care Ethics from a Labor Perspective UID:20260505T080046Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Prague LOCATION:Pardubice\, Czech Republic ORGANIZER;CN=Jorge Ernesto Arjona Quintero;CN=Laura Candiotto: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260503T171747Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260601T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260601T180000 SUMMARY:Nostalgia of the Infinite: Philosophical Investigations into Metaphysics and Historicity UID:20260505T080047Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:NOSTALGIA OF THE INFINITE?: \;
\nPhilosophical Investigations into Metaphysics and Historicity. \;
\nEdited by Max K. Feenan and Jan Kerkmann
\nDETAILS:
\nAbstracts of \;c. 300 words\, with contribution proposals can be submitted until \;June 1st\, 2026
\nAnd should be sent to these email addresses: \;jan.kerkmann@philosophie.un-freiburg.de \;and \;mkfwa2777@gmail.com. \;Feedback regarding accepted submissions will be provided by \;June 15th\, 2026. Final versions of the essays are due by \;December 31st\, 2026. The edited volume will be published by a renowned German publisher in 2027\, with a contract signing scheduled for December 2025.
\nNB: \;It is not necessary for the contributions to focus on the thinkers and traditions discussed below. Submissions that other modern figures and figurations are most welcome! The only requirement is that a clear connection to the relationship between metaphysics and historicity is established and explored in depth within the essays.
\nOverall\, the planned volume claims to make a significant contribution to modern intellectual and cultural history\, and contemporary philosophical discussions about the limits of philosophy itself\, by highlighting the idea of historicity as a fundamental challenge to metaphysics and speculative thought. To so treat the concept of historicity with the necessary precision\, the focus is explicitly placed on the modernity in which not only the historical self-positioning of humankind became a central theme\, but also the course of philosophy itself was understood for the first time as a coherent whole\, viewed from the perspective of a historical logic of its development. The contributions to this volume aim to illustrate how and to what extent the systematic and direct access to the fundamental principles of the world\, which had previously characterized metaphysics\, was increasingly abandoned &ndash\; and how this access might be regained today.
\nInfinitely speculative\, \;metaphysics \;may even justifiably seek to apprehend eternity itself\, while \;historicity\, which often lacks a fundamental definition\, emphasises the relativity and contingency of human temporal existence. This volume aims to explore the tension-filled\, ambiguous and perhaps even paradoxical relationship between the seeming-opposites of metaphysics and historicity. In doing so\, a special focus is to be placed\, from a conceptual-historical perspective\, on the emergence and the changes in meaning of &lsquo\;historicity&rsquo\; itself\, and its definitions. The basic question asked is: \;Is it possible to still pursue a speculative even metaphysical philosophical project which is also a critical engagement with the real history such speculation is always already within? The edited volume aims to combine philosophical styles and traditions attempting to answer this questions\, while engaging with the philosophical problems and question in the \;longue duré\;e \;of modern philosophy. We also welcome submissions from related disciplines such as history\, politics\, literature or theological/religious studies.
\nChapters could engage with this relationship in the idealist systematizing of metaphysics grounded in a logical account of history\, culminating in the late systems of Hegel and Schelling\, but stemming from the Copernican revolution of Kant&rsquo\;s critical philosophy and the contemporary intellectual controversies during the time of the democratic revolutions. Or the anti-Kantian philosophies of Hamann\, Herder\, the critiques Mendelssohn\, Jacobi\, Goethe and Schiller\, not to mention the contours of European Romanticism both within and beyond Germany. Perspectives on neglected aspects of the modern idealist heritage\, whether from George Berkeley&rsquo\;s theories or the Cambridge Platonists&rsquo\; theological-philosophies in the 17th &\; 18th \;centuries\; or the varieties of British Idealism or French \;Spiritualisme \;across the 19th \;century. \;Not to mention underappreciated voices from elsewhere!
\nWe also want to deal with the twentieth century traditions critiquing metaphysics itself\, or the allied attempts to reform metaphysics against the dangers of reductive historical relativisation. After Kierkegaard and Feuerbach\, the political and theological receptions of Hegelianism and its discontents from Schopenhauer to Marx\, the social upheavals and reforms of the mid-19th \;century\, the twin developments of pragmatism and positivism\, the increasing secularization of society and perceptions of knowledge and science\, and perhaps culminating in the lasting effects of Nietzsche&rsquo\;s philosophy\, the 20th \;century thinkers increasingly saw themselves working and writing in the wake of a metaphysical tradition. Perhaps exemplified most of all\, in the historical yet speculative philosophies of Heidegger&rsquo\;s \;Seinsfrage \;and Rosenzweig&rsquo\;s \;Stern\; the political critiques of the history of metaphysics in Arendt or in Strauss\, or even the mystical-yet-political critique found in Simone Weil&rsquo\;s writings. Perhaps one could ask with Lö\;with\, Blumenberg\, or in a different vein Emmanuele Severino\, whether this very absolutisation of the historical itself proves to be a metaphysical assumption that prevents deep reflection on the nature of being\, of nature\, and of humanity? Alternatively\, submissions could pursue the processual thinking in Whitehead or in different form in Deleuze\, and the anti-metaphysical tradition arising from phenomenology\, such as Levinas&rsquo\; ethics or Derrida&rsquo\;s thought\; the linguistic-sociopragmatic accounts in Appel and Habermas&rsquo\; systems\, and finally voices from the historiographical critiques such as Koselleck&rsquo\;s \;Begriffsgeschichte \;or the Anglophone &lsquo\;Cambridge School of Political Thought&rsquo\; (Pocock\, Skinner\, Dunn et al.) and their respective influences would be welcome.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260503T171747Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260601T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260601T170000 SUMMARY:North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics UID:20260505T080048Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Los_Angeles LOCATION:Davis\, United States DESCRIPTION:This year's meeting of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics will meet at University of California Davis. The meeting will feature a keynote address by Dr. Francis Mootz (University of the Pacific) entitled "Law after Postmodernity: Ontology\, Practice\, and Critique."
\nWe welcome submissions on any topic or question in philosophical hermeneutics. While honoring the rootedness of hermeneutics in the thought of Hans-Georg Gadamer\, NASPH welcomes papers on any figure in the hermeneutic tradition and on the application of hermeneutic theory to all important philosophical and social problems. \;
\nSubmissions of 3000-5000 words are due June 1st and can be submitted to nasphermeneutics@gmail.com. More information can be found at www.nasph.org. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Carolyn Culbertson: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260503T171748Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260622T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260626T170000 SUMMARY:9th World Congress on the Square of Opposition UID:20260505T080049Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:455\, Boulevard René-Lévesque Est Montréal (Québec) H2L 4Y2\, Montréal\, Canada DESCRIPTION:This will be the 9th world congress organized around the square of opposition after very successful previous editions in Montreux\, Switzerland 2007\; Corte\, Corsica 2010\; Beirut\, Lebanon 2012\; Vatican\, 2014\; Easter Island\, 2016\, Crete\, 2018\, Leuven\, Belgium 2022\, San Jose\, Costa Rica\, 2024. This is an interdisciplinary event gathering logicians\, philosophers\, mathematicians\, semioticians\, theologians\, cognitivists\, artists and computer scientists.
ORGANIZER;CN=Jean-Yves Beziau;CN=Serge Robert: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260503T171748Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260624T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260626T170000 SUMMARY:History and Philosophy of Science: Past\, Present\, and Future UID:20260505T080050Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Asia/Hong_Kong LOCATION:HKUST\, Hong Kong\, Hong Kong DESCRIPTION:History and Philosophy of Science: Past\, Present\, and Future
\n24 - 26 June 2026
\nAcademic Building\, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
\nKeynote Speakers
\nTheodore Arabatzis (University of Athens\, Greece)
\nUljana Feest (University of Hannover\, Germany)
\nDon Howard (University of British Columbia\, Canada)
\nGreg Radick (University of Leeds\, UK)
Organising Committee
Keith Chan
\nFons Dewulf
\nYafeng Shan (chair)
\nQinyi Wang
\nQiyue Zhang
Funders
Centre for Philosophy of Science\, HKUST
The Asian Philosophy of Science Association
Conference Description
History and Philosophy of Science (aka HPS) emerged in the 1950s and greatly promoted the historical approach to the philosophy of science. Despite its rapid institutionalisation in the 1960s\, HPS did not become a full-fledged academic discipline eventually. There have been axiological\, institutional\, methodological\, and practical challenges. That said\, some historically minded philosophers of science and philosophically minded historians of science never stop making efforts to promote the dialogue across the boundaries and develop HPS approaches (e.g. integrated HPS\, HOPOS\, and PHS). This conference aims to reflect on the nature\, methodology\, development\, and prospect of HPS.
Selected papers will be included in an edited volume to be published by Springer (part of the Asian Studies in the Philosophy of Science).
\nFor more information\, please visit the webpage: \;https://www.shanyafeng.com/hps26
\nRegistration (Deadline: 24 May 2026)
\nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1979375495390
\n
Contact
If you have any questions\, please contact Qiyue Zhang (qiyue.zhang@connect.ust.hk).
This year's meeting of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics will meet at University of California Davis. The meeting will feature a keynote address by Dr. Francis Mootz (University of the Pacific) entitled "Law after Postmodernity: Ontology\, Practice\, and Critique." The program will feature a variety of talks on topics in philosophical hermeneutics -- highlighting scholarship on the thought of Hans-Georg Gadamer and the application of hermeneutic theory to a variety of philosophical and social problems. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Carolyn Culbertson: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260503T171748Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261029T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261030T170000 SUMMARY:Melancholic historicity: lost pasts and past losses UID:20260505T080052Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Brussels LOCATION:Utrecht\, Netherlands DESCRIPTION:Melancholic historicity: lost pasts and past losses
\nOrganizers: Katherina Kinzel and Robert Vinkesteijn
\nUtrecht University\, 29+30 October 2026
\nRecent reconceptualizations of historicity&mdash\;most notably in the work of Walter Benjamin and related thinkers&mdash\;have challenged the modern ideal of progress by foregrounding historical experiences of loss and destruction. These approaches question the assumption that history unfolds as a continuous movement in which past suffering is redeemed by future advancement. Instead of viewing the past as dead or completed\, they envision the past as a site of continuous unease and questioning within the present. Forgotten\, suppressed\, or destroyed pasts unsettle present self-understandings and expose their complicity in the ongoing reproduction of loss. \;
\nThis conference explores the question what a &ldquo\;melancholic&rdquo\; conception of historicity that is oriented around experiences of loss\, destruction and defeat looks like. What does it mean to think historically from a standpoint that refuses to forget or &ldquo\;accept&rdquo\; historical losses\, that interrupts linear temporality and breaks with the perpetuation of historical violence in the present. What is the political valence of different attempts at confronting historical loss? What constitutes a philosophically fruitful attitude to lost pasts (the pasts that have been forgotten or suppressed) and past losses (past experiences of loss\, injustice and defeat) that are haunting the present?
\nThis conference brings together \;critical approaches to the philosophy of history\, postcolonial perspectives on loss\, \;theoretical reflections on displacement and genocide\, accounts of ecological loss and destruction and psychoanalytic discussions of (historical) mourning and melancholia.
\nIf you would like to contribute as a speaker\, please send an abstract of maximum 500 words to r.w.vinkesteijn@uu.nl\, the deadline for abstracts is Saturday 28 February 2026. If you have further questions about the scope and topic of this conference\, do not hesitate to get in touch.
ORGANIZER;CN=Katherina Kinzel: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260503T171748Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261112T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261113T170000 SUMMARY:Reappraising nostalgia: The times and places of mindful yearning An international colloquium UID:20260505T080053Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Macerata\, Italy DESCRIPTION:Reappraising nostalgia: The times and places of mindful yearning An international colloquium
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260503T171748Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261112T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261112T230000 SUMMARY:Reappraising nostalgia: The times and places of mindful yearning An international colloquium UID:20260505T080054Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Macerata\, Italy DESCRIPTION:Reappraising nostalgia: The times and places of mindful yearning\n \;\nAn international colloquium organized by Silvia Pierosara and Guido Giglioni\n \;\nUniversità\; di Macerata\, Italy\n \;\n12-13 November 2026\n \;\nBy focusing on contextual clusters of meaning and historical interpretations dealing with notions of loss\, identity and impermanence\, this conference intends to explore the philosophical relevance of nostalgia for both contemporary thought and the history of ideas.\nFrom Johann Hofer in the late seventeenth century to Karl Jaspers in the twentieth century\, nostalgia has been described as a particular kind of affliction (Weh\, woe) involving emotional\, cognitive and physical symptoms. The origin of the word\, coined by Hofer by combining two Greek words\, sheds light on its meaning and history: nostos (&lsquo\;homecoming&rsquo\;) and algos (&lsquo\;pain&rsquo\;): a wistful longing for familiar surroundings (in Hofer&rsquo\;s case\, Switzerland). While being coterminous with such states of the mind and the body as yearning\, melancholy\, grief and regret\, and while overlapping such places of human action as dispossession\, exile and utopia\, nostalgia cannot be reduced to any of the states and places above. The observation and recording of the features underpinning the syndrome that took shape between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries testify to the slow accretion of cultural\, geographic and social meanings: the forced displacement from one&rsquo\;s native surroundings\; the distinctive landscape of the Alps\; the air\, the water and the food indispensable for the life of a community\; the emotions associated with the folk music of the area. And yet\, despite its being historically and geographically localized\, the story of nostalgia extends before and after the seventeenth century\, and beyond the confines of western sensibilities. After all\, nostos tells us of archives of immemorial myths\, while algia reminds us of contemporary and global anxieties.\nPossible directions and subjects of research include critical review of current models of identity and autonomy\; history of medical and psychiatric accounts of homesickness\; memories and the many precarious ways in which they can be recovered\; landscapes of longing and geographies of desire\; utopianism and imagined futures\; solastalgia and our disorientation at being confronted by the acceleration of environmental change\; non-western nostalgia. We want the scope of our conference to be bold\, far reaching and open to a diversity of approaches and interpretations\, both thematically and chronologically. The kind of nostalgic yearning on which we would like to focus our attention is associated with mindful reflection\, seen as way of enriching our thinking of human and non-human experiences of time.\nWhile featuring keynote addresses\, the conference invites speakers interested in the event&rsquo\;s themes through a call for papers. Applicants should send a title\, an abstract of about 250-500 words\, either in English or in Italian\, name\, affiliation and contact details to the following email addresses:\ns.pierosara@unimc.it\; guido.giglioni64@gmail.com\nThe deadline for submission is 15 June 2026. Successful applicants will be notified by 15 July 2026. ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260503T171748Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270116T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270116T090000 SUMMARY:CFP Discipline Filosofiche\, XXXVII\, 1\, 2027: Phenomenological Analyses of Emotions in their Ontological and Metaphysical Implications\, ed. by Giuliana Mancuso UID:20260505T080055Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:DISCIPLINE FILOSOFICHE\, XXXVII\, 1\, 2027: PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF EMOTIONS IN THEIR ONTOLOGICAL AND METAPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS Edited by Giuliana Mancuso Over the past twenty years\, scientific literature on emotions has grown enormously\, and the same has occurred in philosophy. In light of the assumptions&mdash\;often implicit&mdash\;that guide scientific research programs\, the wealth of their findings\, and the explanatory hypotheses advanced on the basis of such observational and theoretical grounds\, it is inevitable that philosophers ask what the specific contribution of philosophy to research on emotions might be\, given the intertwining of physiological\, expressive\, behavioral\, cognitive\, evaluative\, normative\, and motivational components that emotions involve\, as well as their social relevance. In other words\, what does philosophy have to say about emotions in relation to what the natural and social sciences already tell us about them? The answers naturally vary depending on the conceptions one may hold of philosophy\, but there is a particular philosophical tradition that appears especially well suited to addressing phenomena such as emotions in their characteristic two-fold nature as subjective\, first-person experiences and at the same time as objective experiences that disclose aspects of the world&mdash\;a two-fold structure that philosophical reflections on emotions have often sacrificed in favor of one aspect or the other. This tradition is phenomenology\, understood not generically as an empirical investigation of &ldquo\;what it is like to feel\,&rdquo\; but properly as the study of embodied consciousness in its directedness toward other subjects as well as toward objects\, states of affairs\, and events in the world. With respect to the contemporary philosophy of emotions as a chapter of the philosophy of mind in its relation to the cognitive sciences\, the phenomenological approach in fact claims a primacy that is\, first of all\, temporal. Between the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries\, emotions acquired centrality in philosophy primarily thanks to what Husserl described as an already existing method\, of which Husserlian transcendental phenomenology conceived itself as &ldquo\;a certain radicalization&rdquo\; (HUA IX\, 302). This was descriptive or phenomenological psychology\, a philosophical research project on consciousness and its lived experiences that ran parallel and as an alternative to the experimental psychology of the time. Its main figures were Brentano\, Stumpf\, and Th. Lipps\, and it was from this tradition that Husserl himself set out in his \;Logical Investigations. Under the influence of Husserl\, it was then Lipps&rsquo\;s students and collaborators in Munich\, and later Husserl&rsquo\;s in Gö\;ttingen\, who defended the idea of a distinctive affective intentionality irreducible to that of other mental states such as beliefs\, judgments\, or desires. In their works they developed extraordinarily detailed eidetic analyses of particular classes of emotional experiences\, their contents\, and the themes connected with them&mdash\;analyses that\, in what is perhaps the most famous case\, that of Max Scheler\, culminated in a complex philosophical theory of emotional functions and acts\, as well as of their objects\, namely values. In subsequent developments of phenomenological philosophy\, the role accorded to affectivity remained central in Heidegger\, Sartre\, Merleau-Ponty\, Levinas\, and Henry\, as well as later in Hermann Schmitz&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;new phenomenology&rdquo\;&mdash\;with its conception of emotions as spatially extended atmospheres that transcend the mind/body distinction and the distinction between psychophysically separate individuals&mdash\;in Waldenfels&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;responsive phenomenology\,&rdquo\; and\, finally\, in the numerous studies of recent years at the intersection of phenomenology and the cognitive sciences on classical phenomenological themes such as intersubjectivity\, empathy\, and the emotional forms of collective intentionality. In such a context\, a renewed focus on emotions and values has been prompted by the publication\, in 2020\, of the \;Studien zur Struktur des Bewusstseins \;(HUA XLIII)\, which bring together analyses carried out by Husserl between 1909 and 1914 and subsequently in the first half of the 1920s. Against this background\, \;Discipline filosofiche \;intends to devote a special issue to phenomenological analyses of emotions\, past and present\, and invites authors to submit contributions on the following topics:
\nThis series invites proposals in classical phenomenology\, French phenomenology\, pre- and post-phenomenologies\, and in methodologies that bridge phenomenology and analytic philosophy. The relation between phenomenology and religious experience can be considered in a variety of modes: epistemic (phenomenology as a "rigorous science" of religious experience in Husserl's sense)\; ontic (phenomenology as a way to access the core motive\, or regulative ideal\, of religion)\; analogical (phenomenological experience as a secular version of religious experience)\; generalizing (religious experience turning into phenomenological experience when stripped from its dogmatic frame)\, etc. Proposals can take critical\, descriptive\, theoretical\, comparative\, historical\, or other approaches\, and they can focus on the interplay between religious or spiritual experience and assorted theoretical approaches\, or proceed from such experience towards building a new theory. In accord with Husserl&rsquo\;s original intent\, the series welcomes attempts to locate spiritual or religious experience within a broader theory of the sciences (Wissenschaftslehre) and to expand phenomenology towards transcendental philosophy and metaphysics.
The series covers five areas:
1) Clarifications of religious and spiritual experience\, its formal phenomenological research\, and its relationships to art\, textuality\, culture\, anthropology\, politics\, and comparative religion\;
2) Metaphysical extensions of the phenomenology of religious and spiritual experience\;
3) Existential and psychological analyses\, in different traditions\, of religious and spiritual experience\;
4) Theologies of religious experience\, with or beyond a specific focus on ritual and liturgy\, including liberation theologies\, feminist theologies\, theologies at the intersection of religious experience and race\, social status\, etc.\;
5) The phenomenology of religious and spiritual experience as applied to and/ or examined within medicine\, nursing\, and the health sciences and the natural and social sciences.
The series is published in cooperation with the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience\, \;www.sophere.org.
Editors: \;Michael Barber (michael.barber@slu.edu)\, Peter Costello (PCOSTELL@providence.edu)\, Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (founding editor\, \;olouch@ucdavis.edu)\, and Martin Nitsche (nitsche@flu.cas.cz)
Advisory Board: \;Jason Alvis (University of Vienna)\, Angela Ales Bello (Pontifical Lateran University)\, Michel Bitbol (The French National Center for Scientific Research)\, Carla Canullo (University of Macerata)\, David Ciavatta (Ryerson University)\, Crina Gschwandtner (Fordham University)\, Neal DeRoo (The King&rsquo\;s University)\, Thomas Fuchs (University of Heidelberg)\, James G. Hart (University of Indiana)\, Richard Kearney (Boston College)\, Jeff McCurry (Duquesne University)\, Felix O&rsquo\;Murchadha (National University of Ireland\, Galway)\, Dermot Moran (Boston College)\, Tom Nenon (The University of Memphis)\, Ryōsuke Ōhashi (Universities of Kyoto and Osaka)\, Vincent Pastro (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University and Aquinas Institute of Theology\, St Louis)\, Hans Rainer Sepp (Charles University)\, Michel Staudigl (University of Vienna)\, Claudia Welz (Aarhus University)
Staff editorial contact: \;Jana Hodges-Kluck (jhodges-kluck@rowman.com) \;