Upcoming events in 17th/18th Century Philosophy

Ongoing 20 Feb

Talk: Online Bayle Seminar 2026 : Education and Pedagogy in the Philosopher of Rotterdam

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Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

13 May

Conference: Slavery and Abolition in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

Department of Philosophy, Emory University

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

16 May

Conference: Tohoku–Berkeley Colloquium on Early Modern Philosophy and Political Thought

Graduate School of Law, Tohoku University

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Social and Political Philosophy

22 May

Conference: Woman and Human Progress in the Enlightenment

OnlineFaculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw

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

22 May

Talk: Online Bayle Seminar 2026 : Education and Pedagogy in the Philosopher of Rotterdam

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Chiara Musolino (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

28 May

Conference: Leuven Kant Conference

HybridInstitute of Philosophy, KU Leuven

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

31 May

CFP: Fichte-Studien 2026: Fichte and/or Hegel. Differences, Similarities, Possible Dialogues

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

31 May

Conference: Center for Canon Expansion and Change (CCEC) 2026 Summer Program

Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

31 May

CFP: Graduate Workshop on Émilie Du Châtelet and Early Modern Philosophy

Department of Philosophy, Ruprecht-Karls- Universität Heidelberg

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Science, Logic, and Mathematics

5 Jun

Talk: Ralph Cudworth and the Rise and Fall of the Neoplatonic Reading of Plato’s Theaetetus

Institute of Philosophy, De Wulf-Mansion Centre, KU Leuven

D. Gregory MacIsaac (Carleton University)

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

8 Jun

Conference: British Moral Philosophy Workshop

School of Philosophy, University College Dublin

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

12 Jun

Conference: York University Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

Department of Philosophy, York University

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

14 Jun

Conference: Early Modern Debates About Slavery

Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Journal of the History of Philosophy Summer Seminar

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

17 Jun

Conference: What is a Principle? Differing Perspectives in Early Modern Philosophy

Philosophisches Seminar, Heidelberg University

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

23 Jun

Conference: Prejudice in Hume and His Contemporaries

University College Dublin

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Epistemology

4 Jul

Conference: Graduate Workshop on Émilie Du Châtelet and Early Modern Philosophy

Department of Philosophy, Ruprecht-Karls- Universität Heidelberg

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Science, Logic, and Mathematics

1 Aug

Conference: The Cavendish's Collective's Fourth Annual Virtual Workshop

OnlineThe Cavendish Collective

The Cavendish Collective

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

4 Sep

Conference: Early Modern Naturalisms: Spinozist and Humean

Corvinus University of Budapest

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

7 Sep

Conference: Philosophical Roots of National Socialism

Facultat de Filosofia i Ciències de l'Educació, Universitat de Valencia

Kant-València 2026

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

28 Sep

Conference: Kant’s Concept of Freedom: Transcendental, Moral, Political

Kant-Forschungsstelle und Philosophisches Seminar, Kant-Gesellschaft und Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

International Doctoral Colloquium of the Kant-Gesellschaft

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

15 Oct

Conference: Heroes of the Counter-Revolution

Eötvös József Research Centre, Thomas Molnar Institute for Advanced Studies, Ludovika University of Public Service

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

16 Oct

Conference: Buffalo Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo

Buffalo Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

23 Oct

Conference: The Twentieth Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America

HybridDepartment of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside

Leibniz Society of North America Annual Conferences

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

30 Oct

Conference: Obligation and Normativity in Modern Moral Philosophy

University of Milan

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Meta-Ethics

6 Nov

Conference: Twenty-first Annual NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy: The Social Contract

Department of Philosophy, New York University

Annual NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, 19th Century Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy

12 Nov 2027

Conference: Twenty-second Annual NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy

Department of Philosophy, New York University

Annual NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy

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