Upcoming events in 17th/18th Century Philosophy

Ongoing 28 May

Conference: Leuven Kant Conference

HybridInstitute of Philosophy, KU Leuven

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

Tomorrow 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

Tomorrow 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: Enlightenment & Citizenship Workshop

Chair of Ethics and Political Philosophy, Université de Fribourg

Enlightenment & Publicity Multilateral Research Project

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, 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

8 Jul

Conference: Twenty-Third Annual Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, 2026

HybridDepartment of Philosophy, Dalhousie University

Atlantic Canada Seminars in Early Modern Philosophy

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

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

1 Oct

CFP: North American Spinoza Society 2027 Meeting

Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University

Topics: 17th/18th 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

24 May 2027

Conference: North American Spinoza Society 2027 Meeting

Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University

Topics: 17th/18th Century 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