Upcoming events in 17th/18th Century Philosophy

Ongoing 28 May

Conference: Online Bayle Seminar 2025

Online

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

10 Jun

Conference: Margaret Cavendish on Literature

Department of Philosophy, University of Southampton

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Aesthetics

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

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

16 Jun

Conference: UCD Early Modern Philosophy Workshop

School of Philosophy, University College Dublin

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

21 Jun

Conference: The NYC Early Modern Workshop in Berlin

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

24 Jun

Conference: Spinoza's Intellectual Love of God: Interpretations of Ethics Part V

Department of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion

2 Jul

Conference: New Work on Kant

Institute for Philosophy, University of Stuttgart, Germany

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

2 Jul

Talk: The Objects of Kant’s Copernican Assumption

Institute for Philosophy, University of Stuttgart, Germany

T. A. Pendlebury (University of Chicago)

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Metaphysics

10 Jul

Conference: John Locke Society conference 2025

Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo

John Locke Society workshop series

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

14 Jul

Conference: The 51st Annual Hume Society Conference

Department of Philosophy, McMaster University

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

15 Jul

CFP: 2025 Midwest Study Group of the North American Kant Society

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

15 Jul

CFP: International Berkeley Society at the 2026 Eastern APA

International Berkeley Society

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

19 Jul

Conference: The Cavendish Collective's Third Annual Virtual Workshop

OnlineThe Cavendish Collective

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

23 Jul

Conference: Jeremy Bentham, the Panopticon penitentiary scheme, and ‘A Picture of the Treasury’

Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws, University College London

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

27 Jul

Conference: The 7th Immanuel Kant International Summer School "Enthusiasm and History in the Kantian Perspective"

Academia Kantiana, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Immanuel Kant International Summer School

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

31 Jul

CFP: Kant’s 300th Anniversary: The Contemporary Horizon of Kant’s Ethics

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

1 Aug

CFP: HUME STUDIES - "David Hume and the Enlightenment: New Perspectives"

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

11 Aug

Conference: 15th International Summer School in German Philosophy: The Problem of Skepticism

International Centre for Philosophy NRW, University of Bonn

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

1 Sep

Conference: Construction and Experiment: Philosophical Method in Kant and German Idealism

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, European Philosophy, General Philosophy of Science

17 Sep

Conference: Philosophie als Kunst – Imagination. Leben. System

Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, University of Ferrara

XII. Kongress der Internationalen Johann Gottlieb Fichte-Gesellschaft

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

22 Sep

Conference: 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

9 Oct

Conference: 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

17 Oct

Conference: North American Kant Society Biennial

McGill University

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

17 Oct

Conference: The Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America **NEW LOCATION**

HybridDepartment of Philosophy, North Carolina State University

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

20 Nov

CFP: 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

7 Jan 2026

Conference: International Hobbes Association 2026 Annual Meeting

International Hobbes Association

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

7 Jan 2026

Conference: International Berkeley Society at the 2026 Eastern APA

International Berkeley Society

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

7 Jan 2026

CFP: International Hobbes Association 2026 Annual Meeting

International Hobbes Association

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

7 Sep 2026

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