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

Ongoing 27 Feb

Conference: North American Kant Society - Pacific Study Group Meeting

Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

5 Mar

Conference: Causation, Mind, Perception: Essays on Mary Shepherd

Department of Philosophy, Harvard University

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

28 Mar

Conference: The 2026 Thomas Hobbes Festival

The Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury Society

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

31 Mar

CFP: Early Modern Naturalisms: Spinozist and Humean

Corvinus University of Budapest

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

10 Apr

Conference: The philosophy of Francisco Suárez

Department of Philosophy, University of Groningen

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

10 Apr

Conference: Kantian Moral Constitutivism

Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago

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

16 Apr

Conference: Humean Virtue Ethics: New Directions

University of Edinburgh

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

24 Apr

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

Online/

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

29 Apr

Conference: Author meets critics: Corey W. Dyck, Wolff and the First Fifty Years of German Metaphysics

Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

1 May

CFP: Buffalo Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo

Buffalo Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

1 May

CFP: 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

9 May

Conference: Boston Kant Day Workshop

Boston University

Boston-Area Kant Colloquium

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

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

Online/

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

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

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

23 Jun

Conference: Prejudice in Hume and His Contemporaries

University College Dublin

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Epistemology

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

22 Oct

Conference: Amsterdam Kant Conference 2026: Moral Epistemology & Metaphysics

Philosophy Department, University of Amsterdam

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, M&E, Miscellaneous, Meta-Ethics

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

6 Nov

Conference: Twenty-First NYU Conference in 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

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