Past events in 17th/18th Century Philosophy

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11 Sep

CFP: Kant on Violence, War, and Genocide

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

11 Sep

Talk: Newton’s Matter Theory: Between Mechanism and Hylomorphism

Department of Philosophy, Harvard University

Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop

Patrick J. Connolly (Johns Hopkins University)

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

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

4 Sep

Conference: Early Modern Naturalisms: Spinozist and Humean

Corvinus University of Budapest

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

1 Sep

CFP: International Berkeley Society at the 2027 Central APA

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

31 Aug

CFP: Kant Colloquium UFABC — Prefaces and Introductions

HybridPhilosophy undergraduate course; Philosophy postgraduate programme / Curso de graduação em Filosofia; Programa de pós-graduação em Filosofia, Universidade Federal do ABC, Federal University of the ABC

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

25 Aug

CFP: Central APA Affiliated Group: Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender (SSEMWG)

APA Central Division, Texas Tech Honors College

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Value Theory

1 Aug

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

OnlineThe Cavendish Collective

The Cavendish Collective

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

20 Jul

CFP: International Hobbes Society sessions at the 2027 APA-Eastern

American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

21 Jul

Talk: Stoicism and Slander in Marie de Gournay

HybridDepartment of Philosophy, Deakin University

Deakin HDR Philosophy Seminar Series

Matthew Anderson

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

13 Jul

Conference: Thinking in Analogy

CONCEPT, University of Cologne

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

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

8 Jul

Conference: Conatus – Self-determination – Subjectivity – Hegel and/or/with Spinoza

Philosophisches Seminar, Heidelberg University

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

4 Jul

Conference: Graduate and Early Career 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 Jul

CFP: Spinoza and Imaginative Ideas

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

24 Jun

Talk: Das Problem der Selbstverteidigung und die geometrische Konstruktion von Rechten bei Kant

OnlineDigital Kant-Centre NRW

Digital Kant-Lectures

Tim Henning (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

23 Jun

Conference: Prejudice in Hume and His Contemporaries

University College Dublin

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Epistemology

17 Jun

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

Philosophisches Seminar, Heidelberg University

Topics: 17th/18th Century 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

15 Jun

CFP: Graduate and Early Career 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

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

12 Jun

Conference: York University Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

Department of Philosophy, York University

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

8 Jun

Conference: British Moral Philosophy Workshop

School of Philosophy, University College Dublin

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

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

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

28 May

Conference: Leuven Kant Conference

HybridInstitute of Philosophy, KU Leuven

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

27 May

Talk: Weder Ruine noch vorbestimmter Wohnplatz - Kant (und andere) über unser Verhältnis zur Erde

OnlineDigital Kant-Centre NRW

Digital Kant-Lectures

Edward Kanterian (University of Kent)

Topics: 17th/18th Century 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

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

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

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

7 May

Conference: The Oxford Spinoza Conference 2026

University of Oxford

The Oxford Spinoza Conference

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

5 May

Conference: King’s College London - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Kant Workshop

HybridDepartment of Philosophy, King's College London

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

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 Cavendish's Collective's Fourth Annual Virtual Workshop

OnlineThe Cavendish Collective

The Cavendish Collective

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

29 Apr

Talk: Die Wahrnehmung seiner selbst und der Anderen in Kants Theorie des Erhabenen

OnlineDigital Kant-Centre NRW

Digital Kant-Lectures

Dina Emundts (Freie Universität Berlin)

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

24 Apr

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

Online/

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

16 Apr

Conference: Humean Virtue Ethics: New Directions

University of Edinburgh

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

10 Apr

Conference: Kantian Moral Constitutivism

Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago

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

10 Apr

Conference: The philosophy of Francisco Suárez

Department of Philosophy, University of Groningen

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

31 Mar

CFP: Early Modern Naturalisms: Spinozist and Humean

Corvinus University of Budapest

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

28 Mar

Conference: The 2026 Thomas Hobbes Festival

The Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury Society

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

25 Mar

Talk: Kant on Hard Moral Decisions

OnlineDigital Kant-Centre NRW

Digital Kant-Lectures

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

13 Mar

Roundtable: "What is the Philosophical Legacy of Thomas Aquinas?: The 800th Anniversary of Aquinas' Birth"

HybridSt. Joseph's College, University of Alberta

St. Joseph's College Speaker Series

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

5 Mar

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

Department of Philosophy, Harvard University

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

27 Feb

Conference: North American Kant Society - Pacific Study Group Meeting

Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

27 Feb

CFP: Prejudice in Hume and His Contemporaries

University College Dublin

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Epistemology

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