Past events in 17th/18th Century Philosophy

28 Jan

23 Jan

Conference: Self-Consciousness in Kant and Post-Kantianism

Institute of Philosophy, University of Leipzig

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

16 Jan

CFP: York University Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

Department of Philosophy, York University

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

15 Jan

CFP: 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

12 Jan

CFP: Leuven Kant Conference

HybridInstitute of Philosophy, KU Leuven

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

11 Jan

Conference: Hopkins Seminar in Early and Late Modern Philosophy

HybridWilliam H. Miller III Department of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University

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

7 Jan

CFP: International Hobbes Association 2026 Annual Meeting

International Hobbes Association

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

7 Jan

Conference: International Hobbes Association 2026 Annual Meeting

International Hobbes Association

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

7 Jan

Conference: International Berkeley Society at the 2026 Eastern APA

International Berkeley Society

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

31 Dec 2025

CFP: 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

20 Dec 2025

CFP: Online Bayle Seminar 2026 : Education et pédagogie chez le philosophe de Rotterdam

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

18 Dec 2025

Conference: LOSAK Annual Lecture and Conference

HybridDepartment of Philosophy, University of Liverpool

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

17 Dec 2025

Conference: 8th Annual CKPP Workshop: 'Kant and AI: Metaphysical, Epistemic, Moral and Social Issues'

HybridDepartment of Philosophy, University of Liverpool

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

16 Dec 2025

Talk: Facing the Music: Kant and the “Art of Tone”

OnlineGwynedd Mercy University

Robert Louden (University of Southern Maine)

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Aesthetics

12 Dec 2025

CFP - Graduate Student Submissions: North American Kant Society - Pacific Study Group Meeting

Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

9 Dec 2025

Conference: Kant on Inner Sense, Self-Consciousness, and Self-Affection

HybridInstitut für Philosophie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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

26 Nov 2025

Talk: Digital Kant Lecture with Dietmar Heidemann

OnlineDigital Kant-Centre NRW

Digital Kant-Lectures

Dietmar Heidemann (University of Luxembourg)

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

21 Nov 2025

Conference: De fide. Questions and Answers of Catholic and Protestant Second Scolasticism

ThéoRèmes review, Monotheism Studies Laboratory

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

20 Nov 2025

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

19 Nov 2025

Conference: III Coloquio Internacional de Idealismo Alemán

HybridInstituto de Filosofia, Universidad Diego Portales

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

14 Nov 2025

Conference: Midwest Study Group of the North American Kant Society, 2025

University of Notre Dame

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

14 Nov 2025

Conference: Locke and Contemporary Philosophy: Epistemology

OnlineTexas A&M University

Locke and Contemporary Philosophy

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Epistemology

7 Nov 2025

Conference: Imagining the Revolution: Cultural Transfers and Reinterpretations of 19th-Century Revolutionary Experiences in Europe

Eötvös József Research Centre, Ludovika University of Public Service

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

29 Oct 2025

Talk: The Origins of the Good Will

OnlineDigital Kant-Centre NRW

Digital Kant-Lectures

Patrick Kain (Purdue University)

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

24 Oct 2025

Conference: Practice and Theory: Next Steps in Kantian Practical Philosophy

Department of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles

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

23 Oct 2025

Talk: Laws and Nature in Descartes and Spinoza

OnlineCenter for International Philosophy, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai

The International Center for Philosophy at Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai Seminar Series

Michael LeBuffe (University of Otago)

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

17 Oct 2025

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

17 Oct 2025

Conference: North American Kant Society Biennial

McGill University

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

15 Oct 2025

CFP: Slavery and Abolition in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

Department of Philosophy, Emory University

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

11 Oct 2025

Conference: Cartesian Feminism and Women Cartesians

HybridHuman Abilities Center, Humboldt-University, Berlin

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

10 Oct 2025

Conference: Locke and Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind

OnlineTexas A&M University

Locke and Contemporary Philosophy

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

9 Oct 2025

Conference: Kant on Systematicity and Progress

Department of Philosophy, Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition (CONCEPT), Uniersity of Cologne

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

9 Oct 2025

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

7 Oct 2025

CFP: Imagining the Revolution: Cultural Transfers and Reinterpretations of 19th-Century Revolutionary Experiences in Europe

Eötvös József Research Centre, Ludovika University of Public Service

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

4 Oct 2025

Conference: FOURTH BRISTOL WORKSHOP ON THE HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY: NATURAL PHILOSOPHY REVISITED

Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol

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

3 Oct 2025

Talk: 'Modern Moral Philosophy' and Modern Moral Philosophy

OnlineDepartment of Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Milano

Milan Seminar in the History of Modern Moral Philosophy

Stephen Darwall (Yale University)

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

1 Oct 2025

CFP: Hopkins Seminar in Early and Late Modern Philosophy

HybridWilliam H. Miller III Department of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University

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

24 Sep 2025

Talk: The Formulae of the Moral Law and Predispositions

OnlineDigital Kant-Centre NRW

Digital Kant-Lectures

Patricia Kitcher (Columbia University)

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

17 Sep 2025

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

16 Sep 2025

Conference: The British Wave: British Philosophy and German Philosophy in the 18th-Century

Department of Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Milano

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

12 Sep 2025

Conference: Locke and Contemporary Philosophy: Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science

OnlineTexas A&M University

Locke and Contemporary Philosophy

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

12 Sep 2025

Conference: More than pen pals: How to integrate historical women philosophers into systematic philosophy teaching

HybridDepartment of Philosophy, Ruhr University Bochum

Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie (GAP) Satellite Workshop

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

1 Sep 2025

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

IWH Heidelberg

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

29 Aug 2025

Workshop: Kant on provisional right

University of Fribourg, Switzerland

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

11 Aug 2025

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 Aug 2025

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

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

31 Jul 2025

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

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

27 Jul 2025

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

23 Jul 2025

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

19 Jul 2025

Conference: The Cavendish Collective's Third Annual Virtual Workshop

OnlineThe Cavendish Collective

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

Past events in 17th/18th Century Philosophy

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