Past events in 17th/18th Century Philosophy

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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

31 Oct

CFP: Moral Demands Towards Animals: British and German Perspectives (1670–1820)

University of Milan

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

30 Oct

Conference: Obligation and Normativity in Modern Moral Philosophy

University of Milan

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

24 Oct

Talk: Atomism in Du Châtelet, Wolff, and Leibniz

HybridUniversity of California, Riverside

Leibniz Society of North America Annual Conferences

Jeffrey McDonough (Harvard University)

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

24 Oct

Conference: Spinoza and Imaginative Ideas

Human Abilities Center, Humboldt University of Berlin

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

24 Oct

Conference: Kant’s Political Philosophy

University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

24 Oct

Conference: Spinoza and Imaginative Ideas

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

24 Oct

Talk: Imaginative Ideas and Political Cohesion: Spinoza on the Hebrew Commonwealth

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

23 Oct

Conference: The Twentieth Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America

HybridUniversity of California, Riverside

Leibniz Society of North America Annual Conferences

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

23 Oct

Conference: Sentimental Education: Adam Smith and the Value of Literature

Department of Philosophy, Harvard University

Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

23 Oct

Talk: Sentimental Education: Adam Smith and the Value of Literature

Department of Philosophy, Harvard University

Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop

Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham University)

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

23 Oct

Conference: NYU Shanghai Kant Workshop

Department of Philosophy, NYU Shanghai

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

1 Oct

CFP: North American Spinoza Society 2027 Meeting

Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

29 Sep

Talk: HICO LECTURE: Mental Acts and Representational Content in Descartes, Malebranche, Locke, and Kant: Completing Act-Based Propositions Through a Progression of Insights From Modern Philosophy

HybridDepartment of Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Ghent University

Centre for History of Philosophy and Continental Philosophy (HICO) (Ghent University)

Till Hoeppner (Universität Göttingen)

Benjamin Hill (University of Western Ontario)

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

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

24 Sep

Conference: Reason after Critique: The Positive Function of Reason in Kant

Philosophy, Universität Trier, Germany

Kant Research Centre Workshop

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

18 Sep

Conference: El pansiquismo de Margaret Cavendish contra el antropocentrismo epistémico

OnlineInstituto de Investigaciones Históricas , Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

Seminario Internacional Mujeres Doctas de los siglos XVI - XVII

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

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

Online/

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

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