Past BSHP Conferences

Below is a list of past BSHP conferences. In most but not all cases, details of the conference are still available (either on this site or a different site), and can be accessed by clicking on the conference title in the list.

2024

• Annual Conference 2024, 8-10 April 2024, University of Liverpool

2023

• Annual Conference 2023: Knowing in Historical and Cross-Cultural Context, 14–15 April 2023, University of Aberdeen

2022

• Annual Conference 2022, 21–23 April, The Royal Society of Edinburgh

2020-21

• Annual Conference 2020-21: Women in the History of Philosophy, 20–23 April 202, Durham University. [Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 conference was delayed until 2021 and held online].

2019

• Annual Conference 2019, 24–6 April, Kings College London

2018

• Annual Conference 2018: Habit in the History of Philosophy, 12–14 April, University of Durham

2017

• Annual Conference 2017, 6–8 April, University of Sheffield

2016

• Annual Conference 2016: Life and Death in Early Modern Philosophy

2015

• Annual Conference 2015, 9–11 April, University of York

2014

• Annual Conference 2014: Scottish Common Sense Philosophy, 7–9 May, University of Edinburgh

2013

• Annual Conference 2013: The Actual and The Possible, 16–18 April
• Analytic Philosophy and Ancient Philosophy, 25–27 October
• Renaissance Philosophy, 14 June

2012

• Annual Conference 2012: Spinoza, the Infinite, and the Eternal, 11–12 May

2011

• Annual Conference 2011: The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, 29–31 March, University of Sussex

2010

• Annual Conference 2010: Thomas Reid from His Time to Ours, 21–6 March

2009

• Annual Conference 2009: Transcendental Philosophy: its History and Nature, 15–17 April, MMU
• The Metaphysics of Consciousness: an international conference in honour of Timothy L. S. Sprigge (1932–2007), 7–9 July
• Frege: Content, Concerns and Context, 30 May
• Cudworth's Moral Philosophy in Contemporary Context, 15–16 May
• Thinking with Spinoza: Politics, Philosophy and Religion, 7–8 May

2008

• Annual Conference 2008: Causation 1500-2000, 25–7 March, University of York
• Damaris Cudworth Masham (1658–1708) and her Philosophical Context, 3 October

2007

• Toland: Tolerance, Reason and Religion, 27–28 June
• Early Modern Philosophy in Britain and the Netherlands 1500–1800, March

2006

• Philosophy and Historiography, April
• Women, Metaphysics and Enlightenment, 1669–1789, March

2005

• The Varieties of Analysis, March
• Graduate Conference on Kant, March

2004

• Hume Studies in Britain 3, September
• Hegel and British Thought, September
• Scottish Philosophy, July
• Locke, April
• Mind and Science in Descartes, February

2003

• Outsiders in Early Modern Philosophy, October
• Leibniz and the English-Speaking World, September
• Platonism at the Origins of Modernity, March

2002

• Hume Studies in Britain 2, September
• Analytic Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, March

2001

• Hobbes' Leviathan, May
• The Scottish Enlightenment in its European Context, April

2000

• Hume Studies in Britain I, September
• Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance, June
• Athens and Jerusalem: Christianity and the History of Philosophy, April

1999

• Philosophy and the Republic of Letters, November
• Bosanquet and the Legacy of British Idealism, September
• Libertines and Libertinism in Early Modern Europe, March

1998

• Kierkegaard and Freedom, July
• Thinking through History, March/April

1997

• Deism and Atheism in the Enlightenment, July
• Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy, June
• Kant and Neo-Kantianism, April

1996

• Human Nature in Descartes, November
• The Young Leibniz and his Philosophy, October
• Hegel and the Enlightenment, September
• Hume, July

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