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.

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2019

• Annual Conference 2019

2018

• Annual Conference 2018: Habit in the History of Philosophy

2017

• Annual Conference 2017

2016

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

2015

• Annual Conference 2015 (9-11th April 2015)

2014

• Annual Conference 2014: Scottish Common Sense Philosophy (7-9th May 2014)

2013

• Annual Conference 2013: The Actual and The Possible (16th-18th April 2013)
• Analytic Philosophy and Ancient Philosophy (25-27th October 2013)
• Renaissance Philosophy (14th June 2013)

2012

• Annual Conference 2012: Spinoza, the Infinite, and the Eternal (11-12th May 2012)

2011

• Annual Conference 2011: The Philosophy of the Enlightenment (29-31st March 2011)

2010

• Annual Conference 2010: Thomas Reid from His Time to Ours (21-26th March 2010)

2009

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

2008

• Annual Conference 2008: Causation 1500-2000 (25-27th March 2008)
• Damaris Cudworth Masham (1658-1708) and her Philosophical Context (3rd October 2008)

2007

• Toland: Tolerance, Reason and Religion (27-28th June 2007)
• Early Modern Philosophy in Britain and the Netherlands 1500-1800 (March 2007)

2006

• Philosophy and Historiography (April 2006)
• Women, Metaphysics and Enlightenment, 1669-1789 (March 2006)

2005

• The Varieties of Analysis (March 2005)
• Graduate Conference on Kant (March 2005)

2004

• Hume Studies in Britain 3 (September 2004)
• Hegel and British Thought (September 2004)
• Scottish Philosophy (July 2004)
• Locke (April 2004)
• Mind and Science in Descartes (February 2004)

2003

• Outsiders in Early Modern Philosophy (Word document) (October 2003)
• Leibniz and the English-Speaking World (September 2003)
• Platonism at the Origins of Modernity (March 2003)

2002

• Hume Studies in Britain 2 (September 2002)
• Analytic Philosophy and the History of Philosophy (March 2002)

2001

• Hobbes' Leviathan (May 2001)
• The Scottish Enlightenment in its European Context (April 2001)

2000

• Hume Studies in Britain (September 2000)
• Giordano Bruno: Philosopher of the Renaissance (June 2000)
• Athens and Jerusalem: Christianity and the History of Philosophy (April 2000)

1999

• Philosophy and the Republic of Letters (November 1999)
• Bosanquet and the Legacy of British Idealism (September 1999)
• Libertines and Libertinism in Early Modern Europe (March 1999)

1998

• Kierkegaard and Freedom (July 1998)
• Thinking through History (March/April 1998)

1997

• Deism and Atheism in the Enlightenment (July 1997)
• Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy (June 1997)
• Kant and Neo-Kantianism (April 1997)

1996

• Human Nature in Descartes (November 1996)
• The Young Leibniz and his Philosophy (October 1996)
• Hegel and the Enlightenment (September 1996)
• Hume (July 1996)

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