Annual Conference

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

2023

2022

2020-21

2019

2018

2017

2016

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

2015

2014

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

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

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