CALL FOR PAPERS SEP's Annual Conference will be held at Manchester Metropolitan University, 2nd – 4th September 2026 Plenary speakers: Rowan Willians, Judith Butler, Lea Cantor and Josh Platzky Miller Deadline: Friday 15th May, 2026 Apply below 👇

The Society for European Philosophy is launching its mentoring scheme. Learn more or sign up 👇

Thrilled to see several of our SEP grad students presenting at the 'La Philosophie en effet' online seminar. Those interested in French and German thought, hold on to your hats! Contact [email protected] for more information.

Two permanent Lecturer posts at Birkbeck (equivalent of Assistant Professor). Area of specialisation is open but with teaching needs in ethics & phil of AI, ethics and poli phil, ancient, gender, continental, engaged. Closing date August 28th, start in Jan 2026 'a significant advantage' #philsky

Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are open. The scheme provides exceptional UK-based early-career researchers with the chance to enhance their research and teaching experience within an academic setting. Learn more and apply: buff.ly/McS8lRk

CFP International Simondon Conference... in Mexico! Deadline August 15.

Delighted to be featured by the King's News Centre! Thanks @kingsartshums.bsky.social

Thank you #SEP2025, it's been a ball. See you all next year at Manchester Metropolitan University! A massive shout out to our organisers, Cillian Ó Fathaigh and Patrick ffrench @pffr.bsky.social, and to King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for hosting.

Cameron Etherton is a PhD student at Oxford, working on Derrida and testimony. Thanks for your fantastic paper '“La date est un témoin”: Derrida and the (im)possible testimony of dates'. That concludes our spotlight series on Early Career Researchers! Stay tuned for more ECR events and info.

CFP: Haitian Feminism(s): Theoretical & Practical Contours | Global Black Thought | Guest Editors: Drs. Sabine Lamour, Célia Romulus, and Grace Sanders Johnson | Extended Deadline: August 30, 2025

EVENT! Midgley, Stebbing, and the History of Philosophy 17 July 2025 @UoNHumanities Details: ianjameskidd.weebly.com/midgley-steb... @thebshp.bsky.social @inparenthesis.bsky.social @philosophellie.bsky.social #philosophy #history #stebbing #midgley

Dr Juliana de Albuquerque finished her PhD at University College Cork and is now working on a book on Arendt and Jewish thought @ajuliana.bsky.social Thanks for your ~ quite heavenly ~ paper '“It is not in Heaven!” Arendt’s notion of world and the Talmudic tale of Achnai’s Oven in Bava Metzia 59b'

Dr Hannah Wallenfels just completed her PhD at Folkwang Universistät der Künste, on the self-image of academic philosophy. She is also a founding member of the theory collective diffrakt. Thanks for your illuminating paper ‘Rethinking the Images of Philosophy: Towards an Ethics of Inclination’.

Had an amazing time at the #SEP2025 conference - many thanks to the organisers for a seamless and engaging event, and to @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for hosting! @sephilo.bsky.social #philsky

Ewa Winiarczyk is an MA student in Anthropology at the Uni. of Warsaw studying neurodiversity as site of political critique. She is the MA Scholar for 'Recognising Injustice in the Digital Public Sphere' at the Jagiellonian. Thanks for your excellent paper 'Political Philosophy of Neurodiversity'.

Thank you UK Simone Veil Research Network and Friends!

Day 3 of SEP 2025. The temperature is rising.

Erik Brownrigg is a PhD student at York University, Toronto. He currently works on metaphysics, social theory, and utopianism in literature and philosophy. Thanks for your brilliant paper, 'The Ethics of Flight: Nietzsche, Bachelard, and the Poetics of Care', at King's College London. #philsky

Dr Giovanni Menegalle is a Teaching Fellow in French Studies and International Politics at the University of London in Paris. He specialises in cybernetics, phenomenology and modern French thought. Thanks for your fantastic paper 'The Transindividual in Ruyer and Simondon' at King's College London.

Martina Barnaba is a postdoctoral researcher at La Sapienza, working on #Hegel and #feminism. Bianca Monteleone is a PhD student at La Sapienza working on #Wollstonecraft and #Hume. Thanks for your excellent joint paper 'Feminine Virtues and Moral Imagination in Wollstonecraft and #deBeauvoir'.

Reginald Nagaiya is a PhD student at Western Sydney University, working on sovereignty and democracy in Arendt, Negri and Mouffe. Thanks for your great paper, “Rethinking the relation between Sovereignty and Democracy in Hannah Arendt, Antonio Negri and Chantal Mouffe”, and a spirited discussion!

Mariana Almeida Pereira is a PhD student at the University of Coimbra, where she works on Jacques Derrida and the animal question, as well as sacrifice, subjectivity and responsibility... 🐈 Thanks for your brilliant paper, ‘Vivre (bien) ensemble avec les animaux”: Derrida and the subject-to-come’

Thanks for a great first day everyone!

Dr Iain Campbell is a writer and researcher based in Glasgow. He is currently writing a book on experimentation in the work of John Cage and Deleuze. It was thrilling to see this work in progress. His paper was 'At the borders of experimentation: histories and territories of ‘experimental music’'.

Welcome to our series of profiles on early career researchers👽 Cian O'Farrell is a PhD student and technē scholar at Kingston University London, where he studies the materiality of digital music. Thanks for your fantastic paper 'The Momentum is the Message: Analogue Philosophy for Analogue Music'

3 keynotes, 3 days, and almost 100 hundred speakers... It can only mean one thing: #SEP2025! See you all tomorrow at King's College London for the conference of the year.

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 We are delighted to announce that SEP 2025 will be held at King's College London on 7-9 July 2025. Our confirmed plenary speakers are Dr Julia Ng, Prof. Simon Critchley and Prof. Frédéric Worms. Deadline 1st February. societyforeuropeanphilosophy.com/2024/12/06/s...

Good morning everyone! We are delighted to announce the election of our new society co-chairs, Dr Ashley Woodward (Dundee) and Dr Wahida Khandker (MMU). 🎉 Congratulations to them both. Our warmest gratitude goes out to Dr Clive Cazeaux for his service.

Diolch yn fawr iawn to all those who made #SEP2024 such an enriching and exciting event -- Thanks especially to @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social for hosting us and the brilliant work of James Lewis, @jonathanwebber.bsky.social and everyone else at @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social !

And that's it! #SEP2024 has been brough to a close by the Chair of the SEP Clive Cazeaux and headed off to the pub.

One final session of #SEP2024 is a symposium on Henry Somers-Hall's book Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy, with talks by Nathan Widder, Cillian Ó Fathaigh, and Wahida Khandker, and a reply by the author.

In another final session of #SEP2024 our former (BA and MA) student Jamie Davies is giving a talk entitled 'On The Pain of Returning Home'.

#SEP2024 Day 3 begins with our third keynote address –– Murdoch and the Idea of Perfection –– Professor Irene McMullin (Essex)

Superb #SEP2024 session on Simone de Beauvoir with Anna Cornelia Ploug (Copenhagen) on concrete contradictions in The Second Sex and Katja Čičigoj (Klagenfurt) on gendered forms of subjectivation structuring lived experience.

#SEP2024 -- a brilliant keynote from Professor Irene McMullin (Essex) on the idea of perfect in Murdoch and Levinas

Great talk from Juliana de Albuquerque (University College Cork) on Hannah Arendt's theory of the primacy of experience over theory and the centrality of stories to ethical and political understanding. #SEP2024

Fascinating session on Husserl, Buddhism, Hume, Kant, and Parfit on selves and persons this afternoon. #SEP2024

#SEP2024 Day 2 is under way with our second keynote address –– Being Disgusted by Hate Speech: Phenomenological Analysis of Political Emotions –– Professor Sara Heinämaa (Jyväskylä)

#SEP2024 beginning with our final keynote, Professor Irene McMullin (Essex), speaking on 'Murdoch and the Idea of Perfection'.

And our 2 other afternoon panels for #SEP2024: 'Philosophy and Science' with Rebecca Bamford, Trama Folco, & Manjari Chakrabarty 'Technology' with Nolen Gertz, Jessica Lombard, & Gregory Morgan Swer

#SEP2024 continues with our afternoon panels: 'The Academy' with Simone Mahrenholz 'Hegel on Sexual Difference and its Relevance for Contemporary Feminist Thought' with Bojana Jovićević, Martina Barnaba, & Oliver Toth.

Day 2 of #SEP2024 beginning with "Being Disgusted by Hate Speech: Phenomenological Analysis of Political Emotions" from our second keynote, Professor Sara Heinämaa (Jyväskylä).

Miriam Feldmann-Kaye (Bar-Ilan University) on Caputo's reading of Derrida and its implications for theology and deconstruction. #SEP2024

Tris Hedges (Copenhagen) speaking about serialised styles and stylised seriality in phenomenology -- with a fantastic set of slides! #SEP2024

Our other morning panels for #SEP2024 are: 'Reproduction in Hegel, Marx, and Social Reproduction Theory' with Anna Beria, Morteza Samanpour, & Katrine Høghøj. 'Philosophy and Photography: A conversation with Spiros Hadjidjanos' with Alexandra Athanasiadou, and James Lewis.

Our morning panels have begun for #SEP2024 @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social. We have: 'Literature & Politics' with Juliana de Albuquerque, Stanimir Panayotov & Eve Judah. 'Subjectivity and Existence' with Beatrice Pagliarone, Jakub Čapek and Gavin Rae.

A brilliant opening keynote from Professor Monique Roelofs (Amsterdam) to begin #SEP2024

#SEP2024 has begun with our first keynote address –– Playing with Stars, Playing with Dust: Decolonial Aesthetics and the Question of the Public –– Professor Monique Roelofs (Amsterdam)

Good morning @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social -- excited for #SEP2024 to begin!

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