Conference

The autumn philosophy calendar: three dates in November

A congress on Timothy Williamson in Shanghai, the Kyoto Prize ceremony, and World Philosophy Day on 19 November. The international philosophy calendar for the autumn is set.

Catherine Malabou receives an honorary doctorate from Leiden: 'The plasticity of the unconditional'

The French philosopher received an honorary doctorate from Leiden University on 9 February 2026. Her public lecture the following day started from Derrida's idea of the 'unconditional university' and asked what has become of it.

Catherine Malabou

Judith Butler at The New School: 'Contemporary fascist passions'

Butler gave the keynote at the GSSI Symposium on 23-25 April 2026. In February she spoke to an audience of some two hundred at WashU on 'Who's Afraid of Gender?'.

Judith Butler

Miranda Fricker gives the Uehiro Lectures at Oxford: 'Moral Pressures'

The philosopher who named epistemic injustice used the 2026 Uehiro Lectures to examine how moral demands shape people. She also gave this year's Dewey Lectures at Columbia.

Miranda Fricker

Elizabeth Anderson at Lund: 'Libertarianism, inequality and the slide to authoritarianism'

The Michigan philosopher used her Pufendorf Lectures, delivered on 11-13 May 2026, to argue that the language of market freedom erodes political freedom.

Elizabeth Anderson

Timothy Williamson is at Yale this year; Fudan is holding a congress on his work

Oxford's emeritus Wykeham Professor of Logic is a visiting professor at Yale in 2026. A congress titled 'Williamson Encountering Chinese Philosophy' takes place in Shanghai in November.

Timothy Williamson