TEMPO 2025

A Modern Conference

April 25-26th, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

 

 
 
Modern Philosophers arrayed above a night-time shot of the reflecting pool at the Jefferson Memorial
 
 
 
 

Call for Abstracts

 

The Traveling Early Modern Philosophy Organization (TEMPO) is now accepting submissions for our April 25-26th, 2025 conference to be held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

We welcome papers on any aspect of Modern philosophy, roughly understood as the period from Montaigne through Mill.

Submissions on Sor Juana and related figures, methods, and themes are particularly encouraged.

Keynote Presentation:
Cavendish (and Aristotle and Augustine but not Hobbes) on Virtue
Daniel Whiting (University of Southampton)
 
Plenary Presentations:
Kant, Epistemic Dependence, and the Politics of Knowledge Production
by Huaping Lu-Adler (Georgetown University)
 
Shepherd on Mathematics
by Maité Cruz (Union College)
 
Time, Mutability, and Punishment in Conway
by Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval (University of California, Davis)

To submit, please prepare a 300-500 word abstract for anonymous review and submit it here.

Papers should be suitable for a 25 minute presentation, followed by 30 minutes of Q&A.

The deadline for submissions is January 31st, 2025. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by February 18th.

You can also learn more about and register for our reading group on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, to take place in 2025 leading up to the conference.

The TEMPO Board remains committed to increasing the representation of diverse voices across Modern philosophy scholarship.

Download this call as a PDF.

 

Please contact our Program Committee Chair for 2025 with any questions.

 
 

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