[PHILOS-L] CFP: Analytic Approaches to the History of Philosophy

[James Kinkaid]

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This is a call for papers in the “philosophical history of philosophy.”
The term has been used in various ways in debates about methodology in
the study of philosophy’s history. In this CFP, we do not only mean
using philosophical ideas from the past to inform or shape one’s own
contemporary philosophical commitments. We also mean the opposite: the
deliberate and explicit use of contemporary analytic philosophy to
inform and deepen our understanding of past philosophical ideas. This is
not limited to reconstructing the ideas of past philosophers; at times
this approach seeks to explore what these ideas themselves amount to,
even beyond the conscious intentions of their authors.

As this perspective naturally raises methodological questions, we
welcome not only work that uses this approach but also work that
reflects on it, whether positively or critically, as a methodology in
the history of philosophy.

The subject area for this inaugural edition of the Analytic Approaches
Conference is limited to metaphysics. We invite papers in metaphysics
that adopt or discuss an explicitly analytic approach for a two-day
workshop in Ankara. The call is open to contributions from all
philosophical traditions, including Western, Eastern, and Islamic
philosophies.

The Analytic Approaches Conference is an event jointly organized by the
Departments of Philosophy at Middle East Technical University (Ankara),
Bilkent University (Ankara), and Koç University (Istanbul). The
inaugural meeting will be held on June 5–6, 2027, and hosted by the
Department of Philosophy at Bilkent University.

We are pleased to announce our keynote speakers:

Monima Chadha (University of Oxford)
Kris McDaniel (University of Notre Dame)

While we are unable to offer travel funding, the Bilkent University
Department of Philosophy will provide free on-campus lodging and meals
for all conference participants.

Please join us in discovering, rethinking, and engaging the past through
the lens of analytic philosophy.

We invite submissions of abstracts (600–800 words) for papers suitable
for 30-minute presentations on any period in the history of metaphysics
up to the end of the twentieth century. Abstracts should be submitted to
james....@bilkent.edu.tr by January 1, 2027 and prepared for blind
review. Please include a separate title page with your name and
institutional affiliation.

Organizers:
Refik Güremen (METU), James Kinkaid (Bilkent University), Damien Storey
(Koç University)


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