With the support of funding from SW*IP-NL
The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University is proud to announce the second graduate conference in philosophy. The theme of this year’s conference will be ‘Miscellaneous Categories in Philosophy’. The conference will be held in Utrecht (Netherlands) on 30th of April and 1st of May 2026.
While conducting research, philosophers often have the tendency to perpetuate the un-diversification of the canon by focusing on Western traditions, while categorising other traditions as miscellaneous. This type of philosophical indexing has (un)consciously made a value statement regarding categories of philosophy that matter and those that don’t. The overclassification and othering within philosophical indexing actively contributes to solidifying the status-quo. For example, should feminist logic be categorised under miscellaneous logic instead of being simply put under the broader logic category?
The aim of this conference is to highlight niche, overlooked, and perhaps undervalued topics that don’t fit neatly into the Western canon or into the most popular topics in contemporary analytical philosophy as well as question how we categorise philosophy more generally.
More information can be found here.