The Res Philosophica Conference is hosted by the Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. The themes are chosen by members of the Department, and the papers from the conference are published in a special issue of the journal.

The 2025 Res Philosophica Conference, titled Pragmatism and Scientific Inquiry, is organized by Kent Staley and will be held April 25-26 in the Pere Marquette Gallery in DuBourg Hall (221 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63103). Participants include Holly Andersen, Matthew Brown, Sharyn Clough, Sabina Leonelli, Joseph Rouse, and David Stump.
 
The pragmatist tradition in philosophy has, from its beginnings, placed the conduct of inquiry at the center of its philosophical projects. The process of inquiry consists of actions, but it also aims to produce knowledge. Consequently, pragmatists’ treatments of inquiry exemplify the tradition’s reluctance to separate in a fundamental way the theoretical from the practical and the epistemic from the pragmatic. In this conference, we aim to bring together scholars drawing upon – and criticizing – this philosophical tradition, to shed light on scientific inquiry while incorporating recent insights into scientific practices and the contexts of scientific inquiry.

The 2023 Res Philosophica Conference, titled Alienation and the Virtues: Personal, Social, and Spiritual, was organized by Greg Beabout and was March 30-31. Participants included Daniel De Haan, Celeste Harvey, F. Russell Hittinger, Anne Jeffrey, David McPherson, and John Stein, S.J.

The 2021 Res Philosophica Conference, titled Globalizing Empirically-Informed Philosophy, was organized by Helen De Cruz and was held online on November 18-19. Participants included Julianne N. Chung, Alexis Elder, Bryce Huebner, Nicholaos Jones, Edouard Machery, Ryan Nichols and Hagop Sarkissian. The papers were published in the January 2023 issue of the journal.

The 2019 Res Philosophica Conference, titled Mass Incarceration and Racial Justice, was organized by Scott Berman and Chad Flanders and held March 22 at Saint Louis University. Participants included Tommie Shelby, Ekow Yankah, Erin Kelly, Eric Miller, Raff Donelson, Brandon Hogan and Myisha Cherry. The papers were published in the April 2020 issue of the journal.

The 2017 Res Philosophica Conference, titled Race and Gender, was held April 28–29 at Saint Louis University, and was organized by Colleen McCluskey. Speakers included Tina Botts,Tommy Curry, Lewis Gordon, Leonard Harris, Michele Moody-Adams, and Naomi Zack. The papers were published in the April 2018 issue of the journal.

The 2016 Res Philosophica Conference, on formal and traditional epistemology, was held April 8–9 at Saint Louis University, and was organized by Joe Salerno. Speakers were Kenny Easwaran, Alan Hájek, Terry Horgan, Susanna Rinard, Sherri Roush, and Julia Staffel. The papers were published in the April 2017 issue of the journal.

The 2014 Res Philosophica Conference, on transformative experience, was held September 19–20 at Saint Louis University, and was organized by Jon Jacobs. Speakers were Rachael Briggs, Jennifer Carr, Ruth Chang, John Collins, and L. A. Paul. Those papers, among others, were published in the April 2015 issue of the journal.