Annual Lectures, Symposiums, and Events
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Extremism Without Politics, Professor Quassim Cassam - The Annual London Lecture
In this Annual London Lecture, Professor Quassim Cassam explores novel forms of extremism whose purpose is not to advance a political cause and examines the implications of this for the legal…
Has there been moral progress? - The Annual Symposium 2025
Can there be moral progress? Some optimists would argue that there can, because there already has been, with fewer people living in poverty, and corporal punishment now a rarity. But do optimists…
Is ‘Ethical AI’ a Fantasy? - The 2024 Annual Symposium
Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence have generated a lot of public anxiety, especially regarding ethical issues: data bias, privacy, the opacity of automated decisions, the effects of…
What are the Limits on Free Speech? - The 2023 Annual Symposium
Where should we draw the line between hate speech and simply saying things other people don’t want to hear? When some social groups can access media much more easily than others, has the idea of free…
What does art tell us about ourselves? Life, art, and philosophy: Alva Noë, London Annual Lecture 2023
We make art out of life, but life in turn is remade by art. We are by nature tied to art, and this means, finally, that we can’t really speak of our “nature” at all. We are art’s product. Art is not…
Presidential Address 2024
Jo Wolff is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. He was named the new President…
Has Science Killed Philosophy? - The 2021 Annual Debate
Stephen Hawking's proclamation that philosophy is dead was clearly hyperbole. But when it comes to understanding the fundamental nature of reality, has philosophy really got anything left to…
'Differentiating Scientific Inquiry and Politics': Heather Douglas, Edinburgh Annual Lecture 2021
Over the past two decades, our view of the ideals for science in society has changed. Discussions of the roles for values in science and changes in the views on the responsibilities in science have…
Work - A Short History of a Modern Concept with Axel Honneth
Axel Honneth’s 2021 Royal Institute of Philosophy Dublin Lecture seeks briefly to reconstruct the history of conceptual disputes about the meaning of work from the beginning of capitalist…
The Philosophical Retreat to the Here and Now with Richard Moran
Certain philosophies describe us as prone to forms of attachment that are illusory, and promise to indemnify us against the hazards of life by exposing such illusions. One such hazard is that of…
Systemic, Structural, and Institutional Injustice with Sally Haslanger
The terms 'systemic injustice' and 'structural injustice' are often used interchangeably and are often equated with 'institutional injustice.' But in order to understand these different forms of…
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