The last decades have seen an increasing interest of philosophers and social theorists in the analysis of risk. Wide‐ranging research has significantly advanced our understanding of the empirical, normative, and conceptual dimensions of risk. The growing interest in risk has been closely linked to a societal awareness of the possibly harmful or even disastrous effects that […]
So far, political philosophers have largely neglected the phenomenon of self‐deception by democratic decision‐makers, i.e., their unintended ‘distortion of reality against the available evidence and according to one’s wishes’ (Galeotti, 2018, p. 1). However, self‐deception creates a unique set of problems concerning the misuse of the best available evidence in democratic decision‐making. Furthermore, it raises new […]
The goal of this two‐day workshop is to explore the roots of the notion of habit in the phenomenological tradition by looking at its structure and development in relation to intersubjectivity. Among other questions, the conference aims to address the following topics: the relevance of habit for understanding empathy, intersubjectivity, and social dispositions, the relation […]
This workshop is funded by the Society for Applied Philosophy. It is an academic event organised in the context of the Geneva Colloquium in Political Theory (GECOPOL), a series of guest talks and conferences that take place every semester at the University of Geneva Registration is free but places are limited for catering purposes. If you […]
Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Lecture 2018 How Democracy Can Inform Consent: The Cases of Internet and Bioethics Professor Carol C. Gould (City University of New York) King’s College London October 26, 2018 5:00 pm — 6:30 pm Moot Court, Somerset House East Wing
This conference aims to bring together leading philosophers of human rights and rising stars to present frontier work on themes related to social rights, including the conceptual terrain, the place of social rights within the standard dichotomy between so‐called ‘liberty rights’ and ‘welfare rights’, the defensibility of social rights as human rights, their relevance to […]
We honour and admire friends, teachers, artists, sportspeople, and intellectuals for who they are as people and the acts they perform. We also honour and admire politicians and combatants for their conduct before and during war and conflict. We give them medals, build statues in their honour and even (in the case of Winston Churchill) […]
The way SAP members access the Journal of Applied Philosophy has changed recently. Going forwards you will need to log directly into the journal pages on the Wiley Online Library. If you have previously registered your e‐mail address on the Wiley site then you will shortly receive an e‐mail to advise you that your access […]
“Cryonic preservation” (or “cryopreservation”) names a technique whereby a person currently suffering from a terminal illness has their body frozen for an indefinitely long period of time, in the hope that, once medical technology has advanced sufficiently, it will be possible for them to be revived and cured. In November 2016, the British courts heard a case brought in […]