Past Events
The Society funds a wide variety of events. Below you will find examples of events that have been sponsored in the past.
The Society holds an Annual Conference (at the very end of June or beginning of July) and holds an annual lecture (usually in the autumn).
Recordings of the Annual Lecture are available on our Soundcloud page. (Online / video recorded events are available on our youtube channel).
We also sponsor a range of workshops, conferences and colloquia.
Past events
The 2023 conference is titled, “Limits to Autonomy”. We hope to explore the legal and ethical issues around autonomy and its subsequent limits. The conference will run from 9.30am-3.30pm on Friday 24th March on-site at...
This one-day hybrid symposium is dedicated to Theodor W. Adorno’s text ‘Sexual Taboos and Law Today’ on the occasion of its sixty-year anniversary. First published in 1963, Theodor W. Adorno’s essay ‘Sexual Taboos and Law...
Every year, the British and Irish Postgraduate Philosophy Association (BIPPA) organises its Annual Conference, when we aim at bringing together postgraduate students from all over the UK and the Republic of Ireland to present their...
The 4th IRNEP conference will take place at the University of Reading on the 29th and 30th of September 2022. The aim of the conference is to promote a dialogue between the disciplines of Economics...
The New College of the Humanities (NCH) will host the 11th British Wittgenstein Society (BWS) Conference, on the theme of Wittgenstein and AI. The conference will be held in London, at the New College of...
The Society’s 2022 conference will take place in Edinburgh 01-03 July. The Call For Papers and Panel Proposals closed on Monday 17 January 2022). (Authors of papers selected for inclusion in the programme can confirm...
SAP Annual Conference
SAP Annual Conference 2026
03 – 05 July
University of Edinburgh, JMCC
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Membership of the Society is open to anyone interested in our aims, whether or not you hold a philosophical qualification or are employed as a professional philosopher.
Membership includes online access to the Journal of Applied Philosophy, as well as a reduced fee for the Society’s annual conference. Members can also apply for event funding through the Society’s grant scheme.
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