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
Amid multidimensional challenges such as climate change, global inequality, political instability, and the rise of artificial intelligence, calls for interdisciplinarity are growing louder. In the last decades, fields such as bioethics, environmental philosophy, neurophilosophy, and...
Wednesday 11 December 2025 9.00-9.15 Welcome and introduction Sala Von Appen 9.15-10.15 Keynote Speaker 1: Carlos Peña (Universidad Diego Portales): TBC Sala Von Appen 10.15-10.45 Coffee 1 10.45-12.45 Panel 1 (In person) Sala...
A Two-day event as part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign Day 1: Sex, Deception, & Consent (Wednesday 3rd December) Details tba Day 2: Objectification & Sexualisation (Thursday 4th December) Further...
There has been growing debate in recent years around whether lying to someone to get them to have sex with you could in some circumstances constitute what has come to be termed “rape by deception”....
This one-day workshop on applied epistemology aims to bring together philosophers across career stages to present and discuss new research that engages epistemological inquiry with pressing real-world concerns. Taking place at the London School of...
Annual Lecture 2025: Society as a Common Possession: Membership and Solidarity in Diverse Societies, Professor Will Kymlicka (Queen’s University). The lecture will take place at 6.00 -7.00pm (UTC/GMT +0) on Wednesday 12 November at the...
SAP Annual Conference
SAP Annual Conference 2026
03 – 05 July
University of Edinburgh, JMCC
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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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