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 year 2025 will mark the 10th anniversary of the Diversity Reading List’s existence, and we are pleased to invite you to join us in celebrating the various efforts and projects dedicated to making philosophy...
The Society’s 2025 conference will take place at Radisson Hotel & Suites, Gdansk 27-29 June. Papers will be given on a wide range of topics across the field of applied philosophy (Authors of papers selected...
The University of St Andrews Business School will welcome an international workshop titled, ‘Genealogies of corporate morality: approaching business ethics through intellectual history’. Panel sessions and keynote talks will take place in St Andrews on...
Are AI agents like collective agents? In which ways are ChatGPT’s decisions like a university’s decisions? To what extent is big data similar to democracy? We welcome you all to attend the second ‘Social Ontology...
This event will bring together political, moral, and legal philosophers for a one-day workshop on the manuscript of Avia Pasternak’s forthcoming book, No Justice No Peace: The Ethics of Violent Protests. The book and workshop...
Our workshop seeks to advance research on novel approaches to complicity as well as morally adequate responses to complicity. For that purpose, we have invited scholars who have been working and publishing on complicity previously...
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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