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
June 16th – 17th, St. John’s College, University of Cambridge Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School Programme
...Following the success of the 2022 workshop, a successor event will be held in Birmingham on 12th-13th June on the topic of interpersonal relations. If you’d like to get in touch for whatever reason –...
This workshop focuses on the ethics of interaction with digital technologies, and in particular on the use of so-called persuasive technologies, which include recommender systems, bottom-less news feeds, and micro-targeted advertising. These technologies have in...
One of the key reasons to develop, implement and provide access to assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) is that they enable users to have offspring to whom they are genetically related. The moral standing and the...
The Society for Applied Philosophy in partnership with Edinburgh Law School present this year’s LTRG Workshop ‘Law as a Reason for Action: Account and Limits’ Law doesn’t exist to guide us – Joshua Pike (LSE)...
The Department of Philosophy is thrilled to be hosting the BU Graduate Student Philosophy Conference again this year on March 31 – April 1, 2023. The topic for this year’s conference is Bodies in Context:...
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.
Membership and journal subscription are handled by Wiley, as the publishers of the Journal of Applied Philosophy. The button will take you through to their website.