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Conferences

Each year the Royal Institute of Philosophy offers sponsorship of up to £3,000 for a conference hosted by a university department of philosophy. Philosophy departments are now invited to submit proposals for conferences in 2011 and 2012.

Proposals should be sent by post only to Dr. James Garvey at the Royal Institute of Philosophy, 14 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AR to arrive no later than 1st April 2010. In coming to a decision, the Institute's Conference Committee will have regard to previous locations and topics (see below) as well as the suitability of the topic proposed for laypeople and professional philosophers. When making a proposal, please indicate whether it would be for 2011 or 2012 or whether either year is possible.

Please see Conditions of Sponsorship for further details.

The next conference will be at Oxford Brookes on 15 - 17 June 2010, and the topic is Human Nature. You can find further details at the conference hompage here.

Conference Proceedings

Since 1986, the proceedings of conferences have been published by arrangement with the Cambridge University Press as supplements to the Institute’s journal, Philosophy. Follow the links below for further details and ordering information.

1969 Southampton: Philosophers into Europe

1971 Canterbury: Philosophy of Psychology

1973 Exeter: Philosophy of Education

1975 Lancaster: Reason and Religion

1977 Norwich: Philosophy of the Social Sciences

1979 Lancaster: Law, Morality, and Rights

1981 Keele: Space, Time and Causality

1983 Lancaster: Philosophy and Its Past

1985 Bristol: Philosophy and the Visual Arts

1986 Belfast: Moral Philosophy

1987 York: Philosophy and Medical Welfare

1989 Glasgow: Explanation