Annual lectures

Cardiff annual lectures

In 2018, Michael P. Lynch gave the first Royal Institute of Philosophy and University of Cardiff Annual Lecture. View past and upcoming annual lectures here.

Past lectures

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Quiet as its Kept: On Epistemic Frailty (online) 

This year's Cardiff Annual Lecture will be delivered (online) by the University of Michigan's Kristie Dotson. In her talk, she will be exploring the ways in which we become set in our beliefs and conceptions of the world, and the implications of this for our political lives.

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Dark Futures: A Philosophical Archaeology of Hope 

“Dark Futures” will consider some scenes of devastation that define our desperate times, and mine them for insights into our predicaments and our prospects. Paul C. Taylor presents this talk.

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Value Collapse 

In this year's Cardiff Annual Lecture, C. Thi Nguyen addresses the issues around and implications of setting goals around explicit metrics.

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The Philosophical Retreat to the Here and Now 

Richard Moran raises questions about the ideal of “living in the present” and escaping the contingencies and loss that are part of temporal life.

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Phenomenology of Social Distancing 

Havi Carel argues that recent restrictions aimed at preventing the transmission of COVID-19 have had a profound impact on our personal and social worlds.

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