London lectures

This series of weekly talks, beginning in the autumn of each year, draws together philosophers from across the globe to London to give a lecture on a chosen theme.

By series:

Words and Worlds: New Directions in the Philosophy of Language (2022-3)

Expanding Horizons (2021-2)

A Philosophers’ Manifesto (2020-1)

How Do We Know? The Social Dimension of Knowledge (2019-20)

Upcoming lectures

London Lectures · Madness and Mental Health: 2023-4

Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law: Doctrines of Legal Insanity 

Claire Hogg discusses the theoretical basis for the defence of "legal insanity".

· London
London Lectures · Madness and Mental Health: 2023-4

Communicating to Increase Agency in Youth Mental Health Treatment Encounters and Beyond 

When young people seek help from mental health professionals, these encounters can undermine or increase their sense of agency. Rose McCabe, Michele Lim and Lisa Bortolotti talk about communication in video-recorded encounters between young people and mental healthcare practitioners in emergency services.

· London
London Lectures · Madness and Mental Health: 2023-4

How Can We Make Progress in Mental Healthcare Research? 

Neil Armstrong and Nicola Byrom consider what form social science and humanities research needs to take if it is to be of benefit to clinical research.

· London
London Lectures · Madness and Mental Health: 2023-4

The Person in Psychiatry: An Ecohumanist, Enactive Approach 

Many people suffer from psychiatric disorders and mental distress, yet much is still unclear – both regarding how to understand these problems and how to best treat them. Sanneke de Haan presents this talk.

· London

Past lectures

London Lectures · Madness and Mental Health: 2023-4

Health and Disease: Experimental Philosophy of Medicine 

Somogy Varga and Andrew J. Latham look at how we understand concepts of health and disease, a central debate in the philosophy of medicine.

· London
London Lectures · Madness and Mental Health: 2023-4

Who Gets to Call Whom Mad? And With What Right? 

Who gets to say whose world is the true one, or what counts as real? This talk is presented by Richard Gipps.

· London
London Lectures · Madness and Mental Health: 2023-4

Understanding Suicide and Assisted Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders 

Mona Gupta explores, and challenges, the problem of how suicidality and assisted dying for persons with mental disorders are framed in political and public debates.

· London
London Lectures · Madness and Mental Health: 2023-4

Beyond Psychiatric Diagnosis: A radical new approach to mental health 

Lucy Johnstone & Mary Boyle take an in-depth look at the Power Threat Meaning Framework, published by the British Psychological Society in 2018.

· London
London lecture series · Madness and Mental Health: 2023-4

“A Flaw in the Great Diamond of the World”: On Contemporary Psychology and the Enigmas of Subjectivity 

Louis Sass considers the puzzling nature of human subjectivity in contemporary psychology and related professions.

· London
London Lectures · Madness and Mental Health: 2023-4

Epistemic Injustice, Silence and Speech 

Is it right to assume that speaking our minds is good and keeping silent may be a sign of oppression? Havi Carel and Dan Degerman present this lecture.

· London
London Lectures · Words and Worlds

On Discussing What We Should Do 

Jane Heal (Cambridge) presents the final talk in our 2022-3 London lecture series Words and Worlds: New Directions in the Philosophy of Language.

· London
London Lectures · Words and Worlds

Stories and Selves 

We need stories. But does the interpretative structure imposed by narrative risk paralysing and limiting us? Elisabeth Camp presents this lecture as part of our 2022-3 series Words and Worlds.

· London
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London Lecture Series

Words and Worlds: 2022-3 

This series examines new directions in the philosophy of language, including new questions and methods as well as interest in what other disciplines and world philosophies have to teach us.

Expanding Horizons: 2021-2 

Philosophy in the Anglophone world is in a period of unprecedented change. If the twentieth century was one of increased specialisation and narrowing of concerns, the twenty-first looks like being one of expanding horizons.

A Philosophers' Manifesto: 2020-1 

In this lecture series, a diverse range of speakers from around the world present the philosophical case for a new policy or law they think will make an improvement in the world.

All upcoming London lectures

London Lectures · Madness and Mental Health: 2023-4

Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law: Doctrines of Legal Insanity 

Claire Hogg discusses the theoretical basis for the defence of "legal insanity".

· London
London Lectures · Madness and Mental Health: 2023-4

Communicating to Increase Agency in Youth Mental Health Treatment Encounters and Beyond 

When young people seek help from mental health professionals, these encounters can undermine or increase their sense of agency. Rose McCabe, Michele Lim and Lisa Bortolotti talk about communication in video-recorded encounters between young people and mental healthcare practitioners in emergency services.

· London
London Lectures · Madness and Mental Health: 2023-4

How Can We Make Progress in Mental Healthcare Research? 

Neil Armstrong and Nicola Byrom consider what form social science and humanities research needs to take if it is to be of benefit to clinical research.

· London
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