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:
Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect (2025-26 Centenary Lectures)
Remembering and Forgetting (2024-25)
Madness and Mental Health (2023-4)
Words and Worlds: New Directions in the Philosophy of Language (2022-3)
Past lectures
Wittgenstein and his impact upon Anglophone philosophy
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Peter Hacker. He discusses the salient achievements of Wittgenstein's two masterpieces, the Tractatus and the Investigations, and their influences on philosophy.
Social Equality: Then And Now
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Jonathan Wolff, who explores how ideas of relational equality have developed in the past 100 years.
Imagining Democracy
In this London Lecture, Professor Michele M. Moody-Adams will explore the role of imagination in political communities as democracies.
Is Philosophy a Science?
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Timothy Williamson. He asks what it might mean to call philosophy a science, and explores different views of the relation between philosophy and science over the past century.
Apocalyptic Technology: Naturalism and Nihilism
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Dr Mazviita Chirimuuta. Science assumes the universe is comprehensible to the human mind. AI tech casts doubt on this. So, should scientists give up on their goal?
Developments in Feminist Philosophy
Over the last 100 years the condition of women in society has changed and so has feminist philosophy. Professor Clare Chambers will reflect on the philosophy, politics, and practice of sex discrimination as it has developed over the past century.
Why Does Philosophy Have a History?
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Michael Rosen. Unlike other disciplines, the history of philosophy does not involve the accumulation of knowledge or the resolution of problems. But why?
The You Turn
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Naomi Eilan. She offers an account of second person awareness, mutual I-you relations, and the essential link between second person awareness and ethics.
London Lecture Series
