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:

Remembering and Forgetting (2024-25)

Madness and Mental Health (2023-4)

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 · Remembering and Forgetting: 2024-5 · Upcoming events

The Importance of Forgetting 

This lecture in the series Remembering and Forgetting is presented by Rima Basu, examining the duty to forget and its implications for privacy and moral judgment.

· London
London Lectures · Remembering and Forgetting: 2024-5 · Upcoming events

What is Trauma? From Ancient Greece to the Digital Age 

This lecture in the series Remembering and Forgetting is presented by James Dawes, tracing the history of trauma as a concept and the moral risks and demands it places on us.

· London
London Lectures · Remembering and Forgetting: 2024-5 · Upcoming events

Remember Who You Are: Personal Identity and Memory 

Marya Schechtman explores the value of treasured memories in constituting personal identity and intimate social relationships.

· London
London Lectures · Remembering and Forgetting: 2024-5 · Upcoming events

How we remember and forget online 

This lecture in the series Remembering and Forgetting is presented by Alessandra Tanesini, discussing how digital technologies have changed our collective and private practices of remembrance.

· London

Past lectures

London Lectures · Madness and Mental Health: 2023-4

Rethinking Disenchantment and the Immanent Frame in Mental Health and Disability 

Why is it so tempting to understand spirituality / religion as counter to our conception of mental health, both in terms of its causality and its therapeutic restoration? Camillia Kong seeks to provide a philosophical diagnosis of the problem.

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

Beyond Psychiatry: Rethinking Madness Outside Medicine 

Justin Garson contrasts the frameworks of ‘madness-as-dysfunction’ and ‘madness-as-strategy’ and outlines their implications for research, treatment and stigma.

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

Mad Knowledge and Relations: Living the Impossible 

Can we live the lives we dream rather than dreaming that we live? Jasna Russo and Erick Fabris present this talk.

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

Ethnic Inequalities in Experience of Mental Distress and Illness and Care 

Over six decades of research shows that there are ethnic inequalities in the experiences and outcomes of severe mental illness. Kam Bhui shares his views on conceptual confusions, causes, crises, and campaigns drawing on recent 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
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

How (Not) to Talk to Young People about Mental Health 

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

Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law: Doctrines of Legal Insanity 

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

· 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 · Remembering and Forgetting: 2024-5 · Upcoming events

The Importance of Forgetting 

This lecture in the series Remembering and Forgetting is presented by Rima Basu, examining the duty to forget and its implications for privacy and moral judgment.

· London
London Lectures · Remembering and Forgetting: 2024-5 · Upcoming events

What is Trauma? From Ancient Greece to the Digital Age 

This lecture in the series Remembering and Forgetting is presented by James Dawes, tracing the history of trauma as a concept and the moral risks and demands it places on us.

· London
London Lectures · Remembering and Forgetting: 2024-5 · Upcoming events

Remember Who You Are: Personal Identity and Memory 

Marya Schechtman explores the value of treasured memories in constituting personal identity and intimate social relationships.

· London
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