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
Empathy and Ethics: A Complicated Relation?
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Dr Rowan Williams. Is empathy required for ethical values? How we can hang on to a proper valuation of empathic understanding without sentimentality.
Avicennan and Cartesian Doubt
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Peter Adamson, who will argue that Avicennan and Cartesian “arguments from doubt” may actually be stronger than they seem.
The Most Permanent Interests of the Human Spirit
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor John Haldane. He looks back at philosophy since 1925, arguing for a kind of philosophical humanism that was more prominent a century ago than it is today.
Why philosophers need to think about pregnancy
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Fiona Woollard. She explores how philosophy can help us to understand pregnancy and improve the treatment of people who are pregnant.
What became of the public philosopher?
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Regina Rini. She explores why we no longer need philosophers as all-purpose public sages.
The Problematic and the Unproblematic
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Dr Nikhil Krishnan. The politics of the last decade have been accused of moralistic excess. If this is fair, how might moral philosophy cure us of moralism?
London Lecture Series
