Events
To mark our centenary, the theme of the 2025/6 London Lecture Series, running from October 2025 to March 2026, is Philosophy in Retrospect and in Prospect. Distinguished philosophers have been invited to reflect on where their area of the discipline has got to over the last hundred years, and/or where it might go – or should go – over the next hundred.
See also our forthcoming Annual Symposium, and City Lectures.
Recordings of each talk will be available on TRIP’s YouTube Channel, where you can also see our archive of past events.
Forthcoming events
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.
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?
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.
Imagining Democracy
In this London Lecture, Professor Michele M. Moody-Adams will explore the role of imagination in political communities as democracies.
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.
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.
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Our Programmes
London Lectures
Our flagship series of London Lectures deliver accessible evening talks from autumn to spring every year, with a different speaker each week.
Lectures from previous series are also available on the Royal Institute’s YouTube and podcast channels. Papers based on the Lectures are published in annual volumes by Cambridge University Press.
Annual City Lectures
Our annual lectures, which are open to the public free of charge, attract some of the world’s leading philosophers to share their thoughts on a topic of their choice. The lectures are held once a year in Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh and London. Recent lecturers include Heather Widdows, C. Thi Nguyen and Linda Martin Alcoff.
Annual Symposium
Written over 2000 years ago, Plato’s Symposium – literally, a ‘drinking together’ – is the first example in the Western world of what we would now call a round table discussion. Though we don’t serve drinks, each year we continue that tradition by bringing together four philosophers to discuss a topic of fundamental importance today. Symposia are open to the public free of charge. Find out more and watch discussions from previous years.
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