Events
This page contains details of all of our forthcoming events, including member-only events.
We also have an archive of past events, including London Lectures, Annual Symposia, and City Lectures.
Recordings of each talk are available on TRIP’s YouTube Channel.
Forthcoming events
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 Instituteās 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 worldās 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, Platoās Symposium – literally, a ādrinking togetherā – is the first example in the Western world of what we would now call a round table discussion. Though we donāt 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.
Previous Events
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, theĀ TractatusĀ and theĀ 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.
Local Partnerships
Discover events in your area hosted by our local partner organisations from across the UK. Events shared here promote access to the ideas, knowledge and experience of philosophy and are open to all.
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