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
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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 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
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.
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 āarguments from doubtā 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.
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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