FRIDAY 23 September, 2022, 14.30 – 16.30 VENUE: 39 Essex Chambers, 81 Chancery Lane, WC2A 1DD, London UK Attendance in person or online Speaker: Professor Volker Lipp  Volker Lipp holds the Chair of Civil Law, Civil Procedure, Medical Law and Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Göttingen, Germany. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway, and at Chuo-University, Tokyo, Japan. He served as President of the German Section of the International Commission on Civil Status from 2007 until 2015 and has been a member of the Central Ethics Commi ..read more

January 20th, 2022, 5PM GMT. A panel discussion from the Philosophy and Medicine project at King’s. About this event Given the current Covid-19 restrictions in place at King’s College London, this event will take place fully online on Zoom.  Find brief descriptions of our fantastic panellists below:  Professor Sir Simon Wessely is Regius Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry at KCL. He established the King’s Centre for Military Health Research in 1996, and remains the Co-director, and since 2013 has been the Director of the PHE NIHR Health Protection Unit f ..read more

26 January 2022, at 12 noon GMT.  About this event: Disability is a problematic concept in the law relating to criminal responsibility and incarceration.  It seems to draw lines that are at best counter-intuitive, and at worst harmful and discriminatory.  These difficulties have been given a new prominence with the arrival of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), but the problems were known well before that time.  This seminar will explore those difficulties, asking  whether mental ‘illness’ or mental ‘disability’ are helpful legal concepts ..read more

Friday, 22 October 2021 at 5pm. Venue: King’s College London, Strand campus. The Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine Project and the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy & Law are very pleased to announce this jointly organised colloquium. The state frequently uses medical discourse to impose unequal burdens on socially vulnerable groups. Recent examples that scholars exhaustively have documented include the targeting of Asian-Americans in the early days of COVID-19, the relative disregard of the pandemic’s harm on black and Latino communities, the active discrimina ..read more

Deadline is 30th November, 2021. University of Sydney and the Centre for Time. International Students are welcome to apply. If you’re interested in personal-identity, prudence, cross-temporal rationality, time-biases, the duties we owe our future selves, and the connection between time and any of these things, then this is the perfect scholarship for you! Successful applicants will be able to work with any of a number of philosophers at Sydney on these themes. Expressions of interest in the first place to Professor David Braddon-Mitchell david.braddon-mitchell@sydney.edu.au or Professor Kristi ..read more

6.00–7.15pm, Monday 4 October, 2021. LSE Forum for Philosophy event. What is addiction? Although it is often discussed in terms of neurobiology, this can’t begin to capture what it means to be addicted and what addiction does to our sense of self. Philosophers have long been concerned with questions about the self and identity, so might philosophy be able to help us to understand addiction? And what does understanding the relationship between addiction and identity mean for recovery? Philosopher Hannah Pickard and members of New Note Orchestra, the first recovery orchestra in the world, discus ..read more

Thu, 8 Jul 2021 16:00 – 18:00 BST. The Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre Annual Lecture in Politics, Philosophy and Law this year will be given by Jeremy Waldron (NYU), with replies from Stephen Darwall (Yale), Frances Kamm (Rutgers), Richard Holton and Rae Langton (Cambridge). The YTL Centre Annual Lecture in Politics, Philosophy and Law was established in 2017. Its aim is to provide a forum for a leading contemporary thinker to address an important issue of our day that engages with the disciplines of politics, philosophy and law. The inaugural lecturer ..read more

Deadline for applications: 31st May 2021 (extended deadline) University of Surrey, Surry Centre for Law and Philosophy The traditional view of the law as governed by reason alone—as neither directly involving, nor having any regard for, emotional responses and experiences—has become increasingly untenable, due to the emergence of a vibrant interdisciplinary research programme on law and the emotions. As the study of law and emotions matures and enters a dynamic and fruitful new phase, the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy is in a unique position to foster research t ..read more

Thursday, June 10, 2021, 1:30 PM – 6:00 PM BST A half-day interdisciplinary online conference addressing our theme of ‘Power, Personality & Populism’ under three headings. Each will be introduced by a guest speaker before the topic is opened for discussion. The conference will end with a plenary panel discussion drawing together threads from the day’s proceedings.  Themes and speakers Insights from the Media: Peter Pomerantsev, Senior Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University and author of ‘This is Not Propaganda’, Gillian Tett, Author and Editor of the Financial Times Insights from Psychiat ..read more