Past Events
The Society funds a wide variety of events. Below you will find examples of events that have been sponsored in the past.
The Society holds an Annual Conference (at the very end of June or beginning of July) and holds an annual lecture (usually in the autumn).
Recordings of the Annual Lecture are available on our Soundcloud page. (Online / video recorded events are available on our youtube channel).
We also sponsor a range of workshops, conferences and colloquia.
Past events
This workshop focuses on the ethics of interaction with digital technologies, and in particular on the use of so-called persuasive technologies, which include recommender systems, bottom-less news feeds, and micro-targeted advertising. These technologies have in...
One of the key reasons to develop, implement and provide access to assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) is that they enable users to have offspring to whom they are genetically related. The moral standing and the...
The Society for Applied Philosophy in partnership with Edinburgh Law School present this year’s LTRG Workshop ‘Law as a Reason for Action: Account and Limits’ Law doesn’t exist to guide us – Joshua Pike (LSE)...
The Department of Philosophy is thrilled to be hosting the BU Graduate Student Philosophy Conference again this year on March 31 – April 1, 2023. The topic for this year’s conference is Bodies in Context:...
The 2023 conference is titled, “Limits to Autonomy”. We hope to explore the legal and ethical issues around autonomy and its subsequent limits. The conference will run from 9.30am-3.30pm on Friday 24th March on-site at...
This one-day hybrid symposium is dedicated to Theodor W. Adorno’s text ‘Sexual Taboos and Law Today’ on the occasion of its sixty-year anniversary. First published in 1963, Theodor W. Adorno’s essay ‘Sexual Taboos and Law...
SAP Annual Conference
SAP Annual Conference 2026
03 – 05 July
University of Edinburgh, JMCC
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Membership of the Society is open to anyone interested in our aims, whether or not you hold a philosophical qualification or are employed as a professional philosopher.
Membership includes online access to the Journal of Applied Philosophy, as well as a reduced fee for the Society’s annual conference. Members can also apply for event funding through the Society’s grant scheme.
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