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

3 December, 2025  
– 4 December, 2025
University of Leeds  

A Two-day event as part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign Day 1: Sex, Deception, & Consent (Wednesday 3rd December) Details tba Day 2: Objectification & Sexualisation (Thursday 4th December) Further...

3 December, 2025  
– 3 December, 2025
University of Leeds  

There has been growing debate in recent years around whether lying to someone to get them to have sex with you could in some circumstances constitute what has come to be termed “rape by deception”....

1 December, 2025  
– 1 December, 2025
London School of Economics  

This one-day workshop on applied epistemology aims to bring together philosophers across career stages to present and discuss new research that engages epistemological inquiry with pressing real-world concerns. Taking place at the London School of...

12 November, 2025  
– 12 November, 2025
King’s College London  

Annual Lecture 2025: Society as a Common Possession: Membership and Solidarity in Diverse Societies, Professor Will Kymlicka (Queen’s University). The lecture will take place at 6.00 -7.00pm (UTC/GMT +0) on Wednesday 12 November at the...

6 November, 2025  
– 6 November, 2025
Murdoch University  

With a quarter of the twenty-first century already behind us, the disruption brought about by changes in information communication technology is very much characteristic of our ‘new normal’. And yet while these transformations – whether...

27 October, 2025  
– 27 October, 2025
University of Stirling  

This conference aims to explore the emerging connections between contemporary epistemology and the law. Epistemological questions are pervasive in the law, ranging from evaluating the epistemic requirements of evidence law to considering how beliefs about...

SAP Annual Conference

SAP Annual Conference 2026
03 – 05 July
University of Edinburgh, JMCC

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Join the Society

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.

Membership and journal subscription are handled by Wiley, as the publishers of the Journal of Applied Philosophy. The button will take you through to their website.