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
The University of St Andrews Business School will welcome an international workshop titled, ‘Genealogies of corporate morality: approaching business ethics through intellectual history’. Panel sessions and keynote talks will take place in St Andrews on...
Are AI agents like collective agents? In which ways are ChatGPT’s decisions like a university’s decisions? To what extent is big data similar to democracy? We welcome you all to attend the second ‘Social Ontology...
This event will bring together political, moral, and legal philosophers for a one-day workshop on the manuscript of Avia Pasternak’s forthcoming book, No Justice No Peace: The Ethics of Violent Protests. The book and workshop...
Our workshop seeks to advance research on novel approaches to complicity as well as morally adequate responses to complicity. For that purpose, we have invited scholars who have been working and publishing on complicity previously...
Humans are now able to design, interact, and form relationships with a range of sophisticated social AI systems including digital duplicates, deathbots, social/sex robots, AI therapists, VR avatars, and companion chatbots. At this workshop, we’ll...
Annual Lecture 2024: Abortion and Democratic Equality, Professor Japa Pallikkathayil (University of Pittsburgh). The lecture will take place at 4.00 -5.30pm (BST) on Thursday 17 October. The Lecture will take place in the Dickson Poon...
SAP Annual Conference
SAP Annual Conference 2026
03 – 05 July
University of Edinburgh, JMCC
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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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