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

16 October, 2024  
– 16 October, 2024

Mary Warnock’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology report, published 40 years ago in 1984, had a powerful influence in the UK and beyond, helping governments and the general public reach abiding resolutions regarding new reproductive technologies—even...

19 September, 2024  
– 20 September, 2024
University of Manchester  

Open Minds XVII We are happy to announce that the seventeenth edition of the graduate conference Open Minds organised by postgraduate Philosophy researchers at The University of Manchester will be held from 19th to 20th...

9 September, 2024  
– 10 September, 2024
University of Glasgow  

2nd Scottish Graduate Conference in Applied Epistemology Register Conference Theme In recent years, there has been an emerging interest in applied epistemology, and tools drawn from epistemology are increasingly applied to urgent issues of social...

3 July, 2024  
– 4 July, 2024
University of Oxford  

July 03, 2024 9:00am — July 04, 2024 5:00pm Contact: Tess Johnson for more information. Click here to Register   Coercing For Health: Transdisciplinary approaches to the ethics of coercive public health policies Understanding coercion...

28 June, 2024  
– 30 June, 2024
St Anne’s College, University of Oxford  

The Society’s 2024 conference will take place at St Anne’s College, Oxford 28 – 30 June. Papers will be given on a wide range of topics across the field of applied philosophy (Authors of papers...

27 June, 2024  
– 27 June, 2024
University of Aberdeen  

June 27, 2024 9:00am — June 27, 2024 5:00pm Contact: Federico Luzzi for more information. Click here to Register   Centre for Knowledge and Society (CEKAS) This workshop explores ethical and epistemic problems connected to...

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.