The London Lecture Series
Episodes
The You Turn, Naomi Eilan
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Naomi Eilan. She offers an account of second person awaren...
Empathy and Ethics: A Complicated Relation?, Rowan Williams
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Dr Rowan Williams. Is empathy required for ethical values? How we ca...
Avicennan and Cartesian Doubt, Peter Adamson
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Peter Adamson, who will argue that Avicennan and Cartesian...
The Most Permanent Interests of the Human Spirit, John Haldane
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor John Haldane. He looks back at philosophy since 1925, argu...
Why philosophers need to think about pregnancy, Fiona Woollard
24 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Fiona Woollard. She explores how philosophy can help us to...
What became of the public philosopher?, Regina Rini
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Regina Rini. She explores why we no longer need philosophe...
The Problematic and the Unproblematic, Nikhil Krishnan
10 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Dr Nikhil Krishnan. The politics of the last decade have been accuse...
Choosing how we Represent the Past; Derek Matravers
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture is presented by Derek Matravers, and discusses how the choices we make in framing the past can influence our views on it.Part of TRIP&apo...
Proust’s Theory of Memory and Knowledge; Tom Stern
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture is presented by Tom Stern, exploring the phenomenon of involuntary memory in Proust’s work.Part of TRIP's London Lecture Series ...
Who should we remember, and for how long? A theory of justice for public commemoration; James Wilson
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture is presented by James Wilson, exploring how to reconcile different reasons for public remembrance.Part of TRIP's London Lecture Seri...
Can memories be unjust?; Katherine Puddifoot
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Katherine Puddifoot explores how social stereotypes shape our recollections and how this can lead to injustice in personal memories.Part of TRIP'...
Remembering the dead; Kathleen Higgins
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture is presented by Kathleen Higgins, exploring how memories and new insights help us honor the dead and integrate their presence into our li...
Trauma, emotion, and memory; Michael Brady
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Michael Brady explores how memory can contribute to post-traumatic growth, examining the role of emotional memories in recovery.Part ...
On Being Emotionally Haunted by One’s Past, Matthew Ratcliffe
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk Matthew Ratcliffe discusses the broader conception of human emotional experience through the lens of being haunted by one’s past.Part o...
Insta-Worthy Memories and Filtered Truth: The Effects of Technology on Our Personal Histories and Records of the Past
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Kieron O’Hara examines how digital technology shapes our memories and alters our perception of the past, questioning the integrity o...
Conservation as a Method of Remembering (and forgetting) - Erich Hatala Matthes
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Erich Matthes navigates questions of conservation, and how some easily overlooked aspects of conservation can render its relationship...
Forgiveness: Do we need it? - Lucy Allais
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this lecture, Lucy Allais considers the reasons philosophers have given for thinking that forgiveness is puzzling, and argue that they are key to u...
How We Remember and Forget Online; Alessandra Tanesini
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk Alessandra Tanesini explores how Social Networking Sites, especially Facebook, act as platforms where memories can be shared, individuals...
Remember Who You Are: Personal Identity and Memory; Presented by Marya Schechtman
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We all have treasured memories, but what, exactly, is it that makes them so valuable to us? In this talk, Marya Schechtman explores this question, pro...
Trauma, Emotion, and Memory; Presented by James Dawes
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does memory help some people grow after trauma? Post-traumatic growth (PTG) is a term which has been extensively studied by psychologists for the ...
The Importance of Forgetting; Presented by Rima Basu
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the London Lecture Series 2024-25! This year our talks focus on questions surrounding the theme of "Remembering and Forgetting."...
Rethinking Disenchantment and the Immanent Frame; Presented by Camilia Kong
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why is it so tempting to understand spirituality / religion as counter to our conception of mental health, both in terms of its causality and its ther...
Beyond Psychiatry: Rethinking Madness Outside Medicine; Presented by Justin Garson
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Since the 1970s, psychiatry has been in the grip of a paradigm I call ‘madness-as-dysfunction’. In this view, mental disorders happen when somethi...
Mad Knowledge and Relations; Presented by Jasna Russo and Erick Fabris
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is mad life possible? Constrained by everyday mentalism, and controlled by various forms of psychiatrization of our biographies, we ask – can we liv...
Ethnic Inequalities in Experience of Mental Distress; Presented by Kam Bhui
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over six decades of research confirm there are ethnic inequalities in the experiences and outcomes of severe mental illness. The reasons for these d...
The Person in Psychiatry; Presented by Sanneke de Haan
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many people suffer from psychiatric disorders and mental distress. But how are we to understand these problems, and how are we to treat them? Sanneke ...
How Can we Make Progress in Mental Healthcare Research?; Presented by Neil Armstrong and Nicola Byrom
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At present, psychiatry and psychology research in mental healthcare is focused on interventions. In contrast, social science and humanities research p...
Communicating to Increase Agency in Youth Mental Health; Presented by Rose McCabe, Lisa Bortolotti, and Michele Lim
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rose Mcabe, Lisa Bortolotti, and Michele Lim examine video-recorded encounters between young people and mental healthcare practitioners in emergency s...
Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law; Presented by Claire Hogg
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Claire Hogg discusses the theoretical basis for the defence of legal “insanity”. She explorse a number of competing analyses by which the releva...
Health and Disease: Experimental Philosophy of Medicine; Presented by Somogy Varga and Andrew J. Latham
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Somogy Varga and Andrew J. Latham report results from a series of experimental philosophy studies which aimed to examine how people understand and dep...
Who Gets to Call Whom Mad?; Presented by Richard Gipps
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Gipps discusses the question of who gets to call whom mad, and with what right, and confronts the idea that the world of the 'mad'...
Understanding Suicide and Assisted Dying; Presented by Mona Gupta
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can assisted dying for persons with mental disorders be permitted on ethical grounds? What should the criteria be for allowing a person to make the ch...
Beyond Psychiatric Diagnosis: Presented by Lucy Johnstone and Mary Boyle
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Boyle & Lucy Johnstone examine the downfalls of the traditional methods of psychiatric diagnosis, and discuss the implications of their propo...
A Flaw in the Great Diamond of the World; Presented by Louis Sass
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Louis Sass examines the enigmatic nature of human subjectivity and its history from the European Renaissance, the status of psychology and related fie...
Against Speaking Up; Presented by Havi Carel and Dan Degerman
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is it right to assume that speaking our minds is good and keeping silent may be a sign of oppression? Havi Carel and Dan Degerman present this lecture...
Rendering Trauma Audible with María del Rosario Acosta López
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What would it mean to do justice to testimonies of traumatic experience? That is, how can experiences which do not fit the customary scripts of sense-...
Fernando Pessoa: The Poet as Philosopher with Jonardon Ganeri
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) lived what was in many ways an astonishingly modern, transcultural and translingual life. He was born in Lisbon and grew...
A New Name for an Old Way of Thinking with Roger Ames
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The classical Greeks give us a concept of substance that guarantees a permanent and unchanging subject as the substratum for the human experience. Rog...
Decolonising Philosophy with Lewis Gordon
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lewis Gordon examines what it means for philosophy to be ‘colonised’ and the challenges involved in ‘decolonising’ it in philosophical and pol...
Culture and Value in Du Bois’ The Gift of Black Folk with Chike Jeffers
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In his famous 1897 essay, “The Conservation of Races”, Du Bois advocated that African Americans hold on to their distinctiveness as members of the...
Getting Good at Bad Emotions with Amy Olberding
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Some of our emotions are bad – unpleasant to experience, reflective of dissatisfactions or even heartbreak – but nonetheless quite important to ex...
Mutual Guardianship and Hospitality with Tamara Albertini
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While Heidegger and Derrida both contributed groundbreaking reflections on hospitality (and “hostipitality”), they failed to recognize that the ho...
The Ethics of Anger and Shame with Owen Flanagan
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We live in an age of anger and shameless disregard for what is true and good. What can we learn from other cultures about better ways to do anger and ...
The Possibility of Global Aesthetics with Eileen John
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aesthetic theories in the Western tradition, like most philosophical theories, do not set out to have only local application, as they try to articulat...
The First Person in Buddhism with Nilanjan Das
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In classical South Asian philosophy, as in common sense, most thought that the first-person pronoun “I” stands for the self, something that persis...
Japanese Philosophers on Plato’s Ideas with Noburu Notomi
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Plato has been one of the most important philosophers in the West and is now read all over the world. He has undergone a lot of research in academia, ...
How to Change Your Mind with Leah Kalmanson
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The methods of philosophy may be associated with practices such as rational dialogue, logical analysis, argumentation, and intellectual inquiry. Howev...
Philosophical Storytelling with Helen de Cruz
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Philosophers enjoy telling stories. Sometimes the stories are very short, but they can be long and detailed as well, for example in the form of utopia...
The Philosophy of Green Finance with Joanna Burch-Brown
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Self-described ‘hippie eco-philosopher’ Joanna Burch-Brown takes us on a deep dive into the philosophy of green finance and a step closer to addre...