The Royal Institute of Philosophy
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Dedicated to the advancement of Real Philosophy, For Everyone.
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Find lectures and live events on our YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@TheRoyalInstituteofPhilosophy
Visit us at: https://royalinstitutephilosophy.org/
Professor John Haldane argues that, while science makes linear progress, disciplines like art and literature do not advance in the same way.
In his lecture, Professor Haldane discusses the past 100 years of philosophy, and defends philosophical humanism.
Watch the Full Video: youtu.be/Dz_TYKNDTtc
In his lecture, Professor Haldane discusses the past 100 years of philosophy, and defends philosophical humanism.
Watch the Full Video: youtu.be/Dz_TYKNDTtc
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Professor John Haldane argues that, while science makes linear progress, disciplines like art and literature do not advance in the same way.
In his lecture, Professor Haldane discusses the past 100 years of philosophy, and defends philosophical humanism.
Watch the Full Video: youtu.be/Dz_TYKNDTtc
In his lecture, Professor Haldane discusses the past 100 years of philosophy, and defends philosophical humanism.
Watch the Full Video: youtu.be/Dz_TYKNDTtc
✨#Philosophy really can change minds. ✨To mark #WorldPhilosophyDay, here's a reminder of what a difference it can make.
As our Chair, @lucyobrien.bsky.social, puts it:
“Philosophy teaches skills integral to cultivating social values and conduct. It changes people's minds.”
As our Chair, @lucyobrien.bsky.social, puts it:
“Philosophy teaches skills integral to cultivating social values and conduct. It changes people's minds.”
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
✨#Philosophy really can change minds. ✨To mark #WorldPhilosophyDay, here's a reminder of what a difference it can make.
As our Chair, @lucyobrien.bsky.social, puts it:
“Philosophy teaches skills integral to cultivating social values and conduct. It changes people's minds.”
As our Chair, @lucyobrien.bsky.social, puts it:
“Philosophy teaches skills integral to cultivating social values and conduct. It changes people's minds.”
📅 Online #WorldPhilosophyDay event! Watch live on YouTube ▶️and submit your Q&A via Facebook 👍
On 20 November, Frédérique de Vignemont will deliver our annual Cardiff Lecture, live online.
▶️Join the event: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lqD...
👍Facebook Q&A: www.facebook.com/RoyalInstitu...
On 20 November, Frédérique de Vignemont will deliver our annual Cardiff Lecture, live online.
▶️Join the event: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lqD...
👍Facebook Q&A: www.facebook.com/RoyalInstitu...
November 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
📅 Online #WorldPhilosophyDay event! Watch live on YouTube ▶️and submit your Q&A via Facebook 👍
On 20 November, Frédérique de Vignemont will deliver our annual Cardiff Lecture, live online.
▶️Join the event: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lqD...
👍Facebook Q&A: www.facebook.com/RoyalInstitu...
On 20 November, Frédérique de Vignemont will deliver our annual Cardiff Lecture, live online.
▶️Join the event: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lqD...
👍Facebook Q&A: www.facebook.com/RoyalInstitu...
This coming Thursday, on #WorldPhilosophyDay, Rowan Williams will give a talk on "Empathy and Ethics: A Complicated Relation?"
🎫🚫***This lecture is sold out*** 🚫🎫 but a video of the event will be available on YouTube - we will post it up when it's ready.
🎫🚫***This lecture is sold out*** 🚫🎫 but a video of the event will be available on YouTube - we will post it up when it's ready.
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This coming Thursday, on #WorldPhilosophyDay, Rowan Williams will give a talk on "Empathy and Ethics: A Complicated Relation?"
🎫🚫***This lecture is sold out*** 🚫🎫 but a video of the event will be available on YouTube - we will post it up when it's ready.
🎫🚫***This lecture is sold out*** 🚫🎫 but a video of the event will be available on YouTube - we will post it up when it's ready.
How should one live? That's the question that most of you want #philosophy to help you answer. 🤔❓
So, in the lead-up to #WorldPhilosophyDay, we'll be posting resources on #ethics and #moralphilosophy.
Here's a useful study guide for starters: buff.ly/yIOg2lw
So, in the lead-up to #WorldPhilosophyDay, we'll be posting resources on #ethics and #moralphilosophy.
Here's a useful study guide for starters: buff.ly/yIOg2lw
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
How should one live? That's the question that most of you want #philosophy to help you answer. 🤔❓
So, in the lead-up to #WorldPhilosophyDay, we'll be posting resources on #ethics and #moralphilosophy.
Here's a useful study guide for starters: buff.ly/yIOg2lw
So, in the lead-up to #WorldPhilosophyDay, we'll be posting resources on #ethics and #moralphilosophy.
Here's a useful study guide for starters: buff.ly/yIOg2lw
Since 1925, academic philosophy has moved towards professionalisation, and within that to specialisation. Professor John Haldane provides a historical overview of philosophy and argues for a philosophical humanism that was more prominent a century ago.
Watch his lecture here: youtu.be/Dz_TYKNDTtc
Watch his lecture here: youtu.be/Dz_TYKNDTtc
November 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Since 1925, academic philosophy has moved towards professionalisation, and within that to specialisation. Professor John Haldane provides a historical overview of philosophy and argues for a philosophical humanism that was more prominent a century ago.
Watch his lecture here: youtu.be/Dz_TYKNDTtc
Watch his lecture here: youtu.be/Dz_TYKNDTtc
In the United States, division makes it difficult to work together for moral progress. Is there a way out? Professor Allen Buchanan isn’t optimistic.
Watch the full video of our Annual Symposium on moral progress here: youtu.be/0IxNCL65D0s
Watch the full video of our Annual Symposium on moral progress here: youtu.be/0IxNCL65D0s
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
In the United States, division makes it difficult to work together for moral progress. Is there a way out? Professor Allen Buchanan isn’t optimistic.
Watch the full video of our Annual Symposium on moral progress here: youtu.be/0IxNCL65D0s
Watch the full video of our Annual Symposium on moral progress here: youtu.be/0IxNCL65D0s
Can there be extremism without politics?
Come to our Annual London Lecture, presented by Quassim Cassam , on 4th December to explore the issues.
#extremism #politics #terrorism #lecture #philosophy
Come to our Annual London Lecture, presented by Quassim Cassam , on 4th December to explore the issues.
#extremism #politics #terrorism #lecture #philosophy
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Can there be extremism without politics?
Come to our Annual London Lecture, presented by Quassim Cassam , on 4th December to explore the issues.
#extremism #politics #terrorism #lecture #philosophy
Come to our Annual London Lecture, presented by Quassim Cassam , on 4th December to explore the issues.
#extremism #politics #terrorism #lecture #philosophy
📢Time is running out to enter the #Philosophy Essay Prize for 2025.⏳
This annual competition is an opportunity to get your work seen by a wide audience: the winning essay and the runner-up will be published in our journal, Philosophy.
Details here: buff.ly/HKRN7PD
This annual competition is an opportunity to get your work seen by a wide audience: the winning essay and the runner-up will be published in our journal, Philosophy.
Details here: buff.ly/HKRN7PD
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
📢Time is running out to enter the #Philosophy Essay Prize for 2025.⏳
This annual competition is an opportunity to get your work seen by a wide audience: the winning essay and the runner-up will be published in our journal, Philosophy.
Details here: buff.ly/HKRN7PD
This annual competition is an opportunity to get your work seen by a wide audience: the winning essay and the runner-up will be published in our journal, Philosophy.
Details here: buff.ly/HKRN7PD
"We will remember them." 🕯️
This Armistice Day, we look back to our 2024-25 London Lecture Series on Remembering and Forgetting. What does remembrance involve, what should we remember, and what is best forgotten?
buff.ly/ma9tbW5
#armisticeday #remembrance #philosophy
This Armistice Day, we look back to our 2024-25 London Lecture Series on Remembering and Forgetting. What does remembrance involve, what should we remember, and what is best forgotten?
buff.ly/ma9tbW5
#armisticeday #remembrance #philosophy
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"We will remember them." 🕯️
This Armistice Day, we look back to our 2024-25 London Lecture Series on Remembering and Forgetting. What does remembrance involve, what should we remember, and what is best forgotten?
buff.ly/ma9tbW5
#armisticeday #remembrance #philosophy
This Armistice Day, we look back to our 2024-25 London Lecture Series on Remembering and Forgetting. What does remembrance involve, what should we remember, and what is best forgotten?
buff.ly/ma9tbW5
#armisticeday #remembrance #philosophy
What does it mean to make moral progress, and is this possible? Or do optimists confuse material progress with moral progress? These and other related questions were addressed by our panel of experts at our Annual Symposium on 30th October.
Watch the recording here: youtu.be/0IxNCL65D0s
Watch the recording here: youtu.be/0IxNCL65D0s
November 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
What does it mean to make moral progress, and is this possible? Or do optimists confuse material progress with moral progress? These and other related questions were addressed by our panel of experts at our Annual Symposium on 30th October.
Watch the recording here: youtu.be/0IxNCL65D0s
Watch the recording here: youtu.be/0IxNCL65D0s
Professor Fiona Woollard explores how philosophy can help us to understand pregnancy and improve the treatment of people who are pregnant, specifically reshaping our ethical frameworks when it comes to harm.
Watch the full video here: youtu.be/4ZDV-hGcNQU
Watch the full video here: youtu.be/4ZDV-hGcNQU
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Professor Fiona Woollard explores how philosophy can help us to understand pregnancy and improve the treatment of people who are pregnant, specifically reshaping our ethical frameworks when it comes to harm.
Watch the full video here: youtu.be/4ZDV-hGcNQU
Watch the full video here: youtu.be/4ZDV-hGcNQU
🌍How can justice be served for victims of the climate crisis?
“Reparative Justice for Climate Refugees” by
@rebeccabuxton.bsky.social is available for free as part of "100 Papers That Shaped Our Thinking." Download here: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
#climatecrisis #refugees #philosophy
“Reparative Justice for Climate Refugees” by
@rebeccabuxton.bsky.social is available for free as part of "100 Papers That Shaped Our Thinking." Download here: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
#climatecrisis #refugees #philosophy
November 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
🌍How can justice be served for victims of the climate crisis?
“Reparative Justice for Climate Refugees” by
@rebeccabuxton.bsky.social is available for free as part of "100 Papers That Shaped Our Thinking." Download here: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
#climatecrisis #refugees #philosophy
“Reparative Justice for Climate Refugees” by
@rebeccabuxton.bsky.social is available for free as part of "100 Papers That Shaped Our Thinking." Download here: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
#climatecrisis #refugees #philosophy
The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI (oxunipress.bsky.social) by Jonathan Birch birchlse.bsky.social has been selected as this year’s Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy.
Learn more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/winner-...
Learn more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/winner-...
October 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI (oxunipress.bsky.social) by Jonathan Birch birchlse.bsky.social has been selected as this year’s Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy.
Learn more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/winner-...
Learn more: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/winner-...
Do you believe in the supernatural? Even if you don't, sometimes you might feel "spooked" - but why? 👻🔮
Philosophers Craig Bourne and Lucy Caddick Bourne think it's all to do with the imagination.
How does it work? Read our interview:
royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/an-inte...
Philosophers Craig Bourne and Lucy Caddick Bourne think it's all to do with the imagination.
How does it work? Read our interview:
royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/an-inte...
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Do you believe in the supernatural? Even if you don't, sometimes you might feel "spooked" - but why? 👻🔮
Philosophers Craig Bourne and Lucy Caddick Bourne think it's all to do with the imagination.
How does it work? Read our interview:
royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/an-inte...
Philosophers Craig Bourne and Lucy Caddick Bourne think it's all to do with the imagination.
How does it work? Read our interview:
royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/an-inte...
Professor Regina Rini argues that philosophers do not play the same role that they once did. Instead of providing the public with any opinion, they have become increasingly specialized. Do you agree?
Watch the full video here: youtu.be/H_0E3ycaJ0E
Watch the full video here: youtu.be/H_0E3ycaJ0E
October 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Professor Regina Rini argues that philosophers do not play the same role that they once did. Instead of providing the public with any opinion, they have become increasingly specialized. Do you agree?
Watch the full video here: youtu.be/H_0E3ycaJ0E
Watch the full video here: youtu.be/H_0E3ycaJ0E
There's still time to book for our Annual Debate, which takes place in London this Thursday.
Don't miss out! 📢📅
Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-sym...
#philosophy #debate #symposium
Don't miss out! 📢📅
Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-sym...
#philosophy #debate #symposium
October 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
There's still time to book for our Annual Debate, which takes place in London this Thursday.
Don't miss out! 📢📅
Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-sym...
#philosophy #debate #symposium
Don't miss out! 📢📅
Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-sym...
#philosophy #debate #symposium
A century ago, philosophers were intellectual stars, called upon by media and government for wise words on social issues beyond academics. It has been decades since any philosopher had that sort of stature. What happened?
Watch Professor Regina Rini examine this question: youtu.be/H_0E3ycaJ0E
Watch Professor Regina Rini examine this question: youtu.be/H_0E3ycaJ0E
October 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A century ago, philosophers were intellectual stars, called upon by media and government for wise words on social issues beyond academics. It has been decades since any philosopher had that sort of stature. What happened?
Watch Professor Regina Rini examine this question: youtu.be/H_0E3ycaJ0E
Watch Professor Regina Rini examine this question: youtu.be/H_0E3ycaJ0E
🎁 Give the gift of #philosophy, with TRIP Gift Memberships. ✨🌟You don't have to be studying philosophy or have a background in philosophy to benefit. We believe that real philosophy should be accessible to everyone. 🌟✨ royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/gift-me...
October 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🎁 Give the gift of #philosophy, with TRIP Gift Memberships. ✨🌟You don't have to be studying philosophy or have a background in philosophy to benefit. We believe that real philosophy should be accessible to everyone. 🌟✨ royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/gift-me...
Often the most engaging philosophical ideas come, not from reading alone, but from talking to others. 👥➡️💡
Next time you book for one of our events, don't forget to check the box to book a "Post-Lecture Conversation and Drinks" add-on. See you there!
#philosophy #conversation
Next time you book for one of our events, don't forget to check the box to book a "Post-Lecture Conversation and Drinks" add-on. See you there!
#philosophy #conversation
October 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Often the most engaging philosophical ideas come, not from reading alone, but from talking to others. 👥➡️💡
Next time you book for one of our events, don't forget to check the box to book a "Post-Lecture Conversation and Drinks" add-on. See you there!
#philosophy #conversation
Next time you book for one of our events, don't forget to check the box to book a "Post-Lecture Conversation and Drinks" add-on. See you there!
#philosophy #conversation
Is there too much virtue signaling and judgment in today's moral climate? How can we reflect on morality without falling into outrage and accusation?
Here's Nikhil Krishnan at last week's London Lecture on morality in our culture. Does he have a point?
Watch the full lecture: youtu.be/-PNbof7tGzc
Here's Nikhil Krishnan at last week's London Lecture on morality in our culture. Does he have a point?
Watch the full lecture: youtu.be/-PNbof7tGzc
October 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Is there too much virtue signaling and judgment in today's moral climate? How can we reflect on morality without falling into outrage and accusation?
Here's Nikhil Krishnan at last week's London Lecture on morality in our culture. Does he have a point?
Watch the full lecture: youtu.be/-PNbof7tGzc
Here's Nikhil Krishnan at last week's London Lecture on morality in our culture. Does he have a point?
Watch the full lecture: youtu.be/-PNbof7tGzc
Could a machine think and feel? Is time travel logically possible? If you're 15-18 we want to hear what you THINK! 💡📝🌟
The THINK Essay Prize for #philosophy is now open for 2026. Full details here: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/think-e...
The THINK Essay Prize for #philosophy is now open for 2026. Full details here: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/think-e...
October 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Could a machine think and feel? Is time travel logically possible? If you're 15-18 we want to hear what you THINK! 💡📝🌟
The THINK Essay Prize for #philosophy is now open for 2026. Full details here: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/think-e...
The THINK Essay Prize for #philosophy is now open for 2026. Full details here: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/think-e...
Could a machine think and feel? Is time travel logically possible? If you're 15-18 we want to hear what you THINK! 💡📝🌟
The THINK Essay Prize for #philosophy is now open for 2026. Full details here: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/think-e...
The THINK Essay Prize for #philosophy is now open for 2026. Full details here: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/think-e...
October 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Could a machine think and feel? Is time travel logically possible? If you're 15-18 we want to hear what you THINK! 💡📝🌟
The THINK Essay Prize for #philosophy is now open for 2026. Full details here: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/think-e...
The THINK Essay Prize for #philosophy is now open for 2026. Full details here: royalinstitutephilosophy.org/news/think-e...
Watch the first lecture in our Centenary lecture series, Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect
The politics of the last decade have been accused of moralistic excess. If this is fair, how might moral philosophy cure us of moralism?
See Dr Nikhil Krishnan address this question: youtu.be/-PNbof7tGzc
The politics of the last decade have been accused of moralistic excess. If this is fair, how might moral philosophy cure us of moralism?
See Dr Nikhil Krishnan address this question: youtu.be/-PNbof7tGzc
October 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Watch the first lecture in our Centenary lecture series, Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect
The politics of the last decade have been accused of moralistic excess. If this is fair, how might moral philosophy cure us of moralism?
See Dr Nikhil Krishnan address this question: youtu.be/-PNbof7tGzc
The politics of the last decade have been accused of moralistic excess. If this is fair, how might moral philosophy cure us of moralism?
See Dr Nikhil Krishnan address this question: youtu.be/-PNbof7tGzc