FRIDAY 23 September, 2022, 14.30 – 16.30 VENUE: 39 Essex Chambers, 81 Chancery Lane, WC2A 1DD, London UK Attendance in person or online Speaker: Professor Volker Lipp  Volker Lipp holds the Chair of Civil Law, Civil Procedure, Medical Law and Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Göttingen, Germany. He has been Visiting Professor at […]

January 20th, 2022, 5PM GMT. A panel discussion from the Philosophy and Medicine project at King’s. About this event Given the current Covid-19 restrictions in place at King’s College London, this event will take place fully online on Zoom.  Find brief descriptions of our fantastic panellists below:  Professor Sir Simon Wessely is Regius Professor of Psychiatry at […]

26 January 2022, at 12 noon GMT.  About this event: Disability is a problematic concept in the law relating to criminal responsibility and incarceration.  It seems to draw lines that are at best counter-intuitive, and at worst harmful and discriminatory.  These difficulties have been given a new prominence with the arrival of the Convention on […]

Friday, 22 October 2021 at 5pm. Venue: King’s College London, Strand campus. The Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine Project and the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy & Law are very pleased to announce this jointly organised colloquium. The state frequently uses medical discourse to impose unequal burdens on socially vulnerable groups. Recent examples that scholars exhaustively have […]

Deadline is 30th November, 2021. University of Sydney and the Centre for Time. International Students are welcome to apply. If you’re interested in personal-identity, prudence, cross-temporal rationality, time-biases, the duties we owe our future selves, and the connection between time and any of these things, then this is the perfect scholarship for you! Successful applicants […]

6.00–7.15pm, Monday 4 October, 2021. LSE Forum for Philosophy event. What is addiction? Although it is often discussed in terms of neurobiology, this can’t begin to capture what it means to be addicted and what addiction does to our sense of self. Philosophers have long been concerned with questions about the self and identity, so […]