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What is mental health? Can we make sense of psychosis? What’s the connection between mental health and concepts including race & evolution?  Explore these questions, among others, through the lens of philosophy at the 2023/4 London Lectures.

  1. 11/28/2025

    The You Turn, Naomi Eilan

    This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Naomi Eilan. She offers an account of second person awareness, mutual I-you relations, and the essential link between second person awareness and ethics. Part of TRIP's Centenary Lectures 2025-6: Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect.

    1h 32m

  2. 11/21/2025

    Empathy and Ethics: A Complicated Relation?, Rowan Williams

    This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Dr Rowan Williams. Is empathy required for ethical values? How we can hang on to a proper valuation of empathic understanding without sentimentality. Part of TRIP's Centenary Lectures 2025-6: Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect.

    1h 30m

  3. 11/07/2025

    Avicennan and Cartesian Doubt, Peter Adamson

    This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Peter Adamson, who will argue that Avicennan and Cartesian “arguments from doubt” may actually be stronger than they seem. Part of TRIP's Centenary Lectures 2025-6: Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect.

    1h 33m

  4. 10/31/2025

    The Most Permanent Interests of the Human Spirit, John Haldane

    This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor John Haldane. He looks back at philosophy since 1925, arguing for a kind of philosophical humanism that was more prominent a century ago than it is today. Part of TRIP's Centenary Lectures 2025-6: Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect.

    1h 35m

  5. 10/24/2025

    Why philosophers need to think about pregnancy, Fiona Woollard

    This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Fiona Woollard. She explores how philosophy can help us to understand pregnancy and improve the treatment of people who are pregnant. Part of TRIP's Centenary Lectures 2025-6: Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect.

    1h 29m

  6. 10/17/2025

    What became of the public philosopher?, Regina Rini

    This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Regina Rini. She explores why we no longer need philosophers as all-purpose public sages. Part of TRIP's Centenary Lectures 2025-6: Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect.

    1h 32m

  7. 10/10/2025

    The Problematic and the Unproblematic, Nikhil Krishnan

    This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Dr Nikhil Krishnan. The politics of the last decade have been accused of moralistic excess. If this is fair, how might moral philosophy cure us of moralism? Part of TRIP's Centenary Lectures 2025-6: Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect.

    1h 30m

  8. 06/05/2025

    Choosing how we Represent the Past; Derek Matravers

    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's London Lecture Series  2024-25, on Remembering and Forgetting.

    1h 28m
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What is mental health? Can we make sense of psychosis? What’s the connection between mental health and concepts including race & evolution?  Explore these questions, among others, through the lens of philosophy at the 2023/4 London Lectures.

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    The Royal Institute of Philosophy
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    2022 - 2025
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