The London Lecture Series

This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Peter Hacker. He discusses the salient achievements of Wittgenstein’s two masterpieces, the Tractatus and the Investigations, and their influences on philosophy.

Part of TRIP's Centenary Lectures 2025-6: Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect.

This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Jonathan Wolff, who explores how ideas of relational equality have developed in the past 100 years.

Part of TRIP's Centenary Lectures 2025-6: Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect.

In this London Lecture, Professor Michele M. Moody-Adams will explore the role of imagination in political communities as democracies.

Part of TRIP's Centenary Lectures 2025-6: Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect.

This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Timothy Williamson. He asks what it might mean to call philosophy a science, and explores different views of the relation between philosophy and science over the past century.

Part of TRIP's Centenary Lectures 2025-6: Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect.

This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Dr Mazviita Chirimuuta. Science assumes the universe is comprehensible to the human mind. AI tech casts doubt on this. So, should scientists give up on their goal?

Part of TRIP's Centenary Lectures 2025-6: Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect.

Over the last 100 years the condition of women in society has changed and so has feminist philosophy. Professor Clare Chambers will reflect on the philosophy, politics, and practice of sex discrimination as it has developed over the past century.

Part of TRIP's Centenary Lectures 2025-6: Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect.

This lecture in the series Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect, is presented by Professor Michael Rosen. Unlike other disciplines, the history of philosophy does not involve the accumulation of knowledge or the resolution of problems. But why?

Part of TRIP's Centenary Lectures 2025-6: Philosophy in Retrospect and Prospect.

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.

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.

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.