THE 2025 JOINT SESSION
The 99th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association will be held at the University of Glasgow from 11 to 13 July 2025

The Joint Session is the premier UK general philosophy conference, held annually during the summer by the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association. It has taken place at nearly every major university across the United Kingdom and in Ireland. Since 1910, the Joint Session has grown to become the largest gathering of philosophers in the country, attracting prestigious UK and international speakers working in a broad range of philosophical areas. Inaugurated by the incoming President of the Mind Association, the Joint Session includes symposia, open and postgradaute sessions, and a range of satellite conferences.

The official website for this year’s Joint Session will appear here. 

2025 Joint Session speakers

Inaugural Address

Helen Beebee (Leeds)

What is a Social Science?

Anna Alexandrova (Cambridge) and Kareem Khalifa (UCLA)

Nicknames

Elizabeth Camp (Rutgers) and Eliot Michaelson (KCL)/Ethan Nowak (Stanford)

Intentionality in Medieval Philosophy

Therese Cory (Notre Dame) and Hamid Taieb (Humboldt University Berlin)

Love: Learning from Husserl and Beauvoir

Sara Heinämaa (Helsinki) and Kate Kirkpatrick (Oxford)

Information and Questioning

Christopher Kelp (Glasgow)/Mona Simion (Glasgow) and Anne Meylan (Zurich)

National Humiliation

Raamy Majeed (Manchester) and Maeve McKeown (Groningen)

About the Joint Session

The Joint Session is the premier UK general philosophy conference, held annually during the summer by the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association.

the postgraduate session

Our programmes are planned and scheduled in advance. Once available, the dates and speakers for upcoming academic years will be posted online.

Student Subsidies