Inaugural Address: Duddington and Our Awareness of Others
13 OCTOBER 2025
Sophie Horowitz
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Plans, Learning, and Deferring
27 october 2025
Joe Saunders
University of Durham
What’s Wrong with the Master: A Critical Analysis of Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic
10 November 2025
Malcolm Keating
Smith College
Kumārila on the First-Personal Pronoun
24 November 2025
Guilia Felappi
University of Southampton
Saving Logic from a Metaphysical Limbo. Susanne Langer on Logical Assertion
08 December 2025
Rahel Jaeggi
Humboldt University of Berlin
How to derive ought from is: Re-Thinking Critical Theory
ISSUE NO. 2
19 january 2026
Lewis Ross
London School of Economics
Two Modes of Philosophical Knowledge
02 February 2026
Anna Pakes
University of Roehampton London
Performances, happenings and artefactual events
16 February 2026
Colin Chamberlain
University College, London
After the Fall: Malebranche on the Law of the Body
02 March 2026
Anneli Jefferson
University of Cardiff
Working out how blame works
16 March 2026
Johanna Thoma
University of Bayreuth
Title Coming Soon
ISSUE NO. 3
20 April 2026
Simon Shogry
University of Oxford
Stoic Apatheia Reconsidered: The Positive Role of Passion in Moral Progress
27 april 2026
Chris Lebron
Johns Hopkins University
Race, Shame and Tragic Necessity
11 May 2026
Anil Gomes
University of Oxford
Title Coming Soon
18 May 2026
Pamela Hieronymi
University of California
Fair Believing
01 June 2026
Thomas Hofweber
University of North Carolina
Ignorance and the harm of death
Meeting Address
Senate House University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU. See speaker pages for specific room locations.
meeting time
The Society’s philosophy talks take place every fortnight on Mondays throughout the academic year. Each talk starts at 18.15 and lasts for approximately 45 minutes. The remainder of the time is dedicated to discussion, which ends at 19.45.
Catering
All of the Society’s philosophy talks are catered with fairtrade teas, coffees, and biscuits.
Admission
In line with the Society’s mission to make philosophy readily available to the general public, all talks are free and membership is not required.
Draft Papers
Following over a century of tradition, draft papers for all the talks are available in advance. Please note that draft papers can only be cited with the authors permission (see below for final publication and subscription details). The draft paper for a talk is available approximately one week prior to its scheduled delivery.
Final Papers
For the past 141 years, the Proceedings has featured widely respected papers delivered by a range of prominent philosophers, such as Alfred North Whitehead, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, A.J. Ayer, P.F. Strawson, Karl Popper, Elizabeth Anscombe, Bernard Williams, Hubert Dreyfus, Alexander Nehamas, and Onora O’Neill. Final drafts of the papers – including discussion notes and exemplary graduate papers – are published in theProceedings of the Aristotelian Society.
Accessibility
The venue at Senate House is wheelchair accessible and there are disabled toilet facilities on the ground floor. If you require a disabled parking space, or a hearing loop, please contact anna.stelle@aristoteliansociety.org.uk in advance, so that we can reserve these for you. Service animals are also welcome.