19/01/2026: Lewis Ross, Are Philosophers Absurd? Progress, Testimony & Dividing Labour
About Lewis Ross is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. H...
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The Aristotelian Society, founded in 1880, meets fortnightly in London to hear and discuss talks given by leading philosophers from a broad range of philosophical traditions. The papers read...
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20 of 187 episodes16/02/2026: Colin Chamberlain: After the Fall: Malebranche on the Law of the Body
About Colin Chamberlain is Associate Professor of philosophy at University College London. He was previously an Associate Professor at Templ...
13/10/2025: Sophie Horowitz on Plans, Learning, and Deferring
ABSTRACT It is currently fashionable to talk about “synchronic conditionalization” – and more generally, synchronic or time-slice versions o...
27/10/2025: Joe Saunders on What's Wrong with the Master: A Critical Analysis of Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic
ABSTRACT In his influential master-slave dialectic, Hegel looks to demonstrate that being a master is self-defeating. The master seeks absol...
29/09/2025: Lucy O'Brien: Duddington and Our Awareness of Others’ Minds
ABSTRACT What enables me to know that others exist? Natalie Duddington (PAS 1918-1919) offers two distinctive, and underexplored, insights i...
10/03/2025: Pauline Kleingeld on Kant and the Methods of Moral Philosophy
ABOUT Pauline Kleingeld is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. Earlier she taught at Leiden University and at Washington...
28/04/2025: Léa Salje on "Artspeak"
ABOUT Léa Salje is an associate professor at the University of Leeds. She joined Leeds in 2015 on a postdoc, and has been there ever since....
13/05/2024: Eric Schliesser on Synthetic Philosophy: a restatement
ABOUT Eric Schliesser is professor of Political Science, with a focus on Political Theory, at the University of Amsterdam. He was previously...
11/11/2024: Christopher Cowie on Optimism In the Search for Extraterrestrial Life: A Philosophical Perspective
ABOUT Christopher Cowie is Associate Professor at the University of Durham. He was previously Junior Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College,...
30/09/2024: Fabienne Peters on Inaugural Address: Relational Moral Demands
ABSTRACT To act rightly is to act in accordance with moral demands. But what grounds moral demands? Much contemporary moral philosophy tends...
10/02/2025: Nadine Elzein on Abilities, Goals, & Justifications
ABSTRACT Many of our practices presuppose moral responsibility. Arguably, agents can only be morally responsible if they are able to act oth...
13/01/2024: Monima Chadha on "Can We Construct Persons?"
ABSTRACT Christine Korsgaard famously argued that even if we accept the metaphysical theory that there are no selves or persons, the practic...
Peter Momtchiloff on Thirty Years at OUP
In this podcast, Aristotelian Society officers Dr Jess Leech and Dr Ellie Robson talk to Peter Momtchiloff - commissioning editor for philos...
20/06/22: Samuel Scheffler on Partiality, Deference, and Engagement
The partiality we display, insofar as we form and sustain personal attachments, is not normatively fundamental. It is a byproduct of the def...
6/05/22: Michael Della Rocca on Moral Criticism and the Metaphysics of Bluff
At a climactic—and, indeed, incendiary—moment in Bernard Williams’ classic essay, “Internal and External Reasons,” Williams says that those...
30/05/22: Miriam Schoenfield on Deferring to Doubt
When we doubt a belief, we examine how things look from a perspective in which that belief is set aside. Sometimes we care about what that p...
23/05/22: Alexander Mourelatos on 'Parmenides of Elea and Xenophanes of Colophon: the Conceptually Deeper Connections'
In the interpretation of Parmenides of Elea, there is a certain vulgate, one widely represented in general histories of philosophy and indee...
09/05/22: Mazviita Chirimuuta on Disjunctivism and Cartesian Idealisation
In this paper I give answers to two apparently unrelated questions and aim to convince you that these different concerns are, in fact, inter...
25/04/22: Emma Borg on A Defence of Individual Rationality
Common-sense (or folk) psychology holds that (generally) we do what we do for the reasons we have. This common-sense approach is embodied in...
21/03/22: Jack Spencer on Intrinsically Desiring the Vague
This paper is about whether it is rational to intrinsically desire the vague. A proposition is inconsequential if neither it, nor its negati...