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Wed 15 Jan 20 · Plato’s Philebus: What is the principal good of human life? (St Pauls Learning Centre, Bristol)
Mon 13 Jan 20 · Plato’s Philebus: What is the principal good of human life? (Saint Pancras Community Association, London)
Sun 8 Dec 19 · Death Machines - The Ethics of Violent Technologies (Conway Hall Ethical Society, London)
Sun 1 Sep 19 · Stop Being Reasonable: Stories of how we really change our minds (Conway Hall Ethical Society, London)
Sat 11 May 19 · Develop your Inner Philosopher (1-day-workshop) (New Acropolis, London)
Wed 22 Feb 17 · Discover Philosophies of East and West (New Acropolis, London)
Sat 7 May 16 · Bethlem and the Brain: Muzzling William Lawrence's Medical Materialism (Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham)
Wed 6 Apr 16 · TIGE Talk: The Third Force awakens (Initiatives of Change, London)
Sun 21 Feb 16 · How Should we use Unproven Treatments During an Epidemic? (Conway Hall, London)
Wed 29 Jul 15 · London Thinks – The Science and Ethics of Doctor Who (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 12 Jul 15 · Migrants or People? (Conway Hall, London)
Mon 8 Jun 15 · How to be an Effective Altruist (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 10 May 15 · What are Professional Ethics? (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 25 Jan 15 · Can Nanotechnology Save The World? (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 18 Jan 15 · The Ethics of Gambling (Conway Hall, London)
Wed 15 Oct 14 · Liability, Proportionality and the Number of Aggressors (New Theatre, East Building, London)
Sun 5 Oct 14 · Thinking on Sunday - Debate: Is UKIP Ethical? (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 23 Feb 14 · Humanist Perspective On Privacy & Freedom (Conway Hall, London)
Wed 19 Feb 14 · Kant and Objective Morality (Conway Hall, London)
Thu 13 Feb 14 · Ethics Matters in War ( Hong Kong Theatre, London)
Sun 2 Feb 14 · Freeloaders on the Land (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 2 Feb 14 · The Sunday Assembly (Conway Hall, London)
Wed 15 Jan 14 · The Changing Shape of UK Trade (Museum of London, London)
Wed 4 Dec 13 · Practising Jesus: Making sense of God and gospel in a compromised and messy world (JustShare, Londn)
Wed 16 Oct 13 · “Principles & Profits: investing to protect people, the planet and your savings" (JustShare, Londn)
Sun 15 Sep 13 · From artificial consciousness to human public goods: A skeptical review of robot ethics (Conway Hall, London)
Tue 28 Aug 12 · What is a Legitimate Enhancement in Sport? (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Thu 8 Mar 12 · The Public Philosopher - Should a banker be paid more than a nurse? (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, London)
Thu 8 Mar 12 · The Public Philosopher - Should universities give preference to applicants from poor backgrounds? (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, London)
Tue 28 Feb 12 · What Does It Mean To Die Well? (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Thu 23 Feb 12 · Climate Change and the New Industrial Revolution (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)
Wed 22 Feb 12 · Climate Change and the New Industrial Revolution (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)
Tue 21 Feb 12 · Climate Change and the New Industrial Revolution (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)
Sun 19 Feb 12 · Sunday Lecture: Naturalism and the Moral Ought (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 5 Feb 12 · Sunday Lecture: Existentialism, Atheism and Humanism (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 13 Nov 11 · Kierkegaard On Courage - before and after God (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 6 Nov 11 · Ethical Doubt about a Market in Live Donor Organs (Conway Hall, London)
Tue 25 Oct 11 · Artificial intelligence, bionic men and human consciousness (John Rylands Library, Manchester)
Sun 23 Oct 11 · Why Shouldn't I Lie? (Conway Hall, London)
Wed 5 Oct 11 · The Olympics, doping and the meaning of sport (The Carriageworks, Leeds)
Sun 2 Oct 11 · Philosophy and the art of living (Conway Hall, London)
Wed 28 Sep 11 · Wendy Savage: Patients' Choice and Doctors' Responsibilities (Newington Green Unitarian Church, London)
Thu 9 Jun 11 · A Fair Trial for the Human Rights Act (Old Theatre, London)
Thu 12 May 11 · The DNA of Human Rights (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)
Sun 6 Mar 11 · Speciesism and Painism: A Modern Morality (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 27 Feb 11 · The Teutonic Shift from Christian Morality – Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 6 Feb 11 · The Moral Mind (Conway Hall, London)
Wed 12 Jan 11 · The Meaning of Life (Hong Kong Theatre, London)
Fri 19 Nov 10 · Can we rise above a warming planet? Climate change, democracy and human nature (Conway Hall, London)
Thu 11 Nov 10 · Ethics of Emerging Technologies (De Montfort University, Leicester)
Sun 24 Oct 10 · The Meaning of Friendship (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 17 Oct 10 · The Appropriate Limits of Free Expression (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 10 Oct 10 · Englishness and the Intelligentsia: Should Philosophers lead good lives? (Conway Hall, London)
Sat 25 Sep 10 · Barbara Coombs Lee: 'Dying Right and How That Right is Being Won' (Unity Church, London)
Wed 22 Sep 10 · Faith and Finance: Does Profit have to go out of the window? (JustShare, Londn)
Tue 27 Jul 10 · Cosmetic Neuroscience (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Sun 11 Jul 10 · Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 4 Jul 10 · Why Secularism? (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 9 May 10 · How Atheists Can Take Ethics Seriously (Conway Hall, London)
Tue 13 Apr 10 · The Unconscious knows no "No" (London Jewish Cultural Centre, London)
Wed 17 Mar 10 · The Neuroscience of Morality (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 14 Mar 10 · Conservation, Science and Ethics - (Un)holy trinity? (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 7 Mar 10 · Religion Without Belief - Is it possible and does it matter? (Conway Hall, London)
Sun 28 Feb 10 · Philosophy for a Better World: A plea for Ecohumanism (Conway Hall, London)
Thu 21 Jan 10 · Biologically moral? (The Royal Institution, London)
Sun 17 Jan 10 · Trees, Conservation and Climate Change (Conway Hall, London)
Wed 25 Nov 09 · Managing Risk and Behaviour in Financial Markets (Old Theatre, Old Building, London)
Tue 24 Nov 09 · What Use Is An Imaginary Social Contract? (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Tue 29 Sep 09 · Are there risks we can't afford to take? (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Thu 24 Sep 09 · The meaning of life (Conway Hall, London)
Tue 30 Jun 09 · How Much Privacy Should We Have? (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Tue 26 May 09 · Why Do We Gamble? (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Tue 28 Apr 09 · The Truth About Medical Ethics (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Mon 16 Feb 09 · Fertillity and Feminism (Gresham College, London)
Tue 27 Jan 09 · Why Should We Do What We Should Do? (The Wheatsheaf, London)
Wed 10 Dec 08 · The Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change (Communications, King's College London, London)
Thu 4 Dec 08 · Ethics, Politics, and the State of Israel (LSE campus, venue TBC to ticketholders, London)
Thu 20 Nov 08 · Choosing your baby (Gresham College, London)
Thu 13 Nov 08 · Artist's Lecture - Thomas Hirschhorn (Fabrica, Brighton)
Thu 13 Nov 08 · "Dishonesty" Evan Davis (Newington Green Unitarian Church, London)
Wed 12 Nov 08 · Ethics and the Public Use of Images of War (Fabrica, Brighton)
Thu 6 Nov 08 · Artist's Story - Grace Ndiritu (Fabrica, Brighton)
Thu 9 Oct 08 · Curator's Talk - Julian Stallabrass (Fabrica, Brighton)
Sat 4 Oct 08 · Learning To Look Away (Fabrica, Brighton)
Sat 23 Aug 08 · Cryonics: Why it has failed, and possible ways to fix it - with Mike Darwin (Birkbeck College, London)
Wed 7 May 08 · The Ethics Of Progress (The Corn Exchange, Newbury)
Fri 2 May 08 · Locke and Port-Royal, from logic to ethics (Maison Française d'Oxford, Oxford)
Sat 12 Apr 08 · The Emergence of the ‘Higher We’ (EnlightenNext, Islington)
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