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• Wed 15 Jan 20 · Plato’s Philebus: What is the principal good of human life? (St Pauls Learning Centre, Bristol)

• 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)

• Tue 5 Mar 19 · Philosophies of East and West (New Acropolis, London)

• Thu 27 Sep 18 · Philosophies of East and West (New Acropolis, London)

• Thu 7 Jun 18 · PAUSE FOR THOUGHT (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 27 May 18 · Divided – Living in an Age of Walls (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 17 May 18 · Democracy Is For People & Not Corporations (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 14 Mar 18 · Nikola Tesla and his Vision of an Ethical Science (New Acropolis, London)

• Tue 7 Mar 17 · Philosophies of East and West (New Acropolis, London)

• Wed 22 Feb 17 · Discover Philosophies of East and West (New Acropolis, London)

• Sun 31 Jul 16 · Spreading Humanism to South Asia (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 27 Jul 16 · Economics As If People Mattered (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 6 Apr 16 · TIGE Talk: The Third Force awakens (Initiatives of Change, London)

• Sat 19 Mar 16 · "Compassion: Nice Idea or Urgent Global Imperative?" (New Unity (Unitarian Church), London)

• Sun 21 Feb 16 · How Should we use Unproven Treatments During an Epidemic? (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 27 Oct 15 · Book launch of Great Company by Mike Smith (Initiatives of Change, London)

• Tue 6 Oct 15 · A blueprint for better business (Initiatives of Change, London)

• Sun 13 Sep 15 · Hierarchy and the Political Economy (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 10 Sep 15 · Trigger Warning! This discussion may change your mind. Should Universities be Intellectual ‘Safe Spa (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 1 Sep 15 · Will We Crash Again? Why Capitalism Needs Debt Write-offs to Survive (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 29 Jul 15 · London Thinks – The Science and Ethics of Doctor Who (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 26 Jul 15 · Open Borders: Unconditional Hospitality (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 19 Jul 15 · Bankers are a Force for Good (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)

• Mon 20 Apr 15 · Are We Still Any Use? Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Church Today (St Martin-in-the-Fields, London)

• Mon 13 Apr 15 · Towards a Politics for the Common Good (St Martin-in-the-Fields, London)

• Sun 1 Feb 15 · The Ethical and Economic Case for Socialism (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)

• Sun 14 Dec 14 · How Humanity Might Avoid Devastation (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 7 Dec 14 · Should we spend billions looking into deep space? (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 4 Nov 14 · Food Policy: ethics for your kitchen and beyond (New Theatre, East Building, 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 27 Jul 14 · Sunday Lecture: Internet Dating with Darwin (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 8 Jul 14 · Inequality and farce in contemporary Britain (JustShare, Londn)

• Wed 4 Jun 14 · Paying Up: Is tax a question of ethics?" (JustShare, Londn)

• Sun 1 Jun 14 · Sunday Lecture - Does Philosophy and Politics mix? (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 30 Apr 14 · STOP THE TRAFFIK: Is prevention possible? (JustShare, Londn)

• Mon 7 Apr 14 · Strengthening Moral Courage in Public Life: Moral Acting (Westminster Abbey, London)

• Mon 31 Mar 14 · Strengthening Moral Courage in Public Life: Moral Feeling (Westminster Abbey, London)

• Sun 30 Mar 14 · Sex Work, Ethics and Human Rights (Conway Hall, London)

• Mon 24 Mar 14 · Strengthening Moral Courage in Public Life: Moral Thinking (Westminster Abbey, London)

• Sun 23 Mar 14 · Godless and broke: making secular groups less middle class (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 19 Mar 14 · What's Wrong with Poverty? (JustShare, Londn)

• Sun 16 Mar 14 · Intelligently designed; the creationist assault on science (Conway Hall, London)

• Thu 13 Mar 14 · The relevance of the Bible for law and ethics in society today (Council Room, London)

• Sun 9 Mar 14 · Emancipation (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 4 Mar 14 · The Annual Gore Lecture: The Faithfulness of God (Westminster Abbey, London)

• Wed 26 Feb 14 · “Prophets of Justice challenge Profits of Injustice: What can we learn for the 21st century city?" (JustShare, Londn)

• 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 and the Media: after the Leveson inquiry (Sheikh Zayed Theatre (New Academic Building, LSE), London)

• Thu 13 Feb 14 · Ethics Matters in War ( Hong Kong Theatre, London)

• Sun 2 Feb 14 · The Sunday Assembly (Conway Hall, London)

• Sun 2 Feb 14 · Freeloaders on the Land (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 28 Jan 14 · “Is a ‘Christian businessman’ an oxymoron?” (JustShare, Londn)

• 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 6 Nov 13 · Telling the Truth about Religious Identity in Britain (Westminster Abbey, London)

• Tue 29 Oct 13 · A Disturbing Truth: the Church, the poor and Oscar Romero (Westminster Abbey, London)

• Wed 16 Oct 13 · “Principles & Profits: investing to protect people, the planet and your savings" (JustShare, Londn)

• Fri 11 Oct 13 · "Thy Kingdom Come (in the Workplace)" (Deloitte LLP, London)

• Sun 15 Sep 13 · From artificial consciousness to human public goods: A skeptical review of robot ethics (Conway Hall, London)

• Wed 27 Feb 13 · The Ironic Spectator (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, London)

• Wed 20 Feb 13 · Assisted Dying: should the law change? (Rochdale Unitarian Church, ROCHDALE)

• Tue 29 Jan 13 · THIRD PARTY EVENT: Down the Rabbit Hole (Frontline Club, London)

• Tue 9 Oct 12 · Black Consciousness, Black Theology, Student Activism and the Shaping of the New South Africa (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, London)

• Tue 28 Aug 12 · What is a Legitimate Enhancement in Sport? (The Wheatsheaf, London)

• Wed 20 Jun 12 · Resisting intolerance: an ethical and global challenge (LSE campus, venue TBC to ticketholders, London)

• Fri 9 Mar 12 · The Public Philosopher - Should we bribe people to be healthy? (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, London)

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