History
The Institute of Philosophy was founded by the University of London in 2005. In June 2005 we held a reception to celebrate the launch of the Institute and one successful year of activity. Here is Tim Crane's speech given at that occasion, and here is the picture gallery.
THE PHILOSOPHY PROGRAMME
The Institute is the successor to the University's Philosophy Programme. The Philosophy Programme was founded in 1995 by Jonathan Wolff of UCL. In 1998 Tim Crane took over as director, and in 2003-4 Barry Smith of Birkbeck College was Acting Director. Throughout all this time, Shahrar Ali was the assistant to the director.
The Philosophy Programme was not very happily named: it was not a degree programme but a fledgling institute. It was transformed into an institute of the School of Advanced Study as a result of a generous donation by Dr Shamil Chandaria and matching funds from the University of London.
The Programme (and now the Institute) has been the home to the offices of the Aristotelian Society and the Society for Applied Philosophy since 1996, and it hosted the offices of Mind, the UK's leading philosophy journal, from 2000 to 2005.
Over the ten years of its existence the Programme organised over 100 conferences and lectures in London, all of which were open to the public. A list of Philosophy Programme visiting fellows may be found here.
Here is a list of all the Philosophy Programme conferences and their speakers, plus the public lectures and seminar series which the Programme organised. Past events in years since the Institute was founded in 2005 may be found here.
PHILOSOPHY PROGRAMME CONFERENCES 1995-2005
1995-96
APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE
Paul Horwich, William Marslen-Wilson, Sarah Patterson, Gabriel Segal, Stephen Neale, Barry C Smith
ANARCHISM IN PRACTICE AND THEORY
Alan Carter, Richard Cleminson, Carl Levy, Peter Marshall, John T Saunders
EGALITARIAN JUSTICE
Brian Barry, Chris Brown, G A Cohen, Jennifer Hornsby, Tony Skillen, Jonathan Wolff
1996-97
EPISTEMOLOGY
Anthony Grayling, Keith Lehrer, M G F Martin, Adam Morton, Christopher Peacocke, Timothy Williamson
SCIENCE AND SEMANTICS IN FREGE
Thomas Baldwin, Jennifer Hornsby, Keith Hossack, Mark Sainsbury, Joan Wiener, Bernhard Weiss
PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
Sebastian Gardner, Jim Hopkins, Paul Redding, David Snelling
LEGACY OF MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
John Haldane, Christopher Hughes, Steven Nadler, Dominik Perler, Thomas Pink, Richard Sorabji, M A Stewart, Martin Stone
INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY
David Archard, Andrew Chitty, Margaret Gilbert, Keith Graham, Saladin Meckled-Garcia, Jonathan Wolff
THE ANALYTIC AND THE A PRIORI
Paul Boghossian, Paul Horwich, M G F Martin, Christopher Peacocke
JUSTICE AND THE FAMILY
Diemut Bubeck, Miranda Fricker, Veronique Munoz Darde, Lucy O'Brien, Alan Patten, Andrew Williams
WELL-BEING
Roger Crisp, Jonathan Dancy, Joseph Raz, John Skorupski, Alan Thomas, Susan Wolf
1997-98
FEMINISM IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
John Dupr?Susan James, Naomi Scheman
CONTENT AND COMPUTATION
Frances Egan, Jose Luis Bermudez, Sarah Patterson
CAUSATION AND MANIPULATION
Dan Hausman, David Papineau, Jim Woodward
CONSCIOUSNESS AND SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
Bill Brewer, John Campbell, Greg Davis, Naomi Eilan, Christopher Hoerl, Glyn Humphries, Teresa McCormack, Tony Marcel, M G F Martin, Johannes Roessler
ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS
John Barry, Alan Carter, Roger Crisp, Avner de Shalit, Dale Jamieson, John O'Neill
REFERENCE
Frank Jackson, Stephen Neale, Mark Sainsbury, Barry C Smith
SPEECH ACTS
Jennifer Hornsby, Ruth Millikan, Huw Price
KANT AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY
Michael Friedman, Salim Kemal, Philip Stratton-Lake
LOGIC & LANGUAGE 98
in conjunction with Mind Association and Analysis
Maite Ezcurdia, Marcus Giaqunito, Peter Pagin, Gila Sher, Neil Tennant, Charles Travis, Timothy Williamson, Crispin Wright
HUMAN NATURE
Anthony Hatzimoysis, Rosalind Hursthouse, David McNaughton, Peter Singer
COMPREHENSIVE AND POLITICAL LIBERALISM
Chris Bertram, Andrew Chitty, George Klosko, Veronique Munoz Darde, Jonathan Riley, Lawrence Solum
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE SOUL
Richard Cross, Paul Helm, David Papineau, Martin Stone, Richard Swinburne, Peter van Inwagen
1998-99
PRAGMATICS AND MEANING
Mitchell Green, Stephen Gross, Deidre Wilson
THE END OF THE WORLD
Nick Bostrom, Mark Greenberg, John Leslie
AIMING AT TRUTH: BELIEF, DESIRE AND THE ATTITUDES
Richard Holton, M G F Martin, Lucy O'Brien, David Papineau, David Velleman, Nick Zangwill
SCHILLER'S AESTHETIC LETTERS
in conjunction with the Aesthetics Programme and Institute of Germanic Studies
John Armstrong, Jason Gaiger, Ruediger Goerner, Lesley Sharpe
EARLY AND LATE WITTGENSTEIN
Jim Hopkins, Marie McGinn, Michael Potter, Peter Sullivan
NEW DIRECTIONS IN EPISTEMOLOGY
Adam Morton, David Owens, Michael Williams
AESTHETIC JUSTIFICATION
supported by UCL, European Journal of Philosophy, British Society of Aesthetics, Aesthetics Programme, French Embassy
John Armstrong, Malcolm Budd, Christel Fricke, Sebastian Gardner, Stein Haugom, Robert Hopkins, Michael Podro, Rainer Rochlitz, Anthony Savile, Martin Seel, Stefan Snaevarr
STOIC ETHICS AND ITS LEGACIES
Lawrence Becker, Jacques Brunschwig, Jan Papy, Anthony Price, Richard Sorabji Martin Stone
THE COMPLETENESS OF PHYSICS
John Dupr?E J Lowe, David Spurrett
APPLIED PHILOSOPHY IN PERSPECTIVE
in conjunction with the Society for Applied Philosophy
Brenda Almond, Piers Benn, Stephen Clark, Richard Norman
1999-2000
KANTIAN CONSTRUCTIVISM IN POLITICAL THEORY
G A Cohen, Veronique Munoz Darde, Jeremy Waldron
STYLE AND PHILOSOPHY
in conjunction with the Aesthetics Programme
John Armstrong, Alain de Botton, Lesley Chamberlain, Jonathan Culler, Bryan Magee, Ray Monk, Frederic Raphael, Jonathan R? Galen Strawson
SENSATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Ned Block, Brian Loar, Greg McCulloch, Georges Rey
ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SEX
Piers Benn, Miranda Fricker, Catherine Hood, Iddo Landau, Sabina Lovibond, Igor Primoratz
UNDERSTANDING EMOTIONS
Simon Blackburn, Bill Brewer, Miranda Fricker, Peter Goldie, Dan Hutto, Anthony Savile, Barry C Smith, Michael Stocker
PRAGMATICS AND PRAGMATISMS
Robert Brandom, Huw Price, Rowland Stout
CULTURAL POSSESSION: THE ELGIN MARBLES AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF OWNERSHIP
in conjunction with the Aesthetics Programme
John Armstrong, Mary Beard, Katerina Deligiorgi, Graham Higgin
NUMERICAL KNOWLEDGE
Brian Butterworth, SusanCarey, Marcus Giaquinto
THE PHILOSOPHY OF HEIDEGGER
Hubert Dreyfus, Beatrice Han, Sean Kelly, Stephen Mulhall
LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITIONALITY
Darragh Byrne, Paul Horwich, Friederike Moltmann
2000-01
PERCEPTION AND REALISM
M G F Martin, Ram Neta, Charles Travis, A.D. Smith
EVIL
Rai Gaita, Eve Garrard, Jonathan Glover
MODERN POETRY AND PREJUDICE
in conjunction with the Aesthetics Programme
John Armstrong, Robert Eaglestone, Elaine Feinstein, Alan Jenkins, Gabriel Josipovici, Jonathan Keates, Blake Morrison, Peter Porter, Roger Scruton
TRUTH IN FREGE
Ian Rumfitt, Peter Sullivan, Joan Weiner
THE PHILOSOPHY OF J L AUSTIN
Ken Gemes, Mark Kaplan, David Pears
KNOWLEDGE AND ITS LIMITS
Lizzie Fricker, Keith Hossaack, Stephen Yablo
BEING-IN-LONDON: Anglophone and European Philosophy of Mind
in conjunction with the Forum for European Philosophy
Glen Braddock, Fabian Dorsch, Simon Glendinning, Katrin Joost, Grahame Lock, Stephanie Schull
SOVEREIGN VIRTUE
Matthew Clayton, G A Cohen, Miriam Cohen Christofides, Ronald Dworkin, Marc Fleurbaey, Michael Otsuka, Robert van der Veen, Andrew Williams
SPACE AND TIME IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Sarah Broadie, Thomas Johansen, Stephen Makin, Ben Morison
INTENTION AND AGENCY
Michael Bratman, Jennifer Hornsby, Tom Pink, Paul Snowdon
2001-02
NIETZSCHE ON TRUTH
Brian Leiter, Michael Rosen, Peter Poellner
FREE WILL
Richard Holton, William Lycan, Tom Pink
THE METAPHYSICS OF FACTS
Hugh Mellor, Stephen Neale, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
CONSCIOUSNESS, MIND AND ILLUSION
in conjunction with the Royal Institute of Philosophy
Frank Jackson, David Papineau, Galen Strawson
CONDITIONALS IN PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS
Dorothy Edgington, Liliane Haegeman, Mike Oaksford, David Over
MORALITY AND RELIGION
Robert M Adams, Tom Pink, Martin Stone
2002-03
MEANING, RULE-FOLLOWING AND REALISM
Gary Ebbs, Paul Horwich, Jussi Haukioja
PHILOSOPHY AS . . .
in conjunction with University of Essex
Simon Critchley, Manuel DeLanda, Michael Friedman, Hilary Lawson, Christopher Menke, Saul Kripke
MODERN PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP
Hannah Dawson, Michael Moriarty, Tom Sorell
PLURALS
Keith Hossack, Friederike Moltmann, Alex Oliver, Ian Rumfitt
MORAL FICTIONALISM
Simon Blackburn, Mark Kalderon, Daniel Nolan
MODERN PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP
Annabel Brett, Veronique Munoz Darde, Anthony Savile
RIGHTS, CULTURE AND POWER
Moira Gatens, Anne Phillips, David Archard
EXTERNALISM, PHENOMENOLOGY AND UNDERSTANDING
in memory of Greg McCulloch 1951-2001
Katalin Farkas, John McDowell, Barry C. Smith, Tom Stoneham, Timothy Williamson
2003-04
THE THINGS WE MEAN: PROPOSITIONS AND ATTITUDES
Stephen Schiffer, Guy Longworth, Crispin Wright
ETHICS, SCIENCE AND OUR HUMAN FUTURE
in conjunction with the Philosophical Society of England
Brenda Almond, Shahrar Ali, Martin Gough, Ben Basing
ARISTOTLE ON ACTIVITY AND POTENTIALITY
Charlotte Witt, Ursula Coope, Bob Heinaman
WAGNER AND PHILOSOPHY
Lucy Beckett, Aaron Ridley, Roger Scruton, Michael Tanner
PHILOSOPHY AND SOUND
in conjunction with L'institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, Paris
Nicolas Bullot, Roberto Casati, Jerome Dokic, Matthew Nudds, Casey O'Callaghan, Barry C Smith
MIND AND SCIENCE IN DESCARTES
John Carriero, Desmond Clarke, Sarah Patterson
F H JACOBI AND THE FORMATION OF GERMAN IDEALISM
Andrew Bowie, Paul Franks, Sebastian Gardner, Bob Stern
POLITICAL OBLIGATION AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH
George Klosko, David Miller, Jonathan Wolff
REASONABLE QUESTIONING: SCANLON AND THE CONTRACTUALIST PICTURE OF MORALITY
Veronique Munoz-Darde, Stephen Everson, Frances Kamm, Jimmy Lenman, David Owens, TM Scanlon, Andrew Williams
2004-05
THE PHENOMENAL
Barry Maund, Susanna Siegel, Maja Spener
PHILOSOPHY AND WINE: FROM SCIENCE TO SUBJECTIVITY
Kent Bach, Paul Draper, Roger Scruton, Barry C. Smith
METAPHOR: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
in conjunction with Mind & Language
Robyn Carston, Ray Gibbs, Rahcel Giora, Sam Glucksberg, Samuel Guttenplan, Courtenay Norbury, Josef Stern, Deirdre Wilson
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE ORIGINS OF EMPIRICISM
Peter Anstey, Desmond Clarke, Stephen Gaukroger, Rob Illife, John Milton, Paul Schuurman, Richard Serjeantson, Richard Yeo
MENTAL ACTION
Fabian Dorsch, Lucy O'Brien, Christopher Peacocke, Matthew Soteriou
WAYS OF DARWINIZING CULTURE
Patrick Bateson, Russell Gray, Matteo Mameli, David Papineau, Kim Sterelny
FREGE, IDENTITY AND LOGIC
in conjunction with Mind Association
Ben Caplan, Richard Heck, Ian Rumfitt, Mark Sainsbury, Tom Smith, Mark Textor, Michael Thau
PUBLIC LECTURES
1995-96
INAUGURAL LECTURE OF THE PHILOSOPHY PROGRAMME
John Searle
The Construction of Social Reality
JACOBSEN LECTURE
Philip Kitcher
The Springs of Sympathy: Evolution, Altruism and Human Morality
SYMPOSIUM ON MORAL OBJECTIVITY
J J Thompson and Phillipa Foot
The Right and the Good
1996-97
JOHN COFFIN MEMORIAL LECTURE in Science
Ian Hacking
Psychopathology and Social Construction
1997-98
SYMPOSIUM ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF IMMANUEL KANT
Eckhart Forster and Michael Rosen
JACOBSEN LECTURE
Michael Freedman
Philosophical Naturalism
JOHN COFFIN MEMORIAL LECTURE in Christian Ethics
Alasdair MacIntyre
What has Christianity to say to the Moral Philosopher?
1998-99
JACOBSEN LECTURE
Myles Burnyeat
Plato and Lucretius on Weakness of Belief
PUBLIC LECTURE
David Chalmers
Modal Rationalism and the Mind-Body Problem
1999-2000
JACOBSEN LECTURE
Robert Brandom
Reason, Expression and the Philosophical Enterprise
2000-01
JOHN COFFIN MEMORIAL LECTURE in Science
Richard Lewontin
Does Culture Evolve?
JACOBSEN LECTURE
Timothy Williamson
Contested Logic
2001-02
OUP PUBLIC LECTURE
Donald Davidson
Some Conditions for Thought
JACOBSEN LECTURE
Tyler Burge
Perceptual Entitlement
JOHN COFFIN MEMORIAL LECTURE in Christian Ethics
Robert Adams
Christianity and Virtue
2002-03
JACOBSEN LECTURE
Jeremy Butterfield
Philosophical Surprises in Newtonian Mechanics
2003-04
JACOBSEN LECTURE
Ruth Garrett Millikan
Why (most) Concepts aren't Categories
2004-05
JACOBSEN LECTURE
Stephen Yablo
Must Existence-Questions have Answers?
COMMEMORATING RICHARD WOLLHEIM 1923-2003
Jonathan Wolff, Malcolm Budd, Jim Hopkins, G A Cohen, W D Hart, Michael Podro, MGF Martin
THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY LECTURE
Jurgen Habermas
Religion in the Public Sphere
SEMINAR SERIES
1995-96
THE PROBLEM OF INTENTIONALITY
Victor Caston, Edward Craig, Tim Crane, John Cottingham, Dermot Moran, Peter Simons
HISTORY OF THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM
Tim Crane, Susan James, Rae Langton, Neil Manson, David Papineau, Sarah Patterson, Martin Stone, Alan Thomas
1996-97
THE PROPER AMBITION OF SCIENCE
Nancy Cartwright, Chris Hookway, John Milton, David Papineau, John Rogers, Bob Sharples, Richard Sorabji, Martin Stone, Thomas Uebel, Fritz Zimmermann
1997-98
THE WILL AND THEORIES OF HUMAN ACTION: FROM THE STOICS TO THE
PRESENT DAY
Susan James, Christopher Janaway, Jill Kray, Gerard O'Daly, Brian O'Shaunghessy, Thomas Pink, Anthony Price, J B Schneewind, Carlos Steel, Richard Sorabji, Martin Stone
1998-99
THE PROBLEMS OF PERCEPTION
Sylvia Berryman, Victor Caston, Sebastian Gardner, Robert Goulding, Gary Hatfield, M G F Martin, David Smith, Paul Snowdon, Martin Stone, Marina Frasca-Spada
ART AND IDEAS (Aesthetics Programme)
John Armstrong, Jason Gaiger, James Hall, R D Hopkins, Paul Taylor
1999-2000
THE FORMATION OF CONTEMPORARY AESTHETICS (Aesthetics Programme)
Andrew Bowie, Christopher Hamilton, Jonathan Ree, Aaron Ridley
2000-01
ETHICS
Alan Carter, Peter Goldie, Mark Kalderon, Veronique Munoz Darde, Tom Pink, Anthony Price, Martin Stone, Jonathan Wolff
2001-02
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
Bill deVries, Jim Hopkins, Neil Manson, M G F Martin, Lucy O'Brien, Sarah Patterson, Jesse Prinz, Ed Zalta
2002-03
METAPHYSICS
Max Kistler, Fraser MacBride, Al Mele, Friederike Moltmann, Eric Olson, Philip Percival, Helen Steward
2003-04
PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
Kathrin Gluer, James Higginbotham, Ernie Lepore, Mark Sainsbury, Gabriel Segal, Barry C Smith, Charles Travis