The 2011 lecture was delivered by  Professor Amartya Sen, the distinguished economist and philosopher, on June 14th. In this podcast, Amartya Sen discusses his lecture with Jeremy Waldron,  Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University.

Read the paper based on the lecture here -
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-5930.2012.00555.x/full

2011 - SAP Annual Lecture: Amartya Sen, 'The Global Reach of Human Rights'

The Inaugural Lecture was delivered by Baroness Onora O'Neill, President of the Society for Applied Philosophy, in Oxford on October 20th. Here, in the first of a series of SAP podcasts, Baroness O'Neill talks with SAP Chair, David Archard, and SAP Treasurer, Neil Manson, about some of the key themes of her paper.

The paper can be read here -
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-5930.2009.00446.x/abstract

2008 - SAP Annual Lecture: Onora O'Neill, Naturalism, Normativity, and Applied Ethics

This 2014 lecture was delivered by Professor Julia Annas, of the University of Arizona, on October 23rd. 
Read the paper based on her lecture http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1111/japp.12103/

2014 - SAP Annual Lecture: Julia Annas, 'Applying Virtue to Ethics'

The 2015 Society for Applied Philosophy annual lecture was given by Professor Shelly Kagan of Yale University. 

Abstract: Peter Singer famously argued in Animal Liberation that almost all of us are speciesists, unjustifiably favoring the interests of humans over the similar interests of other animals.  Although I long found that charge compelling, I now find myself having doubts.  This paper starts by trying to get clear about the nature of speciesism, and then argues that Singer’s attempt to show that speciesism is a mere prejudice is unsuccessful.  But I also argue that most of us are not actually speciesists at all, but rather accept a view I call modal personism.  Although I am not confident that modal personism can be adequately defended, it is, at the very least, a philosophical view worthy of further consideration.    

2015 - SAP Annual Lecture: Shelly Kagan, 'What's Wrong with Speciesism?'

2015 - Shelly Kagan, 'What's Wrong with Speciesism?' - Audience Discussion

The 2015 Society for Applied Philosophy annual lecture was given by Professor Shelly Kagan of Yale University. Following the talk, Professor Kagan was interviewed by Jeff McMahan (Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford)

    

2015 - Shelly Kagan Interview, 'What's Wrong with Speciesism?'

2016 - Ripstein Lecture, 'Reclaiming Proportionality'

2016 - Ripstein Interview

2017 - SAP Annual Lecture: Philip Pettit, 'Three Mistakes about Doing Good (and Bad)'

2018 - SAP Annual Lecture: Carol Gould, 'How Democracy Can Inform Consent: Internet and Bioethics'

Interview with Carol Gould, who gave the 2018 SAP Annual Lecture

2018 - Carol Gould Interview

2019 - Interview with Professor Sarah Buss (Michigan)

Full title: 'Some Musings About the Limits of an
Ethics that Can Be Applied – A Response To A Question That Confronted'

2019 - SAP Annual Lecture: Sarah Buss, 'The Limits of an Ethics that Can Be Applied'

The Society for Applied Philosophy (UK) was founded in 1982 with the aim of promoting philosophical study and research that has a direct bearing on areas of practical concern. It arose from an increasing awareness that many topics of public debate are capable of being illuminated by the critical, analytic approach characteristic of philosophy, and by direct consideration of questions of value. These topics come from a number of different areas of social life - law, politics, economics, science, technology, medicine and education are among the most obvious. The purpose of the SAP is foster and promote philosophical work that is intended to make a constructive contribution to problems in these areas. It does so through workshops, conferences, and lecture programmes.

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