Journal of Applied Philosophy

Each year the Society for Applied Philosophy hosts a lecture which all are welcome to attend, followed by a reception for SAP members.

The 2011 lecture The Global Reach of Human Rights was given by Professor Amartya Sen in June 2011 in Oxford. A paper based on this lecture and written by Professor Sen will be published in 29:1.

The 2012 lecture will be given by Joseph Raz.  He is a legal, moral and political philosopher, and one of the most prominent advocates of legal positivism.

The Society for Applied Philosophy holds an annual conference. The 2012 conference is the SAP’s 30th anniversary conference and includes a discussion board on the nature of applied philosophy. The event will be an open themed applied philosophy conference.

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Each year, a podcast is made in conjunction with the Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Lecture.

Visit the Society for Applied Philosophy podcast page to listen to previous lectures on the topics of:

- The Global Reach of Human Rights
- Militant Modern Atheism
- Measuring Development, Poverty and Gender Equity
- Naturalism, Normativity, and Applied Ethics

The Journal of Applied Philosophy invites submissions on the topic of Issues of Global Taxation, for a proposed special issue of the journal.

The guest co-editors of the proposed volume will be Gillian Brock (Auckland), Tom Campbell (CAPPE, Australia), and Thomas Pogge (Yale).

The deadline for submissions for this special issue is 15 January 2013.

The Journal of Applied Philosophy will henceforth award an annual prize of £1000 to the best article published in the year's volume. The first award will be made in respect of Volume 28 (2011). The judgement as to the best article will be made by the editors of the journal.

The Society for Applied Philosophy annual lecture, published in the journal, will not be eligible for the prize of best article.

The Society for Applied Philosophy 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.

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.