Dewey, Woodbridge, and Nagel Lectures

Upcoming Dewey Lectures, Fall 2013
Noam Chomsky (MIT)
October 30, 6:15 p.m.
October 31, 6:15 p.m.
November 1, 4:00 p.m.
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Upcoming Woodbridge Lectures, Fall 2013
Sarah Broadie (University of St Andrews)
Dates TBA
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DEWEY LECTURES
In memory of John Dewey, 1859-1952

Recent Dewey Lectures:

2007
Tyler Burge, "Self and Self-Understanding"

2002
Michael Dummett, "Truth and the Past"

1998
Ronald Dworkin, "Justice for Hedgehogs"

1994
Hilary Putnam, "Sense, Nonsense, and the Senses: An Inquiry into the Powers of the Human Mind"

1989
Donald Davidson, "The Structure and Content of Truth"

1984
Amartya Sen, "Well-being, Agency and Freedom"

1980
John Rawls, "Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory"

Previous Dewey Lecturers include Ernest Nagel (1977), Alfred Jules Ayer (1970), and Willard Van Orman Quine (1968).


WOODBRIDGE LECTURES
In memory of Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge, 1867-1940

Recent Woodbridge Lectures:

2011
Onora O'Neill, "Ethics for Communication: Speech Rights and Speech Wrongs"

2007
Robert Brandom, "Animating Ideas of Idealism"

2001
Myles Burnyeat, "Three Failures of Philosophy"

1997
John McDowell, "Having the World in View: Sellars, Kant, and Intentionality"

1993
Bernard Williams, "The Virtue of Truth"

Previous Woodbridge Lecturers include Peter Frederick Strawson (1983), Noam Chomsky (1978), Georg Henrik von Wright (1972), Jean Piaget (1968), and Isaiah Berlin (1965).


NAGEL LECTURES
In memory of Ernest Nagel, 1901-1985

Recent Nagel Lectures:

2013
Jeremy Butterfield, "Morningside Story: Light, Matter and Ernest Nagel"

2010
Kit Fine, "Counterfactuals without Possible Worlds"

2007
Sol Feferman, "Gödel, Nagel, Minds, and Machines"
Anita Feferman, "Uncovering Tarski"

2005
Nancy Cartwright, "Where is the Theory in our Theories of Causality?"

2003
Teddy Seidenfeld, "P's in a Pod: some recipes for cooking Mendel's data."

1999
Thomas Schelling, "Rational Choice and Some of its Alternatives"

1996
Howard Stein, "How does Physics Bear Upon Metaphysics, and Why Did Plato Hold that Philosophy Cannot be Written Down?"

Previous Nagel Lecturers include Francisco J. Ayala (1991) and Patrick Suppes (1988).