Named Lecture Series
Recent Dewey Lectures:
2022
Elizabeth Anderson, "TBA"
2013
Noam Chomsky, "What Kind of Creatures Are We?"
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).
Recent Suppes Lectures:
2019
Sean Carroll, "Finding Yourself in a Large Universe"
2018
Adina L. Roskies, "What can Neuroimaging do for Psychology?"
2017
Kenny Easwaran, "Unity in Diversity: The city as a collective agent"
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).