Named Lecture Series
Recent Dewey Lectures:
2022
Elizabeth Anderson, "Challenges to the Creation of an Egalitarian Society: Reflections on Moral Psychology from Rousseau to the Present"
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).
1977
Ernest Nagel, Theology Revisited
1970
Sir Alfred Ayer, Probability and Evidence
1968
Willard Van Orman Quine, Ontological Relativity
Recent Nagel Lectures:
2013
Jeremy Butterfield, Cambridge University "Morningside Story: Light, Matter and Ernest Nagel"
2003
Teddy Seidenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University "P’s in a Pod: Some Recipes for Cooking Mendel’s Data"
1999
Thomas Schelling, University of Maryland "Rational Choice and Some of its Alternatives"
1996
Daniel Dennet "Consciousness: More Like Fame than Television"
1991
Francisco Ayala, UC Irvine "Teleological Explanations in Biology"
1988
Patrick Suppes, Stanford "Determinism, Comparison, and Free Will"
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"
2020
John MacFarlane, Indeterminacy as Indecision
2011
Onora O’Neill, Ethics for Communication: Speech Rights and Speech Wrongs
2010
Kit Fine, "Counterfactuals without Possible Worlds"
2007
Robert Brandom, Animating Ideas of Idealism
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."
2001
Myles Burnyeat, "Three Failures of Philosophy."
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).
1993
Bernard Williams, "Virtues of Truth"
1983
Sir Peter Strawson, "Scepticisms"
1978
Noam Chomsky, Rules and Representations
1972
G.H. von Wright, "Causality and Determinism"
1968
Jean Piaget, "l'Epistémologie génétique"
1965
Sir Isaiah Berlin, "Two Enemies of the Enlightenment"
1961
Herbert W. Schneider, "Ways of Being"
1958
William R. Dennes, "Some Dilemmas of Philosophical Naturalism"
1954
Clarence I. Lewis, "The Ground and Nature of Right"
1952
Harry Todd Costello, "Perceptions, Systems, and Possibilities"
1949
Sterling Power Lamprecht, "Nature and History"
1946
George Plimpton Adams, "Man and Metaphysics"
1943
Wilmon H. Sheldon, Process and Polarity