LI. Elisabeth Camp - Friday, October 17, 2025
"Why Memes, Mantras and Metaphors Move Us"

L. Huw Price - Monday, November 4, 2024
"Side-stepping the Rhinoceros: Copernican Pragmatism and Quantum Entanglement"

XLIX. Ruth Chang - Thursday, April 4, 2024
"Does AI Design Rest on a Mistake?"

XLVIII. Michele Moody-Adams - Wednesday, April 12, 2023
"Reclaiming the Idea of 'the Human'"

XLVII. Christine Korsgaard - Thursday, April 21, 2022
"The Human Good"

XLVI. Ruth Garrett Millikan - Friday, October 29, 2021
"40,000 Words in 14 Years"

XLV. Jenann T. Ismael - Wednesday, Apil 24, 2019
"Time, Totality, and Transcendence"

XLIV. Jack Copeland - Tuesday, November 14, 2017
"Physical Uncomputability and the Nature of Information Processing"

XLIII. Hannah Ginsborg - Friday, May 5, 2017
"Rule-Following Without Rules: Wittgenstein on the Normativity of Meaning and Content"

XLII. Nancy Cartwright - Thursday, May 19, 2016
"The Natural and the Moral Order: What's to Blame?"

XLI. Mohan Matthen - Friday, May 8, 2015
"Pleasure and Art"

XL. Philip Kitcher - Wednesday, April 16, 2014
"Climate Change - The Hard Problem"

XXXIX. Sally Haslanger - Wednesday, May 1, 2013
"Ideology, Moral Theory, and Social Change"

XXXVIII. Linda Alcoff - Friday, March 30, 2012
"Rape After Foucault"

XXXVII. Robert Pippin - Thursday, November 11, 2010
"Fatalism in Film Noir: 'Trapped by Oneself' in Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past"

XXXVI. Judith Butler - Friday, October 16, 2009
"Keeping Company with Oneself: Hannah Arendt On Responsibility"

XXXV. Thomas Pogge - Friday, April 3, 2009
"Unjust Social Rules: Killing and Causing Pain"

XXXIV. John Campbell - Monday, October 8, 2007
"The Causal Role of Perception"

XXXIII. Philip Pettit - Friday, October 13, 2006
"Made with Words: Hobbes on Human Nature"

XXXII. Elliot Sober - Monday, October 24, 2005
"The Design Argument"

XXXI. Ned Block - Monday, April 25, 2005
"Finding Consciousness in the Brain"

XXX. Julia Annas - Thursday, April 29, 2004
"Virtue Ethics and Social Psychology"

XXIX.William Lycan - Tuesday, April 22, 2003
"Free Will and the Burden of Proof"

XXVIII. Margaret Boden - Thursday, May 9th, 2002
"What's Life Got to Do With It?"

XXVII. Barbara Herman - Thursday, May 10th, 2001
"Moral Ends"

XXVI. Fred Dretske - Wednesday, October 27, 1999
"Ways of Being Conscious"

XXV. Ernst Tugendhat - Thursday, May 13, 1999
"Justification of Morality in Bernard Gert's Moral Theory"

XXIV. Hilary Putnam - Thursday, October 9, 1997
"Aristotle's Mind and the Contemporary Mind"

XXIII. David Lewis - Friday, October 11, 1996
"Elusive Knowledge"

XXII. Robert Nozick - Wednesday, April 17, 1996
"Is Truth Relative?"

XXI R. M. Hare - Thursday, September 29, 1994
"Foundationalism and Coherentism in Ethics"

XX. Donald Davidson - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, November 2,3,4, 1993
Jointly sponsored with the Department of Religion's James & David Orr Memorial Lecture on Culture and Religion

A series of three presentations on "THE OBJECTIVITY OF VALUES":
"Can Values be Objective?"
"The Grounds of Objectivity"
"Agreements and Disputes"

XIX. Jonathan Bennett - Friday, April 16, 1993
"Mind and Brain in the Seventeenth Century"

XVIII. Amartya Sen - Friday, May 29, 1992
"Objectivity and the Social Sciences"

XVII. Patricia Smith Churchland - Friday, May 3, 1991
"Can the Brain Explain the Mind? A Neurophilosophical Update"

XVI. Amelie Okensberg Rorty - Thursday, April 19, 1990
"Solomon and Everyman: A Problem on the Morality of Expectation"

XV. Jaegwon Kim - Wednesday, April 12, 1989
"Modes of Perception and Convergence of Knowledge"

XIV. Judith J. Thomson - Wednesday, May 11, 1988
"Morality and Bad Luck"

XIII. Roderick M. Chisholm - Wednesday, April 22, 1987
"Intentionality: How we Refer to Things"

XII. Bernard A.O.Williams - Wednesday, May 14, 1986
"The Slippery Slope as a Moral Argument"

XI. Daniel Dennett - Wednesday, April 24, 1985
"The Myth of Original Intentionality"

X. John R. Searle - Friday, May 18, 1984
"What's Wrong with Using Computers to Model the Brain"

IX. Thomas Nagel - Wednesday, May 18, 1983
"Is Morality Too Demanding?"

VIII. Richard Wollheim - Wednesday, April 21, 1982
"What is Moral Psychology?"

VII. Ruth Barcan Marcus - Thursday, May 14, 1981
"More About Moral Dilemmas"

VI. Stephen E. Toulmin - Monday, April 21, 1980
"On Knowing Your Own Mind"

V. Kai Nielson - Thursday, May 3, 1979
"Morality and Human Situation"

IV. Herbert Fingarette - Friday, May 5, 1978
"How can we Make Sense of Suffering"

III. Maurice Mandelbaum - Friday, April 15, 1977
"Purpose, Chance and Necessity in Social Theory"
II. Sidney Hook - Tuesday, April 27, 1976
"Towards Greater Equality"

I. William Frankena - Friday, April 25, 1975
"The Ethics of Respect for Life"