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Lindley Lectures Series

Chronology of Lindley Lectures

The following lectures have been published in individual pamphlet form and may be obtained from the Department of Philosophy at a price of $5.00 plus $1.00 for handling ($6.00 per lecture). Those interested in purchasing indvidual copies of Lindley Lectures can contact the department at the address below, or make a request via e-mail.

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 Some lectures have been published in Freedom and Morality, a volume of Lindley lectures delivered at the University of Kansas. Freedom and Morality can be purchased for $6.00 from the Library Sales Office, University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence, Kansas (U.S.A.) 66045. Please include a $1.50 handling fee, $3.00 outside the United States. For multiple copies please include an additional $0.50 per copy handling fee.

 (*) Pamphlet out of print.
(+) Reprinted in Freedom and Morality (out of print)
(#) Reprinted only in Freedom and Morality.
 
 

Year		Speaker	Title
1961		Jose Ferrater Mora, Professor of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College.	"The Idea of Man -- An Outline of Philosophical Anthropology." (*)
1962		A. N. Prior, Professor of Philosophy, University of Manchester.	"Changes in Events and Changes in Things."
1963		Richard B. Brandt, Professor of Philosophy, Swarthmore College.	"Moral Philosophy and the Analysis of Language." (*)(+)
1964		Roderick M. Chisholm, Professor of Philosophy, Brown University.	"Human Freedom and the Self." (*)(+)
1965		Stuart Hampshire, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University.	"Freedom of Mind."
1966		William K. Frankena, Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan.	"Some Beliefs about Justice." (*)(+)
1967		Wilfrid Sellars, Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh.	"Form and Content in Ethical Theory." (+)
1968		J. N. Findlay, Clark Professor of Philosophy, Yale University.	"The Systematic Unity of Value." (+)
1969		Paul Edwards, Professor of Philosophy, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.	"Buber and Buberism -- A Critical Evaluation."(*)
1971		P. H. Nowell-Smith, Professor of Philosophy, York University.	"What Actually Happened."
1972		Alan Gewirth, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago.	"Moral Rationality." (+)
1973		Albert Hofstadter, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Cruz.	"Reflections on Evil." (+)
1974		Paul Ricoeur, Professor of Philosophy, University of Paris and University of Chicago.	"What is Dialectical?" (#)(+)
1975		R. M. Hare, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University and Fellow of Corpus Christi College.	"Some Confusions about Subjectivity." (#)(+)
1976		Judith Jarvis Thomson, Professor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.	"Self-Defense and Rights."
1977		Georg Henrik von Wright, Research Professor of Philosophy, The Academy of Finland.	"What is Humanism?"
1978		Philippa Foot, Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford; and Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles.	"Moral Relativism."
1979		Joel Feinberg, Professor of Philosophy, University of Arizona.	"The Idea of the Obscene."
1980		Warner Wick, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago.	"Goods Beyond Price and Other Apparent Anachronisms."
1981		Alan Donagan, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago.	"Morality, Property and Slavery."
1982		Donald Davidson, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley.	"Expressing Evaluations."
1983		Hilary Putnam, Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University.	"How Not to Solve Ethical Problems."
1984		Alasdair MacIntyre, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University.	"Is Patriotism a Virtue?"
1985		Bernard Williams, Provost of King's College, Cambridge.	"How Free Does the Will Need to Be?"
1986		Gilbert Harmon, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University.	"Moral Agent and Impartial Spectator."
1987		John McDowell, Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh.	"Projection and Truth in Ethics."
1988		Arthur Danto, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University.	"The Politics of Imagination."
1989		David Gauthier, Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh.	"Constituting Democracy."
1990		Ronald Dworkin, Professor of Jurisprudence, Oxford University, New York University Law School.	"Justice and the Good Life."
1991		Derek Parfit, Professor of Philosophy, All Souls College, Oxford, Harvard University.	"Equality or Priority?"
1992		Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University.	"Objectivity and Position."
1994		Samuel Scheffler, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley.	"Families, Nations, and Strangers."
1995		Susan Hurley, Professor of Political and Ethical Theory, University of Warwick.	"Wittgenstein on Practice and the Myth of the Giving."
1996		T. M. Scanlon, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Harvard University.	"The Diversity of Objections to Inequality."
1997		Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago.	"The Feminist Critique of Liberalism."
1998		Joseph Margolis, Professor of Philosophy, Temple University.	"A Second-Best Morality."
1999		Christine Korsgaard, Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University.	"The Myth of Egoism."
2000		Onora O'Neill, Professor and Principal of Newnham College, University of Cambridge	"Civic and Cosmopolitan Justice"
2001		Harry Frankfurt, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University	"Some Mysteries of Love"
2002		Richard Wollheim, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley	"On Pictorial Representation"
2003		Iris Marion Young, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago	"Political Responsibility and Structural Injustice"
2004		Simon Blackburn, Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge	"Liberalism, Religion, and the Sources of Value"
2005		Shelly Kagan, Professor of Philosophy, Yale University	"The Geometry of Desert"
2006		Thomas E. Hill, Jr., Kenan Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	"The Importance of Moral Rules and Principles"
2007		Seyla Benhabib Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University	"Is There a Human Right to Democracy? The Vicissitudes of Rawlsian Public Reason"
2008		David Wiggins Wykeham Professor of Logic (Emeritus), Oxford University	"Solidarity and the Root of the Ethical "
2009		Allan Gibbard Richard B. Brandt Distinguished Unviersity Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan	"Evolving Moral Knowledge " not yet available in published form

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