Previous Speakers in Philosophy Lecture Series: 1974-2004
2007-2008
September 6, 2007
Eric Brown, Washington University in Saint Louis, "Socrates the Stoic? Rethinking Protreptic, Eudaimonism, and the Role of Plato's Socratic Dialogues"
September 28, 2007
John Deigh, University of Texas, "Moral Agency and Criminal Insanity"
October 18, 2007
Fred Rush, Univesity of Notre Dame, "Remnants of Beauty"
October 26, 2007
Seyla Benhabib, Yale University, 2007 Lindley Lecture, "Is There a Human Right to Democracy? The Vicissitudes of Rawlsian Public Reason"
November 26, 2007
Bernard Reginster, Brown University, "Nietzsche's 'New Happiness': Longing, Boredom and the Elusiveness of Fulfillment"
February 18, 2008
Hynek Bartos, Charles University in Prague, "Aristotle's Concept of Soul as a Bridge between Biology and Ethics"
March 11, 2008
Scott Soames, University of Southern California, "Interpreting Legal Texts: What Is, and What Is Not, Special about the Law." Co-sponspored by The Hall Center for the Humanities.
March 12, 2008
Scott Soames, University of Southern California, "Truth and Meaning--In Perspective"
March 25, 2008
Stephen Neale, Graduate Center, City University of New York, "Underdetermination"
March 26, 2008
Stephen Neale, Graduate Center, City University of New York, "Language, The Law and Web Pornography." Co-sponspored by The Hall Center for the Humanities.
March 27, 2008
David Wiggins, Oxford University, 2008 Lindley Lecture, "Solidarity"
April 9 , 2008
Jerry Fodor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, "What Kind of Theory Is the Theory of Evolution?" Co-sponspored by The Hall Center for the Humanities.
April 10 , 2008
Jerry Fodor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, "Evolution without Adaptation "
2006-2007
September 15, 2006
Jesse Prinz,
University of North Carolina, "The Emotional Basis of Morals"
October 19, 2006
Georges Rey,
University of Maryland, "Empty Representations in Linguistic Perception"
November 10, 2006
Graeme Forbes,
University of Colorado
at Boulder, "Identity and
the Facts of the Matter"
February 19, 2007
Gary Shapiro, Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanties,
University of Richmond,
"Directions of the Earth: Nietzsche and Geophilosophy."
Co-sponsored by Philosophy Department and the Hall Center Philosophy and Literature Seminar
February 27, 2007
Derrick Darby,
Texas A&M University,
"All Hands on the Plow: Recognizing Rights and Freedoms."
Langston Hughes Lecture Series
March 26, 2007
Wendy Donner,
Carleton University,
"Autonomy and Community
in John Stuart Mill."
Co-sponsored by Philosophy Department, Women's Studies and the Humanities and Western Civilization Program
April 12, 2007
Nathan Salmon,
University of California at Santa Barbara, "
Numbers versus Nominalists"
April 30, 2007
Dale Miller,
Old Dominion University, "Mill's Utopian Utilitarianism"
2005-2006
September 26, 2005
Michael Tooley, Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, "Does
the Existence of Evil Show that God Does Not Exist?"
October 7, 2005
Ernie Lepore, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University, "Shared Content"
November 8, 2005
Allan Silverman, Professor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, "Ascent
and Descent: The Philosopher's Regret"
November 14, 2005
Jan Boxill, Senior Lecturer and Associate Chair of Philosophy, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Sport as Moral Exemplar"
March 14, 2006
Martin Bertman, Emeritus Professor, Helsinki University, "World as Concept
and Metaphor: Plato, Augustine, Kant and Nietzsche"
March 30, 2006
Dan Brock, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics, Harvard University,
"The Ethics of Using Genetics to Make Better People"
March 31, 2006
Marcelino Agis Villaverde, Vice Rector, University of Santiago de Compostela,
" Paul Ricoeur and Philosophy in the Twentieth Century"
2004-2005
September 23, 2004
Simon Blackburn, Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of Trinity College,
University of Cambridge, 2004 Lindley Lecture, "Liberalism, Religion,
and the Sources of Value"
November 15, 2004
David Konstan, Brown University, "Anger, Hatred and Genocide:
The Classical World and Today"
November 18, 2004
Corinne Painter, Emporia State University, "In Defense of Socrates: The
Stranger's Role in Plato's Sophist"
December 3, 2004
Chris Swoyer, University of Oklahoma, "Naturalistic Metaphysics: Properties
Are As Properties Do"
March 2, 2005
Kirk Ludwig, University of Florida, "Collective Intentional Behavior"
March 8, 2005
Adriaan Peperzak, Arthur Schmitt Chair of Philosophy at Loyola University
Chicago (Co-Sponsored with Humanities and Western Civilization and Religious
Studies
"Living - Trusting - Thinking (or Reason, Life, and Faith)"
March 10, 2005
Shelly Kagan, Yale University, 2005 Lindley Lecture, "The
Geometry of Desert"
April 19, 2005
Andrew Altman, Georgia State University, "Colonialism and Self-Determination:
A Critique of Contemporary Cosmopolitanism"
April 27, 2005
Nicolas de Warren, Wellesley College, "The Inner Life of Transcendence:
Augustine and Husserl on Time and Memory"
2003-2004
Friday, October 10
Douglas Patterson, Kansas State University, "Learnability and Compositionality"
Thursday, November 13
Allan Gibbard, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, "Ethical Impasse: Two
Accounts"
Wednesday, December 10
John Roberts, University of North Carolina, "A Puzzle About Symmetries,
Measurability, and Laws of Nature"
Monday, April 5
Thomas Pogge, Columbia University, "Severe Poverty as a Human Rights Violation"
Tuesday, April 27
Christina Lafont, Northwestern University, "Heidegger and Putnam on
the Synthetic Apriori"
Thursday, May 6
Mary Louise Gill, Brown University, "First Philosophy in Aristotle"
2002-2003
Friday, September 13
Andrew Melnyk, University of Missouri, "Some Evidence for Physicalism"
Monday, October 21
Don Garrett, University of North Carolina, "Spinoza's Theory of Mind and
Imagination"
Wednesday, November 20
Jonathan Schaffer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Contrastive Causation"
Friday, December 6
William Blattner, Georgetown University, "Heidegger, Dewey, and the Primacy
of Practice"
Thursday, April 3
Carole Pateman, University of California, Los Angeles, "Democratizing Citizenship:
A Case for Basic Income"
Friday, April 18
James Pryor, Princeton University, "Epistemic Agency"
Monday, May 5
Iris Marion Young, University of Chicago, 2003 Lindley Lecture, "Political
Responsibility and Structural Injustice
2001-2002
Wednesday, October 3
Anita Superson, University of Kentucky, "The Rationality of Dispositions
and the Rationality of Actions: The Interdependency Thesis"
Thursday, October 18
Richard Wollheim, University of California, Berkeley, 2002 Lindley Lecturer,
"On Pictorial Organization"
Thursday, October 25
Kit Wellman, Georgia State University, "Political Obligation and the Particularity
Requirement"
Thursday, November 1
Tom Donaldson, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, "The Conceptual
Glue of Corporate Stakeholder Theory: the Kantian Logic of "As If"
Friday, November 9
Jaegwon Kim, Brown University, "Reduction, Reductive Explanation, and Closing
the 'Explanatory Gap'"
Tuesday, November 27
Marcelo Sabates, Kansas State University, "Being Without Doing"
Thursday, December 6
Mark Sainsbury, King's College, London, "Reference, Anaphora and Names"
Thursday, February 28
Allen Buchanan, University of Arizona, "Responding to Self-Determination
Crises"
Tuesday, March 26
Brian Barry, Salzman Professor of Political Science and of Philosophy Columbia
University, "Reflections on Multiculturalism"
Wednesday, April 10
Henry Shue, Professor of Ethics and Public Life Cornell University, "Climate
Change, Sustainable Development and International Justice"
Thursday, May 2
Michael Walzer, Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton, "Cultural Rights and the Limits of Toleration."
2000-2001
Friday, October 13, 2000
Nathan Salmon, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Mythical Objects"
Thursday, November 9, 2000
Marleen Rozemond, KSU,
Friday, November 17, 2000
Bernard Gert, "The Philosophical Significance of Mental Disorders"
Tuesday, December 5, 2000
Harry Frankfurt, Princeton, 2001 Lindley Lecture, "Some Mysteries of Love"
Friday, January 26
Paul Woodruff, "Plato's Rejection of the Poets' Conception of Reverence"
Tuesday, March 6
Tyler Burge, "Perceptual Entitlement"
Wednesday, March 14
Jerry Fodor, "Why I Don't Believe in Evolutionary Psychology"
Monday, March 26
David Papineau, "Thinking About Consciousness"
1999-2000
October 21, 1999
Christine Korsgaard, Harvard, 1999 Lindley Lecture, "The Myth of Egoism"
October 25, 1999
Stephen Darwall, University of Michigan, "Reciprocal Recognition: The Second-Person
Standpoint in Moral
Thought and Theory"
November 18, 1999
Samuel Freeman, University of Pennsylvania, "Illiberal Libertarians: Why
Libertarianism is not a Liberal View"
December 2, 1999
Bil Martin, DePaul University, "Sartre: A Philosopher of His Century After
His Century"
February 8, 2000
Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago, Feminism and Equality Lecture Series,
"Secret Sewers of Vice: Disgust,
Bodies, and the Law"
February 23, 2000
Eva Feder Kittay, SUNY, Stony Brook, Feminism and Equality Lecture Series,
"A Reply to Peter Singer:
Relationality and the Fate of Severely Impaired Neonates"
March 16, 2000
Ruby Blondell, University of Washington, "The Man with No Name: Socrates
and the Visitor from Elea"
March 28, 2000
Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University Law School, Newark, Feminism and Equality
Lecture Series, "Dreaming Up
Solidarity: Feminist Witnessing and the Community of the Ought to Be"
April 6, 2000
Arthur Danto, Columbia University, "The Work of Art and the Historical Future"
April 17, 2000
Onora O'Neill, University of Cambridge, 2000 Lindley Lecture, "Cosmopolitan
and Civic Justice"
1998-1999
October 9, 1998
Phyllis Rooney, Oakland University, "Feminism and Reason"
October 21, 1998
Laura Ruetsche, University of Pittsburgh, "Theoretical Virtue and the Measurement
Problem of Quantum
Mechanics"
October 30, 1998
Derrick Darby, Northwestern University, "Are Worlds Without Rights Morally
Impoverished?"
November 13, 1998
Deborah Johnson, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Computer Ethics: Sorting
Out the Uniqueness of Computer-
Ethical Issues"
November 20, 1998
Cynthia Freeland, University of Houston, "Women and Monstrous Reproduction:
Female Agency in Horror Films"
December 3, 1998
Thomas Scanlon, Harvard University, "Constructivism: What and Why?"
March 11, 1999
John Haugeland, University of Pittsburgh, "The Meaning of Life"
April 2, 1999
Hubert Dreyfus, University of California, Berkeley, "Heidegger as Scientific
Realist"
April 8, 1999
John Sallis, Penn. State University, "On Translation"
April 15, 1999
Stanley Rosen, Boston University, "Common Sense and the Goodness of Truth"
1997-1998
October 14, 1977
Joseph Margolis, Temple University, 1998 Lindley Lecture, "A Second-Best
Morality"
November 6, 1997
Thomas Pogge, Columbia University, "Is the Liberalism of Kant's Rechtslehre
Comprehensive?"
1996-1997
September 26, 1996
Hugo Meynell, University of Calgary, "The Justification of the Humanities"
November 6, 1996
Tyler Burge, UCLA, "Computer Proof, Apriori Knowledge and Other Minds"
November 15, 1996
Laurie Pieper, KSU, "Descartes' Theory of Judgment"
November 21, 1996
Charles Kahn, University of Pennsylvania, "A New Interpretation of Plato's
Socratic Dialogues"
February 5, 1997
Michael Smith, "Ethics and the A Priori"
February 6, 1997
Michael Smith, "A Puzzle about Self-Control"
March 4, 1997
Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago, 1997 Lindley Lecture, "The Feminist
Critique of Liberalism"
March 12, 1997
Simon Blackburn, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Truth and Norms"
March 13, 1997
Simon Blackburn, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "The Sleep of
Reason Produces Monsters: Reflections
on the Sokal Affair"
April 8, 1997
David Brink, "Millian Principles, Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech"
April 9, 1997
David Brink, "Self-Love and Altruism"
May 5, 1997
Peter Railton, "Aesthetic Value, Moral Value and the Ambitions of Naturalism"
May 6, 1997
Peter Railton, "The Diversity of Moral Dilemma"
1995-1996
August 28, 1995
Annette Baier, University of Pittsburgh, "Reasonable Anger"
October 26, 1995
Edward Halper, University of Georgia, "Aristotle on the Unity of Virtue
and the Unity of Life"
December 1, 1995
Robert Bernasconi, University of Memphis, "Who Invented the Concept of Race?"
February 8, 1996
Christopher Peacocke, Oxford University, "Conscious Attitudes, Attention,
and Self-Knowledge"
February 22, 1996
T. M. Scanlon, Harvard, 1996 Lindley Lecture, "The Diversity of Objections
to Inequality"
March 6, 1996
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Harvard University, "African Philosophy and Theories
of Mental Life"
March 21, 1996
James Higginbotham, Oxford University, "Semantic Competence"
April 11, 1996
John McDowell, University of Pittsburgh, "Aristotle's Moral Psychology"
April 12, 1996
Kwame Gyekye, University of Ghana, "Ethnicity, Identity and Nationhood"
1994-1995
August 26, 1994
George Boolos, MIT, "Russell's Paradox and Frege's Theorem"
October 5, 1994
Crispin Wright, University of St. Andrews, "Truth in Ethics"
October 17, 1994
Samuel Scheffler, University of California, Berkeley, 1994 Lindley Lecture,
"Families, Nations, and Strangers"
March 16, 1995
Mitchell Miller, Vassar College, "The Words I Seem to Hear: Argument and
Irony in the Crito"
co-sponsored Philosophy and Classics
April 26, 1995
S. L. Hurley, University of Warwick, 1995 Lindley Lecture, "Wittgenstein
on Practice and the Myth of the Giving"
1993-1994
October 8, 1993
Peter Clark, University of St. Andrews, "Determinism and Explaining Statistical
Stability"
November 12, 1993
Noam Chomsky, MIT, "Manufacturing Consent: Media Manipulation in Modern
America"
November 19, 1993
Reinhardt Grossmann, Indiana University, "Materialism and the New Folk Philosophy"
March 31, 1994
Iris Marion Young, University of Pittsburgh, "Mothers, Citizenship, and
Independence: A Critique of Pure Family
Values"
April 22, 1994
Kendall Walton, University of Michigan, paper concerning fiction and morality.
April 29, 1994
Ruben Apressyan, Russian Academy of Sciences, "Contemporary Russian Approaches
to Ethics"
May 4, 1994
Tamara Horowitz, University of Pittsburgh, "Preference Cycles"
1992-1993
September 18, 1992
Kihyeon Kim, University of Oklahoma, "Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology"
October 29, 1992
David Schmidtz, Yale University, "Moral Dualism"
December 3, 1992
Michael Friedman, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, "Kant and the
20th Century"
1991-1992
September 9, 1991
Robert Solomon, Texas, and Kathleen Higgins, Texas, "The Philosophy of (Erotic)
Love"
October 24, 1991
Z. A. Pelczynski, Pembroke College, Oxford University, "Constitution Making
in Post-Communist Poland", co-
sponsored with International Studies, Soviet and East European Studies,
History.
November 11, 1991
Roger Shiner, University of Alberta, "Freedom of Commercial Speech"
November 21, 1991
Derek Parfit, All Souls College, Oxford University and Harvard, 1991 Lindley
Lecture, "Equality or Priority?"
March 5, 1992
Armartya Sen, Harvard University, 1992 Lindley Lecture, "Objectivity and
Position"
April 6, 1992
Alan Code, University of Michigan, "Focal Meaning and the Development of
Aristotle's Metaphysics"
1990-1991
September 21, 1990
David Lyons, Cornell University, "Critical Analysis and Constructive Interpretation
in Law"
October 29, 1990
Eva Schaper, University of Glasgow, "The Problematic of the Aesthetic Judgement"
November 19, 1990
Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University, "The Faith of Mortality"
November 28, 1990
Edward Casey, SUNY, Stony Brook, "Heidegger In and Out of Place"
February 15, 1991
Andrus Park, Estonia Academy of Sciences and Tartu State University, USSR,
"Gorbachev's Struggle for Empire:
The Disintegration Crisis in the USSR"
February 21, 1991
Jules Coleman, Law School of Yale University, "Risks and Wrongs", part of
Recent Work in the Philosophy of
Law, Matchette Foundation.
February 28, 1991
James Nickel, University of Colorado, "Minorities and Nationalities"
April 10, 1991
Lois Pineau, KSU, "Date Rape"
May 7, 1991
Philippe Soulez, University of Paris, "The Destruction of the European Philosophical
Space and Its Problematic
Reconstruction", co-sponsored with Department of French and Italian
1989-1990
October 5, 1989
Terence Irwin, Cornell University, "Reason, Will, and Deliberation"
October 26, 1989
John Exdell, KSU, "Intuitions, Ideology and Liberal Social Philosophy"
October 27, 1989
Nicholas White, Michigan, "Perceptual and Objective Properties in Plato"
November 7, 1989
John Perry, Stanford, "What Is Information?"
February 9, 1990
Neil MacCormick, University of Edinborough, "Interpretation and Justification
in Law"
February 22, 1990
John Caputo, Villanova University, "Heidegger's Revolution: The Politics
of the Question of Being"
March 20, 1990
Philippa Foot, Somerville College, Oxford and UCLA, "Happiness"
April 10, 1990
Colin McGinn, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, "Consciousness and the Natural
Order"
April 16, 1990
Ronald Dworkin, University College, Oxford, and New York University Law
School, "Justice and the Good Life",
1990 Lindley Lecture
1988-1989
March 3, 1989
Douglas Kellner, "Reading Film Politically: Reflections on Contemporary
Hollywood Film", GASP Lecture
March 27, 1989
David Gauthier, University of Pittsburgh, 1989 Lindley Lecturer, "Constituting
Democracy"
April 24, 1989
Sarah Waterlow Broadie, Yale University, "Pleasure and the Good in Plato
and Aritstole"
April 24, 1989
Shlomo Avineri, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, "Marx, Hegel and the Proletariat",
co-sponsored by Center for
Humanistic Studies, the Graduate School, Philosophy Department and Soviet
& East European Studies
1987-1988
October 21, 1987
John McDowell, University of Pittsburgh, 1987 Lindley Lecture, "Projection
and Truth in Ethics"
October 26, 1987
R. A. Shiner, University of Alberta, "Adjudication, Coherence and Legal
Justification"
October 29, 1987
Arthur Danto, Columbia, 1988 Lindley Lecture, "Politics of Imagination"
November 2, 1987
Janet Sisson, (Formerly of Glasgow University), "How to Choose Justice,
ideally"
January 29, 1988
Andrus Albertovich Pork, Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR, US-USSR
Exchange Scholar, American
Council of Learned Societies, "Epistemological and Historical Thinking"
February 29, 1988
James Jarrett, University of California, Berkeley, "Jung's Psychological
Commentary on Nietzsche", GASP &
Counseling Psychology Graduate Student Sponsored Lecture
March 24, 1988
David Ingram, Loyola University of Chicago, "Arendt and Lyotard on the Politics
of Judgment: Kantian Variations
on the Theme of Postmodernism", GASP Lecture
April 14, 1988
Susan Feagin, UMKC, "Appreciation and Justificaiton" Justifying Emotional
Responses to Fiction", GASP Lecture
April 25, 1988
Krister Segerberg, University of Auckland, MASUA Distinguished Foreign Scholar
Lecturer, "Some Remarks on
the Moral Philosophy of E. Westermarck"
April 29, 1988
Svetozar Stojanovic, Belgrade University and Washington University, "Charisma
in Marxist Theory and Practice"
May 2, 1988
Judith Butler, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, "Gender Politics
and the Categories of Sex", GASP Lecture
1986-87
September 24, 1986
Ernan McMullin, Notre Dame, "Is Our Universe Special?", History and Philosophy
of Science Lecture
October 7, 1986
Shekhar Pradhan, Central Missouri State University, "Minimalist Semantics:
Davidson and Derrida", GASP Lecture
November 6, 1986
Ian Jarvie, York University, "Canada's Image Among the North Atlantic Democracies",
Humanities Lecture Series
November 11, 1986
Daniel Dennett, Tufts University, "Responsibility in Real Time"
November 17, 1986
Steve Fuller, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Social Epistemology and
the Problem of Orthodoxy", GASP
Lecture
November 19, 1986
W. V. Quine, Department Colloquium
March 5, 1987
Chris Swoyer, Oklahoma, "Metaphysical Foundations of Measurement", MASUA
Honors Lecture
March 31, 1987
Rex Martin, Hall Center for the Humanities Research Fellow Lecture, "Why
Should We Obey the Law?"
April 15, 1987
Jerzy Pelc, Warsaw University, Rose Morgan Lecture, "On Fictitious Entities
and Fictional Expressions"
1985-86
September 24, 1985
Robin Smith, KSU, "On the History of the Concept of Self-Evidence"
October 1, 1985
Timo Airaksinen, University of Helsinki, "Coercion and Rights"
October 22, 1985
Joe Bien, University of Missouri, Columbia, "Two Approaches to Machiavellianism"
November 12, 1985
Annette Baier, University of Pittsburgh, "Is Morality a Branch of Practical
Reason?--Hume's Answer"
February 11, 1986
Fred Dretske, University of Wisconsin, "Explaining Behavior"
February 12, 1986
Nancy Fraser, Northwestern University, "Women, Welfare and the Politics
of Need Interpretation"
March 3, 1986
Jerome Schneewind, Johns Hopkins, "Pufendorft and the Origins of Modern
Moral Philosophy"
March 20, 1986
Donald Davidson, Berkeley, "The Contents of the Mind", Mind and Language
Lecturer
April 10, 1986
Hilary Putnam, Harvard, Mind and Language Lecturer
April 14, 1986
Michael Dummett, Oxford, Mind and Language Lecturer
April 18, 1986
Gilbert Harman, Princeton, 1986 Lindley Lecturer, "Moral Agent and Impartial
Spectator"
April 28, 1986
Robert Solomon, "The Virtue of Love," GASP Lecturer
1984-85
November 12, 1984
Simon Blackburn, Oxford, "How Can We Tell Whether Induction Has Truth Conditions"
November 14, 1984
Jerry Fodor, MIT, "Individualism and Supervenience"
February 22, 1985
Ian Hacking, University of Toronto, "The Participant Nominalist Loose in
the Laboratory"
February 27, 1985
D. L. C. MacLachlen, Queens University, "Analysis and Dialectic: The Philosophy
of J. J. Russell"
March 27, 1985
Bernard Williams, King's College, Cambridge, 1985 Lindley Lecture, "How
Free Does the Will Need to Be?"
1983-84
September 8, 1983
Peter Jones, Edinburgh and Dartmouth, "Hume's Sentiments"
October 18, 1983
Jeffrey Barnouw, Boston, "Peirce and Dewey on Signs"
October 19, 1983
George Gale, UMKC, "Is There a Crisis in Physics"
October 21, 1983
Diana Meyers, Cornell, "Rights and the State"
November 3, 1983
John Ladd, Brown, "Computers, Business Ethics, and Ethical Theory", Economics,
Justice and Free Enterprise
Lecturer
November 9, 1983
Mihailo Markovich, Belgrade and Un. of Pennsylvania, "Economic Justice and
Democratic Socialism", Economics,
Justice and Free Enterprise Lecturer
November 15, 1983
Rex Martin, Kansas, "Three Conceptions of Equal Opportunity", Annual Byron
T. Shutz Lecture
February 15, 1984
R. M. Hare, Oxford/Florida, "Liberty and Equality: How Politics Masquerades
as Philosophy", Economics, Justice
and Free Enterprise Lecturer
March 22, 1984
Jaegwon Kim, University of Michigan, "Psychophysical Laws and the Autonomy
of Mind", GASP Lecture
March 26, 1984
Alaisdair MacIntyre, Vanderbilt, "Is Patriotism a Virtue?", 1984 E.
H. Lindley Memorial Lecture
April 10, 1984
John Macquarrie, Oxford University, "In Search of Humanity"
April 10, 1984
Brian Barry, Cal. Tech., "Justice, Economics, and International Affairs",
Economics, Justice and Free Enterprise
Lecturer
1982-83
January 31, 1983
Hilary Putnam, Harvard, 1983 Lindley Lecture, "How Not To Solve Ethical
Problems"
March 10, 1983
Ben Rogers, WSU, "A New Theory of Causal Explanation"
1981-82
September 29, 1981
Norman Malcom, Cornell, "Consciousness: The Subjective Character of Experience"
October 27, 1981
Frederick Olasfon, Un. of California at San Diego, "Being and Existence
(Sein and Dasein) in Heidegger's
Philosophy"
October 28, 1981
Robert Audi, Un. of Nebraska, "The Causal Structure of Indirect Justificaiton"
January 18, 1982
H. S. Harris, York University, Toronto, "The Evolution of Hegel's Concept
of the Struggle for Recognition"
March 1, 1982
Nelson Potter, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, "Kant on Obligatory Ends"
March 2, 1982
Thomas Flynn, Emory, "The Primacy of Praxis in Sartre's Later Philosophy"
March 29, 1982
Marshall Sahlins, "Captain James Cook or the Dying God" (Cosponsored with
Anthropology Dept.)
April 8, 1982
Donald Sievert, University of Missouri at Columbia, "Another Look for Other
Minds"
April 20, 1982
Claudio Gutierrez, University of Costa Rica, 1982 George Waggoner Lecture,
"Humanism in the Era of the
Computer"
April 22, 1982
Donald Davidson, University of California at Berkeley, 1982 Lindley Lecture,
"Expressing Evaluations"
May 5, 1982
Michael O'Neil, KSU, Topic of Propositions
1980-81
October 8, 1980
Charles Reagan, KSU, "French Freud: French Interpretations of Psychoanalysis"
October 29, 1980
Elof Carlson, SUNY-Stony Brook, "The Art of Teaching: The Interdisciplinary
Approach"
November 1, 1980 (Conference on Hermeneutics)
Hans-Georg Gadamer, University of Heidelberg, "The Hermeneutics of Suspicion"
J. N. Mohanty, University of Oklahoma, "Phenomenology and Hermeneutics:
Critique of Consciousness"
Alan Sica, University of Kansas, "Hermeneutics and Social Theory"
November 19, 1980
Alan Donagan, University of Chicago, 1981 Lindley Lecture, "Morality, Property
and Slavery"
February 2, 1981
Susan Feagin, UMKC, "John Stuart Mill: Aesthetic Pleasure as a Higher Pleasure"
February 17, 1981
John McDermott, Texas A&M University, "The Promethean Self and Community
in the Philosophy of William
James"
March 2, 1981
Benjamin Tilghman, KSU, "The Philosophy of Art: Thirty-two Years of Theory
and Definition"
April 2-4, 1981
Conference on Hermeneutics (Co-sponsored with Sociology Dept.)
Speakers include: Paul Ricoeur, Richard Rorty, William Dray, Paul De Man,
Harold Bloom, Anthony Giddens,
John O'Neill, Hayden White
April 3, 1981
Hayden White, University of California-Santa Cruz, "Narrative Structures
and Ideological Strategies"
April 13, 1981
Phillip Cummins, University of Iowa, "How Hume Read Berkely"
1979-80
October 9, 1979
Umberto Eco, University of Bologna, (Humanities Lecture Series) "The Bitch
and the Horse: An Overview of Semiotic
Puzzles"
October 29, 1979
Loren Graham, MIT, "Soviet Perspectives on Genetic Engineering" (History
& Philosophy of Science Lecture Series)
October 31, 1979
Richard Rorty, Princeton University, "An Analysis of Fictional Discourse"
March 5, 1980
Carl Wellman, Washington University, "Consent to Medical Research on Children"
March 20, 1980
Alison Jaggar, Un. of Cincinnati, "Human Biology and Feminist Theory: Sex
Equality Reconsidered"
April 3, 1980
Warner Wick, 1980 Lindley Lecture, "Goods Beyond Price and Other Apparent
Anachronisms"
April 24, 1980
Schlomo Aveniri, Hebrew University, "Marx, Hegel and Political Philosophy"
April 28, 1980
Risto Hilpinen, University of Turku (Finland), "Normative Change"
May 5, 1980
W. H. Walsh, Rose Morgan Visiting Professor, "Knowledge in the Humanities"
1978-79
October 9, 1978
Pall S. Ardal, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, "Punishment and Ill
Desert"
November 3, 1978
Zen Master Seung Sahn (Sponsored by Classics, East Asian Studies & Philosophy)
November 9, 1978
Virginia Held, CUNY, "On the Testing of Moral Theories"
November 28, 1978
David Lewis, Princeton University, "Attitudes De Dicto and De Se"
February 13, 1979
Mary-Barbara Zeldin, Hollins College, "Kant on Formal Purposiveness"
March 7, 1979
Alvin Goldman, University of Michigan, "Two Conceptions of Justification"
April 5, 1979
Joel Feinberg, University of Arizona, 1979 Lindley Lecture, "The Idea of
the Obscene"
May 1, 1979
Svetozar Stojanovic, Un. of Texas at Austin, Un. of Belgrad, "Authoritarian
and Democratic Communism"
1977-78
February 2, 1978
Gilbert Harman, Princeton University, Matchette Lecture, "Willing and Intending"
March 7, 1978
John Searle, Un. of California at Berkeley, Humanities Lecture, "Mind and
Language"
March 7-8, 1978
Monroe Beardsley (No show?), Temple University, "The Intentional Fallacy
Revisited"
March 22-23, 1978
Peter Jones, University of Edinburgh, MASUA Lecture, "Hume"
April 4, 1978
Jaegwon Kim, Johns Hopkins University, Matchette Lecture, "Causality, Identity
and Supervenience in the Mind"
April 19, 1978
Philippa Foot, UCLA & Oxford University, 1978 Lindley Lecture, "Moral
Relativism"
1976-77
October 18, 1976
Hans-Martin Sass, Ruhr University (Germany), "The UnHegelian Origin of Karl
Marx' Early Concept of Dialectic
Materialism"
October 19, 1976
G. H. von Wright, Academy of Finland, Stanford, 1997 Lindley Lecture, "What
Is Humanism"
November 3, 1976
Don Ihde, SUNY at Stony Brook, "Humans and Machines: A Phenomenological
View of Technology"
and "The Phenomenology of Sound" (Undergraduate Club)
November 8, 1976
Richard H. Popkin, Washington University, "Skepticism and Metaphysics"
November 18, 1976
Alvin Plantinga, Calvin College, Michigan, "Possible Worlds and Non-existence"
February 10, 1977
David Pears, Oxford University, "Russell's Unpublished Theory of Judgment
and Wittgenstein's Picture Theory"
March 8, 1977
Lewis White Beck, University of Rochester (Humanities Lecture), "Philosophy
as Literature"
April 2, 1977
Richard Thomason, University of Pittsburgh (Symposium on Presuppositions
sponsored by Philosophy and Linguistics)
1975-76
September 10, 1975
Hermann Klenner, Berlin, (East European Lectures in Philosophy, Law &
Politics)
September 18, 1975
Herbert Hochberg, Minnesota, (Metaphysical Method Lecture Series)
October 9, 1975
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Heidelberg, (Metaphysical Method Lecture Series), "Metaphysics
in the Post-Metaphysical Era"
October 13, 1975
Samu Mihaly, Budapest, (East European Lectures in Philosophy, Law &
Politics)
October 22, 1975
Edwin Allaire, Texas, (Metaphysical Method Lecture Series)
November 19, 1975
Jerzy Wroblewski, Lodz, Poland, (East European Lectures in Philosophy, Law
& Politics)
February 9, 1976
Peter Caws
March 11, 1976
Morton White, Humanities Lecturer
March 24, 1976
Wilfrid Sellars, Pittsburg, (Metaphysical Method Lecture Series)
April 5, 1976
Judith Thompson, MIT, 1976 Lindley Lecture, "Self Defense and Rights"
April 15, 1976
Alan Donagan, Chicago, (Metaphysical Method Lecture Series)
April 26, 1976
Stanley Rosen, Penn State, tentative (Metaphysical Method Lecture Series),
"Socrates' Dreams"
1974-75
September 20, 1974
Peter Jones, Edinburgh: "Interpreting Art: A Theory Outlined"
October 8, 1974
Robert Paul Wolff, University of Massachusetts (Humanities Lecture Series):
"There's Nobody Here but Us Persons:
The Denial of the Human Condition in Contemporary Liberal Thought"
October 30, 1974
Raimo Tuomela, University of Helsinki/Princeton: "On Causation of Action"
November 4-5, 1974
Gregory Vlastos, Princeton: "Plato's Theory of Social Justice"
November 14, 1974
Svetozar Stojanovic, University of Belgrade/Washington University: "Marxism
and Stalinism: Some Ethical Problems"
November 20, 1974
R. M. Hare, (Oxford (The Lindley Lecture): "Some Muddles in Moral Philosophy"
February 13, 1975
Arthur Danto, Columbia University, "Representation, Action, and Knowledge"
March 19, 1975
Donald Davidson, Rockefeller University, "Intending"
April 17, 1975
J. N. Mohanty, University of Oklahoma (MASUA Lecturer), "Two Strands of
Thought in Husserlian Phenomenology"
May 6, 1975
Jim Nickel, WSU, "Justice in Compensation"
1973-74
March 4-6, 1974
John Findlay, Boston University, "Platonism, Mankind, Place and Time"
(Humanities Lecture Series)
May 11, 1974
G. H. von Wright, Academy of Finland and Cornell University, "Determinism
and the Study of Man"
