Howison Lectures in Philosophy

2019 Philip Kitcher: "Progress in the Sciences and in the Arts"

2018 Joseph Raz: "Identity and Social Bonds"

2017 Gisela Striker: "Cicero’s De Officiis – Stoic Ethics for Non-Stoics"

2016 Christine M. Korsgaard: "Animal Selves and the Good"

2015 Kwame Anthony Appiah: "The Philosophy of “As If”"

2014 Sarah Broadie: "The Theoretical Impulse in Plato and Aristotle"

2013 Robert Brandom: "Reason, Genealogy, and the Hermeneutics of Magnanimity"

2012 Jonathan Barnes: "Death and the Ancient Philosophers"

2010 Ian Hacking: "Proof, Truth, Hands, and Mind"

2009 John Perry: "Thinking and Talking About the Self"

2007 Fred Dretske: "What We See"

2007 Thomas Scanlon: "The Ethics of Blame"

2006 John McDowell: "Intention in Action"

2005 Judith Jarvis Thomson: "Normativity"

2004 David Kaplan: "The Meaning of “Ouch” and “Oops”"

2002 Ronald M. Dworkin: "Truth, Interpretation, and the Point of Moral Philosophy"

2002 Stanley Cavell: "Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow – Moments in Nietzsche, Jane Austen, et cetera"

2002 Stanley Cavell: "The Wittgensteinian Event"

2000 Michael Frede: "On Aristotle’s Notion of the Soul"

1999 Nancy Cartwright: "The Dappled World"

1996 Myles Burnyeat: "Anger and Revenge"

1996 Myles Burnyeat: "Ancient Freedoms"

1996 Myles Burnyeat: "Happiness and Tranquility"

1994 Noam Chomsky: "Naturalism and Dualism in the Study of Language and Mind"

1988 Jürgen Habermas: "Morality, Law and Politics"

1988 Jürgen Habermas: "The Concept of Practical Reason"

1988 Bernard Williams: "Philosophy and the Fragments of Enlightenment"

1987 Thomas Nagel: "Moral Conflict and Political Legitimacy"

1986 Michael A. E. Dummett: "The Justification of Logical Laws"

1985 Nelson Goodman: "A Reconception of Philosophy"

1984 Gregory Vlastos: "The Socratic Fallacy"

1984 Gregory Vlastos: "Socrates’ Disavowal of Knowledge"

1983 Richard Rorty: "Relativism"

1981 Hilary Putnam: "Why There Isn’t a Ready-Made World"

1981 Hilary Putnam: "The Transcendence of Reason"

1980 Michel Foucault: "Truth and Subjectivity"

1979 David Lewis: "Causal Explanation"

1979 John Rawls: "Constructivist Moral Conceptions"

1979 Patrick Suppes: "The Limits of Rationality"

1978 Robert Nozick: "The Identity of the Self: Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?"

1977 Peter F. Strawson: "Reference and Its Roots"

1977 Peter F. Strawson: "Perception and Its Objects"

1977 Saul Kripke: "Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Exposition"

1971 Gunther Patzing: "Truth, Determinism and Uncertainty"

1968 Stuart N. Hampshire: "Sincerity and Uncertainty"

1964 Carl G. Hempel: "Problems of Induction"

1963 Henry H. Price: "Causes of Belief and Reasons for Belief"

1963 Elizabeth Anscombe: "The Intentionality of Sensation: A Grammatical Feature"

1963 Peter Geach: "Assertion"

1961 Gabriel Honor Marcel: "Man, Techniques, and Meta-Techniques"

1960 Ernest Nagel: "The Cognitive Status of Theories"

1959 Willard Van Orman Quine: "The Assuming of Objects"

1957 John Wisdom: "Paradox and Discovery"

1957 Kurt von Fritz: "Aristotle’s Contribution to the Theory and Practice of Historiography"

1956 I.M. Bochenski: "Logic and Philosophy"

1954 Walter T. Stace: "Mysticism and Human Reason"

1954 Gilbert Ryle: "Some Problems in the Theory of Meaning"

1954 Brand Blanshard: "The Impasse of Ethics and a Way Out"

1949 George Boas: "The Acceptance of Time"

1946 Wilmon Henry Sheldon: (Untitled)

1945 Harvey Gates Townsend: "The History of Townsend"

1944 Curt John Ducasse: "The Method of Knowledge in Philosophy"

1943 Charles Montague Bakewell: "Philosophy Goes to War"

1941 George Edward Moore: "Certainty"

1941 George Holland Sabine: "Social Studies and Objectivity"

1940 James B. Pratt: "Why Religions Die"

1938 Sterling Power Lamprecht: "Empiricism and Natural Knowledge"

1938 David W. Prall: "Politics and Morals in Spinoza"

1937 Heinrich Gomperz: "Limits of Cognition and Exigencies of Action"

1936 Henry W. Stuart: "Knowledge and Self-Consciousness"

1935 Frederick J. E. Woodbridge: "An Approach to a Theory of Nature"

1934 G. Watts Cunningham: "Perspective and Contact in the Meaning Situation"

1933 F. C. S. Schiller: "Theory and Practice"

1932 Walter Goodnow Everett: "The Uniqueness of Man"

1931 John Dewey: "Thought and Context"

1930 James H. Tufts: "Recent Ethical Theories"

1929 Robert Mark Wenley: (Untitled)

1927 Evander Bradley McGilvary: "Space and Time"

1926 Clarence Irving Lewis: "The Pragmatic Element in Knowledge"

1925 Ralph Barton Perry: "A Modernist View of National Ideals"

1925 William Pepperell Montague: "Time and the Fourth Dimension"

1923 Arthur Oncken Lovejoy: "The Discontinuities of Evolution"

1922 William Ernest Hocking: "Realism and Mysticism"

1922 William Ernest Hocking: "Intuition and Idealism"

1922 William Ernest Hocking: "Naturalism and the Belief in Purpose"