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Nature of Knowledge Lecture Programme Archive

2009-10

Robert Audi, Notre Dame University

Testimony as a Social Foundation of Knowledge

2008-9

Ernest Sosa, Rutgers University

Knowledge and Wisdom

2007-8

Alvin Goldman, Rutgers University

Externalism, Internalism and the Architecture of Justification

2006-7

Alva Noƫ, University of California at Berkeley

Novel Experience

2005-6

Daniel Dennett, Tufts University

Breaking The Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

2004-5

Elliott Sober, University of Wisconsin, Madison

The Design Argument

2003-4

David Chalmers, University of Arizona

The Matrix as Metaphysics

2002-3

John Searle, University of California, Berkeley

The Future of Philosophy

2001-2

Michael Dummett, University of Oxford

Seeing Things Move

2000-1

Tim Scanlon, Harvard University

Through the Moral Looking Glass: Ethics When Death is not an Evil

1999-2000

David Lewis, Princeton University

Things qua Truthmakers

1998-9

Ian Hacking, University of Toronto

Historical Ontology: From the Creation of Phenomena to the Formation of Character

1997-8

Peter Lipton, University of Cambridge

The Truth About Science

Previous lecturers

Previous lecturers include: Christopher Peacocke, Hugh Mellor, Barry Stroud, Thomas Nagel, Hilary Putnam, Tyler Burge, Saul Kripke, Bernard Williams, Peter Hacker and Robert Nozick.

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