School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Nature of Knowledge Lectures

Forthcoming Lecture

14th December 2011
Professor Paul Guyer, (Murray Professor in the Humanities, and Professor Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania)
Hume, Kant, and the Passion for Reason

Previous lectures:

2009-2010
Robert Audi, Notre Dame University
Testimony as a Social Foundation of Knowledge
2008-2009
Ernest Sosa, Rutgers University
Knowledge and Wisdom
2007-2008
Alvin Goldman, Rutgers University
Externalism, Internalism and the Architecture of Justification
2006-2007
Alva Noƫ, University of California at Berkeley
Novel Experience
2005-2006
Daniel Dennett, Tufts University
Breaking The Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
2004-2005
Elliott Sober, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The Design Argument
2003-2004
David Chalmers, University of Arizona
The Matrix as Metaphysics
2002-2003
John Searle, University of California, Berkeley
The Future of Philosophy
2001-2002
Michael Dummett, University of Oxford
Seeing Things Move
2000-2001
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
1998-1999
Ian Hacking, University of Toronto
Historical Ontology: From the Creation of Phenomena to the Formation of Character
1997-1998
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.