College of Humanities and Social Science  
The University of Edinburgh Humanities and Social Science

Nature of Knowledge Lecture Programme Archive

Recent Lectures

 

2007-8

Alvin Goldman, Rutgers University

Externalism, Internalism and the Architecture of Justification

2006-7

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

 

 

Last updated: April 28th 2008 by Duncan Pritchard.