#53 Elliott Sober
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Darwin and Intelligent Design”
September 10, 2016
#52 Alfred Mele
Florida State University
“Free Will and Neuroscience: What Do Old-School and New-Wave Studies Show?”
January 23, 2014
#51: Allen Buchanan
Duke University
“Why Evolutionary Explanations of Morality Fail “
January 17, 2013
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#50: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Evolution and Rational Agency”
October 27, 2011
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#49: Hubert L. Dreyfus
University of California, Berkeley
“Luring Back the Gods: Polytheism from The Odyssey to Moby Dick“
September 17, 2010
#48: Nancy Sherman
Georgetown University
“The Untold War: The Guilt They Carry”
March 25, 2010
#47: Daniel C. Dennett
Tufts University
“From Animal to Person: How Cultural Evolution Builds Human Minds”
September 11, 2008
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#46: Bernard Rollin
Colorado State University
“Animal Rights as a Mainstream Phenomenon: Emerging Social Ethics for Animals”
March 4, 2008
#45: Harry Frankfurt
Princeton University
“Getting It Right”
October 5, 2006
#44: Linda Martín Alcoff
Syracuse University
“The Critique of Identity Politics”
September 29, 2005
#43: Noam Chomsky
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Imminent Crises: Responsibilities and Opportunities”
April 22, 2005
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#42: Andrew Light
New York University
“Restoring Landscapes of Memory”
October 30, 2003
#41: Philip J. Ivanoe
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Filial Piety as a Virtue”
September 12, 2002
#40: Robert C. Solomon
University of Texas at Austin
“Nietzsche’s Fatalism”
October 11, 2001
#39: J.N. Mohanty
Temple University
“Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century: Retrospect and Prospect”
November 2, 2000
#38: Lucius T. Outlaw Jr.
Haverford College
“Is There Such a Thing as African American Philosophy?”
September 1999
#37: Julia Annas
University of Arizona
“Should Virtue Make You Happy?”
October 1998
#36: Simon Blackburn
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: Postmodernism and Its Critics”
October 1997
#35: J. Baird Callicott
University of North Texas
“Current Concepts in the Philosophy of Conservation”
February 1997
#34: Michael Bratman
Stanford University
“A Theory of Planning: Problems and Puzzles of Rationality”
Fall 1995
#33: Agnes Heller
New School for Social Research
“Is There an Ethics of Personality?”
Fall 1994
#32: Patricia Smith Churchland
University of California, San Diego
“Looking for the Mind in the Brain: A Neurobiology of Awareness”
Fall 1993
#31: Gordon D. Kaufman
Harvard University, The Divinity School
“Modern Evolutionary Theory and the Reconception of God”
Fall 1992
#30: Bas van Fraassen
Princeton University
“The World of Empiricism”
Spring 1992
#29: John Perry
Stanford University
“What Is the Self?”
1990
#28: Nancy Cartwright
Stanford University
“Scientific Theories: Pictures or Fables?”
1989
#27: Bernard Williams
University of California, Berkeley
“The Place of Deceit in Public Life”
1988
#26: John Searle
University of California, Berkeley
“Minds, Brains, and Computers”
1987
#25: Gregory Vlastos
University of California, Berkeley
“Was Plato a Feminist?”
1986
#24: Herbert Dreyfus
University of California, Berkeley
“From Socrates to Expert Systems: The Limits of Calculative Rationality”
1985
#23: Paul Churchland
University of California, San Diego
“Representation, Computation, Implementation: A New Theory of the Brain”
1985
#22: Nelson Pike
University of California, Irvine
“God as Bridegroom and Mother: A Study of Two Christian Mystical Metaphors”
1984
#21: Joel Feinberg
University of Arizona
“Obscene Words and the Law”
1983
#20: Frederick Olafson
University of California, San Diego
“Philosophy and Humanistic Education”
1982
#19: Herbert Fingarette
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Insanity and Other Mental Disability Defenses in Criminal Law”
1981
#18: John Hick
Birmingham University (UK) and Claremont Grad School
“God Has Many Names”
1980
#17: Alison Jaggar
University of Cincinnati
“Prostitution”
1979
#16: Kai Nielsen
University of Calgary
“Is It as Irrational to Believe in God as It Is to Believe in the Easter Bunny?”
1978
#15: K. T. Fann
York University (Canada)
“The Political Philosophy of Mao Tse-Tung”
1977
#14: J. O. Urmson, Henry Waldgrave Stuart
Stanford University
“What Is Philosophy?”
1976
#13: Karl Potter
University of Washington
“The Background of Skepticism—East and West”
1975
#12: Richard Wasserstrom
University of California, Los Angeles
“Sexual Deviance and the Law”
1974
#11: Donald Brown
University of British Columbia
“Moral Law and Immoral Law”
1973
#10: Jonathan Bennett
University of British Columbia
“The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn”
1972
#9: Terence Penelhum
University of Calgary
“Being Unable to Prove the Existence of God”
1971
#8: Wallace Matson
University of California, Berkeley
“How Identical Are Mind and Brain?”
1969
#7: Morris Weitz
Ohio State University
“The Concept of Style in Art History”
1968
#6: John Wisdom
Cambridge University
“Eternal Life”
1967
#5: Huston Smith
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“The Nature of Man: Some Recent Evidence from Science”
1966
#4: A.I. Melden
University of California, Irvine
“Philosophy and the Understanding of Human Fact”
1966
#3: D. F. Pears
“Oxford Wittgenstein’s Critique of Private Language”
1965
#2: Richard McKeon
University of Chicago
“Liberty: The Interplay of Philosophy and History”
1963
#1: Antony Flew
North Staffordshire
“Miracles”
1961