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Foerster Lectures: 1981-current
2008
Talal Asad, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology,
City University of New York Graduate Center
"Thinking about Religion, Belief, and Politics"
Bart D. Ehrman, James A. Gray Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"God's Problem and Human Solutions: How the Bible Explains Suffering"
2006
Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago
"Equal Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams and the Roots of a Constitutional Tradition"
Christof Koch, Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology, California Institute of Technology
"The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach"
2005
Thomas Metzinger, Chair and Professor, Department of Philosophy
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
"Being No One: Consciousness, the Phenomenal Self, and the First-Person Perspective"
2004
Carlo Ginzburg, Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies, UCLA
"
The Soul of Brutes: A Sixteenth Century Debate"
- 2003
- Gananath Obeyesekere, Professor
of Anthropology, Emeritus, Princeton University
- "Trobriand Rebirth and the Fate of the Soul: An Old Debate Revisited"
- 2002
- Robert Merrihew Adams, Professor of Moral
Philosophy and Metaphysics and Chair of the Philosophy Department,
Yale University
- "The Hope of Heaven"
2000
- Sarah Broadie, Professor of Philosophy,
Princeton University
- "Body and Soul in Plato and Descartes"
- 1998
- Jonathan Harvey, Professor of Composition, Stanford University
- "Composing Life after Death"
- Robert Nozick, Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
- "The Place of Consciousness"
- 1996
- Tu Weiming, Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy, Harvard
University and Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute
- "Virtue, Deed and Word - Confucian Paths to Immortality"
- 1994
- Oliver Sacks, Clinical Professor of Neurology, Albert Einstein College
of Medicine
- "Awakenings Revisited"
- 1992
- Romila Thapar, Professor of Ancient History, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- "Sacrifice, Surplus and the Soul"
- 1991
- Annemarie Schimmel, Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture, Harvard University
- "Heaven Is No Holiday - Eternal Life in the View of the Sufis and
of Muhammad Iqbal"
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- 1989
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- Gerald Edelman, Vincent Astor Professor the Rockefeller University
- "Physical Theory, Brain Theory, Theories of Everything"
- 1987
- Henry Chadwick, Regius Professor Emeritus of Divinity, University
of Cambridge
- "Christian Platonism"
- 1985
- Kristofer M. Schipper, Professor of Chinese Religions, École
Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris
- "How to Become Immortal without Really Trying: Taoism and the Nature
of Ritual"
- 1984
- Wilfred Lambert, Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham
- "Ancient Near Eastern Concepts of Life after Death: A Background
of the Judeo-Christian Tradition"
- 1983
- Åke G. B. Hultkranz, Professor and Chair, Institute of Comparative
Religion, University of Stockholm
- "The Immortality of the Soul Among North American Indians"
- 1982
- Wendy O'Flaherty, Professor of History of Religions and Indian Studies,
Divinity School and Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations,
University of Chicago
- "Former Lives, or the Man Who Met the People in His Dream"
- 1981
- George Devereux, Professor Emeritus of Ethnopsychiatry, École
des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
- "Personality Post-Mortem: Psychological States Attributed to the
Deceased"
- 1979
- G. E. M. Anscombe, Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
- "The Spirituality of Man's Nature"
- Jerome Y. Lettvin, Professor of Communications Physiology, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
- "Mortal Neurons, Immortal Monads"
- 1978
- Erik Hornung, Professor of Egyptology, University of Basel, Switzerland
- "Ancient Egyptian Ideas on the Reunion of Soul and Body"
- Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Professor Emeritus of Asian Anthropology,
University of London
- "The Soul and the Land of the Dead: South Asian Views"
- 1976
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- Stefan Amsterdamski, Professor, Institute for the History of Science,
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
- "Reflections on Science and Human Rationality"
- Thomas S. Kuhn, M. Taylor Pyne Professor of History of Science,
Princeton University
- "Does Knowledge Grow?"
- 1975
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- Rudolf Arnheim, Professor Emeritus of Psychology of Art, Harvard
University
- "Space as an Image of Time"
- 1973
- Seymour Papert, Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology; Hilary Putnam Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University;
D. M. MacKay, Professor of Communication, University of Keele
- "Computers and the Mind"
- 1972
- Bernard A. Williams, Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
- "The Makropoulos Case"
- 1971
- Charles Birch, Professor of Biology, University of Sydney
- "Participatory Evolution, the Drive of Creation"
- 1969
- Sir John C. Eccles, Professor, Laboratory of Neurobiology, State
University of New York, Buffalo
- "The Brain and the Soul"
- Michel Jouvet, Professor of Experimental Medicine, School of Lyon
- "The Biology of Dreaming as an Approach to the Mind"
- 1963
- James A. Pike, Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of California
- "Eternal Life and Social Action Now"
- 1962
- Loren C. Eiseley, Professor of Anthropology and the History of Science,
University of Pennsylvania
- "Mind Fossils, Human Culture, and Eternity"
- 1961
- Jacques Courvoisier, Professor of History, Faculty of Protestant
Theology, University of Geneva
- "The Meaning of Resurrection"
- 1960
- Paul J. Tillich, University Professor, Harvard University
- "Symbols of Eternal Life"
- Aldous Huxley, Writer
- "Matter, Mind and the Question of Survival"
- 1956
- Paul Henry, Professor, the College of Philosophy, University of
Louvain
- "Platonic Trends in Christian Thought and Mysticism"
- 1955
- H. J. Paton, Whyte's Professor of Moral Philosophy Emeritus, University
of Oxford
- "Immortality"
- 1954
- C. D. Broad, Knightbridge, Professor of Moral Philosophy, University
of Cambridge
- "Human Personality and the Possibility of Its Survival"
- 1953
- G. P. Malalasekera, Professor of Pali and Sanskrit, University of
Ceylon and President, World Fellowship of Buddhists
- "The Teaching of Immortality in Buddhism"
- 1951
- Radoslav A. Tsanoff, Professor of Philosophy, Rice Institute
- "Pantheism and Personal Immortality"
- 1949
- T. M. P. Mahadevan, Professor of Philosophy, University of Madras
- "The Hindu View of Eternal Life"
- 1947
- Curt John Ducasse, Professor of Philosophy, Brown University
- "Is a Future Life Possible?"
- 1945
- Edward Lambe Parsons, Bishop of California, Retired
- "Immortality and Fulfillment"
- 1944
- Arthur Cushman McGiffert, President, Pacific School of Religion
- "Imagination and Immortality"
- 1943
- William Pepperell Montague, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy,
Columbia University
- "The Human Soul and the Cosmic Mind"
- 1942
- William Ernest Hocking, Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy,
and Civil Polity, Harvard University
- "Immortality: The Relativity of Death"
- 1941
- Axel W. Persson, Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient
History, University of Uppsala
- "Earliest Traces of the Belief in Our Civilization"
- 1940
- Martin P. Nilsson, Rector, University of Lund
- "The Immortality of the Soul in Greek Religion and Philosophy"
- 1938
- Fulton J. Sheen, Professor of Philosophy, Catholic University
- "The Spiritual Character of Man and Its Relation to the Philosophy
of Politics"
- Henri Grégoire, University of Brussels
- "The Belief in Immortality and the Triumph of Christianity"
- 1937
- Douglas Clyde McIntosh, Professor of Theology, Yale University
- "The Hope of Immortality"
- 1936
- Harold E. B. Speight, Dean of Men, Swarthmore College
- "The Experience of Immortality"
- 1935
- Willard Learoyd Sperry, Professor of Practical Theology, Harvard
University
- "The Premises of Our Faith in Immortality"
- 1934
- Walter Goodnow Everett, Professor of Philosophy and Natural Theology,
Brown University
- "The Life of the Spirit"
- 1933
- Ralph Barton Perry, Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
- "The Meaning of Death"
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