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John Perry

 

current-1981   1980-1961    1960-1941    1940-1922

2009

John Perry, Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University
"Thinking and Talking About the Self"

2007

Fred Dretske, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, Stanford University
"What We See"

Thomas Scanlon, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Harvard University
"The Ethics of Blame"

2006

John McDowell, Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
"Intention in Action"

2005

Judith Jarvis Thomson, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Normativity"

2004

David Kaplan, Professor of Philosophy, UCLA
"The Meaning of 'Ouch' and 'Oops' "

 
2002
Ronald M. Dworkin, Frank H. Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy, New York University School of Law, and Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London
"Truth, Interpretation, and the Point of Moral Philosophy"

2002
Stanley Cavell, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, Harvard University
"Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow: Moments in Nietzsche, Jane Austen, et cetera."
"The Wittgensteinian Event
2000
Michael Frede, Professor of the History of Philosophy, Oxford University
"On Aristotle's Notion of the Soul"

1999
Nancy Cartwright, Professor of Philosophy, London School of Economics, and the University of California, San Diego
"The Dappled World"

1996
Myles Burnyeat, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge
"Freedom, Anger, Tranquility - An Archaeology of Feeling":
"Ancient Freedoms"
"Anger and Revenge"
"Happiness and Tranquility"


1994
Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Naturalism and Dualism in the Study of Language and Mind"


1988
Bernard Williams, Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
"Philosophy and the Fragments of Enlightenment"


Jürgen Habermas, Professor of Philosophy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main


1987
Thomas Nagel, Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University
"Moral Conflict and Political Legitimacy"


1986
Michael A. E. Dummett, Wykeham Professor of Logic, University of Oxford
"The Justification of Logical Laws"


1985
Nelson Goodman, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Harvard University
"A Reconception of Philosophy"


1984
Gregory Vlastos, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Princeton University and Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Christ's College
"Socrates' Disavowal of Knowledge"
"The Socratic Fallacy"


1983
Richard Rorty, Kenan Professor of Humanities, University of Virginia
"Relativism"


1981
Hilary Putnam, Professor of Philosophy and Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic, Harvard University
"The Transcendence of Reason"
"Why There Isn't a Ready-Made World"
"Why Reason Can't Be Naturalized"