Howison Lectures in Philosophy

The Howison Lectures in Philosophy are a lecture series established in 1919 by friends and former students of George Howison, who served as the Mills Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity at the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Howison held the reasoned conviction that this world to its very depth is kindred to the human spirit; that it is a community of free persons, finite and infinite, sustained by the vision of the Perfect; and all his great powers were directed to awaken in others a loyalty to these ideas. And those, it would seem, would most speak from a foundation in his memory who were able to share with him this high purpose and conviction.
Founding donors of the Howison Lectures in Philosophy

Past lectures

1922 William Ernest Hocking "Naturalism and the Belief in Purpose"; "Intuitionism and Idealism"; "Realism and Mysticism"

1923 Arthur Oncken Lovejoy "The Discontinuities of Evolution"

1925 William Pepperell Montague "Time and the Fourth Dimension"

1925 Ralph Barton Perry "A Modernist View of National Ideals"

1926 Clarence Irving Lewis "The Pragmatic Element in Knowledge"

1927 Evander Bradley McGilvary "Space and Time"

1929 Robert Mark Wenley

1930 James Hayden Tufts "Recent Ethical Theories"

1931 John Dewey "Thought and Context"

1932 Walter Goodnow Everett "The Uniqueness of Man"

1933 F. C. S. Schiller "Theory and Practice"

1934 G. Watts Cunningham "Perspective and Contact in the Meaning Situation"

1935 Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge "An Approach to a Theory of Nature"

1936 Henry W. Stuart "Knowledge and Self-Consciousness"

1937 Heinrich Gomperz "Limits of Cognition and Exigencies of Action"

1941 George Holland Sabine "Social Studies and Objectivity"

1941 George Edward Moore "Certainty"

1943 Charles Montague Bakewell "Philosophy Goes to War"

1944 Curt John Ducasse "The Method of Knowledge in Philosophy"

1945 Harvey Gates Townsend "The History of Townsend"

1946 Wilmon Henry Sheldon

1947 Alexander Meiklejohn "Inclinations and Obligations"

1949 George Boas "The Acceptance of Time"

1954 Brand Blanshard "The Impasse of Ethics - and a Way Out"

1954 Gilbert Ryle "Some Problems in the Theory of Meaning"

1954 Walter Terence Stace "Mysticism and Human Reason"

1956 Józef Maria Bocheński "Logic and Philosophy"

1957 Kurt von Fritz "Aristotle's Contribution to the Theory and Practice of Historiography"

1957 John Wisdom "Paradox and Discovery"

1959 Willard Van Orman Quine "The Assuming of Objects"

1960 Ernest Nagel "The Cognitive Status of Theories"

1961 Gabriel Honori Marcel "Man, Techniques, and Meta-Techniques"

1963 Henry H. Price "Causes of Belief and Reasons for Belief"

1963 Peter Geach "Assertion"

1963 Elizabeth Anscombe "The Intentionality of Sensation: A Grammatical Feature"

1964 Carl G. Hempel "Problems of Induction"

1968 Stuart Hampshire "Sincerity and Uncertainty"

1971 Gunther Patzing "Truth, Determinism and Uncertainty"

1977 Saul Kripke "Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Exposition"

1977 Peter F. Strawson "Perception and Its Objects"; "Reference and Its Roots"

1978 Robert Nozick "The Identity of the Self. Why is there Something Rather than Nothing?"

1979 Patrick Suppes "The Limits of Rationality"

1979 John Rawls "Constructivist Moral Conceptions"

1979 David Kellogg Lewis "Causal Explanation"

1980 Michel Foucault "Truth and Subjectivity"

1981 Hilary Putnam "The Transcendence of Reason"; "Why There Isn't a Ready-Made World"; "Why Reason Can't Be Naturalized"

1983 Richard Rorty "Relativism"

1984 Gregory Vlastos "Socrates' Disavowal of Knowledge"; "The Socratic Fallacy"

1985 Nelson Goodman "A Reconception of Philosophy"

1986 Michael A. E. Dummett "The Justification of Logical Laws"

1987 Thomas Nagel "Moral Conflict and Political Legitimacy"

1988 Bernard Williams "Philosophy and the Fragments of Enlightenment"

1988 Jürgen Habermas

1994 Noam Chomsky "Naturalism and Dualism in the Study of Language and Mind"

1996 Myles Burnyeat "Freedom, Anger, Tranquility - An Archaeology of Feeling"; "Ancient Freedoms"; "Anger and Revenge"; "Happiness and Tranquility"

1999 Nancy Cartwright "The Dappled World"

2000 Michael Frede "On Aristotle's Notion of the Soul"

2002 Ronald M. Dworkin "Truth, Interpretation, and the Point of Moral Philosophy"

2002 Stanley Cavell "Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow: Moments in Nietzsche, Jane Austen, et cetera."; "The Wittgensteinian Event

2004 David Kaplan "The Meaning of 'Ouch' and 'Oops'"

2005 Judith Jarvis Thomson "Normativity"

2006 John McDowell "Intention in Action"

2007 Fred Dretske "What We See"

2007 T. M. Scanlon "The Ethics of Blame"

2009 John Perry "Thinking and Talking About the Self"

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/30/2011. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.