John Locke lectures
The John Locke lectures are a series of annual lectures in philosophy given at the University of Oxford. They are one of the world's most prestigious academic lecture series, comparable to the Scottish Gifford lectures. They were established in 1950 by a bequest by Henry Wilde.
The first lecture series was offered to Ludwig Wittgenstein, who eventually declined (as reported by his biographers) out of a discomfort with giving formal lectures where the audience would not be asking or answering questions.
Lecturers
The lectures began as an uncertain biannual series, with the first lecturer from 1950-1951, and missing the second slot from 1952-1953. Between 1969 and 2001 the lectures became gradually more frequent; from 2001 on, the lecture notes have been made available electronically.
- 1950-1951: Oets Kolk Bouwsma
- 1954-1955: Hao Wang
- 1955-1956: Arthur Prior - Published as Time and Modality in 1957.
- 1957-1958: AC Jackson
- 1959-1960: Gregory Vlastos
- 1961-1962: Nelson Goodman
- 1963-1964: Jaakko Hintikka
- 1965-1966: Wilfrid Sellars - Published as Science and Metaphysics: Variations on Kantian Themes.
- 1967-1968: Paul Lorenzen
- 1968-1969: Noam Chomsky
- 1969-1970.
Donald Davidson - The Structure and Content of Truth - 1971-1972. Sydney Shoemaker
- 1973-1974: Saul Kripke - Unpublished, transcript available at Oxford as Reference and Existence.
- 1974-1975: Richard Brandt
- 1975-1976: Hilary Putnam
- 1976-1977: no lectures
- 1977-1978: no lectures
- 1978-1979: Paul Grice
- 1979-1980: David Kaplan (postponed)
- 1980-1981: no lectures
- 1981-1982: no lectures
- 1982-1983: Daniel Dennett
- 1983-1984: David Lewis
- 1984-1985: no lectures
- 1985-1986: no lectures
- 1986-1987: Barry Stroud
- 1987-1988: no lectures
- 1988-1989: Ernst Tugendhat (withdrew due to illness)
- 1989-1990: Thomas Nagel
- 1990-1991:
John McDowell - Published as Mind and World. - 1991-1992: Jonathan Bennett
- 1992-1993: Tyler Burge
- 1993-1994: no lectures
- 1994-1995: Frank Jackson - Published as From Metaphysics to Ethics.
- 1995-1996: no lectures
- 1996-1997: Jerry Fodor
- 1996-1997: Robert Nozick
- 1997-1998: Lawrence Sklar
- 1998-1999: no lectures
- 1999-2000: no lectures
- 2000-2001: Bas van Fraassen
- 2001-2002: Christine Korsgaard
- 2002-2003: Kit Fine
- 2003-2004: Jonathan Barnes
- 2004-2005: Ernest Sosa
- 2005-2006: Robert Brandom - Saying and Doing.
- 2006-2007: Robert Stalnaker
External links
- John Locke lectures - Homepage at the Philosophy Institute, Oxford. Contains list of all lecturers, from which the above list was drawn.
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