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 Gifford Lectures given in Scottish universities. They were established in 1950 by the bequest of Henry Wilde.

The first lecture series was offered to Ludwig Wittgenstein, who eventually declined. According to his biographers, he felt uncomfortable 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. Since 2001, the lecture notes have been made available electronically.

Year Lecturer Lectures published as 1950–1951 Oets Kolk Bouwsma 1954–1955 Hao Wang 1955–1956 Arthur Prior Time and Modality (1957) 1957–1958 A. C. Jackson 1959–1960 Gregory Vlastos 1961–1962 Nelson Goodman 1963–1964 Jaakko Hintikka 1965–1966 Wilfrid Sellars Science and Metaphysics 1967–1968 Paul Lorenzen 1968–1969 Noam Chomsky 1969–1970 Donald Davidson On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme 1971–1972 Sydney Shoemaker 1973–1974 Saul Kripke Reference and Existence 1974–1975 Richard Brandt 1975–1976 Hilary Putnam 1976–1977 no lectures 1977–1978 no lectures 1978–1979 Paul Grice Aspects of Reason 1979–1980 David Kaplan[1] 1980–1981 no lectures 1981–1982 no lectures 1982–1983 Daniel Dennett Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting 1983–1984 David Lewis 1984–1985 no lectures 1985–1986 no lectures 1986–1987 Barry Stroud The Quest for Reality (2000) 1987–1988 no lectures 1988–1989 no lectures[2] 1989–1990 Thomas Nagel Equality and Partiality 1990–1991 John McDowell Mind and World

Year Lecturer Lectures published as 1991–1992 Jonathan Bennett 1992–1993 Tyler Burge 1993–1994 no lectures 1994–1995 Frank Jackson From Metaphysics to Ethics 1995–1996 no lectures 1996–1997 Jerry Fodor Concepts:Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong 1996–1997 Robert Nozick Invariances (2001) 1997–1998 Lawrence Sklar 1998–1999 no lectures 1999–2000 no lectures 2000–2001 Bas van Fraassen 2001–2002 Christine Korsgaard Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, Integrity (2009) 2002–2003 Kit Fine Semantic Relationism (2007) 2003–2004 Jonathan Barnes Truth, etc. (2007) 2004–2005 Ernest Sosa A Virtue Epistemology: Apt Belief and Reflective Knowledge, Volume 1 (2007) 2005–2006 Robert Brandom Between Saying and Doing (2008) 2006–2007 Robert Stalnaker Our Knowledge of the Internal World (2008) 2007–2008 Hartry Field 2008–2009 Thomas M. Scanlon Being Realistic about Reasons (2013) 2009–2010 David Chalmers Constructing the World (2012) 2010–2011 John Cooper[3] Ancient Greek Philosophies as a Way of Life 2012 Stephen Yablo 2013 Ned Block 2014 Martha Nussbaum 2015 Rae Langton

Notes

1. Postponed.
2. Ernst Tugendhat was due to deliver the lectures, but withdrew due to illness.
3. "John Cooper's Profile at Princeton". Retrieved 2012-01-03.

External links

• John Locke Lectures, lectures complete list, and some available online