2024-2025 — Annabel Brett
Annabel Brett, Professor of Thought and Theory at Cambridge University, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic of “The Times of Possibility”
2023-2024 — Rachel Barney
Rachel Barney, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy at University of Toronto, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic of “The Authority of Craft”
2023-2024 — David Whorton
David Whorton, founder and C.E.O. of the Tugboat Institute presented a lecture entitled “Underappreciated Evergreen Companies: Capitalism at It’s Best”
2022-2023 — Philippe Descola
Philippe Descola, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Collège de France, Paris, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic of “Cosmopolities: Before, Behind and Beyond the State”
2022-2023 — Charles Beitz
Charles Beitz, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics, Princeton University, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic of “For the People? Representative Government in America”
2021-2022 — Caroline Hoxby
Caroline Hoxby, Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics, Stanford University, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic of “The Fork in the Road: Adolescence, Education, Economic Fatalism, and Populism”
2021-2022 — Kate Crawford
Kate Crawford, Research Professor of Communication and STS, Senior Principal Researcher USC Annenberg, Microsoft Research, presented one lecture and a seminar addressing the topic of “Excavating Groundtruth in AI: Epistemologies and Politics in Training Data”
2018-2019 — Arthur Ripstein
Arthur Ripstein, Professor of Law and Philosophy, and University Professor, University of Toronto, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic of “Rules for Wrongdoers”
2017-2018 — Michael Warner
Michael Warner, Seymour H. Knox Professor of English at Yale University – presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic “Environmental Care and the Infrastructure of Indifference.”
2016-2017 — Seana Valentine Shiffrin
Seana Valentine Shiffrin, Professor of Philosophy and Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice at the University of California, Los Angeles – presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic “Speaking Amongst Ourselves: Democracy and Law.”
2015-2016 — Didier Fassin
Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Director of Studies, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris – presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic “What is Punishment.”
2014-2015 — Philip Pettit
Philip Pettit, L.S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University
Distinguished Professor, Australian National University, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic “The Birth of Ethics.”
2013-2014 — Eric Santner
Eric Santner, Philip and Ida Romberg Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Germanic Studies, University of Chicago, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic “The Weight of All Flesh: On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy.”
2012-2013 — Frances Kamm
Frances Kamm, Littauer Professor of Philosophy & Public Policy Professor of Philosophy and Law, Harvard University, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic “The Trolley Problem Mysteries.”
2011-2012 — Samuel Scheffler
Samuel Scheffler, University Professor, Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic “The Afterlife.”
2010-2011 — Leon Botstein
Leon Botstein, President, Bard College, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic “The History of Listening.”
2009-2010 — Abdullahi An-Na’im
Abdullahi An-Na’im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, School of Law, Emory University, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic “Transcending Imperialism: Human Values and Global Citizenship.”
2008-2009 — Jeremy Waldron
Jeremy Waldron, University Professor, New York University School of Law, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic “Dignity, Rank, and Rights”.
2007-2008 — Annabel Patterson
Annabel Patterson, Sterling Professor of English, Emeritus Yale University, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic “Pandora’s Boxes, or How We Store Our Values”.
2006-2007 — Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen, Professor of Political Science, Philosophy, and Law at
Stanford University, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic “Power, Reason, and Politics”.
2005-2006 — Allan Gibbard
Allan Gibbard, Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at University of Michigan, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic “Thinking How to Live Together”.
2004-2005 — Axel Honneth
Axel Honneth, Professor of Philosophy at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic “Reification: A Recognition-Theoretical View”.
2003-2004 — Seyla Benhabib
Seyla Benhabib, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University presented two lectures and a seminar in the series “Reclaiming Universalism”.
2002-2003 — Derek Parfit
Derek Parfit, Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Harvard presented three lectures in the series “What We Could Rationally Will”.
2001-2002 — Sir Frank Kermode
Leading literary critic and Shakespeare scholar Sir Frank Kermode presented two lectures in the series “Shakespeare and Cononicity”.
2000-2001 — Joseph Raz
Joseph Raz, Professor of the Philosophy of Law, Oxford University presented two lectures in the series “The Practice of Value”.
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