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{{Short description|Moral and intellectual lecture series}}

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]].

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]].

{{Cquotetxtcquote|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.|author=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": 1) "Why There Isn't a Ready-Made World"; 2) "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 (philosopher)|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 (philosopher)|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 (philosopher)|John Perry]] — "Thinking and Talking About the Self"

* 2010 — [[Ian Hacking]] — "Proof, Truth, Hands, and Mind"

* 2013 — [[Robert Brandom]] — "Reason, Genealogy, and the Hermeneutics of Magnanimity"

* 2014 — [[Sarah Broadie]] — "The Theoretical Impulse in Plato and Aristotle"

* 2015 — [[Kwame Anthony Appiah]] — "The Philosophy of "As If""

* 2016 — [[Christine M. Korsgaard]] — "Animal Selves and the Good"

* 2017 — [[Gisela Striker]] — "[[Cicero]]’s ''[[De Officiis]]'' – Stoic Ethics for Non-Stoics"

* 2018 — [[Joseph Raz]] — "Identity and Social Bonds"

* 2019 — [[Philip Kitcher]] — "Progress in the Sciences and in the Arts"

== See also ==

1923 — [[Arthur Oncken Lovejoy]] — "The Discontinuities of Evolution"

* [[Berkeley Center for New Media#Programs|Center for New Media Lectures]]

* [[Tarski Lectures]]

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 G. 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 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 — [[Jurgen 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 — [[Thomas Scanlon]] — "The Ethics of Blame"

2009 — [[John Perry]] — "Thinking and Talking About the Self"

==External links==

* [httphttps://gradgradlectures.berkeley.edu/lecturesseries/howison/ Howison Lectures in Philosophy, Graduate Council Lectures website]

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