Spring 2019
| Jeremy Waldron, NYU, School of Law, "Philosophical Foundations for Migration Law" |
| Fall 2018 | Roy Sorensen, Washington University in St. Louis, "Never Ending News" |
| Spring 2018 | Kok-Chor Tan, University of Pennsylvania, "International Territorial Rights: An Institutional Account" |
| Spring 2017 | Victor Tadros, University of Warwick School of Law, "A Moral Law for War" |
| Fall 2016 | Samantha Harris, Foundation of Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), "Due Process and Sexual Misconduct on Campus"
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| Fall 2015 | Jason Stanley, Yale University, "The War on Thugs: Propaganda, Politics, and Mass Incarceration" |
| Spring 2015 | Samuel Scheffler, New York University, "Why Worry About Future Generations?" |
| Fall 2014 | Douglas Husak, Rutgers University, "Why Does Our Punitive Drug Policy Persist? A Speculative Thesis" |
| Spring 2014 | Alexander Nahamas, Princeton University, "Can the Art of Living Be Taught?" |
| Fall 2013 | Philip Pettit, Princeton, "Democracy and Justice" |
| Spring 2013 | Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke University, "Are Psychopaths Responsible?" |
| Fall 2012 | Philip Kitcher, Columbia University, "Ethics as a Human Project" |
| Spring 2012 | Michael Bratman, Stanford University, "The Philosophical Significance of the Human Ability to Plan" |
| Fall 2011 | Ronald Dworkin, New York University School of Law, "Religion Without God" |
| Spring 2011 | Margaret Gilbert, University of California, Irvine, "Dark Duties: Does "I was ordered to do it" excuse a bad action?" |
| Fall 2009 | Larry Temkin, Rutgers University, "Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideas and the Nature of Practical Reasoning" |
| Spring 2009 | Samuel Freeman, University of Pennsylvania, "Social Bases of Distributive Justice" |
| Fall 2007 | Holmes Ralston Ill, Colorado State University, "The Future of Environmental Ethics" |
| Spring 2006 | Elliott Sober, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "What's Wrong with Intelligent Design Theory?" |
| Fall 2005 | Daniel Dennett, Tufts University, "Darwin, Meaning, Truth & Morality" |
| Spring 2005 | Nel Noddings, Stanford University, "Public Schools in Peril: A Threat to Democracy?" |
| Fall 2004 | Richard Rorty, Stanford University, "The Priority of Imagination over Reason" |
| Spring 2004 | Judith Thomson, MIT, "On Some Human Rights" |
| Fall 2003 | Virginia Held, Virginia Held, CUNY, "The Caring Person" |
| Spring 2003 | John Perry, Stanford University, "Is there Hope for Compatibilism?" |
| Spring 2002 | Peter Singer, Princeton University, "Ethics and the Global Community" |
| Fall 2001 | Glenn McGee, University of Pennsylvania, "What's in the Dish? Stem Cells and the New Ethics of Human Development" |
| Spring 2001 | Louise Antony, Ohio State University, "Natures, Norms and the Foundations of Liberalism" |
| Spring 2000 | Theodore Glasser, Stanford University, "Accountability in Journalism: What's Missing, What's Needed" |
| Spring 1999 | Paul Churchland, University of California, San Diego, "How the Brain Embodies Moral Knowledge: New Insights from Neural Network Theory" |
| Spring 1998 | Mark Sagoff, University of Maryland, "Is the Environmental Crisis Over" |
| Spring 1997 | Michael Krausz, Bryn Mawr College, "Chosing What One is Cut To Be: Reflections on David Norton". |
