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"
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 2103
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”.
