Philosophy 1994-1999

1994-95

Gabriel Segal (King's College London): “The Modularity of the Theory of Mind.” (Funded by the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund.)

Ned Block (MIT): “On a Confusion About A Function of Consciousness.” (Funded by the Eastman Fund.)

Georgia Warnke: “Legitimacy and Consensus: Comments on the Work of Jürgen Habermas.” (Funded by the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund.)

Robert Paul Wolff (UMass): “The Pimple on Adonis's Nose.” Philosophy Club Lecture. (Funded by the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund and Philosophy Department.)

Edward S. Casey (SUNY): “The Ghost of Embodiment.” (Funded by the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund.)

Seyla Benhabib (Harvard University): “‘Sources of the Self’ in Contemporary Feminist Theory.” (Funded by the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund.)

Lorenzo Simpson: “Humanism, Post-Modernism, and Irony.” (Funded by the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund.)

1995-96

Shelly Kagan: “The Geometry of Desert.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department.)

Lynne Rudder Baker (UMass): “Belief Without Reification.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department, the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund, and the Forry Fund in Philosophy and Science.)

Fred Dretske: “Minds and Machines: What Really Explains Behavior.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department, the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund, and the Forry Fund in Philosophy and Science.)

Barry Loewer: “Is Reference Physical?” (Funded by the Philosophy Department, the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund, and the Forry Fund in Philosophy and Science.)

Jerry Fodor (Rutgers): “The Nature of Concepts and the Innateness Problem.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department, the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund, and the Forry Fund in Philosophy and Science.) 

1996-97

Thomas P. Smith (Amherst College): “How to Deceive Oneself and Still Remain One Self.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department.)

James Tappenden: “Proof Style and Understanding in Mathematics.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department.)

1997-98

Edward Stein (Yale University): “What Kind of Question Is ‘Are Humans Rational?’” (Funded by the Philosophy Department.)

Juliet Floyd (Boston University): “The Uncaptive Eye: Solipsism in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department.)

Ann Ferguson (University of Massachusetts): “What is Sex Anyway and What Does It Matter? A Feminist Perspective.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department.)

Robert Gordon (University of Misssouri): “Mental Simulation and the Explanation of Action,” (Funded by the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund.)

William G. Lycan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): “The Representational Theory of Qualia.” (Funded by the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund.)

Gabriel Segal (King’s College London): “An Internalist on Twin Earth.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department and the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund.)

Sydney Shoemaker (Cornell University): “Realization and Mental Causation.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department and the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund.)

1998-99

Igal Kvart (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel): “Causal Independence.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department and the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund in Philosophy.)

Donald Davidson (The University of California at Berkeley): “Interpretation: Hard in Theory, Easy in Practice.” (Funded by the Philosophy Department and the Joseph Epstein Lecture Fund in Philosophy.)

Dale Jamieson (Carleton College): “Climate Change and Global Environmental Justice.” (Funded by the Forry Fund in Philosophy and Science.)