Annual Public Lecture

2027 Lecture TBA

Previous Lectures

2026

Phil Corkum - Why Study the History of Philosophy?

2025

Kim Q. Hall - Queer Crip Ecologies of Loss 

2024

Marie-Eve Morin - Phenomenology and the "Absolute Outside"

2023

Geoffrey Rockwell - The Eliza Effect: Data Ethics for Machine Learning

2022

Robert Burch - What is Called Critical Thinking?

2019

Bernard Linsky - Bertrand Russell in China 

2018 

Bruce Hunter - Knowing How and Knowing That

2017

Beverley McLachlin, P. C. (Chief Justice of Canada) - Canada at 150: Key Moments in Canada's Constitutional History

2016 

Jennifer Welchman - Attach of the Hybrid Swarm - Species Conversation in the Anthropocene

2015

Katharine Koslicki - Did Socrates Deserve to Die?

2014

Jack Zupko - Ten Myths about Medieval Philosophy

2013

Jeff Pelletier - Does Reality Track Language? Does Language Track Reality?

2012

Rob Wilson - Of Philosophers, Folk, and Enthusiasm

2011

Allen Carlson - How Should We Aesthetically Appreciate Nature?

2010

Adam Morton - Anguish, Despair, Acceptance