Suarez Lecturers
| 2023 | Lewis Gordon (UConn), "What Can We Learn from Black Existentialism?" |
| 2022 | Linda Martin Alcoff (CUNY), "The Persistence of Cultural Racism" |
| 2021 | Brian Leftow (Rutgers), "What Is Sin?" |
| 2020 | Charles Mills (CUNY), "Doing Injustice to Racial Justice: How Rawls Went Wrong" |
| 2019 | Robert Bernasconi (Penn State University), "Slavery as Punishment: The History of a Philosophical Argument from Suarez to the Thirteenth Amendment" |
| 2018 | Anthony Steinbock (Southern Illinois University), "Hating as Contrary to Loving" |
| 2017 | Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan), "Epistemic Bubbles and Authoritarian Politics" |
| 2016 | Robert Pippin (University of Chicago), "Hegel on the Political Significance of Collective Self-Deceit" |
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2015 |
Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado Boulder), "Historical Reflections on Our Long Quest for Certainty" |
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2014 |
Judith Butler (University of California Berkeley), "'We, the People' or Plural Action" |
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2013 |
Christine Korsgaard (Harvard University), "On Having a Good" |
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2011 |
Harry Frankfurt (Princeton University), "Getting It Right" |
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2010 |
Jerome B. Schneewind (Johns Hopkins University), "Autonomy After Kant" |
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2009 |
John Cooper (Princeton University), "Aristotle and Philosophy as a Way of Life" |
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2008 |
Sir Anthony Kenny (Oxford University), "Just Wars, Unjust Wars, and Holy Wars" |
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2007 |
Hilary Putnam (Harvard University), "What Pragmatism Taught Us" |
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2006 |
D.Z. Phillips (Claremont Graduate School), "Seeing Pictures of God" |
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2005 |
Nicholas Rescher (University of Pittsburgh), "On Distinctions in Philosophy" |
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2004 |
Anthony Lisska (Denison University), "Recta Ratio in Late Medieval Moral Theory: The Case of Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham" |
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2003 |
Bas van Fraasen (Princeton University), "Representation and Perspective in Science" |
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2002 |
Frederick Ferre (University of Georgia), "Should Metaphysics Still Come First?" |
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2001 |
Eleonore Stump (St. Louis University), "Medieval Metaphysics and Political Theology: Aquinas on Incarnation" |
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2000 |
Richard Blackwell (St. Louis University), "Galileo's Trial: A Plea Bargain Gone Awry" |
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1999 |
Thomas Flynn (Emory University), "The Spaces of Michel Foucault" |
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1998 |
John Lachs (Vanderbilt University), "Transcendence in Philosophy and in Everyday Life" |
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1997 |
Jorge Gracia (SUNY at Buffalo), "The Nature of Metaphysics" |
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1996 |
Robert Neville (Boston University), "Is There an Essence of Human Nature?" |
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1995 |
William Richardson, SJ (Boston College), "Heidegger's Fall" |
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1993 |
Hubert Dreyfus (University of California, Berkeley), "What is Moral Maturity?" |
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1992 |
Nicholas Wolterstorff (Yale University), "The Art of Remembering: The Social Function of Art in Remembering" |
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1991 |
Martha Nussbaum (Brown University), "Literary Imagination in Public Life" |
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1990 |
John Wippel (The Catholic University of America), "What Can We Know of God?" |
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1989 |
Gerald McCool, SJ (Fordham University), "Why St. Thomas Aquinas Stays Alive" |
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1988 |
William Alston (Syracuse University), " An Empirical Basis for Theology" |
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1987 |
Robert Sokolowski (The Catholic University of America), "What is Moral Action?" |
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1987 |
Quentin Lauer, SJ (Fordham University), "Humanism and Human Dignity" |
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1986 |
Alvin Plantinga (University of Notre Dame), "Is Belief in God Rational?" |
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1985 |
W. Norris Clarke, SJ (Fordham University), "Art and the Elite: A Philosophical Defense of Popular Art" |
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1983 |
John N. Findlay (Boston University), "Neoplatonism and Western Christian Man" |