Sullivan Lecturers
Sullivan Lecture Series, Fordham University
The Daniel J. Sullivan Memorial Lecture Series was inaugurated in the Spring of 1986 to honor an outstanding professor of philosophy whose talents as a teacher and administrator were wholeheartedly put at the service of Downtown Fordham from 1936 until his death in 1984. Professor Sullivan's warm, loving personality, as well as his moral integrity and dedication to his vocation endeared him to generations of students and colleagues. He was the author of two well known textbooks, Fundamentals of Logic and Introduction to Philosophy. The lecture was co-sponsored for many years by the Philosophy Department and Fordham's Jesuit Community with the aid of a fund established in Sullivan's honor. It has been sponsored by the Philosophy Department since fall 2010.
| 2023 | Meghan Sullivan (Notre Dame), "Loving Strangers" |
| 2022 | Frederick Neuhouser (Barnard), "How to Criticize Inequality: Lessons from Piketty" |
| 2021 | Michelle Moody-Adams (Columbia), "Coming to Terms with History" |
| 2020 | Lisa Tessman (Binghamton University), "Moral Injury and Moral Failure" |
| 2019 | Jenann Ismael (Columbia University), "Does Determinism Clash With Freedom? A Look at Human Action Through the Lenses of Physics" |
| 2018 | Stephen Angle (Wesleyan University), "Confucianism as a Way of Life" |
| 2017 | Matthew Crawford, "Attention as a Cultural Problem and the Possibility of Education" |
| 2016 | Charles W. Mills (The Graduate Center CUNY), "Liberalism and Racial Justice" |
| 2015 |
Agnes Callard (University of Chicago), "Can You Choose Who To Be?" |
| 2014 | Paul Boghossian (New York University), "Morality, Etiquette, and Taste: Are Our Judgements Objective?" |
| 2013 | Stephen Nadler (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "Why Was Spinoza Excommunicated?" |
| 2012 | Deborah Berghoffen (American University), "Making a Case for the Dignity of Vulnerability" |
| 2011 | Richard Bernstein (New School University), "Hannah Arendt on Power and Violence" |
| 2010 | John Cottingham (Reading University and Heythrop College), "Human Nature, Meaning, and Ultimate Value" |
| 2009 | Frederick Beiser (Syracuse University), "The Concept of Historicism" |
| 2008 | Nicholas Wolsterstorff (Yale University), "Can Human Rights Survive Secularization?" |
| 2007 | Robert Kraynak (Colgate University), "The Evolution of Catholic Natural Law: From Thomas to Finnis" |
| 2006 | Paul E. Sigmund (Princeton University), "Religion, Liberalism, and the Religion of Liberalism: A Reply to Ann Coulter" |
| 2005 | Alice Ramos (St. John's University), "Studiositas and Curiositas: Matters for Self-Examination" |
| 2004 | Peter Simpson (City University of New York), "How to be a Realist—Really" |
| 2003 | Francis Slade (St. Francis College), "Two Versions of Political Philosophy" |
| 2002 | Nancy Fraser (New School University), "Transnationalizing the Public Sphere" |
| 2001 | Robert Wood (University of Dallas), "Plato, Phenomenology, and the Perennial Task of Philosophy" |
| 2000 | James Marsh (Fordham University), "U.S. Justice is to Real Justice as . . ." |
| 1999 | John Caputo (Villanova University), "The Paradox of the Gift" |
| 1998 | Judith Stark (Seton Hall University), "Augustine: Dualism and Beyond" |
| 1997 | Bonnie Kent (Columbia University), "Ancient Excellence of Mere Modern Goodness? A Dilemma for Moral Philosophy" |
| 1996 | Dominic Balestra (Fordham University), "Science and Religion: Old Rivals or New Allies?" |
| 1995 | Eugene Fontinelli (Queens College), "Theistic Religion: Energizing or De-Energizing?" |
| 1994 | Francis Canavan, SJ (Fordham University), "Moral Conscience, Public Policy, and the Role of Religion" |
| 1993 | Aldo Tassi (Loyola College, Baltimore), "Philosophy and Theater" |
| 1992 | Mortimer J. Adler (University of Chicago), "Philosophical Theology: Its Major Heroes" |
| 1991 | Michael McCarthy (Vassar College), "The Critical Appropriation of Tradition" |
| 1990 | Gerald Galgan (St. Francis College), "The Medieval Roots of Modernity" |
| 1989 | W. Norris Clarke, SJ (Fordham University), "What Does It Mean To Be A Person?" |
| 1988 | Barbara Wall (Villanova University), "Economic Justice: Marxist Critiques and Catholic Response" |
| 1987 | Martin A. Bertman (Ben Gurion University), "Philosophy and Practice" |
| 1986 | Joseph O'Hare, SJ (Fordham University), "The American Catholic University: Crisis of Identity" |
| 1985 | Robert O. Johann (Fordham University), "Love as a Way of Life" |