Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul
In 1928, Miss Edith Zweybruck established the Foerster Lectureship to honor the memory of her sister Agnes A. Foerster and her brother-in-law Constantine E. A. Foerster.
Miss Zweybruck requested that lectures be given "on the immortality of the soul or other kindred subjects. Such lecture is not to form a part of the regular college course and shall be delivered by some person especially qualified therefore and especially appointed for the purpose."
Oliver Sacks, Thomas S. Kuhn, Aldous Huxley, and Paul Tillich have delivered Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul.
Foerster Archives
| Title |
Lecturer |
Year |
Considering Dogs
|
Horowitz Alexandra |
2013 |
A Passion for Waiting: Messianism, History, and the Jews
|
Wieseltier Leon |
2012 |
Happiness and Ultimate Good
|
Singer Peter |
2012 |
From Salvation to Spirituality
Contemporary Transformation of Religion Viewed from East Asia |
Shimazono Susumu |
2010 |
Explaining Transformation: Material Miracles and Their Theorists in the Later Middle Ages
|
Bynum Caroline Walker |
2009 |
Thinking about Religion, Belief, and Politics
|
Asad Talal |
2008 |
God's Problem and Human Solutions: How the Bible Explains Suffering
|
Ehrman Bart |
2008 |
Equal Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams and the Roots of a Constitutional Tradition
|
Nussbaum Martha |
2006 |
The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach
|
Koch Christof |
2006 |
Being No One: Consciousness, the Phenomenal Self, and the First-Person Perspective
|
Metzinger Thomas |
2004 |
The Soul of Brutes: A Sixteenth Century Debate
|
Ginzburg Carlo |
2004 |
Trobriand Rebirth and the Fate of the Soul: An Old Debate Revisited
|
Obeyesekere Gananath |
2003 |
The Hope of Heaven: A Spiritual Universe
|
Adams Robert Merrihew |
2002 |
Body and Soul in Plato and Descartes
|
Broadie Sarah |
2000 |
Composing Life after Death
|
Harvey Jonathan |
1998 |
The Place of Consciousness
|
Nozick Robert |
1998 |
Virtue, Deed and Word - Confucian Paths to Immortality
|
Weiming Tu |
1996 |
Awakenings Revisited
|
Sacks Oliver |
1994 |
Sacrifice, Surplus and the Soul
|
Thapar Romila |
1992 |
Heaven Is No Holiday - Eternal Life in the View of the Sufis and of Muhammad Iqbal
|
Schimmel Annemarie |
1991 |
Physical Theory, Brain Theory, Theories of Everything
|
Edelman Gerald |
1989 |
Christian Platonism
|
Chadwick Henry |
1987 |
How to Become Immortal without Really Trying: Taoism and the Nature of Ritual
|
Schipper Kristofer M. |
1985 |
Ancient Near Eastern Concepts of Life after Death: A Background of the Judeo-Christian Tradition
|
Lambert Wilfred |
1984 |
The Immortality of the Soul Among North American Indians
|
Hultkranz |
1983 |
Former Lives, or the Man Who Met the People in His Dream
|
O'Flaherty Wendy |
1982 |
Personality Post-Mortem: Psychological States Attributed to the Deceased
|
Devereux George |
1981 |
The Spirituality of Man's Nature
|
Anscombe Elizabeth |
1979 |
Mortal Neurons, Immortal Monads
|
Lettvin Jerome Y. |
1979 |
Ancient Egyptian Ideas on the Reunion of Soul and Body
|
Hornung Erik |
1978 |
The Soul and the Land of the Dead: South Asian Views
|
von Furer-Haimendorf Christoph |
1978 |
Reflections on Science and Human Rationality
|
Amerdamski Stefan |
1976 |
Does Knowledge Grow?
|
Kuhn Thomas S. |
1976 |
Space as an Image of Time
|
Arnheim Rudolf |
1975 |
Computers and the Mind
|
Papert Seymour |
1973 |
The Makropoulos Case
|
Williams Bernard A. |
1972 |
Participatory Evolution, the Drive of Creation
|
Birch Charles |
1971 |
The Brain and the Soul
|
Eccles Sir John C. |
1969 |
The Biology of Dreaming as an Approach to the Mind
|
Jouvet Michel |
1969 |
Eternal Life and Social Action Now
|
Pike James A. |
1963 |
Mind Fossils, Human Culture, and Eternity
|
Eiseley Loren C. |
1962 |
The Meaning of Resurrection
|
Courvoisier Jacques |
1961 |
Symbols of Eternal Life
|
Tillich Paul J. |
1960 |
Matter, Mind, and the Question of Survival
|
Huxley Aldous |
1960 |
Platonic Trends in Christian Thought and Mysticism
|
Henry Paul |
1956 |
Immortality
|
Paton H. J. |
1955 |
Human Personality and the Possibility of Its Survival
|
Broad C. D. |
1954 |
The Teaching of Immortality in Buddhism
|
Malalasekera G. P. |
1953 |
Pantheism and Personal Immortality
|
Tsanoff Radoslav A. |
1951 |
The Hindu View of Eternal Life
|
Mahadevan T. M. P. |
1949 |
Is a Future Life Possible?
|
Ducasse Curt John |
1947 |
Immortality and Fulfillment
|
Parsons Edward Lambe |
1945 |
Imagination and Immortality
|
McGiffert Arthur Cushman |
1944 |
The Human Soul and the Cosmic Mind
|
Montague William Pepperell |
1943 |
Immortality:
The Relativity of Death |
Hocking William Ernest |
1942 |
Earliest Traces of the Belief in Our Civilization
|
Persson Axel W. |
1941 |
The Immortality of the Soul in Greek Religion and Philosophy
|
Nilsson Martin P. |
1940 |
The Spiritual Character of Man and Its Relation to the Philosophy of Politics
|
Sheen Fulton J. |
1938 |
The Belief in Immortality and the Triumph of Christianit
|
Grégoire Henri |
1938 |
The Hope of Immortality
|
McIntosh Douglas Clyde |
1937 |
The Experience of Immortality
|
Speight Harold E. B. |
1936 |
The Premises of Our Faith in Immortality
|
Sperry Willard Learoy |
1935 |
The Life of the Spirit
|
Everett Walter Goodnow |
1934 |
The Meaning of Death
|
Perry Ralph Barton |
1933 |
