2011-2012 Lecture Series
Samuel Scheffler, University Professor, Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic 'The Afterlife."

2010-2011 Lecture Series
Leon Botstein, President, Bard College, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic "The History of Listening."

2009-2010 Lecture Series
Abdullahi An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, School of Law, Emory University, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic "Transcending Imperialism: Human Values and Global Citizenship."

2008-2009 Lecture Series
Jeremy Waldron, University Professor, New York University School of Law, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic "Dignity, Rank, and Rights".

2007-2008 Lecture Series
Annabel Patterson, Sterling Professor of English, Emeritus Yale University, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic "Pandora's Boxes, or How We Store Our Values".

2006-2007 Lecture Series
Joshua Cohen, Professor of Political Science, Philosophy, and Law at
Stanford University, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic "Power, Reason, and Politics".

2005-2006 Lecture Series
Allan Gibbard, Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at University of Michigan, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic "Thinking How to Live Together".

2004-2005 Lecture Series
Axel Honneth, Professor of Philosophy at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, presented two lectures and a seminar addressing the topic “Reification: A Recognition-Theoretical View".

2003-2004 Lecture Series
Seyla Benhabib, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University presented two lectures and a seminar in the series "Reclaiming Universalism".

2002-2003 Lecture Series
Derek Parfit Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Harvard presented three lectures in the series "What We Could Rationally Will".

2001-2002 Lecture Series
Leading literary critic and Shakespeare scholar Sir Frank Kermode presented two lectures in the series "Shakespeare and Cononicity".

2000-2001 Lecture Series
Joseph Raz, Professor of the Philosophy of Law, Oxford University presented two lectures in the series "The Practice of Value".

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