John Locke Lectures 3936917 225181995 2008-07-12T09:24:51Z Protez 221553 +Aspects of Reason The '''[[John Locke]] Lectures''' are a series of annual lectures in [[philosophy]] given at the [[University of Oxford]]. They are one of the world's most prestigious academic lecture series, comparable to the [[Gifford Lectures]] given in [[Scotland|Scottish]] universities. They were established in [[1950]] by the bequest of a Henry Wilde. The first lecture series was offered to [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], who eventually declined. According to his biographers{{Fact|date=October 2007}}, he felt uncomfortable giving formal lectures where the audience would not be asking or answering questions. ==Lecturers== The lectures began as an uncertain biannual series, with the first lecturer from 1950-1951, and missing the second slot from 1952-1953. Between 1969 and 2001, the lectures became gradually more frequent. Since 2001, the lecture notes have been made available electronically. {| style="background:none;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" |- style="vertical-align:top;" | {| style="background:none; font-size:95%;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" |style="width:6em;"| '''Year''' |style="width:10em;"| '''Lecturer''' |style="width:16em; font-size:90%;"| '''Lectures published as''' |- | 1950-1951 || [[Oets Kolk Bouwsma]] || |- | 1954-1955 || [[Hao Wang (academic)|Hao Wang]] || |- | 1955-1956 || [[Arthur Prior]] ||style="font-size:90%;"| ''Time and Modality'' (1957) |- | 1957-1958 || [[A. C. Jackson|A.C. Jackson]] || |- | 1959-1960 || [[Gregory Vlastos]] || |- | 1961-1962 || [[Nelson Goodman]] || |- | 1963-1964 || [[Jaakko Hintikka]] || |- | 1965-1966 || [[Wilfrid Sellars]] ||style="font-size:90%;"| ''Science and Metaphysics'' |- | 1967-1968 || [[Paul Lorenzen]] || |- | 1968-1969 || [[Noam Chomsky]] || |- | 1969-1970 || [[Donald Davidson (philosopher)|Donald Davidson]] ||style="font-size:90%;"| ''The Structure and Content of Truth'' |- | 1971-1972 || [[Sydney Shoemaker]] || |- | 1973-1974 || [[Saul Kripke]] ||style="font-size:90%;"| Unpublished<ref>Transcript available from [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/philosophy/Holdings.htm Oxford University's Philosophy Library] as ''Reference and Existence''.</ref> |- | 1974-1975 || [[Richard Brandt]] || |- | 1975-1976 || [[Hilary Putnam]] || |- | 1976-1977 ||colspan="2"| no lectures |- | 1977-1978 ||colspan="2"| no lectures |- | 1978-1979 || [[Paul Grice]] ||style="font-size:90%;"| ''Aspects of Reason'' |- | 1979-1980 || [[David Kaplan (philosopher)|David Kaplan]]<ref>Postponed.</ref> || |- | 1980-1981 ||colspan="2"| no lectures |- | 1981-1982 ||colspan="2"| no lectures |- | 1982-1983 || [[Daniel Dennett]] || |- | 1983-1984 || [[David Kellogg Lewis|David Lewis]] || |- | 1984-1985 ||colspan="2"| no lectures |- | 1985-1986 ||colspan="2"| no lectures |} |style="width:2em;"| | {| style="background:none; font-size:95%;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" |style="width:6em;"| '''Year''' |style="width:10em;"| '''Lecturer''' |style="width:16em; font-size:90%;"| '''Lectures published as''' |- | 1986-1987 || [[Barry Stroud]] || |- | 1987-1988 ||colspan="2"| no lectures |- | 1988-1989 ||colspan="2"| no lectures<ref>[[Ernst Tugendhat]] was due to deliver the lectures, but withdrew due to illness.</ref> |- | 1989-1990 || [[Thomas Nagel]] || |- | 1990-1991 || [[John McDowell]] ||style="font-size:90%;"| ''Mind and World'' |- | 1991-1992 || [[Jonathan Bennett (philosopher)|Jonathan Bennett]] || |- | 1992-1993 || [[Tyler Burge]] || |- | 1993-1994 ||colspan="2"| no lectures |- | 1994-1995 || [[Frank Cameron Jackson|Frank Jackson]] ||style="font-size:90%;"| ''From Metaphysics to Ethics'' |- | 1995-1996 ||colspan="2"| no lectures |- | 1996-1997 || [[Jerry Fodor]] || style="font-size:90%;"| ''Concepts:Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong'' |- | 1996-1997 || [[Robert Nozick]] || |- | 1997-1998 || [[Lawrence Sklar]] || |- | 1998-1999 ||colspan="2"| no lectures |- | 1999-2000 ||colspan="2"| no lectures |- | 2000-2001 || [[Bas van Fraassen]] || |- | 2001-2002 || [[Christine Korsgaard]] || |- | 2002-2003 || [[Kit Fine]] || |- | 2003-2004 || [[Jonathan Barnes]] || |- | 2004-2005 || [[Ernest Sosa]] || |- | 2005-2006 || [[Robert Brandom]] ||style="font-size:90%;"| ''Between Saying and Doing'' (2008) |- | 2006-2007 || [[Robert Stalnaker]] || |- |} |} ==Notes== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/lectures/john_locke_lectures John Locke Lectures], lectures complete list, and some available online [[Category:Lecture series]] [[Category:Philosophy events]] [[ja:ジョンロック講義]] [[fi:John Locke -luennot]]