THE BELGUM LECTURES 2007-2008
Julia Annas
Presentor
Lecture I: Topic: Happiness
Monday, March 17, 2008
Lecture II: Topic: Virtue
Tuesday,March 18, 2008Both lectures will be held in Holland Hall 501.
About Julia Annas
Julia Annas (Ph.D., Harvard), Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, was at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, for fifteen years before going to Arizona. She specializes in almost every facet of ancient Greek philosophy, including ethics, psychology and epistemology. Her current research interests are in Platonic ethics. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the founder and former editor of the annual journal, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy.
Belgum Lectures through the Years
2010 - Elliott Sober
"Philosophical Reflections on Darwin"
2009 - Barbara Herman
"Making Morals Matter"
2008 – Julia Annas
"Virtue and Happiness"
2006 - Galen Strawson
"Episodic Ethics"
2005 - Jonathan Lear
"The Collapse of Civilization"
2004 - Bas C. van Fraassen
"Seeing and Measuring: Connecting Science to Experience"
2003 - Margaret Urban Walker
"Forgiveness and Moral Repair"
2002 - Frederick Stoutland
"How To Believe in Free Will"
2001 - Lydia Goehr
"Listening, Laughing and Learning"
2000 - Stephan Darwall
"Two Dogmas of Empiricism in Ethics"
1999 - James Harris
"After Relativism"
1998 - Jean Bethke Elshtain
"How Far Have We Fallen?"
1997 - Hillary Putnam
"Mind, Matter, and Making Sense"
1996 - Gary Iseminger
"Aestheticism: Defined and Defended"
1995 - Georges Rey
"Superficialism about Mind and Meaning"
1994 - Helen Longino
"Scientific Knowledge and Feminist Theoretical Virtues"
1993 - Amelie Rorty
"The Many Faces of Morality"
1992 - Arthur Caplan
"Ethics and the Genetic Revolution"
1991 - Nancy Sherman
"Virtue and Ethics"
1990 - Allan Gibbard
"Moral Meanings"
1989 - Keith Gunderson
"The Aesthetic Robot"
1988 - Laurence Thomas
"Living Morally: A Psychology of Moral Character"
1987 - Rosemarie Tong
"Feminist Social Psychology"
1986 - Kenneth Sayre
"Myths for Our Technological Future"
1985 - Merold Westphal
"The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism"
1984 - Naomi Scheman
"Authority and Paranoia: The Social Construction of Gender and the Philosophical Self"
1983 - Georg Henrik Von Wright
"Truth, Knowledge, and Freedom"
1982 - Martha Nussbaum
"The Fragility of Goodness"
1981 - Gareth B. Matthews
"Conceiving Childhood"
1980 - Dagfinn Follesdal
"Understanding and Rationality"
1979 - Kathryn Pyne Parsons
"Not Judge, Not Victim, Nor Savior"
