Lectures since 1904

Title Lecturer Year
Why Reason Can’t Be Naturalized Hilary Putnam 1981
Why There Isn’t a Ready-Made World Hilary Putnam 1981
The Transcendence of Reason Hilary Putnam 1981
The Earth’s Rotation: Evidence from Paleontology, Astronomy and Geophysics S. Keith Runcorn 1981
The Primeval Moon: Magnetism and Polar Wandering S. Keith Runcorn 1981
A Modern Scientific Controversy: Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics S. Keith Runcorn 1981
Entropy, Structure and Fluctuations Ilya Prigogine 1981
Life in a Magnetic Field Edward M. Purcell 1981
A Physicist Looks, a Bacterium Edward M. Purcell 1981
Early Man in America George F. Carter 1981
Planned Change: The Creation of a New Society Elizabeth Colson 1981
Unions, Economists, and Anti-Intlation Policy Lloyd Ulman 1981
Personality Post-Mortem: Psychological States Attributed to the Deceased George Devereux 1981
Black Nationalism: Roots and Prospects Eugene D. Genovese 1980
Class and Nationality Eugene D. Genovese 1980
The Slaves as Political Actors Eugene D. Genovese 1980
The Politics of the Slave Experience in the Old South Eugene D. Genovese 1980
Truth and Subjectivity Michel Foucault 1980
When Are Computers Better Than We Realized? Samuel Winograd 1980
Why Are Computers Worse Than We Hoped? Samuel Winograd 1980
Neuronal Plasticity During Development Torsten N. Wiesel 1980
Single Cell Analysis and Functional Architecture Torsten N. Wiesel 1980
The Story of an Oceanic Mountain Range: The Evolution of Life on an ‘Idealized’ Pacific Archipelago F. Raymond Fosberg 1980
The Economics of Virtuous Haste: A Half-Century of Soviet Industrialization Gregory Grossman 1980
Morals of Trade Ahmed Zaki Yamani 1979
Business Morality in Less Developed Countries Goh Keng Swee 1979
Causal Explanation David Lewis 1979
Constructivist Moral Conceptions John Rawls 1979
The Limits of Rationality Patrick Suppes 1979
The Metafont Method of Alphabet Design Donald E. Knuth 1979
Typesetting with the Aid of Mathematics Donald E. Knuth 1979
Towards an Integrated Science of Inter-Personal Relationships Robert A. Hinde 1979
The Dynamics of the Parent-Offspring Relationship Robert A. Hinde 1979
The Development of Parent-Infant Attachment Robert A. Hinde 1979
America’s Musical Awareness of the Other Americas (to 1900) Robert Stevenson 1979
The Inscrutable Chinese-Can We Understand Them? Wolfram Ebhard 1979
Mortal Neurons, Immortal Monads Jerome Y. Lettvin 1979
The Spirituality of Man’s Nature Elizabeth Anscombe 1979
Judges and Social Policy Nathan Glazer 1978
The Identity of the Self: Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing? Robert Nozick 1978
The Design and Construction of Early Iron Arch Bridges, 1779-1830 Alec W. Skempton 1978
Hill-Slopes in the Weald of Kent: Stability Analysis and Pleistocene Geology Alec W. Skempton 1978
The House of Humphry Davy: Reflections on the Bicentenary of His Birth Sir George Porter 1978
Science and the Human Purpose Sir George Porter 1978
Life Under the Sun Sir George Porter 1978
Landscape as Theatre John B. Jackson 1978
Five Centuries of Food Production and Consumption in Central Mexico Woodrow Borah 1978
The Soul and the Land of the Dead: South Asian Views Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf 1978
Ancient Egyptian Ideas on the Reunion of Soul and Body Erik Hornung 1978
Words and Ideas: “Patria” and “Nacion” in Pre-Independence Peru Luis Monguio 1977
Hippocates’ Latin American Legacy: Problems and Puzzles of the Hot/Cold Dichotomy George M. Foster 1977
A Catastrophe Model for Anorexia Nervosa and Its Cure E. Christopher Zeeman 1977
An Introduction to Catastrophe Theory E. Christopher Zeeman 1977
Mouse Teratocarcinoma and Embryonic Development Fran Jacob 1977
Evolution and Tinkering Fran Jacob 1977
Reference and Its Roots Peter F. Strawson 1977
Perception and Its Objects Peter F. Strawson 1977
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Exposition Saul Kripke 1977
Ideas of Private Property in the History of America Marcus F. Cunliffe 1976
The Fundamental Structure of Matter Victor F. Weisskopf 1976
What is an Elementary Particle? Victor F. Weisskopf 1976
The Frontiers and Limits of Science Victor F. Weisskopf 1976
Black Holes: Their Roles in Astronomy and in Physics S. Chandrasekhar 1976
Why Are the Stars as They Are? S. Chandrasekhar 1976
The Myth of Social Anthropology Ioan M. Lewis 1976
Scholar and Colleague: Homage to Carl Sauer John Leighly 1976
Belgian Dream of Empire in South America Hilgard O'Reilly Sternberg 1976
Does Knowledge Grow? Thomas S. Kuhn 1976
Reflections on Science and Human Rationality Stefan Amerdamski 1976
The Analysis of Data: Exploration as One Road to Discovery Sir John W. Tukey 1975
The Analysis of Data: Connecting the Future to the Past Sir John W. Tukey 1975
The Floor of the Deep Oceans: What Is Happening There Sir Edward Bullard 1975
The Floor of the Deep Oceans: What Are They Like Sir Edward Bullard 1975
Space as an Image of Time Rudolf Arnheim 1975
The Presidency In The Political System Aaron Wildavsky 1974
The Business Crime Wave Ralph Nader 1974
The World’s Last Hope: Christianity With Enlightenment Sidney E. Mead 1974
‘True Government Must Be Christian Government’: Christianity Against Enlightenment Sidney E. Mead 1974
Enlightenment and Revolution New Religion, New Commonwealth Sidney E. Mead 1974
The Old Christianity in the New World Sidney E. Mead 1974
Religion’s Experience in the Democracy Sidney E. Mead 1974
The Emergence of Life and of Intelligence Sir Fred Hoyle 1974
Constitutionalism and Politicization Archibald Cox 1973
Congress and the Court: School Desegregation Archibald Cox 1973
Political Response: The Appointment of Justices Archibald Cox 1973
The New Dimensions of Constitutional Adjudication Archibald Cox 1973
The Supreme Court and the Political Process Archibald Cox 1973
Curing the Mischief of Faction: Party Reform in America Austin Ranney 1973
The Dialectic of Fact and Value: Foundations of a Humanist Social Science Philip Selznick 1973
Lectures on Epidemiological Models of Dynamics of Acute Bacterial Diseases Branko Cvjetanovic 1973
Lectures on the Why and Wherefore of Pay Differentials E. H. Phelps Brown 1973
Computers and the Mind Seymour Papert 1973
Morals of Trade Thomas J. Watson 1972
Conceptions of Sex Role: Some Cross Cultural and Longitudinal Perspectives Jeanne H. Block 1972
Lectures on the Evolution of Social Behavior Edward O. Wilson 1972
The Makropoulos Case Bernard A. Williams 1972
The Social History of an Idea: Equality as Theme and Variation J. R. Pole 1971
Government and Equality in the Nineteenth Century J. R. Pole 1971
Community and the Individual J. R. Pole 1971
The Eighteenth Century: The Translation of Natural Rights J. R. Pole 1971