Time As Space
David Z. Albert, Fredrick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
October 14, 2026 — 4:10 pm
Alumni House, Toll Room — UC Berkeley Campus
Self-Consciousness and ‘I’ – Anscombe and Sartre in Dialogue
Béatrice Longuenesse, Silver Professor, Professor of Philosophy Emerita, New York University
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
November 8, 2023 — 4:10 PM
Alumni House, Toll Room — UC Berkeley Campus
The Demarcation Problem for Philosophy
Stephen Yablo, David W. Skinner Professor of Philosophy
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
April 27, 2022 — 4:10 PM
Alumni House, Toll Room — UC Berkeley Campus
Counterfactuals, Compatiblism, and Rational Choice
Robert Stalnaker, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
October 27, 2021 — 4:10 PM
This virtual lecture will be live streamed
Progress in the Sciences and in the Arts
Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
February 13, 2019 — 4:10 PM
Alumni House, Toll Room — UC Berkeley Campus
Cicero’s De Officiis – Stoic Ethics for Non-Stoics
Gisela Striker, Walter C. Klein Professor of Philosophy and of the Classics, Emerita, Harvard University
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
April 12, 2017 — 5:10 PM
Alumni House, Toll Room — UC Berkeley Campus
Animal Selves and the Good
Christine M. Korsgaard, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
March 9, 2016 — 4:10 PM
Alumni House, Toll Room — UC Berkeley Campus
The Philosophy of “As If”
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
February 6, 2015 — 4:10 PM
Chevron Auditorium, International House — UC Berkeley Campus
Population and Practical Reason
Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
Barbara Weinstock Lectures on the Morals of Trade
October 6, 1994 — 4:10 PM
Toll Room, Alumni House — UC Berkeley Campus
Happiness and Tranquility
Myles Burnyeat, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
September 26, 1996
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
Ancient Freedoms
Myles Burnyeat, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
September 24, 1996
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
Anger and Revenge
Myles Burnyeat, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
September 25, 1996
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
Virtue, Deed and Word – Confucian Paths to Immortality
Tu Weiming, Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy, Harvard University
Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul
September 19, 1996
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
The Theoretical Impulse in Plato and Aristotle
Sarah Broadie, Professor of Moral Philosophy and Wardlaw Professor, The University of St. Andrews
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
March 19, 2014 — 4:10 PM
Toll Room, Alumni House — UC Berkeley Campus
A Reconception of Philosophy
Nelson Goodman, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Harvard University
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
Ancient Near Eastern Concepts of Life after Death: A Background of the Judeo-Christian Tradition
Wilfred Lambert, Professor of Assyriology, University of Birmingham
Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul
September 12, 1984 — 4:10 PM
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
The Place of Consciousness
Robert Nozick, Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University
Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul
March 19, 1998
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
The Dappled World
Nancy Cartwright, Professor of Philosophy, London School of Economics, and the University of California, San Diego
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
Ancient Egyptian Ideas on the Reunion of Soul and Body
Erik Hornung, Professor of Egyptology, University of Basel, Switzerland
Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
On Aristotle’s Notion of the Soul
Michael Frede, Professor of the History of Philosophy, Oxford University
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
Body and Soul in Plato and Descartes
Sarah Broadie, Professor of Moral Philosophy and Wardlaw Professor, The University of St. Andrews
Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul
March 14, 2000
Toll Room, Alumni House — UC Berkeley Campus
The Wittgensteinian Event
Stanley Cavell, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, Harvard University
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
February 6, 2002 — 4:10 PM
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow – Moments in Nietzsche, Jane Austen, et cetera
Stanley Cavell, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, Harvard University
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
February 5, 2002 — 4:10 PM
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
Truth, Interpretation, and the Point of Moral Philosophy
Ronald M. Dworkin, Frank H. Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy, and Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, New York University School of Law, and University College London
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
November 21, 2002
International House, Chevron Auditorium — UC Berkeley Campus
Language and Mind Revisited – Language and the Rest of the World
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures
March 20, 2002
Zellerbach Auditorium — UC Berkeley Campus
Language and Mind Revisited – The Biolinguistic Turn
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures
March 19, 2002
Zellerbach Auditorium — UC Berkeley Campus
Aristotle’s Contribution to the Theory and Practice of Historiography
Kurt von Fritz, Professor of Classical Philology and Philosophy, and Visiting Professor, Free University of Berlin, and Institute for Advanced Study
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
March 25, 1957
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
The Meaning of “Ouch” and “Oops”
David Kaplan, Professor of Philosophy, UCLA
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
August 23, 2004
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
Being No One: Consciousness, the Phenomenal Self, and the First-Person Perspective
Thomas Metzinger, Chair and Professor, Department of Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul
October 12, 2004 — 4:10 PM
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
Normativity
Judith Jarvis Thomson, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
April 4, 2005 — 4:10 PM
University of California, Berkeley — UC Berkeley Campus
Identity and Violence – Making Sense of Identity
Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures
March 3, 2005 — 4:10 PM
International House Auditorium — 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley
Identity and Violence – The Violence of Illusion
Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures
March 2, 2005 — 4:10 PM
International House Auditorium — 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley
The Ethics of Blame
Thomas Scanlon, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Harvard University
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
February 21, 2007 — 4:10 PM
Toll Room, Alumni House — UC Berkeley Campus
Proof, Truth, Hands, and Mind
Ian Hacking, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Philosophy and the History of Scientific Concepts, College de France
Howison Lectures in Philosophy
October 27, 2010 — 4:10 PM
Berkeley City Club, Ballroom — 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley