25 November 2006

Adventures in Ideas

I discovered recently with pleasure that my teacher, Sarah Broadie, will be giving the 2007 Whitehead Lectures at Harvard University, May 10th and 11th--an honor not simply for Broadie but also for ancient philosophy. (After all, some footnotes to Plato are more conspicuous than others.)

Has another 'ancient philosopher' ever given Whitehead lectures? A quick exploration of the internet uncovered the following as past lecturers:

Tyler Burge
Cora Diamond
Michael Friedman
Nelson Goodman
Saul Kripke
David Lewis
Mary Mothersill
Thomas Nagel
Christopher Peacocke
Sydney Shoemaker
Morton White
Bernard Williams
Crispin Wright

2 comments:

George Charles Allen said...

Along the lines of upcoming lectures and conferences, I thought you might be interested in this.

http://www.philosophy.utoronto.ca/news/onenews.html?id=290

Michael Pakaluk said...

George,

Thanks. I'll take up your suggestion and feature this as a post.

MP