Philosophy
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Amartya K. Sen (1981-1982)
Oct 07, 1981
“Paradoxes of Liberty” Amartya K. Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher and the current Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He has also taught at Cambridge, Oxford, Jadavpur University Calcutta, the [...]
Klaus Klostmaier (1978-1979)
Jan 20, 1979
“Is the West Waiting for Light from the East?” Klaus Klostermaier was University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Manitoba, where he began working in 1970. He was born in Munich, Germany, but lived in India for [...]
Michael Novak (1978-1979)
Jan 20, 1979
“The Cult of Socialism” Michael Novak was an American Roman Catholic philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat. He authored and edited more than 50 books, including The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (1982), which was translated and distributed by underground presses [...]
William Irwin Thompson (1976-1977)
Oct 26, 1976
“The Meta-Industrial Village: A Strategy for Survival and Cultural Evolution” William Irwin Thompson was an American social philosopher, cultural critic, and poet. He was professor of humanities at MIT and later at York University. He was the author of books including At [...]
Robert Oppenheimer (1959-1960)
Jan 30, 1960
“Knowledge as Science; Knowledge as Action; Knowledge as Culture” Robert Oppenheimer was a physicist and the father of the atomic bomb. He was Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. As a student, he studied chemistry at Harvard [...]
S.E. Morison (1955-1956)
Jan 30, 1956
“Freedom in Contemporary Society” Samuel Eliot Morison was professor of history at Harvard University. During World War I he served as a private in the US Army. He also served as the American Delegate on the Baltic Commission of the Paris Peace Conference until June 17, [...]
T.V. Smith (1952-1953)
Jan 30, 1953
“Man’s Threefold Will to Freedom” Thomas Vernor Smith was the Maxwell professor of citizenship and philosophy at the University of Syracuse. He also served a term in the Illinois state senate and was a Congressman-at-large for the state for one session (1939-1941). He was [...]
John MacMurray (1948-1949)
Jan 30, 1949
“The Conditions of Freedom” John MacMurray was born at Maxwell, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, in 1891. During the First World War, he enlisted as a private and in 1916 was awarded the Military Cross. After the war, he returned to Oxford to study history and philosophy. [...]
T.E. Jessop (1947-1948)
Jan 19, 1947
“The Freedom of the Individual in Society” Thomas Edmund Jessop was born in 1896 in the West Riding of Yorkshire. After teaching at the University of Glasgow, he held the Ferens Chair in philosophy at the University College in Hull, England from 1928. Until 1945, he was [...]