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2018-2019

• Ian Phillips (Princeton University): “Can Sight be Blind? Untangling the Tale of Blindsight and Unconscious Vision”
• Margaret Atherton (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): “Where are the Women in (The History of) Philosophy?”
• David Shoemaker (Tulane University): “Learning from Psychopaths”
• Catherine Elgin (Harvard University): “Modeling Reality: How Science Advances Understanding of the World”

2017-2018

• Peter Achinstein: “Simplicity: The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel”
• Christopher Mole: “Complexity and the Explanation of Intelligence”
• Susanna Siegel: “The Rationality of Perception”
• Robert J. Howell: “Hell is Social Networks: Five Moral Dangers of Life Online”

2016-2017

• Marya Schechtman: “My Whole Life Long: The Ethical Significance of a Unified Self”
• Elizabeth Anderson: “Outlaws”
• Andrei Marmor: “Two Rights of Free Speech”
• Wayne Wu: “Mysteries of Consciousness: Connecting Mind and Brain”

2015-2016

• Sahotra Sarkar: “Nature, Nurture, and The Human Genome”
• Alyssa Ney: “What is Physicalism?”
• William FitzPatrick: “Morality and Evolutionary Biology: Why the Science Doesn’t Settle the Philosophical Questions”

2014-2015

• Barbara Gail Montero: “Does Thinking Interfere with Doing?”
• Jesse Prinz: “The Moral Self”
• Brie Gertler: “Does the Mind Extend Beyond the Body?”
• Dorit Bar-On: “The Origins of Meaning”

2013-2014

• Ned Markosian: “Is Time Travel Possible?”
• Ned Block: “Do We See Less Than We Think We See?”
• John Searle: “Consciousness, the Brain, and the Soul”
• Pamela Hieronymi: “The Problem of Free Will and Moral Responsibility”

2012-2013

• Simon Keller: “Understanding Skepticism about Climate Change”
• Frank Jackson: “The Problem of Consciousness Revisited”
• Steve Gimbel: “Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion”
• William G. Lycan: “Why the Abortion Issue is So Difficult”

2011-2012

• Jeff McMahan: “What Rights May We Defend by Means of War?”
• Hud Hudson: “The Rabbit in the Garden: A Skeptical Theist’s Tale”
• Rebecca Copenhaver: “Anti-Intellectualism and the Academy in American Life”
• Alvin Goldman: “Knowledge & Democracy: How Social Epistemology Bears on the Success of Our Democracy”

2010-2011

• Michael Huemer: “Is There a Right to Immigrate?”
• Derk Pereboom: “Meaning in Life and the Illusion of Free Will”
• Alison M. Jaggar: “The Philosophical Challenges of Global Gender Justice”
• Paul Thompson: “In Defense of Genetically Modified Food”

2009-2010

• Terry Horgan: “Mind and Brain: Philosophy of Mind in the 21st Century”
• Amie Thomasson: “Do Tables and Chairs Really Exist?”
• Keith Parsons: “Charles Darwin, Hammer of the Creationists”
• Thomas Hurka: “Weighing Lives in War: When is Collateral Damage Excessive?”

2008-2009

• Douglas N. Husak: “Four Points about Drug Criminalization”
• Stephen Yablo: “Imagining Evil”
• Michael P. Lynch: “Faith in Reason”
• Alastair Norcross: “The Clone Wars: What’s Wrong With Human Cloning?”

2007-2008

• Loren Lomasky: “The State of Political Philosophy”
• Tyler Burge: “The State of Philosophy of Mind”
• Geoffrey Sayre-McCord: “The State of Ethics”
• Ted Sider: “The State of Metaphysics”
• Jonathan Kvanvig: “The State of Philosophy of Religion”
• Ernest Sosa: “The State of Epistemology”