Below is the audio recording of Allan Gibbard’s John Dewey Lecture, “The Question Is How to Live,” given at the 2022 Central Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR.

The audio of the lecture is available here:

“The Question Is How to Live” by Allan Gibbard

Allan Gibbard is Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, where he taught from 1977 until 2016. Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan, he held positions at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Chicago. He received his PhD at Harvard University. His fields of study include ethics, social choice theory, decision theory, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. His publications include Meaning and Normativity (Oxford University Press, 2012), Reconciling Our Aims: In Search of Bases for Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2008), and Thinking How to Live (Harvard University Press, 2003), as well as many articles and book chapters. Gibbard served as president of the APA Central Division from 2001 to 2002.

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