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2022 Central Division Dewey Lecture: The Question Is How to Live

2022 Central Division Dewey Lecture: The Question Is How to Live

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 …

2022 Eastern Division Dewey Lecture: “Thinking in Good Company”

2022 Eastern Division Dewey Lecture: “Thinking in Good Company”

Below is the audio recording of Christine M. Korsgaard’s John Dewey Lecture, “Thinking in Good Company,” given at the 2022 Eastern Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required).  The audio of the lecture is available here: “Thinking in Good Company” by Christine Korsgaard Christine Korsgaard is Arthur Kingsley Porter Research Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Harvard University, where she taught from 1991 until 2020. Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard, she held permanent positions at Yale University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago, as well as visiting positions at University of California, Berkeley and UCLA. She received her BA from the University of Illinois, her PhD from Harvard, and honorary degrees from the University of Illinois and Groningen University. She works on moral philosophy and its history, practical reason, the nature of agency, personal identity, normativity, and the ethical relations between human beings and the other animals. Korsgaard served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association …

2021 Pacific Division Dewey Lecture: Philosophy and Me

2021 Pacific Division Dewey Lecture: Philosophy and Me

Below is the audio recording of Naomi Zack’s John Dewey Lecture, “Philosophy and Me,” given at the 2021 Pacific 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: “Philosophy and Me” by Naomi Zack Naomi Zack is Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College, CUNY, where she has been on the faculty since 2019. She previously taught at the University of Oregon, Eugene, and the University at Albany, SUNY. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. Her most recent books are Democracy: A Very Short Introduction (2023), Ethics and Race: Past and Present Intersections and Controversies (2022), The American Tragedy of COVID-19 (2021), and Progressive Anonymity: From Identity Politics to Evidence-Based Government (2020).  About this series: The Blog of the APA is pleased to publish the Presidential Addresses and John Dewey Lectures given at the Eastern, Central, and Pacific APA Division Meetings, which communicate the ideas and experiences that the renowned philosophers who delivered them …