The Martin Benjamin Distinguished Guest Lectures

• Fall 2006
  Candace Vogler
  Associate Professor of Philosophy
  University of Chicago
  The Limits of Custom and Conscience
• Fall 2005
  Robert Veatch
  Professor of Medical Ethics and Professor of Philosophy
  Georgetown University 
  Public Moral Choice and Limits on Professional Authority: The Case of Swapping Organs for Transplant
• Spring 2005 (April 8, 2005)
  Nigel Dower
  Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
  University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
  Capabilities Approach in Ethics and Development
• Spring 2004
  Frances Myrna Kamm
  Lucius Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy
  John F. Kennedy School of Government and Professor of Philosophy
  Harvard University
  Failures of Just War Theory

The Charles J. McCracken Distinguished Guest Lectures

• Spring 2007
  Lynne Rudder Baker
  Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
  University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  When do Persons Begin and End?
• Spring 2006
  Daniel Garber
  Professor and Chair of Philosophy
  Princeton University
  What Happens after Pascal's Wager: Living Faith and Rational Belief
• Spring 2005
  Robert Pippin
  Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor
  Committee on Social Thought, Department of Philosophy
  University of Chicago
  Hegel's Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life
• Fall 2003
  John H. McDowell
  University Professor of Philosophy
  University of Pittsburgh
  Sellars's Thomism
• Fall 2002
  John Haugeland
  Professor of Philosophy
  University of Chicago
  Cartesian Externalism
• Fall 2001
  Iris Marion Young
  Professor of Political Science
  University of Chicago
  Justice and Social Structure

The Ronald Suter Distinguished Guest Lectures

• Fall 2007

  Alice Crary, Associate Professor of Philosophy for Social Research, The New School
  Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University
  Naomi Scheman, Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota
  Crispin Wright , Global Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, New York University/University of St. Andrews
  Workshop: Rule-Following Considerations

  A commemoration of the publication of Wittgenstein: To Follow a Rule (Routledge, 1981), co-edited by special guests, Christopher M. Leich and departmental alumnus and former Rhodes Scholar Steven H. Holtzman.

• Fall 2005
  Cynthia Freeland
  Professor and Chair of Philosophy
  University of Houston
  Portraits and Objectification
• Fall 2004
  Tommy Lott
  Professor of Philosophy
  San José State University
  Aesthetics and Politics in African American Culture
• Spring 2004
  Cora A. Diamond
  William R. Kenan Professor emerita
  University of Virginia
  The Problem of Impiety