Thalberg Lectures
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The Thalberg Memorial Lecture is an ongoing lecture series which memorializes Irving Thalberg Jr., a long-serving member of the philosophy department at UIC. The series was organized after his death in 1987, to celebrate his contributions to philosophy and the department, particularly in supporting diversity, and to advance work in areas to which he contributed. These areas ranged widely, as Thalberg’s work falls in philosophy of action, philosophy of emotion, philosophy of race, philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and value theory.
Here is a list of past speakers, including lecture titles:
Past Thalberg Lectures Heading link
| Speaker | Lecture Title | Lecture Date |
|---|---|---|
| Kristie Dotson, Michigan | "Dear Toni Morrison: Notes Towards a Sustainable, Black Sovereignty" | March 14, 2022 |
| Charles Mills, CUNY | "Doing Injustice to Racial Justice: How Rawls Went Wrong" | March, 29, 2021 |
| Cheshire Calhoun, Arizona State University | "Responsibilities and Taking on Responsibility" | April 16, 2018 |
| Paul Taylor, Penn State | "On Post-Racialism: The President as Racial Project" | March 9, 2015 |
| Nancy Cartwright, UC San Diego and Durham University | "Moving on in Evidence-Based Policy: Experiments versus the Modelling of Society" | March 11, 2013 |
| Amelie Rorty, Harvard University | "Questioning Moral Reasons" | October 12, 2009 |
| Bernard Boxill, Univeristy of North Carolina | "DuBois and Douglass on Sympathy and Double Consciousness" | October 16, 2006 |
| Richard Moran, Harvard University | "Kant, Proust and the Appeal of Beauty" | |
| Tyler Burge, UCLA | "Perceptual Objectivity" | September 27, 2004 |
| Harry Frankfurt, Princeton University | "Some Mysteries of Love" | September 24, 2001 |
| Richard Wollheim, UC Berkeley | "Emotions and Their Kinds" | October 19, 2000 |
| Diana Meyers, University of Connecticut | "Decentralizing Autonomy: The Five Faces of Selfhood" | April 23, 1999 |
| Hilary Putnam, Harvard University | "There Is More to the Mind than Computation" | March 27, 1999 |
| Brian Skyrms, UC Riverside | "Inference by Convention and the Evolution of Meaning" | November 21, 1997 |
| Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Purdue University | "Jane Addams and John Dewey on the Ties that Bind: Theorizing After the Demise of Classical Liberal Individualism" | September 19, 1996 |
| Michael Stocker, Syracuse University | "Emotions, Pleasure, and Value" | May 10, 1991 |
| Marcia Baron, University of Illinois at Urbana | "Impartiality and Friendship" | May 24, 1990 |
| Donald Davidson, UC Berkeley | "The Myth of the Subjective" | October 14, 1988 |
| Howard McGary, Rutgers University | "Forgiveness" | May 12, 1988 |