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Allison, Dorothy Lecture I. Mean Stories and Stubborn Girls
Lecture II. What It Means to Be Free		 Stanford 2001-01  
Appiah, K. Anthony Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood
Connections		 UC San Diego 1993-94 Harvard University
Appiah, K. Anthony The State and the Shaping of Identity Cambridge 2000-01 Harvard University
Arias Sanchez, Dr. Oscar Poverty: The New International Enemy UC Berkeley 1993-94 Former President, Costa Rica
Aron, Raymond Arms Control and Peace Research Cambridge 1979-80 College De France
Ash, Timothy Garton The Direction of European History Prague 1997-98 Oxford University
Ashby, Lord
The Search for an Environmental Ethic Utah 1978-79 Cambridge University

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Baier, Annette Trust Princeton 1990-91 University of Pittsburgh
Baltimore, David On Doing Science in the Modern World Cambridge 1991-92 Rockefeller University
Barber, Benjamin R. Democratic Alternatives to the Mullahs and the Malls Utah 2002 University of Maryland
Barry, Brian M. Do Countries Have Moral Obligations?
The Case of World Poverty		 Harvard 1980-81 University of Chicago
Bellow, Saul A Writer from Chicago Oxford 1980-81 University of Chicago
Benhabib, Sylvia Reclaiming Universalism: Negotiating Republican Self-Determinism and Cosmopolitan Norms BERKELEY 2004 Yale University
Bennett, Jonathan Morality and Consequences Oxford 1979-80 University of British Columbia
Bildt, Carl Peace After War: Our Experience Cambridge 2005 Former Prime Minister, Sweden
Blom-Cooper, Louis The Penalty of Imprisonment Cambridge 1987-88 Queens College, London
Bloom, Harold I. Shakespeare and the Value of Personality
I I . Shakespeare and the Value of Love		 Princeton 1995-96 Yale University
Brewster, Kingman The Voluntary Society Cambridge 1981-82 President Emeritus, Yale University
Breyer, Stephen Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution Harvard 2004 Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Brown, Donald D. The Impact of Modern Genetics Oxford 1983-84 Carnegie Institute of Washington
Brown, Peter Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World Cambridge 1993-94 Princeton University
Brown, Peter The End of the Ancient Other World: Death and Afterlife between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages Yale 1995-96 Princeton University
Bruntland, Dr. Gro Harlem Environmental Challenges of the 1990s Our Responsibility to ward Future Generations Cambridge 1990-91 Norwegian Storting
Bulger, Roger On Hippocrates, Thomas Jefferson the Bureaucratic, Technologic Imperatives and the Future of the Healing Tradition in a Voluntary Society and Max Weber Cambridge 1986-87 Univ. of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Burkert, Walter Revealing Nature amidst Multiple Cultures: A Discourse with Ancient Greeks Michigan 1998-99 University of Zurich
Burnyeat, Myles
Culture and Society in Plato’s Republic Harvard 1997-98 All Souls College, Oxford

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Cavell, Stanley The Uncanniness of the Ordinary Stanford 1985-86 Harvard University
Cheney, Dorothy Why Animals Don’t Have Language Cambridge 1996-97 University of Pennsylvania
Clark, T. J. Painting and Ground Level Princeton 2002 University of California, Berkeley
Coetzee, John M. The Lives of Animals Princeton 1997-98 University of Cape Town, So. Africa
Cohen, Gerald Incentives, Inequality, and Community Stanford 1990-91 All Souls College, Oxford
Coles, Robert
Children as Moral Observers Michigan 1979-80 Harvard University

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Dahl, Robert A. The Pseudodemocratization of the American Presidency Harvard 1987-88 Yale University
Damasio, Antonio Exploring the Minded Brain Michigan 1997-98 University of Iowa
Daston, Lorraine I. The Morality of Natural Orders
II. Nature's Customs vs. Nature's Laws 		Harvard 2002 Max Planck Institute and Humboldt University, Berlin
Davies, Robertson Reading and Writing Yale 1990-91 Canada
Davis, David Brion Exiles, Exodus, and Promised Lands Stanford 2006 Yale University
Dawkins, Richard I. The Science of Religion
II. The Religion of Science
Harvard 2003 University of Oxford
Dasgupta,Partha   Michigan 2000-01  
deBary, William Theodore The Trouble with Confucianism California 1987-88 Columbia University
Dennett, Daniel The Moral First Aid Manual Michigan 1986-87 Tufts University
de Waal, Frans B.M. Morality and the Social Instincts Princeton 2003 Emory University
Diamond, Jared The Broadest Pattern of Human History Utah 1991-92 UCLA
Diamond, Jared
Ecological Collapses of Pre-industrial Societies Stanford 1999-00 UCLA

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Eco, Umberto Interpretation and Overinterpretation: World, History, Texts Cambridge 1989-90  
Edelman, Marian Wright Standing for Children UC San Franscisco 1996-97 Founder & President of Children's Defense Fund
Eisenstadt, S. N. Cultural Tradition, Historical Experience,
and Social Change: The Limits of Convergence		 California 1988-89 Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Elster, Jon
Taming Chance: Randomization in Individual
and Social Decisions		 Oxford 1986-87 University of Oslo

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Farmer, Paul Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights Utah 2005 Founding Director, Partners in Health charity, Harvard Medical School
Fei, Xiaotong Plurality and Unity in the Configuration of the Chinese People Chinese Univeristy 1988-89 Peking University
Feinberg, Joel Voluntary Euthanasia and the Inalienable Right to Life Michigan 1976-77 University of Arizona
Foucault, Michel Omnes et Singulatim: Towards a Criticism
of ‘Political Reason’		 Stanford 1979-80 College de France
Frankfurt, Harry I. Taking Ourselves Seriously
II. Getting it Right
Stanford 2004 Princeton University
(Emeritus)
Fraser, Nancy Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics:
Redistribution, Recognition, and Participation		 Stanford 1995-96 New School for Social Research
Freeman, Dyson Bombs and Poetry Oxford 1981-82 Institute for Advanced Study
Fried, Charles Is Liberty Possible? Stanford 1980-81 Harvard University
Fried, Michael Roger Fry's Formalism MICHIGAN 2001 Johns Hopkins University
Fuentes, Carlos A Writer from Mexico Utah 1982-83 Princeton University
Fukuyama, Francis
Social Capital Oxford 1996-97 George Mason University

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Gay, Peter The Living Enlightenment Toronto 1996-97  
Geertz, Clifford The Uses of Diversity Michigan 1985-86 Institute for Advanced Study
Gellner, Ernest The Civil and the Sacred Harvard 1989-90  
Gibbard, Allan Thinking How to Live with Each Other UC Berkeley 2006 University of Michigan
Gilligan, Carol Joining the Resistance:Psychology, Politics, Girls, and Women Michigan 1989-90 Harvard University
Glover, Jonathan Towards Humanism in Psychiatry Princeton 2003 King's College, London
Gordimer, Nadine The Essential Gesture: Writers and Responsibility Michigan 1984-85 South Africa
Gould, Stephen J. Challenges to Neo- Darwinism and Their Meaning for a Revised View of Human Consciousness Stanford 1988-89 Harvard University
Gauthier, David The Incompleat Egoist Stanford 1982-83 University of Pittsburgh
Gutmann, Amy
Responding to Racial Injustice Stanford 1994-95 Princeton University

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Habermas, Jurgen Law and Morality Harvard 1986-87 Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, West Germany
Hampshire, Stuart Justice Is Conflict: The Soul and the City Harvard 1996-97 Stanford University
Hare, R. M. Moral Conflicts Utah State 1978-79 Oxford University
Hartman, Geoffrey Text and Spirit Utah 1998-99 Yale University
Herman, Barbara Moral Literacy Stanford 1996-97 Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Hill Jr., Thomas E. Respect for Humanity Stanford 1993-94 University of North Carolina
Hill, Christopher T h e Bible in Seventeenth-Century English Politics Michigan 1991-92 Oxford University
Hill, Geoffrey Rhetorics of Value Oxford 1999-00 Boston University
Hirschman, Albert Two Hundred Years of Reactionary Rhetoric: The Case of the Perverse Effect Michigan 1987-88 Institute of Advanced Study
Hoffmann, Stanley The Nation, Nationalism, and After: The Case of France Princeton 1992-93 Harvard University
Honneth, Axel Reification: A Recognition-Theoretica View UC Berkeley 2005 Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
Hourani, Albert Islam in European Thought Cambridge 1988-89 Oxford University
Howard, A. E. Dick* Toward the Open Society in Central
and Eastern Europe		 Utah 1993-94 University of Virginia
Howe, Irving The Self and the State Princeton 1989-90  
Hrdy, Sarah The Past, Present, and Future of the Human Family Utah 2000-01 University of California, Davis
Hudson, Liam
 The Life of the Mind Yale 1996-97 Balas Copartnership, United Kingdom
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Ignatieff, Michael
I. Human Rights as Politics
II. Human Rights as Idolatry		 Princeton 1999-00 Free Lance Writer

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Keller, Evelyn Fox Rethinking the Meaning of Genetic Determinism Utah 1992-93 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kennedy, David M. The Dilemma of Difference in Democratic Society Oxford 2003 Stanford University
Kentridge, Sir Sydney QC Human Rights: A Sense of Proportion Oxford 2001-01 Britain
Kermonde, Sir Frank Pleasure, Change, and the Canon UC Berkeley 2001 University College, London, Ret.
Kleinman, Arthur Experience and Its Moral Modes: Culture, Human Conditions, and Disorder Stanford 1997-98 Harvard Medical School
Kohl, Helmut   UC Berkeley 1991-92 Germany
Kolakowski, Leszek The Death of Utopia Reconsidered Australian National University 1981-82 Oxford University
Kornai, János I. Market Socialism Revisited
I I. The Soviet Union’s Road to a Free Economy: Comments of an Outside Observer		 Stanford 1989-90 Harvard University
Korsgaard, Christine The Sources of Normativity Cambridge 1992-93 Harvard University
Korsgaard, Christine
 Fellow Creatures: Kantian Ethics and Our Duties to Animals Michigan 2004 Harvard University

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Landon, H. C. Robbins Haydn and Eighteenth-Century Patronage in Austria and Hungary Cambridge 1982-83 University College Cardiff
Lear, Jonathan Happiness Cambridge 1999-00 University of Chicago
Lepenies, Wolf The End of “German Culture” Harvard 1999-00 Olden Lane
Lewis, Bernard Europe and Islam Oxford 1989-90 Princeton University
Lewontin, Richard Biological Determinism Utah 1981-82 Harvard University
Luttwak, Edward Nicolare
Strategy: A New Era? Yale 1989-90 Georgetown University

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MacIntyre, Alasdair Truthfulness, Lies, and Moral Philosophers: What Can We Learn from Mill and Kant? Princeton 1994-95 Duke University
Maguire, Mairead Corrigan Peacemaking from the Grassroots in a World of Ethnic Conflict UC Riverside 1995-96 Belfast, Northern Ireland
Margalit, Avishai I. Indecent Compromise II. Decent Peace Stanford 2005 Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Marshall, Margaret H. Tension and Intentions: The American Constitutions and the Shaping of Democracies Abroad Utah 2006 Chief Justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
Meyer, Leonard B. Music and Ideology in the Nineteenth Century Stanford 1983-84 University of Pennsylvania
Montgomery, David N. Citizenship and Justice in the Lives and Thoughts of Nineteenth-Century American Workers Oxford 1990-91 Yale University
Moore, Barrington Authority and Inequality under Capitalism and Socialism Oxford 1984-85 Harvard University
Morrison, Toni Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature Michigan 1988-89 State University of New York, Albany
Muguerza, Javier
The Alternative of Dissent Madrid 1987-88 Inst. of Philosophy of the Superior Council of Scientific Investigations, Madrid

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Nagel, Thomas The Limits of Objectivity Stanford 1977-78 Princeton University
Nehamas, Alexander A Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art Yale 2000-01 Princeton University
Nozick, Robert Decisions of Principle, Principles of Decision Princeton 1991-92 Harvard University
Nussbaum, Martha C.
Beyond the Social Contract: Toward Global Justice Cambridge 2003 University of Chicago

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O'Neill, Onora
Kant on Reason and Religion Harvard 1995-96 Newham College, Cambridge

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Pagels, Elaine The Origin of Satan in Christian Tradition Utah 1996-97 Princeton University
Parfit, Derek What We Could Rationally Will UC Berkeley 2002 All Souls College, Oxford
Passmore, John A. The Representative Arts as a Source of Truth Cambridge 1980-81 Australian National University
Paz, Octavio Poetry and Modernity Utah 1989-90 Mexico City
Penrose, Sir Roger Space-time and Cosmology Cambridge 1994-95 Oxford Mathematics Institute
Pinker, Stephen The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine Yale 1998-99 MIT
Pinsky, Robert American Culture and the Voice of Poetry Princeton 2000-01 Boston University
Pocock, John G. A. Edward Gibbon in History: Aspects of the Text in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Yale 1988-89 Johns Hopkins University
Popper, Sir Karl Three Worlds Michigan 1977-78 University of London
Posner, Richard Euthanasia and Health Care: Two Essays on the Policy Dilemmas of Aging and Old Age Yale 1994-95 United States Court of Appeals
Prigogine, Ilya
Only an Illusion Jawaharlal Nehru University 1982-83 University of Brussels

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Quinton, Lord
The Varieties of Value Warshaw 1987-88 London

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Rawls, John The Basic Liberties and Their Priority Oxford 1977-78 Harvard University
Raz, Joseph The Practice of Value UC Berkeley 2000-01 Oxford University
Reichl, Ruth Why Food Matters Yale 2005 Editor in Chief, Gourmet Magazine
Relman, Arnold S. Medicine as a Profession and a Business Utah 1985-86 New England Journal of Medicine
Richardson, William C. Reconceiving Health Care to Improve Quality UC Santa Barbara 1999-00 W. K. Kellogg Foundation (postponed to 2001)
Robinson, Joan The Arms Race Utah 1980-81 Cambridge University
Robinson, Mary I. Human Rights and Ethical Globalization
II. The Challenge of Human Rights Protection in Africa 		Stanford 2003 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Rorty, Richard Feminism and Pragmatism Michigan 1990-91 University of Virginia
Rosen, Charles Tradition without Convention:
The Impossible Nineteenth-Century Project		 Utah 1999-00
Rushdie, Salman
 Step Across This Line Yale 2002 Award-Winning Author

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Sachs, Jeffrey*

Shock Therapy in Poland: Perspectives of Five Years

*Howard, Sachs, & Adam Zagajewski, shared lectureship and honorarium at Utah in 1993-94.

 Utah 1993-94 Harvard University
Sagdeev, Roald Science and Revolutions Oxford 1991-92 University of Maryland
Sahlins, Marshall Hierarchy, Equality, and the Sublimation of Anarchy: the Western Illusion of Human Nature Michigan 2005 University of Chicago
Sandel, Michael J. What Money Can’t Buy:
The Moral Limits of Markets		 Oxford 1997-98 Harvard University
Scalia, Antonin Common-Law Courts in a Civil-Law System: The Role of United States Federal Courts in Interpreting the Constitution and Laws Princeton 1994-95 U.S. Supreme Court
Scanlon, Thomas The Status of Well-Being Michigan 1996-97 Harvard University
Scanlon, Thomas M. The Significance of Choice Oxford 1985-86 Harvard University
Scarry, Elaine On Beauty and Being Just Yale 1997-98 Harvard University
Schama, Simon   Harvard 2000-01 Columbia University
Schelling, Thomas C. Ethics, Law, and the Exercise of Self-Command Michigan 1981-82 Harvard University
Schmidt, Helmut The Future of the Atlantic Alliance Utah 1983-84 Former Chancellor, West Germany
Schuller, Gunther I. Jazz: A Historical Perspective
II. Duke Ellington
III. Charles Mingus		 Cambridge 1995-96 Newton Center, Massachusetts
Sen, Amartya Equality of What? Stanford 1978-79 Harvard University
Sen, Amartya K. The Standard of Living Cambridge 1984-85 Oxford University
Shklar, Judith N. Am erican Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion Utah 1988-89 Harvard University
Simon, Herbert Scientific Literacy as a Goal in a High - Technology Society Michigan 1983-84 Carnegie-Mellon University
Skinner, Quentin The Paradoxes of Political Liberty Harvard 1983-84 Cambridge University
Slabbert, F. Van Zyl The Dynamics of Reform and Revolt in Current South Africa Oxford 1987-88 South Africa
Slote, Michael Moderation, Rationality, and Virtue Stanford 1984-85 University of Maryland
Slynn, Lord of Hadley Law and Culture – A European Setting Oxford 1993-94 House of Lords
Snyder, Solomon H. Drugs and the Brain and Society Hebrew University 1980-81 Johns Hopkins
Solow, Robert Welfare and Work Princeton 1996-97 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spence, Jonathan Ideas of Power: China’s Empire in the Eighteenth Century and Today Utah 1997-98 Yale University
Stegner, Wallace The Twilight of Self-Reliance: Frontier Vulues and Contemporary America Utah 1979-80 Los Altos Hills, California
Stern, Fritz I. Mendacity Enforced: Europe, 1914-1989
II. Freedom and Its Discontents: Postunification Germany		 Yale 1992-93 Columbia University
Stigler, George Economics or Ethics? Harvard 1979-80 University of Chicago
Stone, Alan Psychiatry and Morality Stanford 1981-82 Harvard University
Stone, Lawrence Family Values in a Historical Perspective Harvard 1993-94 Princeton University
Striker, Gisela Greek Ethics and Moral Theory Stanford 1986-87 Philsophisches Seminar der Georg-August Universitat & Columbia Univ.
Stroud, Barry The Study of Human Nature and the Subjectivity of Value Buenos Aries 1987-88 University of California, Berkeley
Sullivan, Kathleen   Harvard 2001-02 Stanford University
Sunstein, Cass R. Political Conflict and Legal Agreement Harvard 1994-95 University of Chicago Law School
Suzman, Janet
Who Needs Parables? Oxford 1994-95 South Africa

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Taylor, Charles Modernity and the Rise of the Public Sphere Stanford 1991-92 McGill University
Thomson, Judith Jarvis Goodness and Advice Princeton 1998-99 MIT
Toulmin, Stephen The Idol of Stability Cambridge 1997-98 University of Southern California
Tribe, Laurence H. On Reading the Constitution Utah 1986-87 Harvard University
Tribe, Laurence H.
The Constitution in Crisis Oxford 2002 Harvard University

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Vendler, Helen H. Poetry and the Mediation of Value: Whitman on Lincoln Michigan 1999-00 Harvard University
Verba, Sidney Representative Democracy and Democratic Citizens: Philosophical and Empirical
Understandings		 Oxford 1998-99 Harvard University
Von Wright, Georg Henrik
Of Human Freedom HeIsinki 1983-84  

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Walzer, Michael Interpretation and Social Criticism Harvard 1985-86 Institute for Advanced Study
Walzer, Michael Nation and Universe Oxford 1988-89 Institute for Advanced Study
Warner, Marina Spirit Visions Yale 1999-00  
White, Richard The Problem with Purity UC Davis 1998-99 Stanford University
Wills, Garry L. Henry Adams: The Historian as a Novelist Yale 2003 Northwestern University
Wilson, Edward O. Comparative Social Theory Michigan 1978-79 Harvard University
Wilson, James Q. I. Politics and Polarization
II. Religion and Polarization		 Harvard 2005 Peperdine University

Wilson, William Julius

 The New Urban Poverty and the Problem of Race Michigan 1993-94 University of Chicago

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Zagajewski, Adam*

A Bus Full of Prophets: Adventures of the Eastern-European Intelligentsia

*Howard, Sachs, & Adam Zagajewski, shared lectureship and honorarium at Utah in 1993-94.

 Utah 1993-94 Paris