Friends of the Forms Philosophers in Residence
The Friends of the Forms is a student philosophy club that began in 1975. Once a year the club hosts a special "Philosopher-in-Residence" program. We invite a philosopher of national reputation to come for three to four days, give two lectures, and meet informally with students and faculty. Here is a list of of the philosophers who've participated in this program.
| Year | Philosopher in Residence | Title of Talk(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Luvell Anderson | TBD |
| 2024 | John Symons | Loneliness and Love in the Age of Artificial Intelligence |
| 2023 | Larry Shapiro | How Philosophers Think About Thinking |
| 2022 | Eleanor Stump | Suffering and Flourishing |
| 2021 | Esme Murdock | Ontologies of Eco-Kin: Indigenous World Sense/ing |
| 2019 | Robert Gressis | The Placeholder View of Disagreement What Should Professors Think about Bad Students? And What Should Students Think about Bad Professors? |
| 2018 | Krma Lekshe Tsomo | Living and Dying in Buddhist Cultures |
| 2017 | Jonathan Dancy | Understanding Tolerance |
| 2016 | Paul Saka | Providence and Probability: God, Chance and Ultimate Meaning |
| 2015 | Sherri Irvin | Icons of False Hope? The Role of Images in Thinking about Racial Justice Norms and Ontology |
| 2014 | Theodore Kisiel | Heidegger's Meditations on the Meaning of Modern Technology How to Philosophize on Our Own Human Situation of Being According to Martin Heidegger |
| 2013 | Jim Yates | The Hitchcock Gaze: Women, Men and the Panoptic Lens The Hitchcock Style: Mise-en-Scene, Montage and the Subversion of the Audience |
| 2012 | Jane Ackerman | Imagining Native Americans |
| 2011 | Jack Weinstein | Defending Progressive History: Adam Smith Responds to Michel Foucault Why Adam Smith? Why Now? Some thoughts on the renewal of interest in the father of capitalism |
| 2010 | Steven Schroeder | On Not Founding Rome: The Virtue of Hesitation Thirteen Ways of Looking at Laozi: Language and Silence |
| 2009 | Norman Finkelstein | Civility and Academic Freedom The Israel-Palestine Conflict: What we can learn from Ghandi |
| 2007 | Christopher Smeenk | Fine Tuning Problems and Early Universe Cosmology From Space and Time to Spacetime |
| 2006 | Linda Zagzebski | Fate and Fatalism Self Trust and the Diversity of Religions |
| 2005 | Brian Orend | Justice After War: Afghanistan and Iraq Supreme Emergencies & Ethics: From World War II to the Terror |
| 2004 | Michael Tye | Can I Survive My Own Bodily Death? Philosophical Questions About Personal Identity The Problem of Common Sense |
| 2003 | Stanley Hauerwas | Lectures on Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| 2002 | Gary Comstock | Genetic Engineering |
| 2001 | Herman Saatkamp | Santayana: Naturalism & Genetics |
| 2000 | Fred Dallmayr | Globalization: Curse or Promise Homelessness/Homecoming: Heidegger on the Road |
| 1999 | Larry Hickman | Hardhats and Habermas: The Technophobic Residue in Communicative Intelligence as a Public Project: John Dewey's Three-Point Program Ac on |
| 1998 | Nicholas Capaldi | The Liberal Paradigm in Affirmative Action Why is Philosophy Being Marginalized in the Academic World? |
| 1997 | George Graham | Psychopathology and the Mystery of Consciousness Psychopathology, Freedom and the Experience of Externality |
| 1996 | Douglas Kellner | Cultural Studies and Media Culture Modern vs. Post-Modern Theory: Some Contemporary Debates |
| 1995 | Lucius Outlaw | Africana Philosophy On Race and Philosophy |
| 1994 | Sandra Harding | Is Science Multicultural? Challenges, Resources, Opportunities Strong Objectivity: Contributions from Feminism |
| 1993 | Bruce Wilshire | Art and Truth The Moral Collapse of the University |
| 1992 | Herbert Dreyfus | From Socrates to Expert Computer Systems: The Limits of Calculative Rationality What is Moral Maturity? The Carol Gilligan-Jurgen Habermas Debate |
| 1991 | Konstantin Kolenda | Miraculous Life Pragmatism, Old and New |
| 1990 | Peter French | Responsibility, Retribution, and 'Tit-for-Tat' The Dangerous Hero |
| 1989 | John McDermott | Hi-Tech and a Philosophy of Medicine Pragmatic Ethics: An Alternative |
| 1988 | Clark Glymour | Philosophy of Science |
| 1987 | Carl Wellman | Prolonging Life/Delaying the Inevitable Utility and Rights |
| 1986 | Norman Kretzmann | Power, Evil, Goodness and Love in Medieval Explanations of Creation William Ockham and the Creation of the Beginningless World |
| 1985 | Erich Heller | Kafka’s Dog Fable Nietzsche's Prophecy |
| 1984 | Joel Feinberg | Legal Philosophy Moral & Legal Obligations of the Good Samaritan |
| 1983 | Ted Cohen | Jokes: A Philosophical Stroll and The Standard of Artistic Taste |
| 1982 | Robert Solomon | Love: A Philosophical Perspective The Structure of Emotion |
| 1981 | Hazel Barnes | Freedom and Psychology and Sartre and Flaubert |
| 1980 | Kenneth Sayre | Computers, and the Mind/Body Problem Morality, Values and Private Industry |
| 1979 | Marjorie Grene | Evolution and Scientific Progress Idea and Judgment in the Third Meditation of Descartes |
| 1978 | Richard De George | Anarchism and Authority Marxism and the Morality of Capitalism |
| 1977 | Maurice Wiles | Faith, Doubt, & the University Theologian |
| 1976 | Richard Taylor | If God is Dead, Is Nothing Forbidden? Reasons and Causes |
| 1975 | Charles Hartshorne | Metaphysics and the Two Basic Analogies Ways of Thinking About God |