Harvard University Department of Philosophy: Public Lectures Supported by the Department

Public Lectures Supported by the Department
Below is a list of some of the promient lectures that the department supports throughout the academic year. For a list of other department-sponsored colloquia, please click here.
Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics Lecture Series	The Safra Foundation Center is an interdisciplinary program based in the Kennedy School of Government, and regularly sponsors talks by moral and political philosophers.
Harvard-MIT Graduate Philosophy Conference	Each year, a coalition of graduate students at Harvard and MIT organize and present this graduate student conference, typically held in early spring.
Mind/Brain/Behavior (MBB) Interfaculty Initiative	MBB offers lectures, workshops, and other resources for faculty and students interested in the structure, function, evolution, development, and pathology of the nervous system in relation to human behavior and mental life.
New England Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy	Typically held in June, this colloquium is an informal group formed to foster interaction among scholars of seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy, roughly the period covering Montaigne to Kant.
Practice Job Talks	These are presentations by advanced graduate students in the Department.
Tanner Lectures on Human Values	The Tanner Lectures are given once each year at Harvard. Tanner Lectures may be given by moral or political philosophers, lawyers and law professors, political figures, authors, or anyone who may have something important to contribute to educated reflection on human values. Lecturers are chosen by a University committee. A schedule, as well as electronic versions of previous lectures, can be obtained from the link to the left.
Alfred North Whitehead Lectures	These are two lectures by a distinguished philosopher, ordinarily in the spring semester. Recent Whitehead Lecturers include Tyler Burge, Cora Diamond, Michael Friedman, Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Mary Mothersill, Thomas Nagel, Crispin Wright, Robert Stalnaker, Dorothy Edgington, Sarah Broadie, and Susan Wolf. The 2009 Whitehead Lectures will be given by John Campbell, University of California, Berkeley.