Dawes Hicks Symposia on Philosophy
The Dawes Hicks Lectures on Philosophy, endowed through a bequest from George Dawes Hicks FBA, were delivered 1955-1992. In 1991, the Academy’s Philosophy Section decided to convert them into a series of symposia. The first Dawes Hicks Symposium was held in 1994.
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2014 The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the Long Twentieth Century
2011 Continuity and Innovation in Medieval and Modern Philosophy of Knowledge, Mind and Language
2004 Rationalism, Platonism and God
2000 Henry Sidgwick
1998 Mathematics and Necessity
List of Dawes Hicks Lectures on Philosophy, 1955-1992
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The Practical Turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the Long Twentieth Century
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Mathematics and Necessity: Essays in the History of Philosophy - Infallibility and Modal Knowledge in Some Early Modern Philosophers
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Rationalism, Platonism and God: A Symposium on early modern philosophy
The Dawes Hicks Symposium held on 26 May 2004, at the British Academy, is on central themes in the thought of the three major ‘rationalists’, Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz, relating them to the wider philosophical and theological tradition.
