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Dawes Hicks Lectures on Philosophy

The Dawes Hicks Lectures on Philosophy were endowed through a bequest from George Dawes Hicks FBA. The lecture was first delivered in 1955. From 1994 to 2014, the lectures were converted into a series of symposia. In 2018 it was agreed that henceforth the lecture fund should be used to support philosophy-themed events in the British Academy Conferences programme.

Symposia

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

1994  Philosophical Dialogues

Lectures

1992 The Anaxarchus Case: An Essay on Survival, by Jacques Brunschwig (text)

1990 Thomas Hobbes: Rhetoric and the Construction of Morality, by Quentin Skinner (text)

1989 Kant’s Moral Intuitionism, by Jules Vuillemin (text)

1988 The Rational Imperative: Kant Against Hume, by R C S Walker (text)

1987 Plato’s Division of the Soul, by Michael Woods (text)

1986 Hegel on Self-Consciousness, by D W Hamlyn (text)

1985 Marx and Locke on Land and Labour, by G A Cohen (text)

1983 Terms and Sentences: Theophrastus on Hypothetical Syllogisms, by Jonathan Barnes (text)

1982 Is Time Real? Responses to an Unageing Paradox, by R R K Sorabji (text)

1981 Locke’s Logical Atomism, by Michael Ayers (text)

1980 Theories of Meaning, by Charles Taylor (text)

1979 Conflicting Appearances, by M F Burnyeat (text)

1978 Locke and the Ethics of Belief, by J A Passmore (text)

1977 Pre-Established Harmony versus Constant Conjunction: A Reconsideration of the Distinction Between Rationalism and Empiricism, by Hidé Ishiguro (text)

1976 The Naturalism of Book I of Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature, by David Pears (text)

1975 The Good Self and the Bad Self: The Moral Psychology of British Idealism and the English School of Psychoanalysis Compared, by Richard Wollheim (text)

1974 Aristotle on Eudaimonia, by J L Ackrill (text)

1973 Leibniz and Descartes: Proof and Eternal Truths, by Ian Hacking (text)

1972 The Impartial Spectator, by D D Raphael (text)

1971 Absolute Idealism, by A M Quinton (text)

1970 Activity and Description in Aristotle and the Stoa, by A C Lloyd (text)

1969 Mental Health in Plato’s Republic, by A J P Kenny (text)

1968 Kierkegaard’s Two Ways, by Patrick Gardiner (text)

1967 Kant’s Conception of Freedom, by Stephan Körner (text)

1967 The Primacy of Practical Reason, by G J Warnock (text)

1965 The Platonism of Aristotle, by G E L Owen (text)

1964 G. E. Moore on the Naturalistic Fallacy, by C Lewy (text)

1963 Kant's Moral Theology, by W H Walsh (text)

1962 Some Problems of Self-Reference in John Buridan, by A N Prior (text)

1961 Hume's Doctrine of Space, by C D Broad (text)

1960 Spinoza and the Idea of Freedom, by Stuart Hampshire (text)

1959 The Philosophy of Language in Revolutionary France, by H B Acton

1958 Some Elements in Hegel's Logic, by G R G Mure

1957 The Development of Aristotle's Thought, by David Ross

1956 Kant on Friendship, by H J Paton

1955 Bergson on Morality, by Frederick C Copleston

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