Sellars Lectureship

Department of Philosophy

The Roy Wood Sellars Lectureship was established in 1971 to celebrate both Roy Wood Sellars and W. Preston Warren. The latter was for many years chair of the philosophy department at Bucknell and was the author or editor of a number of papers and books on Roy Wood Sellars' philosophy. The first Sellars Lecture was given by Preston Warren, and the second by Wilfrid Sellars (with his father in attendance). A number of other very important American philosophers have held the lectureship in recent years:

1971 – W. Preston Warren (Bucknell)
1972 – Wilfrid Sellars (Pittsburgh)
1974 – Roderick Chisholm (Brown)
1975 – C. F. Delaney (Notre Dame)
1976 – Lewis White Beck (Rochester)
1978 – John F. Smith (Yale)
1979 – Wolfe Mays (Manchester)
1981 – Richard J. Bernstein (Haverford)
1983 – James Gouinlock (Emory)
1984 – Anthony C. Genova (Kansas)
1985 – Stanley Cavell (Harvard)
1986 – Beth Singer (Brooklyn College)
1988 – Arthur Danto (Columbia)
1991 – William Desmond (Loyola College)
1992 – Richard DeGeorge (Kansas)
1995 – Merold Westphal (Fordham)
1996 – Joseph Fell (Bucknell)
1997 – Noel Carroll (Wisconsin-Madison)
1998 – Karsten Harries (Yale)
2002 – Hubert Dreyfus (California-Berkeley)
2004 – Daniel Garber (Princeton)