THE DUNBAR LECTURES

Instituted by Jack F. & Wylene Dunbar in honor of Robert E. Bergmark,
beloved Millsaps teacher, colleague, and scholar

1988
Robert E. Bergmark (Millsaps College), “Knowledge, Belief and Commitment” in four installments:
“What Can We Know?”
“What May We Reasonably Believe?”
“How Ought We Reasonably to Live?”
“What May We Reasonably Hope?”

1989
John E. Smith (Yale U.), “Recovering the Value Dimension in Education”

1990
Alison Jaggar (U. of Cincinnati), “How Can Ethics Be Feminist?”

1991
Hilary Putnam (Harvard U.), “Ultimate Questions”

1992
Richard T. DeGeorge (Kansas U.), "Modern Science, Environmental Ethics and the Anthropocentric Predicament"

1993
Ralph A. Smith (U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign), “Once More: The Traditional Humanistic Ideal of Education”

1994
Charles Scott (Pennsylvania State U.), “What Paris is Doing to Us”

1995
Tom Regan (North Carolina State U.), "Patterns of Resistance: The Struggle for Freedom and Equality in America"

1996
Hilde Hein (College of the Holy Cross), “The Absent Mind: Toward a Feminist Aesthetic”

1998
Robert C. Solomon (U. of Texas-Austin), “Nietzsche and the Passionate Life”

2000
Martha Nussbaum (U. of Chicago), "Secret Sewers of Vice: Disgust, Bodies, and the Law"

2002
Robert Bernasconi (U. of Memphis), "When Race Was Everything: A Philosopher Looks at 19th Century Anthropology"

2004
Paul Churchland (U. of California-San Diego), "Impossible Colors: How Objective Brain Science Really Can Explain Subjective Human Experience"

2005
Eleonore Stump (St. Louis U.), "The Problem of Suffering: Samson and Self-Destroying Evil"

2006
Lucius Outlaw, Jr. (Vanderbilt U.), “Education, Academic Philosophy and the Strategic Production of Ignorance”

2007
James P. Sterba (U. of Notre Dame), "Why Everyone Should Agree that Economic Inequality is Unjustifiable"

2008
Michael Ruse (Florida State U.), "Can Evolution Explain Morality? Or Is It Dog Eat Dog All the Way Down?"