The Tarner lectures are a series of public lectures in the philosophy of science given at Trinity College, Cambridge since 1916. Named after Mr Edward Tarner, the lecture addresses 'the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Relations or Want of Relations between the different Departments of Knowledge.' The inaugural lecture was given by Alfred North Whitehead in the autumn of 1919 and are published as his "The concept of nature."
Past Lectures Full list of Past Tarner Lectures Year Speaker Lecture Title 1919 Dr Alfred North Whitehead The Concept of Nature 1923 Dr C. D. Broad The border-line between physics and psychology 1926 Hon. Bertrand Russell The analysis of matter 1929 Professor G.E. Moore Knowledge direct and indirect 1931 Revd F. R. Tennant The relations between the different departments of knowledge 1935 Mr A.D. Ritchie The natural history of mind 1938 Sir Arthur Eddington The philosophy of physical science 1941 Dr Cecil Alec Mace Causality and mind 1946 Professor R. B. Braithwaite Laws of nature, probability, and scientific explanation 1947 Sir Edmund Whittaker The concepts of physics 1949 Professor Joseph Henry Woodger Biology and language 1953 Professor Gilbert Ryle Cross purposes between theories 1956 Professor Erwin Schrödinger (read by Professor J. Wisdom) The physical basis of consciousness 1960 Professor Carl Pantin The A sciences and the B sciences 1962 Mr H.A.C. Dobbs The concept of time 1965 Professor Hermann Bondi Assumption and myth in physical theory 1967 Professor Georg Henrik von Wright Time, Change and Contradiction 1970 Dr Gerd Buchdahl Science and rational structures 1975 Professor William Kneale Grammar, logic, and arithmetic 1978 Professor Max Black Models of rationality 1982 Professor E. O. Wilson Socio-biology and comparative social theory 1985 Professor Freeman Dyson Origins of life 1988 Sir Andrew Huxley Matter, life, evolution 1991 Professor Ian Hacking Kinds of people and kinds of things 1994 Professor Michael Redhead From physics to metaphysics 1996 Professor Martin J. S. Rudwick Constructing geohistory in the age of revolution 2000 Professor Simon Conway Morris Footsteps to eternity: the implications of evolution 2006 Professor Peter Galison Images, Objects, and the Scientific Self 2010 Professor Simon Schaffer When the stars threw down their spears: Histories of Astronomy and Empire 2012 Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd The ideals of inquiry: an ancient history 2019 Professor Elliott Sober Solving Problems in the Philosophy of Science by using (some simple ideas about) Probability
See also Birkbeck Lecture in Ecclesiastical History Lees Knowles Lecture
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External links Web page at Trinity College