Welcome

The Amherst Lecture in Philosophy each year brings a distinguished philosopher to Amherst College for a public lecture. Our next Lecturer, on 24 March 2022, will be Louise Antony.

All lectures, along with supplemental materials, are freely available on this website through a fully archived and catalogued publication. The most recently published lecture is:

Lecture 14, 2019

“Autonomy, Consciousness, and Freedom”
Daniel C. Dennett
Tufts University

The Amherst Lecture in Philosophy is published by the Department of Philosophy at Amherst College.