This year the Simone Weil Lecture was presented by Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor Rebecca Rozelle-Stone from the University of North Dakota.
| Year | Lecturer | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Professor Stan Grant | |
| 2024 | Professor Dermot Moran |
Empathy and interpersonal relations |
| 2023 | Associate Professor Matthew Sharpe |
Beyond banality: deception, Eichmann and evil |
| 2022 | Scott Stephens |
We do not breathe well: Tending the moral conditions of our common life |
| 2019 | Professor Roger Crisp |
Virtue in a changing climate: How do we respond morally to global warming? |
| 2018 | Professor Mark Alfano |
Dark humour in dark times: The sustaining virtue of laughter |
| 2017 | Professor Lenart Škof |
Democracy as Human Value: On the Idea of Ethical Citizenship |
| 2016 | Professor Robert Audi |
Transnational Ethics and the Refugee Crisis |
| 2015 | Professor Michael Morgan |
Tears the Civil Servant Cannot See: Ethics, Politics, and the Individual |
| 2014 | Professor Eleonore Stump |
Is Justice Enough? Aquinas on Justice and Care |
| 2013 | Associate Professor Jeffrey Bloechl |
Between Love and Law: Paul and Philosophy |
| 2012 | Prof Richard Kearney |
Narrating Pain: The Power of Catharsis |
| 2011 | Prof Kevin Hart FAHA |
On Forgiveness: Narrative and Lyrical |
| 2010 | Antony Duff |
To Whom Must We Answer? Responsibility, Community and Criminal Law |
| 2009 | Miranda Fricker |
Knowledge and Prejudice |
| 2008 | Professor Jonathon Glover |
Uprootedness, Narratives and National Conflict |
| 2007 | Professor Susan Mendus |
Terrorism and Religion |
| 2006 | Professor Susan Neiman |
Moral Clarity |
| 2004 | Stephen Mulhall |
The Conversation of Mankind |
| 2003 | Professor Simon Critchley |
"I want to die, I hate my life": Phaedra's Malaise |
| 2002 | Professor Ray Monk |
A Wonderful Life: Philosophy and Biography |
| 2001 | Professor Avishai Margalit |
A Moral Witness |
| 2000 | Professor Christine M. Korsgaard |
Human Action and Normative Standards |
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