Visiting Philosophers
Our current Erskine visitor
Our latest Erskine visitor is Assoc. Prof. Imogen Dickie from the University of Toronto in Canada. She will be with us from 22 April until 2 June 2012 and, during her stay, she will be lecturing our co-coded courses Phil310/431 Early Modern Philosophy/History of Philosophy.
The Erskine Programme
Thanks to the University of Canterbury's Erskine Fund (the bequest of Professor Jack Erskine), the Philosophy Programme is able to appoint up to three internationally renowned philosophers each year as Erskine visitors. Each Erskine lecturer visits the Programme for a period of one to three months. These philosophers teach in our undergraduate and postgraduate courses in all areas and participate in our weekly Research Seminar.
This rich programme of Erskine visitors makes Canterbury one of the very best places in the world in which to study philosophy. The intellectual life of the Philosophy Programme is enriched further by the many other international visitors who lecture in our weekly Research Seminar.
Erskine and other visitors have in recent years included...
Since the mid 1990s, visitors who have spent one or more months teaching in the Programme include Julia Annas, Louise Antony, Simon Blackburn, Margaret Boden , John Broome, Harvey Brown , John Casti, Alan Chalmers , John Cottingham , John Cooper, Jonathan Dancy, Martin Davies, Bill Demopoulos , Dan Dennett , Fred Dretske , Julia Driver , Jay Garfield , Moira Gatens, Rom Harre , Bernard Harrison , Peter Hilton, Terry Irwin , Frank Jackson , Joseph Levine, Jerry Levinson , William Lycan, Bill Lyons , Brian McLaughlin, Ruth Millikan, Graham Oddie , Jean Pedersen, Michael Ruse , Mark Sainsbury , Christopher Shields, Peter Singer , Michael Smith, Graham Solomon , Roy Sorensen , Steve Stitch , Dirk van Dalen , R. Jay Wallace,and Tim Williamson .