Below is the audio recording of William G. Lycan’s John Dewey Lecture, “On Evidence in Philosophy,” given at the 2017 Eastern Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR. A summary of the main points of the lecture was previously published on the Blog of the APA.
The audio of the lecture is available here:
“On Evidence in Philosophy” by William G. Lycan
William G. Lycan is Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Connecticut. He earned his MA and PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago, and also taught at the Ohio State University prior to joining the faculty at UNC Chapel Hill in 1982. His work is in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and epistemology. Lycan has published extensively and his newest book, Perceptual Content, was published in June 2024.
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