Below is the audio recording of Margaret Atherton’s John Dewey Lecture, “My History: Becoming an Historian of Philosophy,” given at the 2017 Central 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:
“My History: Becoming an Historian of Philosophy” by Margaret Atherton
Margaret Atherton is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She earned her AB in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College and her PhD from Brandeis University. After teaching at New York University, Brooklyn College, the University of Maryland, and the University of Rochester, she joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1980, where she taught until her retirement in 2007. Her research interests include English philosophers of the early modern period, historical issues in the philosophy of psychology, and the work of women philosophers in the history of philosophy. Atherton served as president of the APA Central Division in 2012–2013.
About this series: The Blog of the APA is pleased to publish the Presidential Addresses and John Dewey Lectures given at the Eastern, Central, and Pacific APA Division Meetings, which communicate the ideas and experiences that the renowned philosophers who delivered them felt are most important for people in the field to know. The Blog wishes to thank the APA leadership and Jeremy Cushing for their support and assistance in making these recordings available.
