Below is the audio recording of Gary Watson’s John Dewey Lecture, “Finding Philosophy,” given at the 2018 Pacific Division Meeting. The full text is available on the APA website (member sign-in is required) as well as on JSTOR.
The audio of the lecture is available here:
“Finding Philosophy” by Gary Watson
Gary Watson is provost professor emeritus of law and philosophy at the University of Southern California. He earned his undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Washington and his PhD in philosophy from Princeton University. Prior to joining the faculty at USC, he taught at Reed College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, Riverside. His interest in concepts of legal responsibility target the relations between moral and criminal responsibility and the criminal law’s conceptions of moral agency. Watson was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.
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.
