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The E. H. Lindley Memorial Lectureship Fund was established in 1941 in memory of Ernest H. Lindley, Chancellor of the University of Kansas from 1920 to 1939. In February 1941 Mr. Roy Roberts, the chairman of the committee in charge, suggested in the Graduate Magazine, "The Chancellor should invite to the University for a lecture or a series of lectures, some outstanding national or world figure to speak on "Values of Living" -- just as the late Chancellor proposed to do in his courses "The Human Situation" and "Plan for Living.""
In the following June Mr. Roberts circulated a letter on behalf of the Committee, proposing in somewhat broader terms, "The income from this fund should be spent in a quest of social betterment by bringing to the University each year outstanding world leaders for a lecture or series of lectures, yet with a design so broad in its outline that in the years to come, if it is deemed wise, this living memorial could take some more desirable form."
The fund was allowed to accumulate until 1954, when Professor Richard McKeon lectured on "Human Rights and International Relations." The next lecture was given in 1959 by Professor Everett C. Hughes, and has been published by the University of Kansas School of Law as part of his book Student's Culture and Perspectives: Lectures on Medical and General Education. The selection of lectures for the Lindley series has since been delegated to the department of Philosophy.
Recent Submissions
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Against Partiality
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy, 2018-04-19)This is the text of the Lindley Lecture for 2018 given by Roger Crisp, a Professor of Moral Philosophy at St. Anne’s College, Oxford. -
Virtue and Heroism
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosopy, 2015-10-23) -
Social Movements, Experiments in Living, and Moral Progress: Case Studies from Britain’s Abolition of Slavery
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy, 2014-02-11) -
Responsibility, Incompetence, and Psychopathy
(University of Kansas, 2013-04-30) -
Must Criticism Be Constructive?
(University of Kansas, 2012-10-01) -
Ought Implies 'Can'
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy, 2010) -
Evolving Moral Knowledge
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy, 2009) -
Solidarity and the Root of the Ethical
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy, 2008) -
The Importance of Moral Rules and Principles
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy, 2006) -
The Geometry of Desert
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy, 2005) -
Liberalism, Religion, and the Sources of Value
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy, 2004) -
Political Responsibility and Structural Injustice
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy, 2003) -
On Pictorial Organization
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy, 2002) -
Some Mysteries of Love
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy, 2001) -
Civic and Cosmopolitan Justice
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy, 2000) -
The Myth of Egoism
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy, 1999) -
A Second-Best Morality
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy, 1998) -
The Feminist Critique of Liberalism
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy, 1997) -
The Diversity of Objections to Inequality
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy, 1996) -
Wittgenstein on Practice and the Myth of the Giving
(University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy, 1995)
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