The Brian O’Neil Memorial Lectures in the History of Philosophy have been given at the University of New Mexico since 1988/89. They are funded from an endowment established by the friends, students, and colleagues of the late Professor Brian O’Neil, with help from the UNM Foundation and the Gwen J. Barrett Fund.

Brian O’Neil received both his undergraduate and graduate education from the University of California at Berkeley, starting as a freshman when he was already in his early forties and working straight through to the Ph.D. degree. He was the author of a number of articles in philosophical journals, and a few years after he came to New Mexico he published a book entitled Epistemological Direct Realism In Descartes’ Philosophy (UNM Press, 1974). His entire professional career was spent in the UNM Philosophy Department, where he was for many years a widely loved and respected teacher of the history of philosophy. His wit, kindness, and deep interest in both the subject he taught and the students to whom he taught it left a lasting impression on all who knew him. He died from cancer in 1985.

Hubert L. Dreyfus

2001/2002

Michael Friedman

2000/2001

Terry Penner

1999/2000

Allen Wood

1998/1999

Alasdair MacIntyre

1997/1998

Alexander Nehamas

1996/1997

Alan Code

1994/1995

Barry Stroud

1993/1994

Burton Dreben

1992/1993

Edwin Curley

1991/1992

Richard Wollheim

1990/1991

Richard Popkin

1989/1990

Ernan McMullin

1988/1989

The following lectures have been published in individual pamphlet form and may be obtained from the Department of Philosophy (1 University of New Mexico, MSC 03 2140, Albuquerque, NM, 87131-0001, USA, www.unm.edu/~thinker) at a price of $3 each.