Lectures
With support from the Harvard University Department of Philosophy, the Review annually invites a professor to campus to deliver a lecture. When possible, the lecture is published in our issue for that year. Since its first lecture in 2002, the Review has hosted the following lecturers:
2025, Vol. XXXII, Jose Medina
2024, Vol. XXXI, Babette Babich
2023, Vol. XXX, John Martin Fischer
2021, Tommy J. Curry (unpublished)
2020, L.A. Paul (unpublished)
2019, Vol. XXVI, Paul C. Taylor
2018, Vol. XXV, Dale Jamieson
2017, David Chalmers (unpublished)
Fall 2016, Vol. XXIII, John Searle*
Fall 2015, Derek Parfit (unpublished)
Fall 2014, Selim Berker (unpublished)
Spring 2014, Vol. XX, Jonathan Dancy*
Spring 2013, Vol. XIX, Judith Jarvis Thomson*
Spring 2012, Vol. XVIII, Jeremy Waldron*
Fall 2010, Vol. XVII, John McDowell*
Fall 2009, Vol. XVI, Peter Kivy*
Spring 2007, Vol. XV, Martha Nussbaum*
Spring 2006, Derek Parfit (unpublished)
Spring 2005, Daniel Dennett (unpublished)
Spring 2002, Gideon Rosen (inaugural lecture, unpublished)
*indicates lecture available via open access
Interviews
Since our very first issue in Spring 1991, which featured an interview with John Rawls—one of the few that he ever gave—the Review has prided itself on featuring interviews with major figures in contemporary philosophy. Below is a list of all the thinkers we have interviewed as of Fall 2022:
2025, Vol. XXXII, J.M. Bernstein
2025, Vol. XXXII, Federica Gregoratto
2024, Vol. XXXI, Andrew Feenberg
2023, Vol. XXX, Peter van Inwagen
2022, Vol. XXIX, J. Baird Callicott
2022, Vol. XXIX, Holmes Rolston III
2022, Vol. XXIX, Peter Singer
2021, Vol. XXVIII, Robin Celikates
2020, Vol. XXVII, Peter Carruthers
2020, Vol. XXVII, David Chalmers
2019, Vol. XXVI, Elizabeth Anderson
2018, Vol. XXV, Lori Gruen
2017, Vol. XXIV, Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Fall 2016, Vol. XXIII, Christopher Peacocke*
Spring 2012, Vol. XVIII, Hilary Putnam*
Fall 2010, Vol. XVII, Charles Parsons*
Fall 2009, Vol. XVI, Stephen Darwall*
Fall 2007, Vol. XV, Thomas M. Scanlon*
Fall 2005, Vol. XIII, Issue II, Bas van Fraassen
Spring 2005, Vol. XIII, Issue I, Hubert Dreyfus
Spring 2004, Vol. XII, Bernard Williams
Spring 2004, Vol. XII, John Searle
Spring 2003, Vol. XI, Philippa Foot*
Spring 2002, Vol. X, Noam Chomsky*
Spring 2001, Vol. IX, Peter Unger*
Spring 2000, Vol. VIII, Tom Wolfe*
Spring 1999, Vol, VII, Stanley Cavell*
Spring 1999, Vol. VII, Cornel West*
Spring 1996, Vol. VI, Michael Sandel*
Spring 1995, Vol. V, Richard Rorty*
Spring 1994, Vol. IV, Alan Dershowitz*
Spring 1994, Vol. IV, W. V. Quine*
Spring 1993, Vol. III, Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr.*
Spring 1992, Vol. II, Hilary Putnam*
Spring 1991, Vol. I, John Rawls*
*indicates interview available via open access
Books
Three books featuring work from the pages of the Review have been published:
All We Need Is a Paradigm: Essays on Science, Economics, and Logic from The Harvard Review of Philosophy (Open Court, 2009)
The Space of Love and Garbage: And Other Essays from The Harvard Review of Philosophy (Open Court, 2008)
Philosophers in Conversation: Interviews from the Harvard Review of Philosophy (Routledge, 2002)