| Year | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Gualtiero Piccinini | ||
| 2021 | No lecture (pandemic) | ||
| 2020 | Gualtiero Piccinini | Canceled due to pandemic | |
| 2019 | James Tabery | U of Utah | "ALL OF US Should Be Concerned: What History Says We Should Expect from the Largest Medical Study in the Nation's History" |
| 2018 | Jackie Sullivan | Western U | "Translational Cognitive Neuroscience: How Can We Learn from Animals?" |
| 2017 | Holly Andersen | Simon Fraser U | “Causation and Laplace’s Pattern” |
| 2016 | Wendy Parker | Durham U | "Explaining the global warming 'hiatus': models, measurements and media" |
| 2015 | Alan Love | U of Minnesota | "Individuation, Individuality, and Experimental Practice in Developmental Biology" |
| 2014 | Timothy Maudlin | New York U | "Topology and the Structure of Space-Time" |
| 2013 | Michael Janssen | U of Minnesota | "Arches and Scaffoldings: Continuity and Discontinuity in Building Relativity and Quantum Theory" |
| 2012 | Andrea Scarantino | Georgia State U | "Basic Emotion Theory: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly" |
| 2011 | Daniel Steel | Michigan State U | "Robust Decision Making and the Dilemma Objection to the Precautionary Principle" |
| 2010 | Andrea Woody | U of Washington | "Attention to Practice: Models, Molecules, and Making Sense" |
| 2009 | No lecture | ||
| 2008 | Christopher Smeenk | U of Toronto | "The Cosmological Constant Problem" |
| 2007 | Carl Craver | Wash U St. Louis | "When Mechanistic Models explain: The Hodgkin and Huxley Model of Action Potential" |
| 2006 | Robert Pennock | Michigan State U | "Models, Simulations, Instantiations and Evidence: The Case of Digital Evolution" |
| 2004 | Rachel Ankeny | U of Sydney | "Reasoning from the Case Book: What Do Cases in the Biomedical Sciences Explain?" |
| 2003 | ?? | ||
| 2002 | Spranzi Zuber | U de Versailles | "The Uses and Abuses of Analogical Reasoning: The Case of Galileo and the Mountains of the Moon" |
| 2001 | Madeline Muntersbjorn | U Toledo | "Mirrors, Machines and Bacon's Bees" |
| 1999-2000 | ?? | ||
| 1998 | Kathleen Okruhlik | U Western Ontario | "The Life and Death of the Cartesian Subject" |
| 1997 | Warren Schmaus | Illinois Institute of Technology | "Meaning and Representation in the Social Sciences" |
| 1995 (Oct) | Sandra Mitchell | UC San Diego | "Biological complexity and Theoretical Plurality" |
| 1995 (Jan) | James Hofmann | CSU Fullerton | "Data, Phenomena, and Evolutionary Hierarchy: A New Twist on the Evolution/Creation Debate" |
| 1992 | John McEvoy | U of Cincinnati | "The Enlightenment and the Chemical Revolution: A Contextual Model of Scientific Change" |
| [date unk.] | John Nicholas | U Western Ontario | [title unk.] |