| YEAR | LECTURE(S) / ADDRESS | VENUE | PUBLISHED AS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 19 Apr. |
Sonning Prize address | Copenhagen University | “Old and Young Cultures” (in Fact and Fiction) |
| 1958 28 Jan. |
Kalinga Prize address | UNESCO House, Paris | “The Role of Science in Education” (B&R C58.07) |
| 1955 6 Oct. |
Silver Pears Cyclopaedia Trophy speech | London | [5 sentences quoted] (B&R D55.04) |
| 1955 9 Jan. |
Henriette Hertz Trust Lecture on a Master Mind | British Academy, London | “John Stuart Mill” (in Portraits from Memory; CPBR 28) |
| 1954 4 May |
Hermon Ould Memorial Lecture | P.E.N. English Centre, London | “History as an Art” (in Portraits from Memory; CPBR 28) |
| 1951 1 Nov. |
Matchette Foundation lecture | Purdue University, West Lafeyette, Indiana | “The Physical Conditions of Thinking” (as “Mind and Matter” in Portraits from Memory; CPBR 11) |
| 1950 11 Dec. |
Nobel Prize address | Stockholm | “What Desires Are Politically Important” (in Human Society in Ethics and Politics) |
| 1950 14-16 Nov. |
Matchette Foundation Lectures (3) | Columbia University, New York | The Impact of Science on Society |
| 1950 11 Nov. |
Spencer Trask Lecture | Princeton University, Princeton, NJ | “Mind and Matter” |
| 1950 27 Oct.-1 Nov. |
Florence Purington Lectures (5, 2 public) | Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. | “Is Mathematics Purely Linguistic?”, “When Is an Opinion Rational?”, What Desires Are Politically Important”, “Living in an Atomic Age”, “The Good and Harm Done by Dogmatic Ideologies” |
| 1950 26 June-15 Aug. |
E.C. Dyason Lectures for Australian Institute of International Affairs (6) | Australia | “Ferment in Asia”, “Obstacles to World Government”, “Living in the Atomic Age” (CPBR 26) |
| 1950 17 Jan.-21 Feb. |
Charles Beard Lectures (6) | Ruskin College, Oxford | The Impact of Science on Society |
| 1949 29 Nov. |
Lloyd Roberts Lecture | Royal Society of Medicine, London | “Can a Scientific Society Be Stable?” (in The Impact of Science on Society) |
| 1948-49 26 Dec.-30 Jan. |
The Reith Lectures | BBC Third Programme | Authority and the Individual |
| 1948 23 Nov. |
Sir Halley Stewart Lectures (1 of) | BBC, London | “Values in the Atomic Age” (B&R B98, The Atomic Age) |
| 1946 23 Oct. |
National Book League Lecture | London | Philosophy and Politics (in Unpopular Essays; CPBR 11) |
| 1946 Thursdays in Feb. |
A.T. Shearman Memorial Lectures | University College, London | [title unknown] [BR was first Shearman Lecturer. see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/philosophy/shearman-lectures] |
| 1945 10 Nov. |
Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture | Newnham College, Cambridge University | Physics and Experience (in Human Knowledge) |
| 1940 4 Oct.- 20 Dec. |
William James Lectures (12) | Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. | An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth |
| 1937 4 Nov. |
Presidential address to Aristotelian Society | London | “On Verification” (in CPBR 10) |
| 1936 17 Oct. |
Presidential address to Union of Educational Institutions | Birmingham | “The Future of State Education” (in CPBR 21) |
| 1936 14 Jan. |
Earl Grey Memorial Lecture | Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne | Determinism and Physics (in CPBR 10) |
| 1932 21 Oct. |
Presidential speech to P.E.N. | London | [fragment of a sentence] (B&R D32.01) |
| 1926 15 Oct.- 3 Dec. |
Tarner Lectures (8) | Trinity College, Cambridge | The Analysis of Matter |
| 1923 10 Oct. |
Presidential address to Students’ Union | London School of Economics | “The Need for Political Scepticism” (in Sceptical Essays; CPBR 9) |
| 1922 24 Mar. |
Conway Memorial Lecture | London | Free Thought and Official Propaganda (in Sceptical Essays; CPBR 15) |
| 1914 18 Nov. |
Herbert Spencer Lecture | Oxford University | Scientific Method in Philosophy (in Mysticism and Logic; CPBR 8) |
| 1914 5 May |
Stanley Woodward Lecture | Yale University | “The World of Physics and the World of Sense” (Our Knowledge of the External World, Ch. 4) |
| 1914 16 Mar.- 9 Apr. |
Lowell Lectures (8) | Boston | Our Knowledge of the External World |
| 1912 4 Nov. |
Presidential address to Aristotelian Society | London | “On the Notion of Cause” (in Mysticism and Logic; CPBR 6) |
| 1911 30 Oct. |
Presidential address to Aristotelian Society | London | “On the Relations of Universals and Particulars” (in CPBR 6) |
Compiled by K.Blackwell (updated 21.10.23).