Named Lectures Given

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; Collected Papers 28)
1954 4 May	Hermon Ould Memorial Lecture	P.E.N. English Centre, London	“History as an Art” (in Portraits from Memory; Collected Papers 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; Collected Papers 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” (Collected Papers 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; Collected Papers 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 Collected Papers 10)
1936 17 Oct.	Presidential address to Union of Educational Institutions	Birmingham	“The Future of State Education” (in Collected Papers 21)
1936 14 Jan.	Earl Grey Memorial Lecture	Armstrong College, Newcastle upon Tyne	Determinism and Physics (in Collected Papers 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 in the Philosophy of Science (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; Collected Papers 9)
1922 24 Mar.	Conway Memorial Lecture	London	Free Thought and Official Propaganda (in Sceptical Essays; Collected Papers 15)
1914 18 Nov.	Herbert Spencer Lecture	Oxford University	Scientific Method in Philosophy (in Mysticism and Logic; Collected Papers 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; Collected Papers 6)
1911 30 Oct.	Presidential address to Aristotelian Society	London	“On the Relations of Universals and Particulars” (in Collected Papers 6)

 
Compiled by K.Blackwell (updated 21.4.25).