John McDowell - Honors

Honors

  • Fellow of the British Academy (elected in 1983)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected in 1992)
  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award, 2010
  • Honorary degree, University of Chicago, 2008
  • Delivered the 1991 John Locke Lectures in Philosophy, Oxford University
  • Woodbridge Lectures, Columbia University, 1997
  • Delivered the 2006 Howison Lectures in Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley
  • 2010 Harvard Review of Philosophy Annual Lecture
  • 2011 Amherst Lecture in Philosophy, Amherst College
  • 2011 Aquinas Lecture, Marquette University

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