Tamara Horowitz Memorial Lecture

Tamara Horowitz was a member of the Pitt Philosophy Department for sixteen years, from 1984 to her death in 2000, at the age of 49. Before coming to Pittsburgh, Horowitz taught at New York University. Horowitz did her doctoral work at MIT. In fact, she was the first female Ph.D. of the MIT philosophy program. At the age of fifteen, Horowitz received a scholarship to study mathematics at the University of Chicago. Here Horowitz’s interests shifted to philosophy as a result of a course she took with Elizabeth Anscombe. Horowitz’s philosophical interests were broad, but she had a special interest in epistemology and decision theory and the interconnections between the two. Her most mature thoughts on these topics appeared in her posthumously published book The Epistemology of A Priori Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2006). Horowitz had a deep interest in social and political issues. She taught a popular course in social and political philosophy and another in feminist philosophy.

Past Horowitz Lecturers

2019-20

Sally McConnell-Ginet  (Cornell)

2018-19

Ann Cudd  (Pittsburgh)

2017-18

Rebecca Kukla  (Georgetown)

2016-17

Karen Jones  (Melbourne)

2015-16

Kate Manne  (Cornell)

2014-15

Sally Haslanger (MIT)

2013-14

Susanna Siegel (Harvard)

2012-13

Michael Friedman (Stanford)

2011-12

Sara Buss (Michigan)

2010-11

Tamar Gendler (Yale)

2009-10

Tommie Shelby (Harvard)

2007-08

Charles Parsons (Harvard)

2006-07

Paul Horwich (NYU)

2005-06

Frances Kamm (Harvard)

2004-05

Rick Grush (UCSD)

2003-04

Ruth Garrett Millikan (U. of Connecticut)

2002-03

Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago Law School)

2000-01

Janet Levin (USC)

2000

Alexander Nehamas (Princeton) – Inaugural