| Year |
President |
Presidential address[1]
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| 1952 |
Paul Weiss |
"The Past: Its Nature and Reality"
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| 1953 |
Paul Weiss |
"The Contemporary World"
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| 1954 |
John Wild |
"The New Empiricism and Human Time"
|
| 1955 |
Charles Hartshorne |
"Some Empty Though Important Thoughts"
|
| 1956 |
Newton P. Stallknecht |
"The Quality of Man"
|
| 1957 |
George Klubertanz |
"The Problem of the Analogy of Being"
|
| 1958 |
William Ernest Hocking |
"Fact, Field and Destiny: Inductive Elements of Metaphysics"
|
| 1959 |
Rudolph Allers |
"The Subjective and the Objective"
|
| 1960 |
Richard McKeon |
"Being, Existence, and That Which Is"
|
| 1961 |
Henry Veatch |
"Matrix, Matter, And Method in Metaphysics"
|
| 1962 |
James Daniel Collins |
"The Bond of Natural Being"
|
| 1963 |
Donald Cary Williams |
"Necessary Facts"
|
| 1964 |
Peter Bertocci |
"Toward a Metaphysics of Creation"
|
| 1965 |
Francis H. Parker |
"The Temporal Being of Western Man"
|
| 1966 |
Robert Brumbaugh |
"Applied Metaphysics: Truth and Passing Time"
|
| 1967 |
John Herman Randall Jr. |
"Metaphysics and Language"
|
| 1968 |
W. Norris Clarke |
"The Self as Source of Meaning in Metaphysics"
|
| 1969 |
Errol Harris |
"The Power of Reason"
|
| 1970 |
Richard Hocking |
"Event, Act and Presence"
|
| 1971 |
John Edwin Smith |
"Being, Immediacy and Articulation"
|
| 1972 |
Joseph Owens |
"Reality and Metaphysics"
|
| 1973 |
Roderick Chisholm |
"Parts as Essential to Their Wholes"
|
| 1974 |
Ernan McMullin |
"Two Faces of Science"
|
| 1975 |
J. N. Findlay |
"The Three Hypostases of Platonism"
|
| 1976 |
Marjorie Grene |
"Merleau-Ponty and the Renewal of Ontology"
|
| 1977 |
Wilfrid Sellars |
"Being as Becoming: Towards a Metaphysics of Pure Reason"
|
| 1978 |
Andrew Reck |
"Being And Substance"
|
| 1979 |
John Compton |
"Reinventing the Philosophy of Nature"
|
| 1980 |
Kenneth L. Schmitz |
"A Moment of Truth: Present Actuality"
|
| 1981 |
Ivor Leclerc |
"The Metaphysics of the Good"
|
| 1982 |
Thomas Langan |
"A Strategy for the Pursuit of Truth"
|
| 1983 |
Richard T. De George |
"Social Reality and Social Relations"
|
| 1984 |
Jude P. Dougherty |
"Structure: Substantial and Other"
|
| 1985 |
R. M. Martin |
"The Metaphysical Status of Mathematical Entities"
|
| 1986 |
George L. Kline |
"Past, Present and Future as Categorical Terms and the Fallacy of the Actual Future"
|
| 1987 |
Edward Pols |
"On Knowing Directly: The Actualization of First Philosophy"
|
| 1988 |
Richard Bernstein |
"Metaphysics, Critique and Utopia"
|
| 1989 |
Robert Neville |
"Value, Courage and Leadership"
|
| 1990 |
Robert Sokolowski |
"The Question of Being"
|
| 1991 |
Stanley Rosen |
"Is Metaphysics Possible"
|
| 1992 |
Mary T. Clark |
"An Inquiry Into Personhood"
|
| 1993 |
Ralph McInerny |
"The Science We Are Seeking"
|
| 1994 |
Donald Sherburne |
"Some Reflections on Sartre's Nothingness and Whitehead's Perishing"
|
| 1995 |
William Desmond |
"Being, Determination and Dialectic: On The Sources of Metaphysical Thinking"
|
| 1996 |
Sandra B. Rosenthal |
"Self, Community, and Time: A Shared Sociality"
|
| 1997 |
John Lachs |
"Valuational Species"
|
| 1998 |
Eugene Thomas Long |
"Quest for Transcendence"
|
| 1999 |
Oliva Blanchette |
"Suárez and the Latent Essentialism of Heidegger's Fundamental Ontology"
|
| 2000 |
George James Allan |
"Perishable Goods"
|
| 2001 |
Jorge Gracia |
"Are Categories Invented or Discovered? A Response to Foucault"
|
| 2002 |
James Felt |
"Epochal Time and The Continuity of Experience"
|
| 2003 |
Vincent Colapietro |
"Striving to Speak in a Human Voice: A Peircean Contribution to Metaphysical Discourse"
|
| 2004 |
Frederick Ferré |
"The Practicality of Metaphysics"
|
| 2005 |
Nicholas Rescher |
"Textuality, Reality and the Limits of Knowledge"
|
| 2006 |
John Wippel |
"Thomas Aquinas on the Ultimate Question: Why Is There Anything at All Rather Than Nothing Whatsoever?"
|
| 2007 |
Lenn Goodman |
"Value and the Dynamics of Being"
|
| 2008 |
Joseph Grange |
"The Generosity of the Good"
|
| 2009 |
Donald Verene |
"Metaphysics and the Origin of Culture"
|
| 2010 |
Dan Dahlstrom |
"Being and Negation"
|
| 2011 |
Thomas R. Flynn |
"Whatever Happened to Humanism? Reconciling the Being of Language and the Being of Man"
|
| 2012 |
Edward Halper |
"Reason and the Rationality of Being"
|
| 2013 |
May Sim |
"Metaphysics and Ethics, East and West"
|
| 2014 |
Alan White |
"Rearticulating Being"
|
| 2015 |
Richard Dien Winfield |
"Self-determination in Logic and Reality"
|
| 2016 |
George R. Lucas, Jr. |
"Anaximander and the Ordering of Time"
|
| 2017 |
Nancy Frankenberry |
"Consenting to Contingency After Rorty and Nagarjuna"
|
| 2018 |
Richard Velkley |
"The Fate of Human Action: The Agency of 'Reason' in Modern Philosophy"
|
| 2019 |
Daniel Dombrowski |
"Metaphysics, Political Philosophy, and the Process of Liberal Political Justification"
|
| 2020/2021 |
Lawrence Cahoone |
"Towards an Ordinal Naturalism"
|
| 2022 |
Owen Goldin |
"Symbolic Classification and the Emergence of a Metaphysics of Causality"
|
| 2023 |
David Weissman |
"Presidential Roundtable with Tim Maudlin and Peter van Inwagen"
|
| 2024 |
Michael Baur |
"Some Thoughts on the Identity and Difference of Knower and Known, and the Difference It Makes"
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