| 2011 |
Harry Frankfurt (Princeton University), "Getting It Right" |
| 2010 |
Jerome B. Schneewind (Johns Hopkins University), "Autonomy After Kant" |
| 2009 |
John Cooper (Princeton University), "Aristotle and Philosophy as a Way of Life" |
| 2008 |
Sir Anthony Kenny (Oxford University), "Just Wars, Unjust Wars, and Holy Wars" |
| 2007 |
Hilary Putnam (Harvard University), "What Pragmatism Taught Us" |
| 2006 |
D.Z. Phillips (Claremont Graduate School), "Seeing Pictures of God" |
| 2005 |
Nicholas Rescher (Unjiversity of Pittsburgh), "On Distinctions in Philosophy" |
| 2004 |
Anthony Lisska (Denison University), "Recta Ratio in Late Medieval Moral Theory: The Case of Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham" |
| 2003 |
Bas van Fraasen (Princeton University), "Representation and Perspective in Science" |
| 2002 |
Frederick Ferre (University of Georgia), "Should Metaphysics Still Come First?" |
| 2001 |
Eleonore Stumpf (St. Louis University), "Medieval Metaphysics and Political Theology: Aquinas on Incarnation" |
| 2000 |
Richard Blackwell (St. Louis University), "Galileo's Trial: A Plea Bargain Gone Awry" |
| 1999 |
Thomas Flynn (Emory University), "The Spaces of Michel Foucault" |
| 1998 |
John Lachs (Vanderbilt University), "Transcendence in Philosophy and in Everyday Life" |
| 1997 |
Jorge Gracia (SUNY at Buffalo), "The Nature of Metaphysics" |
| 1996 |
Robert Neville (Boston University), "Is There an Essence of Human Nature?" |
| 1995 |
William Richardson, S.J. (Boston College), "Heidegger's Fall" |
| 1993 |
Hubert Dreyfus (University of California, Berkeley), "What is Moral Maturity?" |
| 1992 |
Nicholas Wolterstorff (Yale University), "The Art of Remembering: The Social Function of Art in Remembering" |
| 1991 |
Martha Nussbaum (Brown University), "Literary Imagination in Public Life" |
| 1990 |
John Wippel (The Catholic University of America), "What Can We Know of God?" |
| 1989 |
Gerald McCool, S.J. (Fordham University), "Why St. Thomas Aquinas Stays Alive" |
| 1988 |
William Alston (Syracuse University), " An Empirical Basis for Theology" |
| 1987 |
Robert Sokolowski (The Catholic University of America), "What is Moral Action?" |
| 1987 |
Quentin Lauer, S.J. (Fordham University), "Humanism and Human Dignity" |
| 1986 |
Alvin Plantinga (University of Notre Dame), "Is Belief in God Rational?" |
| 1985 |
W. Norris Clarke, S.J. (Fordham University), "Art and the Elite: A Philosophical Defense of Popular Art" |
| 1983 |
John N. Findlay (Boston University), "Neoplatonism and Western Christian Man" |
