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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