Knox lectures
The Sir Malcolm Knox Memorial Lecture is given each academic year, usually in the spring, by a leading international philosopher. The Knox twenty-eight Lecturers to date are as follows:
| 2012 | Quentin Skinner (London) | The Utilitarian 'discovery' about Liberty |
| 2011 | Lord Sutherland (Edinburgh) | Universities: where there is no vision |
| 2010 | Susan Mendus (York) | Religious Terrorism & Political Liberalism |
| 2009 | Henry Shue (Oxford) | Indiscriminate Disproportionality |
| 2008 | Robert George (Princeton) | Modern Legal Philosophy |
| 2007 | John Broome (Oxford) | The Ethics of Global Warming |
| 2006 | Ted Honderich (London) | Humanity, Terrorism, Terrorist War |
| 2005 | Hilary Putnam (Harvard) | Just and Unjust Wars |
| 2004 | Alan Ryan (Oxford) | Liberal Imperialism: A Defence |
| 2003 | John Gray (London) | Al Quaeda & the Meaning of Modernity |
| 2002 | Samuel Scheffler, (Berkeley) | What is Egalitarianism? |
| 2001 | Joseph Raz (Oxford) | Personal Attachments & Universal Values |
| 2000 | Jeremy Waldron (Columbia) | Basic Equality |
| 1999 | Derek Parfit (Oxford) | Reasons & Rationality |
| 1998 | Martha Nussbaum (Chicago) | Feminism & Internationalism |
| 1997 | + Richard Rorty (Virginia) | Is It Possible to Love Truth? |
| 1996 | Roger Scruton (London) | Animals and How to Treat Them |
| 1995 | Charles Taylor (McGill) | Two Theories of Modernity |
| 1994 | Baroness O'Neill (Cambridge) | Principles, Judgements & Institutions |
| 1993 | Gerard A. Cohen (Oxford) | Is There Still a Case for Socialism? |
| 1992 | Baroness Warnock (Cambridge) | The Idea of Moral Consensus |
| 1991 | + Sir Bernard Williams (Oxford) | Equality, Liberty and Resentment |
| 1990 | Sir Anthony Kenny (Oxford) | Newman on Religious Belief |
| 1989 | + Sir Neil MacCormick (Edinburgh) | Is Nationalism Philosophically Credible? |
| 1988 | Alasdair MacIntyre (Notre Dame) | The Politics of Truth-telling and Lying |
| 1987 | Ronald Dworkin (Oxford) | What is Political Equality? |
| 1986 | + John Rawls (Harvard) | Political Liberalism and its Public Role |
| 1985 | Lord Quinton (Oxford) | Reflections on Individualism |