Nelson Goodman, professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, will speak on "Some Empirical Paradoxes and Their Lesson" at 8 p.m. tonight in Phillips Brooks House. His lecture is eighth in a series sponsored by the Harvard Philosophy Club this term.

Next week's speaker will be Herbert Phillips, one of three professors fired from the University of Washington last month for "loftist sympathies." His subject will be "The Value of Society."