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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values is a multiversity lecture series in the humanities, founded in 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, by the American scholar Obert Clark Tanner.[1] In founding the lecture, he defined their purpose as follows:[2]

I hope these lectures will contribute to the intellectual and moral life of mankind. I see them simply as a search for a better understanding of human behavior and human values. This understanding may be pursued for its own intrinsic worth, but it may also eventually have practical consequences for the quality of personal and social life.

It is considered one of the top lecture series among top universities,[3] and being appointed a lectureship is a recognition of the scholar's "extra-ordinary achievement" in the field of human values.[2]

Member institutions

Permanent lectureships are established at the following nine institutions:[4]

Lecturers

  • 1976-1977 (Michigan) Joel Feinberg—"Voluntary Euthanasia and the Inalienable Right to Life"[5]
  • 1977-1978 (Stanford) Thomas Nagel—"The Limits of Objectivity"
  • 1977-1978 (Michigan) Karl Popper—"Three Worlds"
  • 1977-1978 (Oxford) John Rawls—"The Basic Liberties and Their Priority"
  • 1978-1979 (Stanford) Amartya Sen—"Equality of What?"
  • 1978-1979 (Michigan) Edward O. Wilson—"Comparative Social Theory"
  • 1978-1979 (Utah) Lord Ashby—"The Search for an Environmental Ethic"
  • 1978-1979 (Utah State) R.M. Hare—"Moral Conflicts"
  • 1979-1980 (Cambridge) Raymond Aron—"Arms Control and Peace Research"
  • 1979-1980 (Oxford) Jonathan Bennett—"Morality and Consequences"
  • 1979-1980 (Michigan) Robert Coles—"Children as Moral Observers"
  • 1979-1980 (Stanford) Michel Foucault—"Omnes et Singulatim: Towards a Criticism of ‘Political Reason’"
  • 1979-1980 (Utah) Wallace Stegner—"The Twilight of Self-Reliance: Frontier Values and Contemporary America"
  • 1979-1980 (Harvard) George Stigler—"Economics or Ethics?"
  • 1980-1981 (Harvard) Brian Barry—"Do Countries Have Moral Obligations? The Case of World Poverty"
  • 1980-1981 (Oxford) Saul Bellow—"A Writer from Chicago"
  • 1980-1981 (Stanford) Charles Fried—"Is Liberty Possible?"
  • 1980-1981 (Cambridge) John Passmore—"The Representative Arts as a Source of Truth"
  • 1980-1981 (Utah) Joan Robinson—"The Arms Race"
  • 1980-1981 (Hebrew University) Solomon H. Snyder—"Drugs and the Brain and Society"
  • 1981-1982 (Cambridge) Kingman Brewster—"The Voluntary Society"
  • 1981-1982 (Oxford) Freeman Dyson—"Bombs and Poetry"
  • 1981-1982 (Australian National University) Leszek Kolakowski—"The Death of Utopia Reconsidered"
  • 1981-1982 (Utah) Richard Lewontin—"Biological Determinism"
  • 1981-1982 (Michigan) Thomas C. Schelling—"Ethics, Law, and the Exercise of Self-Command"
  • 1981-1982 (Stanford) Alan Stone—"Psychiatry and Morality"
  • 1982-1983 (Utah) Carlos Fuentes—"A Writer from Mexico"
  • 1982-1983 (Stanford) David Gauthier—"The Incompleat Egoist"
  • 1982-1983 (Cambridge) H.C. Robbins Landon—"Haydn and Eighteenth-Century Patronage in Austria and Hungary"
  • 1982-1983 (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Ilya Prigogine—"Only an Illusion"
  • 1986 (Harvard) T. M. Scanlon—"The Significance of Choice"[6]
  • 1988 (Michigan) Toni Morrison—"Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature"
  • 1991 (Stanford) G.A. Cohen—"Incentives, Inequality, and Community"
  • 1994 (San Diego) K. Anthony Appiah—"Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections"[7]
  • 1995 (Princeton) Antonin Scalia—"Common-law Courts in a Civil-Law System: The Role of the United State Federal Courts in Interpreting the Constitution and Laws"[8]
  • 1997 (Princeton) J.M. Coetzee "The Lives of Animals"
  • 1998 (Stanford) Arthur Kleinman—"Experience and Its Moral Modes: Culture, Human Conditions, and Disorder"[9]
  • 1998 (Oxford): Michael Sandel—What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets[10]
  • 2000–2001 (Berkeley): Joseph Raz—The Practice of Value[11]
  • 2001 (Cambridge) K. Anthony Appiah—"The State and the Shaping of Identity"[12]
  • 2001–2002 (Berkeley): Sir Frank Kermode
  • 2004 (Berkeley): Seyla Benhabib—"Reclaiming Universalism: Negotiating Republican Self-Determinism and Cosmopolitan Norms"[5]
  • 2005 (University of Utah) Paul Farmer—"Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights"[13]
  • 2007 (Michigan): Marshall Sahlins—"Hierarchy, Equality, and the Sublimation of Anarchy"
  • 2009 (Harvard): Jonathan Lear—"Irony and Identity"[14]
  • 2010 (Cambridge): Susan J. Smith–Care-full markets – Miracle or Mirage?[15]
  • 2011 (Yale): Rebecca Newberger Goldstein - "The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature," [16]
  • 2011–2012 (Berkeley): Samuel Scheffler—The Afterlife[17]
  • 2012 (Stanford): John M. Cooper[18]
  • 2013 (Oxford): Michael Ignatieff—Representation and Responsibility: Ethics and Public Office[19]
  • 2013 (Berkeley): Frances Kamm
  • 2014 (Harvard): Archbishop Rowan Williams–The Paradox of Empathy[20]
  • 2014 (Oxford): Shami Chakrabarti—Human Rights as Human Values[19]
  • 2014 (Cambridge): Peter Galison—"Science, Secrecy and the Private Self"[21]
  • 2015 (Michigan): Ruth Bader Ginsburg—"A Conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States"[22]

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Tanner Lectures and Philosophy". University of Utah Press. Archived from the original on 2007-05-22. Retrieved 2007-10-16.
  2. ^ a b "The Lectures". University of Utah. Archived from the original on 2007-07-11. Retrieved 2007-10-16.
  3. ^ Jaschik, Scott. "Are college faculty too liberal?". Archived from the original on 2007-10-28. Retrieved 2007-10-16. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ "Universities and Colleges". University of Utah. Archived from the original on 2007-12-13. Retrieved 2007-10-16. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ a b "Lecture Library". Tanner Lectures on Human Values. University of Utah. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  6. ^ Scanlon, T.M. (1988), "The significance of choice", in Sen, Amartya; McMurrin, Sterling M. (eds.), The Tanner lectures on human values VIII, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, pp. 149–216, ISBN 9780874803020. {{citation}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help) Pdf.
  7. ^ Appiah, K. Anthony (1996), "Race, culture, identity: misunderstood connections", in Peterson, Grethe B. (ed.), The Tanner lectures on human values XVII, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, pp. 51–136, ISBN 9780585197708. {{citation}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help) Pdf.
  8. ^ Scalia, Antonin (1995), "Common-law Courts in a Civil-Law System: The Role of the United State Federal Courts in Interpreting the Constitution and Laws", The Tanner lectures on human values (pdf)
  9. ^ "Arthur Kleinman - "Experience and Its Moral Modes: Culture, Human Conditions, and Disorder", The Tanner Lectures on Human Values" (PDF).
  10. ^ Sandel, Michael (1998). What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (pdf).
  11. ^ "Past Lectures". The Tanner Lectures on Human Values at University of California Berkeley. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  12. ^ Appiah, Kwame Anthony (2002), "The State and the shaping of identity", in Peterson, Grethe B. (ed.), The Tanner lectures on human values XXIII, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, pp. 235–297, ISBN 9780874807189 Pdf.
  13. ^ Paul, Farmer. "Never again? Reflections on human values and human rights" (PDF).
  14. ^ "Irony and identity". Harvard Gazette. 2009-11-05. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  15. ^ "The 2010 Tanner Lectures". Cambridge University. 3 November 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  16. ^ Matheson, Mark (ed.). The Tanner Lectures on Human Values XXXI. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
  17. ^ "2011–2012 Lecture Series". The Tanner Lectures on Human Values at University of California Berkeley. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  18. ^ Zaw, Catherine (27 January 2012). "John Cooper delivers 2012 Tanner Lecture". The Stanford Daily. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  19. ^ a b "Tanner Lectures". Linacre College, Oxford University. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  20. ^ Tanner Lectures website
  21. ^ Staff writer. "Tanner lectures". University of Cambridge.
  22. ^ Staff writer. "Events page". Michigan Law School.
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