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* 1979-80 (Oxford) [[Jonathan Bennett (philosopher)|Jonathan Bennett]]—"Morality and Consequences"

* 1979-80 (Michigan) [[Robert Coles (psychiatrist)|Robert Coles]]—"Children as Moral Observers"

* 1979-80 (Stanford) [[Michel Foucault]]—"Omnes et Singulatim: Towards a Criticism of ‘Political'Political Reason’Reason'"

* 1979-80 (Utah) [[Wallace Stegner]]—"The Twilight of Self-Reliance: Frontier Values and Contemporary America"

* 1979-80 (Harvard) [[George Stigler]]—"Economics or Ethics?"

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* 1982-83 (Cambridge) [[H.C. Robbins Landon]]—"Haydn and Eighteenth-Century Patronage in Austria and Hungary"

* 1982-83 (Jawaharlal Nehru University) [[Ilya Prigogine]]—"Only an Illusion"

* 1983-84 (Oxford): [[Donald D. Brown]]—"The Impact of Modern Genetics”Genetics"

* 1983-84 (Stanford): [[Leonard B. Meyer]]—"Music and Ideology in the Nineteenth Century”Century"

* 1983-84 (Utah): [[Helmut Schmidt]]—"The Future of the Atlantic Alliance”Alliance"

* 1983-84 (Michigan): [[Herbert A. Simon|Herbert Simon]]—"Scientific Literacy as a Goal in a High-Technology Society”Society"

* 1983-84 (Harvard): [[Quentin Skinner]]—"The Paradoxes of Political Liberty”Liberty"

* 1983-84 (Helsinki): [[Georg Henrik von Wright]]—"Of Human Freedom”Freedom"

* 1984-85 (Michigan): [[Nadine Gordimer]]—"The Essential Gesture: Writers and Responsibility”Responsibility"

* 1984-85 (Oxford): [[Barrington Moore]]—"Authority and Inequality under Capitalism and Socialism”Socialism"

* 1984-85 (Cambridge): [[Amartya K. Sen]]—"The Standard of Living”Living"

* 1984-85 (Stanford): [[Michael Slote]]—"Moderation, Rationality, and Virtue”Virtue"

* 1985-86 (Stanford): [[Stanley Cavell]]—"The Uncanniness of the Ordinary”Ordinary"

* 1985-86 (Michigan): [[Clifford Geertz]]—"The Uses of Diversity”Diversity"

* 1985-86 (Utah): [[Arnold S. Relman]]—"Medicine as a Profession and a Business”Business"

* 1985-86 (Oxford) [[T. M. Scanlon]]—"The Significance of Choice"

* 1985-86 (Harvard): [[Michael Walzer]]—"Interpretation and Social Criticism”Criticism"

* 1986-87 (Cambridge): [[Roger Bulger]]—"On Hippocrates, Thomas Jefferson, and Max Weber: The Bureaucratic, Technologic Imperatives and the Future of the Healing Tradition in a Voluntary Society”Society"

* 1986-87 (Michigan): [[Daniel Dennett]]—"The Moral First Aid Manual”Manual"

* 1986-87 (Oxford): [[Jon Elster]]—"Taming Chance: Randomization in Individual and Social Decisions”Decisions"

* 1986-87 (Harvard): [[Jürgen Habermas]]—"Law and Morality”Morality"

* 1986-87 (Stanford): [[Gisela Striker]]—"Greek Ethics and Moral Theory”Theory"

* 1986-87 (Utah): [[Laurence H. Tribe]]—"On Reading the Constitution”Constitution"

* 1987-88 (Cambridge): [[Louis Blom-Cooper]]—"The Penalty of Imprisonment”Imprisonment"

* 1987-88 (Harvard): [[Robert A. Dahl]]—"The Pseudodemocratization of the American Presidency”Presidency"

* 1987-88 (California): [[William Theodore de Bary]]—"The Trouble with Confucianism”Confucianism"

* 1987-88 (Michigan): [[Albert Hirschman]]—"Two Hundred Years of Reactionary Rhetoric: The Case of the Perverse Effect”Effect"

* 1987-88 (Madrid): [[Javier Muguerza]]—"The Alternative of Dissent”Dissent"

* 1987-88 (Warsaw): [[Lord Quinton]]—"The Varieties of Value”Value"

* 1987-88 (Oxford): [[Frederik van Zyl Slabbert]]—"The Dynamics of Reform and Revolt in Current South Africa”Africa"

* 1987-88 (Buenos Aires): [[Barry Stroud]]—"The Study of Human Nature and the Subjectivity of Value”Value"

* 1988-89 (California): [[S. N. Eisenstadt]]—"Cultural Tradition, Historical Experience, and Social Change: The Limits of Convergence”Convergence"

* 1988-89 (Chinese University): [[Fei Xiaotong]]—"Plurality and Unity in the Configuration of the Chinese People”People"

* 1988-89 (Stanford): [[Stephen J. Gould]]—"Challenges to Neo-Darwinism and Their Meaning for a Revised View of Human Consciousness”Consciousness"

* 1988-89 (Cambridge): [[Albert Hourani]]—"Islam in European Thought”Thought"

* 1988-89 (Michigan): [[Toni Morrison]]—"Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature”Literature"

* 1988-89 (Yale): [[John G. A. Pocock]]—"Edward Gibbon in History: Aspects of the Text in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”Empire"

* 1988-89 (Utah): [[Judith N. Shklar]]—"American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion”Inclusion"

* 1988-89 (Oxford): [[Michael Walzer]]—"Nation and Universe”Universe"

* 1989-90 (Cambridge): [[Umberto Eco]]—"Interpretation and Overinterpretation: World, History, Texts”Texts"

* 1989-90 (Harvard): [[Ernest Gellner]]—"The Civil and the Sacred”Sacred"

* 1989-90 (Michigan): [[Carol Gilligan]]—"Joining the Resistance:Psychology, Politics, Girls, and Women”Women"

* 1989-90 (Princeton): [[Irving Howe]]—"The Self and the State”State"

* 1989-90 (Stanford): [[János Kornai]]—"I. Market Socialism Revisited”Revisited" and "II. The Soviet Union’sUnion's Road to a Free Economy: Comments of an Outside Observer”Observer"

* 1989-90 (Oxford): [[Bernard Lewis]]—"Europe and Islam”Islam"

* 1989-90 (Yale): [[Edward Nicolae Luttwak]]—"Strategy: A New Era?”"

* 1989-90 (Utah): [[Octavio Paz]]—"Poetry and Modernity”Modernity"

* 1990-91 (Princeton): [[Annette Baier]]—"Trust”Trust"

* 1990-91 (Cambridge): [[Gro Harlem Brundtland]]—"Environmental Challenges of the 1990s: Our Responsibility toward Future Generations”Generations"

* 1990-91 (Stanford) [[G.A. Cohen]]—"Incentives, Inequality, and Community"

* 1990-91 (Yale): [[Robertson Davies]]—"Reading and Writing”Writing"

* 1990-91 (Oxford): [[David Montgomery (historian)|David N. Montgomery]]—"Citizenship and Justice in the Lives and Thoughts of Nineteenth-Century American Workers”Workers"

* 1990-91 (Michigan): [[Richard Rorty]]—"Feminism and Pragmatism”Pragmatism"

* 1991-92 (Cambridge): [[David Baltimore]]—"On Doing Science in the Modern World”World"

* 1991-92 (Utah): [[Jared Diamond]]—"The Broadest Pattern of Human History”History"

* 1991-92 (Michigan): [[Christopher Hill (historian)|Christopher Hill]]—"The Bible in Seventeenth-Century English Politics”Politics"

* 1991-92 (UC Berkeley): [[Helmut Kohl]]

* 1991-92 (Princeton): [[Robert Nozick]]—"Decisions of Principle, Principles of Decision”Decision"

* 1991-92 (Oxford): [[Roald Sagdeev]]—"Science and Revolutions”Revolutions"

* 1991-92 (Stanford): [[Charles Taylor (philosopher)|Charles Taylor]]—"Modernity and the Rise of the Public Sphere”Sphere"

* 1992-93 (Princeton): [[Stanley Hoffmann]]—"The Nation, Nationalism, and After: The Case of France”France"

* 1992-93 (Utah): [[Evelyn Fox Keller]]—"Rethinking the Meaning of Genetic Determinism”Determinism"

* 1992-93 (Cambridge): [[Christine Korsgaard]]—"The Sources of Normativity”Normativity"

* 1992-93 (Yale): [[Fritz Stern]]—"I. Mendacity Enforced: Europe, 1914-1989”1989" and "II. Freedom and Its Discontents: Postunification Germany”Germany"

* 1993-94 (UC San Diego): [[K. Anthony Appiah]]—"Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections”Connections"<ref>{{citation | last = Appiah | first = K. Anthony | author-link = Kwame Anthony Appiah | contribution = Race, culture, identity: misunderstood connections | editor-last = Peterson | editor-first = Grethe B. | title = The Tanner lectures on human values XVII | pages = 51–136 | publisher = [[University of Utah Press]] | ___location = Salt Lake City | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780585197708 | postscript = .}} [http://philpapers.org/archive/APPRCI.pdf Pdf.]</ref>

* 1993-94 (UC Berkeley): [[Oscar Arias Sanchez]]—"Poverty: The New International Enemy”Enemy"

* 1993-94 (Cambridge): [[Peter Brown (historian)|Peter Brown]]—"Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World”World"

* 1993-94 (Stanford): [[Thomas E. Hill (academic)|Thomas E. Hill Jr.]]—"Respect for Humanity”Humanity"

* 1993-94 (Utah): [[A.E. Dick Howard]]—"Toward the Open Society in Central and Eastern Europe”Europe"

* 1993-94 (Utah): [[Jeffrey Sachs]]—"Shock Therapy in Poland: Perspectives of Five Years”Years"

* 1993-94 (Oxford): [[Gordon Slynn, Baron Slynn of Hadley|Lord of Hadley Slynn]]—"Law and Culture – A European Setting”Setting"

* 1993-94 (Harvard): [[Lawrence Stone]]—"Family Values in a Historical Perspective”Perspective"

* 1993-94 (Michigan): [[William Julius Wilson]]—"The New Urban Poverty and the Problem of Race”Race"

* 1994-95 (Stanford): [[Amy Gutmann]]—"Responding to Racial Injustice”Injustice"

* 1994-95 (Princeton): [[Alasdair MacIntyre]]—"Truthfulness, Lies, and Moral Philosophers: What Can We Learn from Mill and Kant?”"

* 1994-95 (Cambridge): [[Sir Roger Penrose]]—"Space-time and Cosmology”Cosmology"

* 1994-95 (Yale): [[Richard Posner]]—"Euthanasia and Health Care: Two Essays on the Policy Dilemmas of Aging and Old Age”Age"

* 1995 (Princeton) [[Antonin Scalia]]—"Common-law Courts in a Civil-Law System: The Role of the United States Federal Courts in Interpreting the Constitution and Laws"<ref>{{citation | last = Scalia | first = Antonin | author-link = Antonin Scalia | contribution = Common-law Courts in a Civil-Law System: The Role of the United States Federal Courts in Interpreting the Constitution and Laws | title = The Tanner lectures on human values | year = 1995 | url = http://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/s/scalia97.pdf }}</ref>

* 1994-95 (Harvard): [[Cass R. Sunstein]]—"Political Conflict and Legal Agreement”Agreement"

* 1994-95 (Oxford): [[Janet Suzman]]—"Who Needs Parables?”"

* 1995-96 (Princeton): [[Harold Bloom]]—"I. Shakespeare and the Value of Personality”Personality" and "II . Shakespeare and the Value of Love”Love"

* 1995-96 (Yale): [[Peter Brown (historian)|Peter Brown]]—"The End of the Ancient Other World: Death and Afterlife between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”Ages"

* 1995-96 (Stanford): [[Nancy Fraser]]—"Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: Redistribution, Recognition, and Participation”Participation"

* 1995-96 (UC Riverside): [[Mairead Corrigan Maguire]]—"Peacemaking from the Grassroots in a World of Ethnic Conflict”Conflict"

* 1995-96 (Harvard): [[Onora O'Neill]]—"Kant on Reason and Religion”Religion"

* 1995-96 (Cambridge): [[Gunther Schuller]]—"I. Jazz: A Historical Perspective”Perspective", "II. Duke Ellington”Ellington" and "III. Charles Mingus”Mingus"

* 1996-97 (Cambridge): [[Dorothy Cheney]]—"Why Animals Don’tDon't Have Language”Language"

* 1996-97 (UC San Francisco): [[Marian Wright Edelman]]—"Standing for Children”Children"

* 1996-97 (Oxford): [[Francis Fukuyama]]—"Social Capital”Capital"

* 1996-97 (Toronto): [[Peter Gay]]—"The Living Enlightenment”Enlightenment"

* 1996-97 (Harvard): [[Stuart Hampshire]]—"Justice Is Conflict: The Soul and the City”City"

* 1996-97 (Stanford): [[Barbara Herman]]—"Moral Literacy”Literacy"

* 1996-97 (Yale): [[Liam Hudson]]—"The Life of the Mind”Mind"

* 1996-97 (Utah): [[Elaine Pagels]]—"The Origin of Satan in Christian Tradition”Tradition"

* 1996-97 (Michigan): [[T. M. Scanlon]]—"The Status of Well-Being”Being"

* 1996-97 (Princeton): [[Robert Solow]]—"Welfare and Work”Work"

* 1997-98 (Prague): [[Timothy Garton Ash]]—"The Direction of European History”History"

* 1997-98 (Harvard): [[Myles Burnyeat]]—"Culture and Society in Plato's Republic”Republic"

* 1997-98 (Princeton) [[J. M. Coetzee]] "The Lives of Animals"

* 1997-98 (Michigan): [[Antonio Damasio]]—"Exploring the Minded Brain”Brain"

* 1997-98 (Stanford): [[Arthur Kleinman]]—"Experience and Its Moral Modes: Culture, Human Conditions, and Disorder”Disorder"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/k/Kleinman99.pdf|title=Arthur Kleinman - "Experience and Its Moral Modes: Culture, Human Conditions, and Disorder", The Tanner Lectures on Human Values|last=|first=|date=|website=|access-date=}}</ref>

* 1997-98 (Oxford): [[Michael Sandel]]—"What Money Can’tCan't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets”Markets"<ref>{{cite book | last = Sandel | first = Michael | author-link = Michael Sandel | title = What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets | url = http://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/s/sandel00.pdf | date = 1998 }}</ref>

* 1997-98 (Yale): [[Elaine Scarry]]—"On Beauty and Being Just”Just"

* 1997-98 (Utah): [[Jonathan Spence]]—"Ideas of Power: China’sChina's Empire in the Eighteenth Century and Today”Today"

* 1997-98 (Cambridge): [[Stephen Toulmin]]—"The Idol of Stability”Stability"

* 1998-99 (Michigan): [[Walter Burkert]]—"Revealing Nature amidst Multiple Cultures: A Discourse with Ancient Greeks”Greeks"

* 1998-99 (Utah): [[Geoffrey Hartman]]—"Text and Spirit”Spirit"

* 1998-99 (Yale): [[Steven Pinker]]—"The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine”Machine"

* 1998-99 (Princeton): [[Judith Jarvis Thomson]]—"Goodness and Advice”Advice"

* 1998-99 (Oxford): [[Sidney Verba]]—"Representative Democracy and Democratic Citizens: Philosophical and Empirical Understandings”Understandings"

* 1998-99 (UC Davis): [[Richard White (historian)|Richard White]]—"The Problem with Purity”Purity"

* 1999-2000 (Stanford): [[Jared Diamond]]—"Ecological Collapses of Pre-industrial Societies”Societies"

* 1999-2000 (Oxford): [[Geoffrey Hill]]—"Rhetorics of Value”Value"

* 1999-2000 (Princeton): [[Michael Ignatieff]]—"I. Human Rights as Politics”Politics" and "II. Human Rights as Idolatry”Idolatry"

* 1999-2000 (Cambridge): [[Jonathan Lear]]—"Happiness”Happiness"

* 1999-2000 (Harvard): [[Wolf Lepenies]]—"The End of “German"German Culture””Culture""

* 1999-2000 (UC Santa Barbara): [[William C. Richardson]]—"Reconceiving Health Care to Improve Quality”Quality"

* 1999-2000 (Utah): [[Charles Rosen]]—"Tradition without Convention: The Impossible Nineteenth-Century Project”Project"

* 1999-2000 (Michigan): [[Helen Vendler]]—"Poetry and the Mediation of Value: Whitman on Lincoln”Lincoln"

* 1999-2000 (Yale): [[Marina Warner]]—"Spirit Visions”Visions"

* 2000-01 (Cambridge) [[K. Anthony Appiah]]—"The State and the Shaping of Identity"<ref>{{citation | last = Appiah | first = Kwame Anthony | author-link = Kwame Anthony Appiah | contribution = The State and the shaping of identity | editor-last = Peterson | editor-first = Grethe B. | title = The Tanner lectures on human values XXIII | pages = 235–297 | publisher = University of Utah Press | ___location = Salt Lake City | year = 2002 | isbn = 9780874807189 }} [http://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/a/Appiah_02.pdf Pdf.]</ref>

* 2001 (Michigan): [[Michael Fried]]—"Roger Fry's Formalism”Formalism"

* 2000-01 (Michigan): [[Partha Dasgupta]]

* 2000-01 (Utah): [[Sarah Hrdy]]—"The Past, Present, and Future of the Human Family”Family"

* 2000-01 (Yale): [[Alexander Nehamas]]—"A Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art”Art"

* 2000-01 (Princeton): [[Robert Pinsky]]—"American Culture and the Voice of Poetry”Poetry"

* 2000–01 (Berkeley): [[Joseph Raz]]—''The Practice of Value''<ref name="Berkeley">{{Cite web|url=https://grad.berkeley.edu/tanner/past.shtml|title=Past Lectures|publisher=The Tanner Lectures on Human Values at University of California Berkeley|access-date=5 April 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407093910/https://grad.berkeley.edu/tanner/past.shtml|archive-date=7 April 2014}}</ref>

* 2000-01 (Harvard): [[Simon Schama]]

* 2001 (Stanford): [[Dorothy Allison]]—"I. Mean Stories and Stubborn Girls”Girls" and "II. What It Means to Be Free”Free"

* 2001 (Oxford): [[Sydney Kentridge]]—"Human Rights: A Sense of Proportion”Proportion"

* 2001-02 (Harvard): [[Kathleen Sullivan (lawyer)|Kathleen Sullivan]]

* 2001 (UC Berkeley): [[Sir Frank Kermode]]—"Pleasure, Change, and the Canon”Canon"

* 2002 (Utah): [[Benjamin R. Barber]]—"Democratic Alternatives to the Mullahs and the Malls”Malls"

* 2002 (Princeton): [[T. J. Clark (art historian)|T. J. Clark]]—"Painting and Ground Level”Level"

* 2002 (Harvard): [[Lorraine Daston]]—"I. The Morality of Natural Orders”Orders" and "II. Nature's Customs vs. Nature's Laws”Laws"

* 2002 (UC Berkeley): [[Derek Parfit]]—"What We Could Rationally Will”Will"

* 2002 (Yale): [[Salman Rushdie]]—"Step Across This Line”Line"

* 2002 (Oxford): [[Laurence H. Tribe]]—"The Constitution in Crisis”Crisis"

* 2003 (Harvard): [[Richard Dawkins]]—"I. The Science of Religion”Religion" and "II. The Religion of Science”Science"

* 2003 (Princeton): [[Frans de Waal]]—"Morality and the Social Instincts”Instincts"

* 2003 (Princeton): [[Jonathan Glover]]—"Towards Humanism in Psychiatry”Psychiatry"

* 2003 (Oxford): [[David M. Kennedy (historian)|David M. Kennedy]]—"The Dilemma of Difference in Democratic Society”Society"

* 2003 (Cambridge): [[Martha C. Nussbaum]]—"Beyond the Social Contract: Toward Global Justice”Justice"

* 2003 (Stanford): [[Mary Robinson]]—"I. Human Rights and Ethical Globalization”Globalization" and "II. The Challenge of Human Rights Protection in Africa”Africa"

* 2003 (Yale): [[Garry Wills]]—"Henry Adams: The Historian as a Novelist”Novelist"

* 2004 (Berkeley): [[Seyla Benhabib]]—"Reclaiming Universalism: Negotiating Republican Self-Determinism and Cosmopolitan Norms”Norms"

* 2004 (Harvard): [[Stephen Breyer]]—"Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution”Constitution"

* 2004 (Stanford): [[Harry Frankfurt]]—"I. Taking Ourselves Seriously”Seriously" and "II. Getting it Right”Right"

* 2004 (Michigan): [[Christine Korsgaard]]—"Fellow Creatures: Kantian Ethics and Our Duties to Animals”Animals"

* 2005 (Cambridge): [[Carl Bildt]]—"Peace After War: Our Experience”Experience"

* 2005 (University of Utah) [[Paul Farmer]]—"Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documents/a-to-z/f/Farmer_2006.pdf|title=Never again? Reflections on human values and human rights|last=Paul|first=Farmer|date=|website=|access-date=}}</ref>

* 2005 (UC Berkeley): [[Axel Honneth]]—"Reification: A Recognition-Theoretical View”View"

* 2005 (Stanford): [[Avishai Margalit]]—"I. Indecent Compromise" and "II. Decent Peace”Peace"

* 2005 (Yale): [[Ruth Reichl]]—"Why Food Matters”Matters"

* 2005 (Michigan): [[Marshall Sahlins]]—"Hierarchy, Equality, and the Sublimation of Anarchy: the Western Illusion of Human Nature”Nature"

* 2005 (Harvard): [[James Q. Wilson]]—"I. Politics and Polarization”Polarization" and "II. Religion and Polarization”Polarization"

* 2006 (Stanford): [[David Brion Davis]]—"Exiles, Exodus, and Promised Lands”Lands"

* 2006 (UC Berkeley): [[Allan Gibbard]]—"Thinking How to Live with Each Other”Other"

* 2006 (Utah): [[Margaret H. Marshall]]—"Tension and Intentions: The American Constitutions and the Shaping of Democracies Abroad”Abroad"

* 2007 (Cambridge): [[Judy Illes]]—"Medicine, Neruoscience, Ethics, and Society”Society"

* 2007 (Michigan): [[Brian Skyrms]]—"Evolution and the Social Contract”Contract"

* 2007 (Utah): [[Bill Viola]]—"Presence and Absence”Absence"

* 2007 (Princeton): [[Susan R. Wolf|Susan Wolf]]<!-- Susan Wolf is the common name; the middle initial is in the article title for disambiguation -->—"Meaning in Life and Why It Matters”Matters"

* 2008 (Utah): [[Howard Gardner]]—"What is Good Work? Achieving Good Work in Turbulent Times”Times"

* 2008 (Princeton): [[Marc Hauser]]—"The Seeds of Humanity”Humanity"

* 2008 (Cambridge): [[Lisa Jardine]]—"What's Left of Culture and Society?”"

* 2008 (Tsinghua University): [[David Miller (political theorist)|David Miller]]—"Global Justice and Climate Change: How Should Responsibilities Be Distributed?”"

* 2008 (Harvard): [[Sari Nusseibeh]]—"Philosophical Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian War”War"

* 2008 (Berkeley): [[Annabel Patterson]]—"Pandors's Boxes”Boxes"

* 2008 (Stanford): [[Michael Tomasello]]—"Origins of Human Cooperation”Cooperation"

* 2009 (Yale University): [[John Adams (composer)|John Adams]]—"Doctor Atomic and His Gadget”Gadget"

* 2009 (University of Utah): [[Isabel Allende]]—"In the Hearts of Women”Women"

* 2009 (Cambridge): [[Sir Christopher Frayling]]—"Art and Religion in the Modern West: Some Perspectives”Perspectives"

* 2009 (Harvard): [[Jonathan Lear]]—"To Become Human Does Not Come That Easily”Easily"

* 2009 (UC Berkeley): [[Jeremy Waldron]]—"Dignity, Rank and Rights”Rights"

* 2009 (Stanford): [[Roberto Mangabeira Unger]]-"The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future"

* 2010 (Princeton University): [[Bruce Ackerman]]—"The Decline and Fall of the American Republic”Republic"

* 2010 (UC Berkeley): [[Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im]]—"Transcending Imperialism: Human Values and Global Citizenship”Citizenship"

* 2010 (Stanford): [[Mark Danner]]—"Torture and the Forever War”War"

* 2010 (Utah): [[Spike Lee]]—"America through My Lens: The Evolving Nature of Race and Class in the Films of Spike Lee”Lee"

* 2010 (Michigan): [[Susan Neiman]]—"Victims and Heroes”Heroes"

* 2010 (Princeton): [[Robert Putnam]]—"American Grace”Grace"

* 2010 (Oxford): [[Ahmed Rashid]]—"Afghanistan and Pakistan: Past Mistakes, Future Directions?”"

* 2010 (Michigan): [[Martin Seligman]]—"Flourish: Positive Psychology and Positive Interventions”Interventions"

* 2010 (Cambridge): [[Susan J. Smith]]—"Care-full Markets: Miracle or Mirage?”"

* 2011-12 (Michigan): [[John Broome (philosopher)|John Broome]]—"The Public and Private Morality of Climate Change”Change"

* 2011-12 (Stanford): [[John M. Cooper (philosopher)|John M. Cooper]]—"Ancient Philosophies as a Way of Life”Life"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stanforddaily.com/2012/01/27/john-cooper-delivers-2012-tanner-lecture/|title=John Cooper delivers 2012 Tanner Lecture|first=Catherine|last=Zaw|date=27 January 2012|access-date=5 April 2014|work=The Stanford Daily}}</ref>

* 2011-12 (Harvard): [[Esther Duflo]]—"Human Values and the Design of the Fight against Poverty”Poverty"

* 2011-12 (Cambridge): [[Ernst Fehr]]—"The Psychology and Economics of Authority”Authority"

* 2011-12 (Princeton): [[Stephen Greenblatt]]—"Shakespeare and the Shape of a Life: The Uses of Life Stories”Stories"

* 2011-12 (Yale): [[Lisa Jardine]]—"The Two Cultures: Still Under Consideration”Consideration"

* 2011 (Yale): [[Rebecca Newberger Goldstein]]—"The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature" and "The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature," <ref>{{cite book | editor-last = Matheson | editor-first = Mark | title = The Tanner Lectures on Human Values XXXI | publisher = University of Utah Press | ___location = Salt Lake City | url = http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/upcat/id/1825 }}</ref>

* 2011 (Stanford): [[Elinor Ostrom]]—"I. Frameworks”Frameworks" and "II. Analyzing One-Hundred-Year-Old Irrigation Puzzles”Puzzles"

* 2011 (Harvard): [[James C. Scott|James Scott]]—"Four Domestications: Fire, Plants, Animals, and…and... Us”Us"

* 2011–12 (Berkeley): [[Samuel Scheffler]]—"The Afterlife: I. How People Who Don't Yet Exist Matter More to Us than People Who Do and II. How the Present Depends the Future"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://grad.berkeley.edu/tanner/1112.shtml|title=2011–2012 Lecture Series|publisher=The Tanner Lectures on Human Values at University of California Berkeley|access-date=5 April 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407093750/https://grad.berkeley.edu/tanner/1112.shtml|archive-date=7 April 2014}}</ref>

* 2011-12 (Utah): [[Abraham Verghese]]—"Two Souls Intertwined”Intertwined"

* 2011-12 (Brasenose College): [[Diane Coyle]]—"The Public Responsibility of the Economist”Economist"

* 2012-13 (Oxford): [[Michael Ignatieff]]—"Representation and Responsibility: Ethics and Public Office"<ref name="Linacre">{{Cite web|url=http://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/About/events/TannerLectures|title=Tanner Lectures|publisher=Linacre College, Oxford University|access-date=5 April 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407154637/http://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/About/events/TannerLectures|archive-date=7 April 2014}}</ref>

* 2012-13 (Berkeley): [[Frances Kamm]]—"I. Who Turned the Trolley?" and "II. How Was the Trolley Turned?"

* 2012-13 (Cambridge): [[Joseph Koerner]]—"The Viennese Interior: Architecture & Inwardness”Inwardness"

* 2012-13 (Paris, France): [[Claude Lanzmann]]—"Resurrections”Resurrections"

* 2012-13 (Princeton): [[Ian Morris (historian)|Ian Morris]]—"Human Values in the Very Long Run”Run"

* 2012-13 (Harvard): [[Robert Post (law professor)|Robert Post]]—"Representative Democracy: The Constitutional Theory of Campaign Finance Reform”Reform"

* 2012-13 (Utah): [[Michael J. Sandel]]—"The Moral Economy of Speculation: Gambling, Finance, and the Common Good”Good"

* 2012-13 (Stanford): [[William G. Bowen|William Bowen]]—"I. Costs and Productivity in Higher Education”Education" and "II. Prospects for an Online Fix: Can We Harness Technology in the Service of our Aspirations?”"

* 2012-13 (Michigan): [[Craig Calhoun]]—"The Problematic Public: Revisiting Dewey, Arendt, and Habermas”Habermas"

* 2013-14 (Oxford): [[Shami Chakrabarti]]—"Human Rights as Human Values”Values"

* 2013-14 (Utah): [[Neil deGrasse Tyson]]—"Science as a Way of Knowing”Knowing"

* 2013-14 (Yale): [[Paul Gilroy]]—"The Black Atlantic and the Re-enchantment of Humanism”Humanism"

* 2013-14 (Yale): [[Bruno Latour]]—"How Better to Register the Agency of Things”Things"

* 2013-14 (Stanford): [[Nicholas Lemann]]—"The Transaction Society: Origins and Consequences”Consequences"

* 2013-14 (Michigan): [[Walter Mischel]]—"Overcoming the Weakness of the Will”Will"

* 2013-14 (Cambridge): [[Philippe Sands]]—"The Great Crimes: The Quest for Justice Among Individuals and Groups”Groups"

* 2013-14 (UC Berkeley): [[Eric Santner]]—"The Weight of All Flesh: On the Subject Matter of Political Economy”Economy"

* 2013-14 (Oxford): [[Peter Singer]]—"From Moral Neutrality to Effective Altruism: The Changing Scope and Significance of Moral Philosophy”Philosophy"

* 2013-14 (Utah): [[Andrew Solomon]]—"Love, Acceptance, Celebration: How Parents Make Their Children”Children"

* 2013-14 (Harvard): Archbishop [[Rowan Williams]]–"The Paradox of Empathy"

* 2014-15 (Stanford): [[Danielle Allen]]—"Education and Equality”Equality"

* 2014-15 (Princeton): [[Elizabeth S. Anderson|Elizabeth Anderson]]—"I. Private Government”Government" and "II. When the Market Was 'Left'"

* 2014-15 (Utah ): [[Margaret Atwood]]—"Human Values in Age of Change”Change"

* 2014-15 (Yale): [[Dipesh Chakrabarty]]—"The Human Condition of the Anthropocene”Anthropocene"

* 2014-15 (Cambridge): [[Peter Galison]]—"Science, Secrecy and the Private Self"<ref>{{cite web | last = Staff writer | title = Tanner lectures | url = http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/events/tanner-lectures | publisher = University of Cambridge }}</ref>

* 2014-15 (Michigan): [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]—"A Conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg"<ref>{{cite web | last = Staff writer | title = Events page | date = 23 August 2025 | url = http://www.law.umich.edu/events/Pages/ginsburg.aspx | publisher = Michigan Law School }}</ref>

* 2014-15 (Harvard): [[Carlo Ginzburg]]—"Casuistry, For and Against: Pascal's Provinciales and Their Aftermath”Aftermath"

* 2014-15 (UC Berkeley): [[Philip Pettit]]—"I. From Language to Commitment”Commitment" and "II. From Commitment to Responsibility”Responsibility"

* 2015-16 (Stanford): [[Andrew Bacevich]]—"The American Military Encounters Islam"

* 2015-16 (Michigan): [[Abhijit Banerjee]]—""What do Economists Do?"”"

* 2015-16 (Ochanomizu): [[Dame Carol Black]]—"Women: Education, Biology, Power, and Leadership"

* 2015-16 (Princeton): [[Robert Boyd (anthropologist)|Robert Boyd]]—"I. Not by Brains Alone: The vital role of culture in human adaptation" and "II. Beyond Kith and Kin: How culture transformed human cooperation"

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* 2015-16 (Berkeley): [[Didier Fassin]]—"The Will to Punish"

* 2015-16 (Clare Hall): [[Derek Gregory]]—"Reach for the Sky: Aerial Violence and the Everywhere War"

* 2015-16 (Utah): [[Siddhartha Mukherjee]]—""The Gene: An Intimate History"”"

* 2015-16 (Oxford): [[Shirley Williams]]—""The Value of Europe and European Values"”"

* 2016 (Princeton): [[Naomi Oreskes]] - Lecture I: "Trust in Science?" - Lecture II: "When Not to Trust Science, or When Science Goes Awry"

* 2016-17 (Berkeley): [[Seana Shiffrin]]—"I. Democratic Law”Law" and "II. Common and Constitutional Law: A Democratic Legal Perspective”Perspective"

* 2017 (Harvard): [[Bryan Stevenson]]—"Social Justice Action: How We Change the World"

* 2017-18 (Berkeley): [[Michael Warner]]–"Environmental Care and the Infrastructure of Indifference"

* 2018 (Harvard): [[Dorothy Roberts|Dorothy E. Roberts]]–"The Old Biosocial and the Legacy of Unethical Science" and "The New Biosocial and The Future of Ethical Science"

* 2019-20 (Michigan): [[Charles W. Mills]]—"Theorizing Racial Justice"<ref>{{cite web | last = Staff writer | title = Tanner lectures | url = https://fordschool.umich.edu/events/2020/2020-tanner-lecture-human-values-theorizing-racial-justice | publisher = University of Michigan}}</ref>

* 2019 (Harvard): [[Masha Gessen]]—"How We Think About Migration" and "Some Ideas for Talking About Migration"

* 2021-22 (Princeton): [[Elizabeth Kolbert]]—"Welcome to the Anthropocene: Lecture II - What Can We Do About It?" and "Welcome to the Anthropocene: Lecture I - What on Earth Have We Done?"

* 2023 (Harvard): [[Margaret Hiza Redsteer]] –"On Resilience: A Capacity to Absorb Disturbances and Shocks" and "Barriers to Transforming Climate Dialogues"

* 2023-24 (Yale): Rob Nixon–Nixon –"Ecology and Equity"

* 2024 (Harvard): [[Hahrie Han]] –"Stories of Democracy Realized"

== Notes and references ==