Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 06:02, 26 January 2021

Revision as of 23:07, 20 February 2021

Line 1:

The '''Tanner Lectures on Human Values''' is a multi-university lecture series in the [[humanities]], founded in 1978, at [[Clare Hall, Cambridge|Clare Hall, Cambridge University]], by the American scholar [[Obert Clark Tanner]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Tanner Lectures and Philosophy |publisher=University of Utah Press |url=http://www.uofupress.com/store/page23.html |accessdateaccess-date=2007-10-16 |archiveurlarchive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070522035643/http://www.uofupress.com/store/page23.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedatearchive-date = 2007-05-22}}</ref> In founding the lecture, he defined their purpose as follows:<ref name=main>{{cite web |title=The Lectures |publisher=University of Utah |url=https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/overview/lectures.php |accessdateaccess-date=2018-07-08}}</ref>

{{quote|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,<ref>{{cite news |title=Are college faculty too liberal? |first=Scott |last=Jaschik |url=http://www.yorktownpatriot.com/article_234.shtml |accessdateaccess-date=2007-10-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028144015/http://www.yorktownpatriot.com/article_234.shtml |archivedatearchive-date=2007-10-28 }}</ref> and being appointed a lectureship is a recognition of the scholar's "extra-ordinary achievement" in the field of [[human values]].<ref name=main />

== Member institutions ==

Permanent lectureships are established at the following nine institutions:<ref>{{cite web |title=Universities and Colleges |publisher=University of Utah |url=http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/universities.html |accessdateaccess-date=2007-10-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213180341/http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/universities.html |archivedatearchive-date=2007-12-13 }}</ref>

* [[Linacre College, Oxford]]

* [[University of California, Berkeley]]

Line 17:

== Lecturers ==

* 1976-77 (Michigan) [[Joel Feinberg]]—"Voluntary Euthanasia and the Inalienable Right to Life"<ref name="library">{{cite web |title=Lecture Library |url=https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/lecture-library.php |website=Tanner Lectures on Human Values |publisher=University of Utah |accessdateaccess-date=8 July 2018}}</ref>

* 1977-78 (Stanford) [[Thomas Nagel]]—"The Limits of Objectivity"

* 1977-78 (Michigan) [[Karl Popper]]—"Three Worlds"

Line 109:

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

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

* 1993-94 (UC San Diego): [[K. Anthony Appiah]]—"Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood 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 | ref = harv | postscript = .}} [http://philpapers.org/archive/APPRCI.pdf Pdf.]</ref>

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

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

Line 122:

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

* 1994-95 (Yale): [[Richard Posner]]—"Euthanasia and Health Care: Two Essays on the Policy Dilemmas of Aging and Old 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 | format = pdf}}</ref>

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

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

Line 146:

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

* 1997-98 (Stanford): [[Arthur Kleinman]]—"Experience and Its Moral Modes: Culture, Human Conditions, and 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’t Buy: The Moral Limits of 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 | format = pdf | date = 1998 }}</ref>

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

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

Line 171:

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

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

* 2000–2001 (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|accessdateaccess-date=5 April 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407093910/https://grad.berkeley.edu/tanner/past.shtml|archivedatearchive-date=7 April 2014}}</ref>

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

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

Line 231:

* 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”

* 2011-12 (Stanford): [[John M. Cooper (philosopher)|John M. Cooper]]—"Ancient Philosophies as a Way of 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|accessdateaccess-date=5 April 2014|work=The Stanford Daily}}</ref>

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

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

Line 240:

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

* 2011 (Harvard): [[James C. Scott|James Scott]]—"Four Domestications: Fire, Plants, Animals, and… 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|accessdateaccess-date=5 April 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407093750/https://grad.berkeley.edu/tanner/1112.shtml|archivedatearchive-date=7 April 2014}}</ref>

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

* 2011-2012 (Brasenose College): [[Diane Coyle]]—"The Public Responsibility of the 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|accessdateaccess-date=5 April 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407154637/http://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/About/events/TannerLectures|archivedatearchive-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”