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July 1, 1978

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University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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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. In founding the lecture, he defined their purpose as follows:

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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, and being appointed a lectureship is a recognition of the scholar's "extra-ordinary achievement" in the field of human values.

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Member institutions

Permanent lectureships are established at the following nine institutions:

  • Linacre College, Oxford
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Clare Hall, Cambridge
  • Harvard University
  • University of Michigan
  • Princeton University
  • Stanford University
  • University of Utah
  • Yale University
  • Southern Utah University

    • Lecturers

  • 1986 (Harvard) T. M. Scanlon—"The Significance of Choice"
  • 1988 (Michigan) Toni Morrison—"Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature"
  • 1991 (Stanford) G.A. Cohen—"Incentives, Inequality, and Community"
  • 1991 (San Diego) K. Anthony Appiah—"Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections"
  • 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"
  • 1997 (Princeton) J.M. Coetzee "The Lives of Animals"
  • 1998 (Oxford): Michael Sandel—What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
  • 2000–2001 (Berkeley): Joseph Raz—The Practice of Value
  • 2001 (Cambridge) K. Anthony Appiah—"The State and the Shaping of Identity"
  • 2001–2002 (Berkeley): Sir Frank Kermode
  • 2010 (Cambridge): Susan J. Smith–Care-full markets – Miracle or Mirage?
  • 2011 (Yale): Rebecca Newberger Goldstein - "The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature,"
  • 2011–2012 (Berkeley): Samuel Scheffler—The Afterlife
  • 2012 (Stanford): John M. Cooper
  • 2013 (Oxford): Michael Ignatieff—Representation and Responsibility: Ethics and Public Office
  • 2013 (Berkeley): Frances Kamm
  • 2014 (Harvard): Archbishop Rowan Williams–The Paradox of Empathy
  • 2014 (Oxford): Shami Chakrabarti—Human Rights as Human Values
  • 2014 (Cambridge): Peter Galison—"Science, Secrecy and the Private Self"
  • 2015 (Michigan): Ruth Bader Ginsburg—"A Conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States"

    • References

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