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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Volume 32
Mark Matheson
University of Utah Press, 2013
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, was established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Lectureships are awarded to outstanding scholars or leaders in broadly defined fields of human values and transcend ethnic, national, religious, or ideological distinctions. Volume 32 features lectures given during the academic year 2011–2012 at the University of Michigan; Princeton University; Stanford University; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Utah; and Yale University. This volume includes the following lectures:

John Broome, “The Public and Private Morality of Climate Change”
John Broome is the Whites Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Corpus Christi College in Oxford. He has written six books.

John M. Cooper, “Ancient Philosophies as Ways of Life”
John Cooper is the Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His books include Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus and Panentheism: The Other God of the Philosophers.

Stephen Greenblatt, “Shakespeare and the End of Life History”
Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of several books, including the 2012 Pulitzer Prize–winning The Swerve: How the World Became Modern and Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare.

Lisa Jardine, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: C. P. Snow and J. Bronowski” and “Science and Government: C. P. Snow and the Corridors of Power”
Lisa Jardine is a professor of Renaissance studies at University College London, where she is the director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research in the Humanities and the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters. She has published more than fifty scholarly articles and seventeen books, including Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory.

Samuel Scheffler, “The Afterlife”
Samuel Scheffler is University Professor and a professor of philosophy and law at New York University. He has published four books in the areas of moral and political philosophy, including Equality and Tradition.

Abraham Verghese, “Two Souls Intertwined”
Abraham Verghese is a professor of medicine and senior associate chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University. He has published widely across disciplines, including My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story and the novel Cutting for Stone. He is perhaps best known for his deep interest in bedside medicine and work in the medical humanities.
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front cover of The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Volume 33
Mark Matheson
University of Utah Press, 2014
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, was established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Lectureships are awarded to outstanding scholars or leaders in broadly defined fields of human values and transcend ethnic, national, religious, or ideological distinctions. Volume 33 features lectures given during the academic year 2012-2013 at Stanford University; the University of Michigan; the University of Oxford; the University of California, Berkeley; Harvard University; the University of Utah; and the U.S. Ambassador’s Palace, Paris, France.
 
William G. Bowen, “Costs and Productivity in Higher Education” and “Prospects for an Online Fix: Can We Harness Technology in the Service of Our Aspirations?”
 
Craig Calhoun, “The Problematic Public: Revisiting Dewey, Arendt, and Habermas”
 
Michael Ignatieff, “Representation and Responsibility: Ethics and Public Office”
 
F. M. Kamm, “Who Turned the Trolley?” and How Was the Trolley Turned?”
 
Claude Lanzmann, “Resurrection”
 
Robert Post, “Representative Democracy: The Constitutional Theory of Campaign Finance Reform” and Campaign Finance Reform and the First Amendment”
 
Michael J. Sandal, “The Moral Economy of Speculation: Gambling, Finance, and the Common Good”
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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Volume 34
Mark Matheson
University of Utah Press, 2016

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, was established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Lectureships are awarded to outstanding scholars or leaders in broadly defined fields of human values and transcend ethnic, national, religious, or ideological distinctions. Volume 34 features lectures given during the academic year 2013 to 2014 at the University of Oxford; Stanford University; the University of Utah; and Yale University.

Shami Chakrabarti, Liberty Organization (formerly National Council for Civil Liberties)
“Human Rights as Human Values”

Paul Gilroy, King’s College London
“The Black Atlantic and Re-enchantment of Humanism”

Bruno Latour, Institut d’etudes politiques (Sciences Po) Paris “How Better to Register the Agency of Things”

Nicholas Lemann, Columbia University School of Journalism “The Turn Against Institutions” and “What Transactions Can’t Do”

Andrew Solomon, Author
“Love, Acceptance, Celebration: How Parents Make Their Children” 


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