The Tanner Lectures on Human Values

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.



John Broome, "The Public and Private Morality of Climate Change"
John M. Cooper, "Ancient Philosophies as Ways of Life"
Stephen Greenblatt, "Shakespeare and the End of Life History" .
Lisa Jardine, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice: C. P. Snow and J. Bronowski" and "Science and Government: C. P. Snow and the Corridors of Power"
Samuel Scheffler, "The Afterlife"
Abraham Verghese, "Two Souls Intertwined"