
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Sterling M. McMurrin(Editor)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 28. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
266 pages
978-0-521-17645-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values is the annual publication of the Tanner lectures given at Clare Hall, Cambridge University; Brasenose College, Oxford University; Harvard University; Yale University, the University of California; Stanford University, the University of Michigan; and the University of Utah and other locations. Established to reflect upon the scholarly and scientific learning relating to human values, the lectureships are international and intercultural, and transcend ethnic, national, religious, and ideological distinctions. Appointment as a Tanner lecturer is a recognition of uncommon capabilities and outstanding scholarly or leadership achievement in the field of human values. The lecturers in Volume IV, originally published in 1983, examine modern society from a number of philosophical and practical points of view, and all are optimistic concerning the possibility of our continued growth and survival.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
409 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-17645-3 (9780521176453)
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Sterling M. McMurrin
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Volume 4, 1983
Book
11/1983
Cambridge University Press
€34.05
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Sterling M. McMurrin
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Volume 4, 1983
Book
11/1983
Cambridge University Press
€34.05
Article exhausted; check for reprint
Content
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values; The founding trustees; The advisory commission; Preface to Volume IV; 1. The voluntary society Kingman Brewer; 2. Ethics, law and the exercise of self command Thomas C. Schelling; 3. Bombs and poetry Freeman Dyson; 4. Biological determinism R. C. Lewontin; 5. Psychiatry and morality Alan A. Stone; 6. The death of utopia reconsidered Leszek Kolakowski; The Tanner Lecturers; Index of names.