The Tanner Lectures on Human Values

A prestigious series of lectures that are international and intercultural, and transcend ethnic, national, religious, and ideological distinctions.

Sterling M. McMurrin (Edited by)

9780521176453, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 April 2011

266 pages
23.4 x 1.4 x 15.6 cm, 0.38 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]