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)

9780521176477, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 April 2011

222 pages
23.4 x 1.2 x 15.6 cm, 0.32 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. In Volume VI, originally published in 1985, responsibility is a recurring theme; responsibility toward ideas and ideals as well as toward society.

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
The trustees
The advisory commission
Preface to Volume VI
1. The essential gesture: writers and responsibility Nadine Gordimer
2. Music and ideology in the nineteenth century Leonard B. Meyer
3. Challenges to neo-Darwinism and their meaning for a revised view of human consciousness Stephen Jay Gould
4. The impact of modern genetics Donald D. Brown
5. Of human freedom Georg Henrik von Wright
6. The future of the Atlantic Alliance Helmut Schmidt
The Tanner Lecturers
Index.

Subject Areas: Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism [HPCF5]