The Tanner Lectures on Human Values

by Sterling M. McMurrin (Editor)

Overview

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. Volume VIII was originally published in 1988.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521176422
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/28/2011
Series:	Tanner Lectures in Human Values
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.55(d)

Table of Contents

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values; The founding trustees; The advisory commission; Preface to Volume III; 1. The basic liberties and their priority John Rawls; 2. Is liberty possible? Charles Fried; 3. The representative arts as a source of truth John Passmore; 4. A writer from Chicago Saul Bellow; 5. Drugs and the brain and society Solomon H. Snyder; 6. The arms race Joan Robinson; The Tanner Lecturers; Index of names.