Tanner Lectures on Human Values

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values are presented annually at a select list of universities around the world. The University Center serves as host to these lectures at Princeton, in which an eminent scholar from philosophy, religion, the humanities, sciences, creative arts or learned professions, or a person eminent in political or social life, is invited to present a series of lectures reflecting upon scholarly and scientific learning relating to “the entire range of values pertinent to the human condition.”

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Tanner Committee

K. Anthony Appiah
Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values

Charles Beitz on leave
Director of the University Center for Human Values and Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics

John Cooper
Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy

Melissa Lane on leave
Professor of Politics

Stephen Macedo chair
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values

Joyce Carol Oates
Roger S. Berlind ‘52 Professor in the Humanities

Alan Patten ex officio
Acting Director of the University Center for Human Values and Professor of Politics

Philip Pettit
Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values

Gideon Rosen
Stuart Professor of Philosophy

Peter Singer
Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values

Nigel Smith
Professor of English

David Spergel ex officio
Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation