Few universities around the world have the privilege of sponsoring an annual series of Tanner Lectures, whose purpose is to “advance and reflect upon the scholarly and scientific learning relating to human values. This intention embraces the entire range of values pertinent to the human condition, interest, behavior, and aspiration.” The University Center for Human Values is host to the Tanner Lectures at Princeton, in which an eminent scholar from philosophy, religion, the humanities, science, the creative arts or learned professions, or a person eminent in political or social life, is invited to present a series of lectures in the field of human values. The Tanner Lectures are open to the public.
Tanner Lectures view previous Tanner lectures
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- Wednesday, April 7, 2010
- "The Decline and Fall of the American Republic"
- Bruce Ackerman / Yale Law School
- McCormick 101, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
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- Thursday, April 8, 2010
- "The Decline and Fall of the American Republic"
- Bruce Ackerman / Yale Law School
- McCormick 101, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Tanner Committee
- Anthony Appiah
- Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values
- John Cooper
- Stuart Professor of Philosophy; Chair, Program in Classical Philosophy
- Stephen Macedo
- Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Roger S. Berlind ‘52 Professor in the Humanities
- Philip Pettit
- Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values
- Gideon Rosen
- Professor of Philosophy; Chair, Council of the Humanities
- Peter Singer
- Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values
- Nigel Smith
- Professor of English; Chair, Committee for Renaissance Studies
- Samuel Wang
- Associate Professor of Molecular Biology; Chair, Public Lectures Committee, ex officio