Tanner Lectures on Human Values

Lecturers

• 1976-77 (Michigan) Joel Feinberg—"Voluntary Euthanasia and the Inalienable Right to Life"
• 1977-78 (Stanford) Thomas Nagel—"The Limits of Objectivity"
• 1977-78 (Michigan) Karl Popper—"Three Worlds"
• 1977-78 (Oxford) John Rawls—"The Basic Liberties and Their Priority"
• 1978-79 (Utah) Lord Ashby—"The Search for an Environmental Ethic"
• 1978-79 (Utah State) R.M. Hare—"Moral Conflicts"
• 1978-79 (Stanford) Amartya Sen—"Equality of What?"
• 1978-79 (Michigan) Edward O. Wilson—"Comparative Social Theory"
• 1979-80 (Cambridge) Raymond Aron—"Arms Control and Peace Research"
• 1979-80 (Oxford) Jonathan Bennett—"Morality and Consequences"
• 1979-80 (Michigan) Robert Coles—"Children as Moral Observers"
• 1979-80 (Stanford) Michel Foucault—"Omnes et Singulatim: Towards a Criticism of 'Political Reason'"
• 1979-80 (Utah) Wallace Stegner—"The Twilight of Self-Reliance: Frontier Values and Contemporary America"
• 1979-80 (Harvard) George Stigler—"Economics or Ethics?"
• 1980-81 (Harvard) Brian Barry—"Do Countries Have Moral Obligations? The Case of World Poverty"
• 1980-81 (Oxford) Saul Bellow—"A Writer from Chicago"
• 1980-81 (Stanford) Charles Fried—"Is Liberty Possible?"
• 1980-81 (Cambridge) John Passmore—"The Representative Arts as a Source of Truth"
• 1980-81 (Utah) Joan Robinson—"The Arms Race"
• 1980-81 (Hebrew University) Solomon H. Snyder—"Drugs and the Brain and Society"
• 1981-82 (Cambridge) Kingman Brewster—"The Voluntary Society"
• 1981-82 (Oxford) Freeman Dyson—"Bombs and Poetry"
• 1981-82 (Australian National University) Leszek Kolakowski—"The Death of Utopia Reconsidered"
• 1981-82 (Utah) Richard Lewontin—"Biological Determinism"
• 1981-82 (Michigan) Thomas C. Schelling—"Ethics, Law, and the Exercise of Self-Command"
• 1981-82 (Stanford) Alan Stone—"Psychiatry and Morality"
• 1982-83 (Utah) Carlos Fuentes—"A Writer from Mexico"
• 1982-83 (Stanford) David Gauthier—"The Incompleat Egoist"
• 1982-83 (Cambridge) H.C. Robbins Landon—"Haydn and Eighteenth-Century Patronage in Austria and Hungary"
• 1982-83 (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Ilya Prigogine—"Only an Illusion"
• 1983-84 (Oxford): Donald D. Brown—"The Impact of Modern Genetics"
• 1983-84 (Stanford): Leonard B. Meyer—"Music and Ideology in the Nineteenth Century"
• 1983-84 (Utah): Helmut Schmidt—"The Future of the Atlantic Alliance"
• 1983-84 (Michigan): Herbert Simon—"Scientific Literacy as a Goal in a High-Technology Society"
• 1983-84 (Harvard): Quentin Skinner—"The Paradoxes of Political Liberty"
• 1983-84 (Helsinki): Georg Henrik von Wright—"Of Human Freedom"
• 1984-85 (Michigan): Nadine Gordimer—"The Essential Gesture: Writers and Responsibility"
• 1984-85 (Oxford): Barrington Moore—"Authority and Inequality under Capitalism and Socialism"
• 1984-85 (Cambridge): Amartya K. Sen—"The Standard of Living"
• 1984-85 (Stanford): Michael Slote—"Moderation, Rationality, and Virtue"
• 1985-86 (Stanford): Stanley Cavell—"The Uncanniness of the Ordinary"
• 1985-86 (Michigan): Clifford Geertz—"The Uses of Diversity"
• 1985-86 (Utah): Arnold S. Relman—"Medicine as a Profession and a Business"
• 1985-86 (Oxford) T. M. Scanlon—"The Significance of Choice"
• 1985-86 (Harvard): Michael Walzer—"Interpretation and Social Criticism"
• 1986-87 (Cambridge): Roger Bulger—"On Hippocrates, Thomas Jefferson, and Max Weber: The Bureaucratic, Technologic Imperatives and the Future of the Healing Tradition in a Voluntary Society"
• 1986-87 (Michigan): Daniel Dennett—"The Moral First Aid Manual"
• 1986-87 (Oxford): Jon Elster—"Taming Chance: Randomization in Individual and Social Decisions"
• 1986-87 (Harvard): Jürgen Habermas—"Law and Morality"
• 1986-87 (Stanford): Gisela Striker—"Greek Ethics and Moral Theory"
• 1986-87 (Utah): Laurence H. Tribe—"On Reading the Constitution"
• 1987-88 (Cambridge): Louis Blom-Cooper—"The Penalty of Imprisonment"
• 1987-88 (Harvard): Robert A. Dahl—"The Pseudodemocratization of the American Presidency"
• 1987-88 (California): William Theodore de Bary—"The Trouble with Confucianism"
• 1987-88 (Michigan): Albert Hirschman—"Two Hundred Years of Reactionary Rhetoric: The Case of the Perverse Effect"
• 1987-88 (Madrid): Javier Muguerza—"The Alternative of Dissent"
• 1987-88 (Warsaw): Lord Quinton—"The Varieties of Value"
• 1987-88 (Oxford): Frederik van Zyl Slabbert—"The Dynamics of Reform and Revolt in Current South Africa"
• 1987-88 (Buenos Aires): Barry Stroud—"The Study of Human Nature and the Subjectivity of Value"
• 1988-89 (California): S. N. Eisenstadt—"Cultural Tradition, Historical Experience, and Social Change: The Limits of Convergence"
• 1988-89 (Chinese University): Fei Xiaotong—"Plurality and Unity in the Configuration of the Chinese People"
• 1988-89 (Stanford): Stephen J. Gould—"Challenges to Neo-Darwinism and Their Meaning for a Revised View of Human Consciousness"
• 1988-89 (Cambridge): Albert Hourani—"Islam in European Thought"
• 1988-89 (Michigan): Toni Morrison—"Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature"
• 1988-89 (Yale): John G. A. Pocock—"Edward Gibbon in History: Aspects of the Text in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
• 1988-89 (Utah): Judith N. Shklar—"American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion"
• 1988-89 (Oxford): Michael Walzer—"Nation and Universe"
• 1989-90 (Cambridge): Umberto Eco—"Interpretation and Overinterpretation: World, History, Texts"
• 1989-90 (Harvard): Ernest Gellner—"The Civil and the Sacred"
• 1989-90 (Michigan): Carol Gilligan—"Joining the Resistance:Psychology, Politics, Girls, and Women"
• 1989-90 (Princeton): Irving Howe—"The Self and the State"
• 1989-90 (Stanford): János Kornai—"I. Market Socialism Revisited" and "II. The Soviet Union's Road to a Free Economy: Comments of an Outside Observer"
• 1989-90 (Oxford): Bernard Lewis—"Europe and Islam"
• 1989-90 (Yale): Edward Nicolae Luttwak—"Strategy: A New Era?"
• 1989-90 (Utah): Octavio Paz—"Poetry and Modernity"
• 1990-91 (Princeton): Annette Baier—"Trust"
• 1990-91 (Cambridge): Gro Harlem Brundtland—"Environmental Challenges of the 1990s: Our Responsibility toward Future Generations"
• 1990-91 (Stanford) G.A. Cohen—"Incentives, Inequality, and Community"
• 1990-91 (Yale): Robertson Davies—"Reading and Writing"
• 1990-91 (Oxford): David N. Montgomery—"Citizenship and Justice in the Lives and Thoughts of Nineteenth-Century American Workers"
• 1990-91 (Michigan): Richard Rorty—"Feminism and Pragmatism"
• 1991-92 (Cambridge): David Baltimore—"On Doing Science in the Modern World"
• 1991-92 (Utah): Jared Diamond—"The Broadest Pattern of Human History"
• 1991-92 (Michigan): Christopher Hill—"The Bible in Seventeenth-Century English Politics"
• 1991-92 (UC Berkeley): Helmut Kohl
• 1991-92 (Princeton): Robert Nozick—"Decisions of Principle, Principles of Decision"
• 1991-92 (Oxford): Roald Sagdeev—"Science and Revolutions"
• 1991-92 (Stanford): Charles Taylor—"Modernity and the Rise of the Public Sphere"
• 1992-93 (Princeton): Stanley Hoffmann—"The Nation, Nationalism, and After: The Case of France"
• 1992-93 (Utah): Evelyn Fox Keller—"Rethinking the Meaning of Genetic Determinism"
• 1992-93 (Cambridge): Christine Korsgaard—"The Sources of Normativity"
• 1992-93 (Yale): Fritz Stern—"I. Mendacity Enforced: Europe, 1914-1989" and "II. Freedom and Its Discontents: Postunification Germany"
• 1993-94 (UC San Diego): K. Anthony Appiah—"Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections"
• 1993-94 (UC Berkeley): Oscar Arias Sanchez—"Poverty: The New International Enemy"
• 1993-94 (Cambridge): Peter Brown—"Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World"
• 1993-94 (Stanford): Thomas E. Hill Jr.—"Respect for Humanity"
• 1993-94 (Utah): A.E. Dick Howard—"Toward the Open Society in Central and Eastern Europe"
• 1993-94 (Utah): Jeffrey Sachs—"Shock Therapy in Poland: Perspectives of Five Years"
• 1993-94 (Oxford): Gordon Slynn—"Law and Culture – A European Setting"
• 1993-94 (Harvard): Lawrence Stone—"Family Values in a Historical Perspective"
• 1993-94 (Michigan): William Julius Wilson—"The New Urban Poverty and the Problem of Race"
• 1994-95 (Stanford): Amy Gutmann—"Responding to Racial Injustice"
• 1994-95 (Princeton): Alasdair MacIntyre—"Truthfulness, Lies, and Moral Philosophers: What Can We Learn from Mill and Kant?"
• 1994-95 (Cambridge): Sir Roger Penrose—"Space-time and Cosmology"
• 1994-95 (Yale): Richard Posner—"Euthanasia and Health Care: Two Essays on the Policy Dilemmas of Aging and Old Age"
• 1995 (Princeton) Antonin Scalia—"Common-law Courts in a Civil-Law System: The Role of the United States Federal Courts in Interpreting the Constitution and Laws"
• 1994-95 (Harvard): Cass R. Sunstein—"Political Conflict and Legal Agreement"
• 1994-95 (Oxford): Janet Suzman—"Who Needs Parables?"
• 1995-96 (Princeton): Harold Bloom—"I. Shakespeare and the Value of Personality" and "II . Shakespeare and the Value of Love"
• 1995-96 (Yale): Peter Brown—"The End of the Ancient Other World: Death and Afterlife between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages"
• 1995-96 (Stanford): Nancy Fraser—"Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: Redistribution, Recognition, and Participation"
• 1995-96 (UC Riverside): Mairead Corrigan Maguire—"Peacemaking from the Grassroots in a World of Ethnic Conflict"
• 1995-96 (Harvard): Onora O'Neill—"Kant on Reason and Religion"
• 1995-96 (Cambridge): Gunther Schuller—"I. Jazz: A Historical Perspective", "II. Duke Ellington" and "III. Charles Mingus"
• 1996-97 (Cambridge): Dorothy Cheney—"Why Animals Don't Have Language"
• 1996-97 (UC San Francisco): Marian Wright Edelman—"Standing for Children"
• 1996-97 (Oxford): Francis Fukuyama—"Social Capital"
• 1996-97 (Toronto): Peter Gay—"The Living Enlightenment"
• 1996-97 (Harvard): Stuart Hampshire—"Justice Is Conflict: The Soul and the City"
• 1996-97 (Stanford): Barbara Herman—"Moral Literacy"
• 1996-97 (Yale): Liam Hudson—"The Life of the Mind"
• 1996-97 (Utah): Elaine Pagels—"The Origin of Satan in Christian Tradition"
• 1996-97 (Michigan): T. M. Scanlon—"The Status of Well-Being"
• 1996-97 (Princeton): Robert Solow—"Welfare and Work"
• 1997-98 (Prague): Timothy Garton Ash—"The Direction of European History"
• 1997-98 (Harvard): Myles Burnyeat—"Culture and Society in Plato's Republic"
• 1997-98 (Princeton) J. M. Coetzee "The Lives of Animals"
• 1997-98 (Michigan): Antonio Damasio—"Exploring the Minded Brain"
• 1997-98 (Stanford): Arthur Kleinman—"Experience and Its Moral Modes: Culture, Human Conditions, and Disorder"
• 1997-98 (Oxford): Michael Sandel—"What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets"
• 1997-98 (Yale): Elaine Scarry—"On Beauty and Being Just"
• 1997-98 (Utah): Jonathan Spence—"Ideas of Power: China's Empire in the Eighteenth Century and Today"
• 1997-98 (Cambridge): Stephen Toulmin—"The Idol of Stability"
• 1998-99 (Michigan): Walter Burkert—"Revealing Nature amidst Multiple Cultures: A Discourse with Ancient Greeks"
• 1998-99 (Utah): Geoffrey Hartman—"Text and Spirit"
• 1998-99 (Yale): Steven Pinker—"The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine"
• 1998-99 (Princeton): Judith Jarvis Thomson—"Goodness and Advice"
• 1998-99 (Oxford): Sidney Verba—"Representative Democracy and Democratic Citizens: Philosophical and Empirical Understandings"
• 1998-99 (UC Davis): Richard White—"The Problem with Purity"
• 1999-2000 (Stanford): Jared Diamond—"Ecological Collapses of Pre-industrial Societies"
• 1999-2000 (Oxford): Geoffrey Hill—"Rhetorics of Value"
• 1999-2000 (Princeton): Michael Ignatieff—"I. Human Rights as Politics" and "II. Human Rights as Idolatry"
• 1999-2000 (Cambridge): Jonathan Lear—"Happiness"
• 1999-2000 (Harvard): Wolf Lepenies—"The End of "German Culture""
• 1999-2000 (UC Santa Barbara): William C. Richardson—"Reconceiving Health Care to Improve Quality"
• 1999-2000 (Utah): Charles Rosen—"Tradition without Convention: The Impossible Nineteenth-Century Project"
• 1999-2000 (Michigan): Helen Vendler—"Poetry and the Mediation of Value: Whitman on Lincoln"
• 1999-2000 (Yale): Marina Warner—"Spirit Visions"
• 2000-01 (Cambridge) K. Anthony Appiah—"The State and the Shaping of Identity"
• 2001 (Michigan): Michael Fried—"Roger Fry's Formalism"
• 2000-01 (Michigan): Partha Dasgupta
• 2000-01 (Utah): Sarah Hrdy—"The Past, Present, and Future of the Human Family"
• 2000-01 (Yale): Alexander Nehamas—"A Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art"
• 2000-01 (Princeton): Robert Pinsky—"American Culture and the Voice of Poetry"
• 2000–01 (Berkeley): Joseph Raz—The Practice of Value
• 2000-01 (Harvard): Simon Schama
• 2001 (Stanford): Dorothy Allison—"I. Mean Stories and Stubborn Girls" and "II. What It Means to Be Free"
• 2001 (Oxford): Sydney Kentridge—"Human Rights: A Sense of Proportion"
• 2001-02 (Harvard): Kathleen Sullivan
• 2001 (UC Berkeley): Sir Frank Kermode—"Pleasure, Change, and the Canon"
• 2002 (Utah): Benjamin R. Barber—"Democratic Alternatives to the Mullahs and the Malls"
• 2002 (Princeton): T. J. Clark—"Painting at Ground Level"
• 2002 (Harvard): Lorraine Daston—"I. The Morality of Natural Orders" and "II. Nature's Customs vs. Nature's Laws"
• 2002 (UC Berkeley): Derek Parfit—"What We Could Rationally Will"
• 2002 (Yale): Salman Rushdie—"Step Across This Line"
• 2002 (Oxford): Laurence H. Tribe—"The Constitution in Crisis"
• 2003 (Harvard): Richard Dawkins—"I. The Science of Religion" and "II. The Religion of Science"
• 2003 (Princeton): Frans de Waal—"Morality and the Social Instincts"
• 2003 (Princeton): Jonathan Glover—"Towards Humanism in Psychiatry"
• 2003 (Oxford): David M. Kennedy—"The Dilemma of Difference in Democratic Society"
• 2003 (Cambridge): Martha C. Nussbaum—"Beyond the Social Contract: Toward Global Justice"
• 2003 (Stanford): Mary Robinson—"I. Human Rights and Ethical Globalization" and "II. The Challenge of Human Rights Protection in Africa"
• 2003 (Yale): Garry Wills—"Henry Adams: The Historian as a Novelist"
• 2004 (Berkeley): Seyla Benhabib—"Reclaiming Universalism: Negotiating Republican Self-Determinism and Cosmopolitan Norms"
• 2004 (Harvard): Stephen Breyer—"Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution"
• 2004 (Stanford): Harry Frankfurt—"I. Taking Ourselves Seriously" and "II. Getting it Right"
• 2004 (Michigan): Christine Korsgaard—"Fellow Creatures: Kantian Ethics and Our Duties to Animals"
• 2005 (Cambridge): Carl Bildt—"Peace After War: Our Experience"
• 2005 (University of Utah) Paul Farmer—"Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights"
• 2005 (UC Berkeley): Axel Honneth—"Reification: A Recognition-Theoretical View"
• 2005 (Stanford): Avishai Margalit—"I. Indecent Compromise" and "II. Decent Peace"
• 2005 (Yale): Ruth Reichl—"Why Food Matters"
• 2005 (Michigan): Marshall Sahlins—"Hierarchy, Equality, and the Sublimation of Anarchy: the Western Illusion of Human Nature"
• 2005 (Harvard): James Q. Wilson—"I. Politics and Polarization" and "II. Religion and Polarization"
• 2006 (Stanford): David Brion Davis—"Exiles, Exodus, and Promised Lands"
• 2006 (UC Berkeley): Allan Gibbard—"Thinking How to Live with Each Other"
• 2006 (Utah): Margaret H. Marshall—"Tension and Intentions: The American Constitutions and the Shaping of Democracies Abroad"
• 2007 (Cambridge): Judy Illes—"Medicine, Neruoscience, Ethics, and Society"
• 2007 (Michigan): Brian Skyrms—"Evolution and the Social Contract"
• 2007 (Utah): Bill Viola—"Presence and Absence"
• 2007 (Princeton): Susan Wolf—"Meaning in Life and Why It Matters"
• 2008 (Utah): Howard Gardner—"What is Good Work? Achieving Good Work in Turbulent Times"
• 2008 (Princeton): Marc Hauser—"The Seeds of Humanity"
• 2008 (Cambridge): Lisa Jardine—"What's Left of Culture and Society?"
• 2008 (Tsinghua University): David Miller—"Global Justice and Climate Change: How Should Responsibilities Be Distributed?"
• 2008 (Harvard): Sari Nusseibeh—"Philosophical Reflections on the Israeli-Palestinian War"
• 2008 (Berkeley): Annabel Patterson—"Pandors's Boxes"
• 2008 (Stanford): Michael Tomasello—"Origins of Human Cooperation"
• 2009 (Yale University): John Adams—"Doctor Atomic and His Gadget"
• 2009 (University of Utah): Isabel Allende—"In the Hearts of Women"
• 2009 (Cambridge): Sir Christopher Frayling—"Art and Religion in the Modern West: Some Perspectives"
• 2009 (Harvard): Jonathan Lear—"To Become Human Does Not Come That Easily"
• 2009 (UC Berkeley): Jeremy Waldron—"Dignity, Rank and Rights"
• 2009 (Stanford): Roberto Mangabeira Unger-"The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future"
• 2010 (Princeton University): Bruce Ackerman—"The Decline and Fall of the American Republic"
• 2010 (UC Berkeley): Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im—"Transcending Imperialism: Human Values and Global Citizenship"
• 2010 (Stanford): Mark Danner—"Torture and the Forever War"
• 2010 (Utah): Spike Lee—"America through My Lens: The Evolving Nature of Race and Class in the Films of Spike Lee"
• 2010 (Michigan): Susan Neiman—"Victims and Heroes"
• 2010 (Princeton): Robert Putnam—"American Grace"
• 2010 (Oxford): Ahmed Rashid—"Afghanistan and Pakistan: Past Mistakes, Future Directions?"
• 2010 (Michigan): Martin Seligman—"Flourish: Positive Psychology and Positive Interventions"
• 2010 (Cambridge): Susan J. Smith—"Care-full Markets: Miracle or Mirage?"
• 2011-12 (Michigan): John Broome—"The Public and Private Morality of Climate Change"
• 2011-12 (Stanford): John M. Cooper—"Ancient Philosophies as a Way of Life"
• 2011-12 (Harvard): Esther Duflo—"Human Values and the Design of the Fight against Poverty"
• 2011-12 (Cambridge): Ernst Fehr—"The Psychology and Economics of Authority"
• 2011-12 (Princeton): Stephen Greenblatt—"Shakespeare and the Shape of a Life: The Uses of Life Stories"
• 2011-12 (Yale): Lisa Jardine—"The Two Cultures: Still Under Consideration"
• 2011 (Yale): Rebecca Newberger Goldstein—"The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature" and "The Ancient Quarrel: Philosophy and Literature,"
• 2011 (Stanford): Elinor Ostrom—"I. Frameworks" and "II. Analyzing One-Hundred-Year-Old Irrigation Puzzles"
• 2011 (Harvard): James Scott—"Four Domestications: Fire, Plants, Animals, and... Us"
• 2011–12 (Berkeley): Samuel Scheffler—"The Afterlife: I. How People Who Don't Yet Exist Matter More to Us than People Who Do and II. How the Present Depends the Future"
• 2011-12 (Utah): Abraham Verghese—"Two Souls Intertwined"
• 2011-12 (Brasenose College, Oxford): Diane Coyle—"The Public Responsibility of the Economist"
• 2012-13 (Linacre College, Oxford): Michael Ignatieff—"Representation and Responsibility: Ethics and Public Office"
• 2012-13 (Berkeley): Frances Kamm—"I. Who Turned the Trolley?" and "II. How Was the Trolley Turned?"
• 2012-13 (Cambridge): Joseph Koerner—"The Viennese Interior: Architecture & Inwardness"
• 2012-13 (Paris, France): Claude Lanzmann—"Resurrections"
• 2012-13 (Princeton): Ian Morris—"Human Values in the Very Long Run"
• 2012-13 (Harvard): Robert Post—"Representative Democracy: The Constitutional Theory of Campaign Finance Reform"
• 2012-13 (Utah): Michael J. Sandel—"The Moral Economy of Speculation: Gambling, Finance, and the Common Good"
• 2012-13 (Stanford): William Bowen—"I. Costs and Productivity in Higher Education" and "II. Prospects for an Online Fix: Can We Harness Technology in the Service of our Aspirations?"
• 2012-13 (Michigan): Craig Calhoun—"The Problematic Public: Revisiting Dewey, Arendt, and Habermas"
• 2013-14 (Linacre College, Oxford): Shami Chakrabarti—"Human Rights as Human Values"
• 2013-14 (Utah): Neil deGrasse Tyson—"Science as a Way of Knowing"
• 2013-14 (Yale): Paul Gilroy—"The Black Atlantic and the Re-enchantment of Humanism"
• 2013-14 (Yale): Bruno Latour—"How Better to Register the Agency of Things"
• 2013-14 (Stanford): Nicholas Lemann—"The Transaction Society: Origins and Consequences"
• 2013-14 (Michigan): Walter Mischel—"Overcoming the Weakness of the Will"
• 2013-14 (Cambridge): Philippe Sands—"The Great Crimes: The Quest for Justice Among Individuals and Groups"
• 2013-14 (UC Berkeley): Eric Santner—"The Weight of All Flesh: On the Subject Matter of Political Economy"
• 2013-14 (Utah): Andrew Solomon—"Love, Acceptance, Celebration: How Parents Make Their Children"
• 2013-14 (Harvard): Archbishop Rowan Williams–"The Paradox of Empathy"
• 2014-15 (Stanford): Danielle Allen—"Education and Equality"
• 2014-15 (Princeton): Elizabeth Anderson—"I. Private Government" and "II. When the Market Was 'Left'"
• 2014-15 (Utah ): Margaret Atwood—"Human Values in Age of Change"
• 2014-15 (Yale): Dipesh Chakrabarty—"The Human Condition of the Anthropocene"
• 2014-15 (Cambridge): Peter Galison—"Science, Secrecy and the Private Self"
• 2014-15 (Michigan): Ruth Bader Ginsburg—"A Conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg"
• 2014-15 (Harvard): Carlo Ginzburg—"Casuistry, For and Against: Pascal's Provinciales and Their Aftermath"
• 2014-15 (UC Berkeley): Philip Pettit—"I. From Language to Commitment" and "II. From Commitment to Responsibility"
• 2014-15 (Linacre College, Oxford): Peter Singer—"From Moral Neutrality to Effective Altruism: The Changing Scope and Significance of Moral Philosophy"
• 2015-16 (Stanford): Andrew Bacevich—"The American Military Encounters Islam"
• 2015-16 (Michigan): Abhijit Banerjee—""What do Economists Do?""
• 2015-16 (Ochanomizu): Dame Carol Black—"Women: Education, Biology, Power, and Leadership"
• 2015-16 (Princeton): Robert Boyd—"I. Not by Brains Alone: The vital role of culture in human adaptation" and "II. Beyond Kith and Kin: How culture transformed human cooperation"
• 2015-16 (Yale): Judith Butler—"Interpreting Non-Violence"
• 2015-16 (Berkeley): Didier Fassin—"The Will to Punish"
• 2015-16 (Clare Hall, Cambridge): Derek Gregory—"Reach for the Sky: Aerial Violence and the Everywhere War"
• 2015-16 (Utah): Siddhartha Mukherjee—""The Gene: An Intimate History""
• 2015-16 (Linacre College, Oxford): Shirley Williams—"The Value of Europe and European Values"
• 2016 (Princeton): Naomi Oreskes - Lecture I: "Trust in Science?" - Lecture II: "When Not to Trust Science, or When Science Goes Awry"
• 2016-17 (Berkeley): Seana Shiffrin—"I. Democratic Law" and "II. Common and Constitutional Law: A Democratic Legal Perspective"
• 2016-17 (Linacre College, Oxford): George F. R. Ellis—"On the Origin and Nature of Values"
• 2017 (Harvard): Bryan Stevenson—"Social Justice Action: How We Change the World"
• 2017-18 (Berkeley): Michael Warner–"Environmental Care and the Infrastructure of Indifference"
• 2017-18 (Linacre College, Oxford): Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo—"Economics for the Human Race"
• 2018 (Harvard): Dorothy E. Roberts–"The Old Biosocial and the Legacy of Unethical Science" and "The New Biosocial and The Future of Ethical Science"
• 2018-19 (Linacre College, Oxford): Strobe Talbott—"A President for Dark Times: The Age of Reason Meets the Age of Trump"
• 2019 (Harvard): Masha Gessen—"How We Think About Migration" and "Some Ideas for Talking About Migration"
• 2019-20 (Michigan): Charles W. Mills—"Theorizing Racial Justice"
• 2021-22 (Princeton): Elizabeth Kolbert—"Welcome to the Anthropocene: Lecture II - What Can We Do About It?" and "Welcome to the Anthropocene: Lecture I - What on Earth Have We Done?"
• 2023 (Harvard): Margaret Hiza Redsteer –"On Resilience: A Capacity to Absorb Disturbances and Shocks" and "Barriers to Transforming Climate Dialogues"
• 2023-24 (Yale): Rob Nixon –"Ecology and Equity"
• 2024 (Harvard): Hahrie Han –"Stories of Democracy Realized"
• 2024-25 (Linacre College, Oxford): Volker Turk—"Cooling a Planet on Fire"
• 2025-26 (Linacre College, Oxford): Yuval Noah Harari—"AI bureaucrats, AI religions, and AI boyfriends: What happens when a non-human intelligence hacks the operating system of civilisation"