The Tanner Lectures
8 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Tanner Lectures on Human Values is a multiversity lecture series in the humanities, founded on July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, by the American scholar Obert Clark Tanner. In founding the lecture, he defined their purpose as follows:
I hope these lectures will contribute to the intellectual and moral life of mankind. I see them simply as a search for a better understanding of human behavior and human values. This understanding may be pursued for its own intrinsic worth, but it may also eventually have practical consequences for the quality of personal and social life.
It is considered one of the top lecture series among top universities, and being appointed a lectureship is a recognition of the scholar's "extra-ordinary achievement" in the field of human values.
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Episodes
Foreign Policy and Human Values
June 01, 2023 15:22 - 1 hour - 1.41 GB VideoSir Laurie Bristow KCMG, President of Hughes Hall Cambridge and three times Ambassador for the United Kingdom, delivers the 2023 Tanner lecture
Emotion, AI, and Human Values
June 20, 2022 12:43 - 1 hour - 1.64 GB VideoProfessor Rosalind W. Picard, Sc.D., FIEEE presents the 2022 Tanner Lecture.
A President for Dark Times: the Age of Reason Meets the Age of Trump
May 02, 2019 10:43 - 49 minutes - 582 MB VideoAn analysis of the phenomenon of Donald Trump’s presidency against the backdrop and contrast of the European Enlightenment’s influence on the Founders of the United States. This lecture analyses the phenomenon of Donald Trump’s presidency against the backdrop and contrast of the European Enlightenment’s influence on the Founders of the United States. It also explains why his stark antithesis to Enlightenment values was a winning strategy in the 2016 presidential election and how it resonates ...
Economics for the Human Race
May 10, 2018 10:45 - 52 minutes - 645 MB VideoAn argument that a deeper understanding of modern economics and its insights is essential for reclaiming that connection. Economics has always been part of a broader humanist project, but that connection is often lost in the oversimplified version that dominates the public discourse. Professor Banerjee and Professor Duflo argue that a deeper understanding of modern economics and its insights is essential for reclaiming that connection. They will illustrate this by drawing on some of the key i...
On the origin and nature of values
June 08, 2017 11:58 - 53 minutes - 644 MB VideoOne of the world's leading theorist in Cosmology, Professor Ellis delivers the 2017 Tanner Lecture on Human Values Professor Ellis is the Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology and co-wrote the seminal work on general relativity theory “The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time” with Stephen Hawking. He is a Quaker and in 200...
The Value of Europe and European Values
June 10, 2016 13:52 - 35 minutes - 466 MB VideoThe Right Honourable Shirley Williams gave this, the 2016 Tanner Lecture on Human Values, just before the European Referendum where voters would be deciding whether to remain in the EU or Brexit.
From Moral Neutrality to Effective Altruism: The Changing Scope and Significance of Moral Philosophy .
June 12, 2015 10:07 - 58 minutes - 727 MB VideoThe third in the series of the Tanner Lectures which serve to advance and reflect upon the scholarly and scientific learning relating to human values
Human Rights as Human Values
June 18, 2014 13:40 - 1 hour - 549 MB VideoMs Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty and Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University delivers this lecture on Human Rights as part of the Tanner Lecture Series at the University Museum Oxford 15th May 2014 The purpose of the Tanner Lectures 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, behaviour, and aspiration. Appointment as a Tanner lecturer is a...