The Tanner Lectures on Human Values is a multi-university lecture series in the

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including Philosophy, certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature a ...

, founded in 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, by the American scholar Obert Clark Tanner. In founding the lecture, he defined their purpose as follows: It is considered one of the top

lecture series A lecture (from ) is an oral presentation intended to present information or teach people about a particular subject, for example by a university or college teacher. Lectures are used to convey critical information, history, background, theor ...

among top universities, and being appointed a lectureship is a recognition of the scholar's "extra-ordinary achievement" in the field of human values.

Member institutions

Permanent lectureships are established at the following nine institutions: *

Linacre College, Oxford Linacre College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The college was founded in 1962 and is named after Thomas Linacre (1460–1524), founder of the Royal College of Ph ...

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

Clare Hall, Cambridge Clare Hall is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1966 by Clare College, Clare Hall is a college for advanced study, admitting only postgraduate students alongside postdoctoral researchers and fellows. It was est ...

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

University of Utah The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) is a public university, public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret (Book of Mormon), Deseret by the General A ...

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

Lecturers

* 1976-77 (Michigan)

Joel Feinberg Joel Feinberg (October 19, 1926 – March 29, 2004) was an American political and legal philosopher. He is known for his work in the fields of ethics, action theory, philosophy of law, and political philosophy as well as individual rights and t ...

—"Voluntary Euthanasia and the Inalienable Right to Life" * 1977-78 (Stanford)

Thomas Nagel Thomas Nagel (; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher. He is the University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University, where he taught from 1980 until his retirement in 2016. His main areas of philosophical interest ...

—"The Limits of Objectivity" * 1977-78 (Michigan)

Karl Popper Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the ...

—"Three Worlds" * 1977-78 (Oxford)

John Rawls John Bordley Rawls (; February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American moral philosophy, moral, legal philosophy, legal and Political philosophy, political philosopher in the Modern liberalism in the United States, modern liberal tradit ...

—"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 Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher. Sen has taught and worked in England and the United States since 1972. In 1998, Sen received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions ...

—"Equality of What?" * 1978-79 (Michigan) Edward O. Wilson—"Comparative Social Theory" * 1979-80 (Cambridge)

Raymond Aron Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (; ; 14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century. Aron is best known for his ...

—"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 Paul-Michel Foucault ( , ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French History of ideas, historian of ideas and Philosophy, philosopher who was also an author, Literary criticism, literary critic, Activism, political activist, and teacher. Fo ...

—"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 George Joseph Stigler (; January 17, 1911 – December 1, 1991) was an American economist. He was the 1982 laureate in Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and is considered a key leader of the Chicago school of economics. Early life and e ...

—"Economics or Ethics?" * 1980-81 (Harvard)

Brian Barry Brian Barry, (7 August 1936 – 10 March 2009) was a moral A moral (from Latin ''morālis'') is a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader, or viewer to determin ...

—"Do Countries Have Moral Obligations? The Case of World Poverty" * 1980-81 (Oxford)

Saul Bellow Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; June 10, 1915April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only write ...

—"A Writer from Chicago" * 1980-81 (Stanford)

Charles Fried Charles Anthony Fried (born Karel Fried; April 15, 1935 – January 23, 2024) was an American jurist and lawyer. He served as Solicitor General of the United States under President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989. He was a professor at Harvard L ...

—"Is Liberty Possible?" * 1980-81 (Cambridge)

John Passmore John Arthur Passmore (9 September 1914 – 25 July 2004) was an Australian philosopher. Life John Passmore was born on 9 September 1914 in Manly, Sydney, where he grew up. He was educated at Sydney Boys High School. Sydney High School Old ...

—"The Representative Arts as a Source of Truth" * 1980-81 (Utah)

Joan Robinson Joan Violet Robinson ( Maurice; 31 October 1903 – 5 August 1983) was a British economist known for her wide-ranging contributions to economic theory. One of the most prominent economists of the century, Robinson incarnated the "Cambridge Sc ...

—"The Arms Race" * 1980-81 (Hebrew University) Solomon H. Snyder—"Drugs and the Brain and Society" * 1981-82 (Cambridge)

Kingman Brewster Kingman Brewster Jr. (June 17, 1919 – November 8, 1988) was an American educator, academic and diplomat. He served as the 17th president of Yale University and as United States ambassador to the United Kingdom. Early life Brewster was born i ...

—"The Voluntary Society" * 1981-82 (Oxford)

Freeman Dyson Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was a British-American theoretical physics, theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his works in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random matrix, random matrices, math ...

—"Bombs and Poetry" * 1981-82 (Australian National University)

Leszek Kolakowski Leszek () is a Slavic Polish male given name, originally ''Lestko'', ''Leszko'' or ''Lestek'', related to ''Lech'', ''Lechosław'' and Czech ''Lstimir''. Individuals named Leszek celebrate their name day on June 3. Notable people bearing the n ...

—"The Death of Utopia Reconsidered" * 1981-82 (Utah)

Richard Lewontin Richard Charles Lewontin (March 29, 1929 – July 4, 2021) was an American evolutionary biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and social commentator. A leader in developing the mathematical basis of population genetics and evolutionary theory, ...

—"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 Carlos Fuentes Macías (; ; November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012) was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are ''The Death of Artemio Cruz'' (1962), '' Aura'' (1962), '' Terra Nostra'' (1975), '' The Old Gringo'' (1985) and '' Christop ...

—"A Writer from Mexico" * 1982-83 (Stanford)

David Gauthier David Gauthier (; 10 September 1932 – 9 November 2023) was a Canadian philosopher best known for his neo- Hobbesian or contractarian theory of morality, as developed in his 1986 book ''Morals by Agreement''. Life and career David Gauthier w ...

—"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 Viscount Ilya Romanovich Prigogine (; ; 28 May 2003) was a Belgian physical chemist of Russian-Jewish origin, noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility. Prigogine's work most notably earned him the 19 ...

—"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 Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (; 23 December 1918 – 10 November 2015) was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. He was the longest ...

—"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 Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner (born 26 November 1940) is a British intellectual historian. He is regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought. He has won numerous prizes for his work, including ...

—"The Paradoxes of Political Liberty" * 1983-84 (Helsinki):

Georg Henrik von Wright Georg Henrik von Wright (; 14 June 1916 – 16 June 2003) was a Finnish philosopher. Biography G. H. von Wright was born in Helsinki on 14 June 1916 to Tor von Wright and his wife Ragni Elisabeth Alfthan. On the retirement of Ludwig Wittgenst ...

—"Of Human Freedom" * 1984-85 (Michigan):

Nadine Gordimer Nadine Gordimer (20 November 192313 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic writing has ... been of very great ben ...

—"The Essential Gesture: Writers and Responsibility" * 1984-85 (Oxford):

Barrington Moore Barrington Moore Jr. (12 May 1913 – 16 October 2005) was an American political sociologist, and the son of forester Barrington Moore. He is well known for his ''Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy'' (1966), a comparative study o ...

—"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 Stanley Louis Cavell (; September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, ...

—"The Uncanniness of the Ordinary" * 1985-86 (Michigan):

Clifford Geertz Clifford James Geertz (; August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology and who was considered "for three decades&n ...

—"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 Michael Laban Walzer (born March 3, 1935) is an American Political theory, political theorist and public intellectual. A professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, he is editor emeritus of the left-win ...

—"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 Daniel Clement Dennett III (March 28, 1942 – April 19, 2024) was an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. His research centered on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of biology, particularly as those ...

—"The Moral First Aid Manual" * 1986-87 (Oxford):

Jon Elster Jon Elster (; born 22 February 1940) is a Norwegian philosopher and political theorist who holds the Robert K. Merton professorship of Social Science at Columbia University and since 2005 professor of social science at the Collège de France. ...

—"Taming Chance: Randomization in Individual and Social Decisions" * 1986-87 (Harvard):

Jürgen Habermas Jürgen Habermas ( , ; ; born 18 June 1929) is a German philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. His work addresses communicative rationality and the public sphere. Associated with the Frankfurt S ...

—"Law and Morality" * 1986-87 (Stanford):

Gisela Striker Gisela Striker (born 1943) is a German classical scholar. She is Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Classics at Harvard University and a specialist in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. Education and career Striker was born and educated in Ger ...

—"Greek Ethics and Moral Theory" * 1986-87 (Utah): Laurence H. Tribe—"On Reading the Constitution" * 1987-88 (Cambridge):

Louis Blom-Cooper Sir Louis Jacques Blom-Cooper (27 March 1926 – 19 September 2018) was an English author and lawyer specialising in public and administrative law. Early life Born in London, his parents were the grocer Alfred Blom-Cooper and Ellen Flesseman. ...

—"The Penalty of Imprisonment" * 1987-88 (Harvard):

Robert A. Dahl Robert Alan Dahl (; December 17, 1915 – February 5, 2014) was an American Political philosophy, political theorist and Sterling Professor, Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He established the pluralism (political the ...

—"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 Anthony Meredith Quinton, Baron Quinton, FBA (25 March 192519 June 2010) was an English political and moral philosopher, metaphysician, and materialist philosopher of mind. He served as President of Trinity College, Oxford from 1978 to 1987; a ...

—"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 Barry Stroud (; 18 May 1935 – 9 August 2019) was a Canadian philosopher and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Known especially for his work on philosophical skepticism, he wrote about David Hume, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the metap ...

—"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 Fei Xiaotong or Fei Hsiao-tung (November 2, 1910 – April 24, 2005) was a Chinese anthropologist and sociologist. He was a pioneering researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology; he was also noted for his studies in the study of ...

—"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 Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, ''The Bluest Eye'', was published in 1970. The critically accl ...

—"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):

—"Nation and Universe" * 1989-90 (Cambridge):

Umberto Eco Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian Medieval studies, medievalist, philosopher, Semiotics, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular ...

—"Interpretation and Overinterpretation: World, History, Texts" * 1989-90 (Harvard):

Ernest Gellner Ernest André Gellner (9 December 1925 – 5 November 1995) was a French-born British-Czech philosopher and social anthropologist described by ''The Daily Telegraph'', when he died, as one of the world's most vigorous intellectuals, and by '' ...

—"The Civil and the Sacred" * 1989-90 (Michigan): Carol Gilligan—"Joining the Resistance:Psychology, Politics, Girls, and Women" * 1989-90 (Princeton):

Irving Howe Irving Howe (né Horenstein; ; June 11, 1920 – May 5, 1993) was an American author, literary and social critic, and a key figure in the democratic socialist movement in the U.S. He co-founded and served as longtime editor of ''Dissent'' ma ...

—"The Self and the State" * 1989-90 (Stanford):

János Kornai János Kornai (21 January 1928 – 18 October 2021) was a Hungarian economist noted for his analysis and criticism of the command economies of Eastern European communist states. He also covered macroeconomic aspects in countries undergoing pos ...

—"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 Bernard Lewis, (31 May 1916 – 19 May 2018) was a British-American historian specialized in Oriental studies. He was also known as a public intellectual and political commentator. Lewis was the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near ...

—"Europe and Islam" * 1989-90 (Yale): Edward Nicolae Luttwak—"Strategy: A New Era?" * 1989-90 (Utah):

Octavio Paz Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, a ...

—"Poetry and Modernity" * 1990-91 (Princeton): Annette Baier—"Trust" * 1990-91 (Cambridge):

Gro Harlem Brundtland Gro Brundtland (; née Harlem, 20 April 1939) is a Norwegian politician in the Labour Party, who served three terms as the prime minister of Norway (1981, 1986–1989, and 1990–1996), as the leader of her party from 1981 to 1992, and as the d ...

—"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 William Robertson Davies (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished " men of letters" ...

—"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 Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher, historian of ideas, and public intellectual. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stu ...

—"Feminism and Pragmatism" * 1991-92 (Cambridge):

David Baltimore David Baltimore (born March 7, 1938) is an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He is a professor of biology at the California Institute of Tech ...

—"On Doing Science in the Modern World" * 1991-92 (Utah):

Jared Diamond Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist, historian, and author. In 1985 he received a MacArthur Genius Grant, and he has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books. His best known is '' Guns, G ...

—"The Broadest Pattern of Human History" * 1991-92 (Michigan): Christopher Hill—"The Bible in Seventeenth-Century English Politics" * 1991-92 (UC Berkeley):

Helmut Kohl Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (; 3 April 1930 – 16 June 2017) was a German politician who served as chancellor of Germany and governed the ''Federal Republic'' from 1982 to 1998. He was leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to ...

* 1991-92 (Princeton):

Robert Nozick Robert Nozick (; November 16, 1938 – January 23, 2002) was an American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino Harvard University Professor, University Professorship at Harvard University,Roald Sagdeev Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev (, ; born 26 December 1932) is a Russian expert in plasma physics and a former director of the Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was also a science advisor to the Soviet President Mikhail Gorba ...

—"Science and Revolutions" * 1991-92 (Stanford): Charles Taylor—"Modernity and the Rise of the Public Sphere" * 1992-93 (Princeton):

Stanley Hoffmann Stanley Hoffmann (27 November 1928 – 13 September 2015) was a French political scientist and the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University, specializing in French politics and society, European politics, U.S ...

—"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 Christine Marion Korsgaard, (; born April 9, 1952) is an American philosopher who is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Harvard University. Her main scholarly interests are in moral philosophy and its history; the relat ...

—"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 Arthur Ellsworth Dick Howard (born 1933) is an Ameican legal scholar who has devoted his professional life to understanding the Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court, the American Constitution, and constitutions of the world. He is ...

—"Toward the Open Society in Central and Eastern Europe" * 1993-94 (Utah):

Jeffrey Sachs Jeffrey David Sachs ( ; born November 5, 1954) is an American economist and public policy analyst who is a professor at Columbia University, where he was formerly director of The Earth Institute. He worked on the topics of sustainable develop ...

—"Shock Therapy in Poland: Perspectives of Five Years" * 1993-94 (Oxford): Gordon Slynn—"Law and Culture – A European Setting" * 1993-94 (Harvard):

Lawrence Stone Lawrence Stone (4 December 1919 – 16 June 1999) was an English historian of early modern Britain, after a start to his career as an art historian of English medieval art. He is noted for his work on the English Civil War and the history of marri ...

—"Family Values in a Historical Perspective" * 1993-94 (Michigan):

William Julius Wilson William Julius Wilson (born December 20, 1935) is an American sociologist, a professor at Harvard University, and an author of works on urban sociology, race, and class issues. Laureate of the National Medal of Science, he served as the 80th Pre ...

—"The New Urban Poverty and the Problem of Race" * 1994-95 (Stanford):

Amy Gutmann Amy Gutmann (; born November 19, 1949) is an American academic and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Germany from 2022 to 2024. She was previously the 8th president of the University of Pennsylvania from 2004 to 2022, th ...

—"Responding to Racial Injustice" * 1994-95 (Princeton):

Alasdair MacIntyre Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (12 January 1929 – 21 May 2025) was a Scottish-American philosopher who contributed to moral and political philosophy as well as history of philosophy and theology. MacIntyre's '' After Virtue'' (1981) is one of ...

—"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 Richard Allen Posner (; born January 11, 1939) is an American legal scholar and retired United States circuit judge who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1981 to 2017. A senior lecturer at the University of Chicag ...

—"Euthanasia and Health Care: Two Essays on the Policy Dilemmas of Aging and Old Age" * 1995 (Princeton)

Antonin Scalia Antonin Gregory Scalia (March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016. He was described as the intellectual an ...

—"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 Dame Janet Suzman (born 9 February 1939) is a South African-born British actress who had a successful early career in the Royal Shakespeare Company, later replaying many Shakespearean roles on television. In her first film, '' Nicholas and Alexa ...

—"Who Needs Parables?" * 1995-96 (Princeton):

Harold Bloom Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world". Af ...

—"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 Nancy Fraser (; born May 20, 1947) is an American philosopher, critical theorist, feminist, and the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City.Jadžić, Milo ...

—"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 Onora Sylvia O'Neill, Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve (born 23 August 1941) is a British philosopher and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. Early life and education Onora Sylvia O'Neill was born on 23 August 1941 in Aughafatten. The daug ...

—"Kant on Reason and Religion" * 1995-96 (Cambridge):

Gunther Schuller Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician. Biography and works Early years Schuller was born in Queens, New York City ...

—"I. Jazz: A Historical Perspective", "II. Duke Ellington" and "III. Charles Mingus" * 1996-97 (Cambridge):

Dorothy Cheney Dorothy "Dodo" May Sutton Bundy Cheney (September 1, 1916 – November 23, 2014) was an American tennis player from her youth into her 90s. In 1938, Bundy was the first American to win the women's singles title at the Australian Open, Australia ...

—"Why Animals Don't Have Language" * 1996-97 (UC San Francisco):

Marian Wright Edelman Marian Wright Edelman ( Wright; born June 6, 1939) is an American activist for civil rights and children's rights. She is the founder and president emerita of the Children's Defense Fund. She influenced leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr, an ...

—"Standing for Children" * 1996-97 (Oxford):

Francis Fukuyama Francis Yoshihiro Fukuyama (; born October 27, 1952) is an American political scientist, political economist, and international relations scholar, best known for his book '' The End of History and the Last Man'' (1992). In this work he argues th ...

—"Social Capital" * 1996-97 (Toronto):

Peter Gay Peter Joachim Gay ( né Fröhlich ; June 20, 1923 – May 12, 2015) was a German-American historian, educator, and author. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for ...

—"The Living Enlightenment" * 1996-97 (Harvard):

Stuart Hampshire Sir Stuart Newton Hampshire (1 October 1914 – 13 June 2004) was an English philosopher, literary critic and university administrator. He was one of the antirationalist Oxford thinkers who gave a new direction to moral and political thought ...

—"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 Robert Merton Solow, GCIH (; August 23, 1924 – December 21, 2023) was an American economist who received the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and whose work on the theory of economic growth culminated in the exogenous growth ...

—"Welfare and Work" * 1997-98 (Prague): Timothy Garton Ash—"The Direction of European History" * 1997-98 (Harvard):

Myles Burnyeat Myles Fredric Burnyeat (; 1 January 1939 – 20 September 2019) was an English scholar of ancient philosophy. Early life and education Myles Burnyeat was born on 1 January 1939 to Peter James Anthony Burnyeat and Cynthia Cherry Warburg. He re ...

—"Culture and Society in Plato's Republic" * 1997-98 (Princeton)

J. M. Coetzee John Maxwell Coetzee Order of Australia, AC Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, FRSL Order of Mapungubwe, OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 ...

"The Lives of Animals" * 1997-98 (Michigan):

Antonio Damasio Antonio Damasio (; born 25 February 1944) is a Portuguese neuroscientist. He is currently the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California, and, add ...

—"Exploring the Minded Brain" * 1997-98 (Stanford):

Arthur Kleinman Arthur Michael Kleinman (born March 11, 1941) is an American psychiatrist, social anthropologist and a professor of medical anthropology, psychiatry and global health and social medicine at Harvard University. Kleinman's medical anthropology ...

—"Experience and Its Moral Modes: Culture, Human Conditions, and Disorder" * 1997-98 (Oxford):

Michael Sandel Michael Joseph Sandel (; born March 5, 1953) is an American political philosopher and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where his course ''Justice'' was the university's first course to be made fre ...

—"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 Jonathan Dermot Spence (11 August 1936 – 25 December 2021) was a British-American historian, Sinology, sinologist, and author specialised in History of China, Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 199 ...

—"Ideas of Power: China's Empire in the Eighteenth Century and Today" * 1997-98 (Cambridge):

Stephen Toulmin Stephen Edelston Toulmin (; 25 March 1922 – 4 December 2009) was a British philosopher, author, and educator. Influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Toulmin devoted his works to the analysis of moral reasoning. Throughout his writings, he sought ...

—"The Idol of Stability" * 1998-99 (Michigan):

Walter Burkert Walter Burkert (; 2 February 1931 – 11 March 2015) was a German scholar of Greek mythology and cult. A professor of classics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, he taught in the UK and the US. He has influenced generations of student ...

—"Revealing Nature amidst Multiple Cultures: A Discourse with Ancient Greeks" * 1998-99 (Utah):

Geoffrey Hartman Geoffrey H. Hartman (August 11, 1929 – March 14, 2016) was a German-born American literary theorist, sometimes identified with the Yale School of deconstruction, although he cannot be categorised by a single school or method. Hartman spent mos ...

—"Text and Spirit" * 1998-99 (Yale):

Steven Pinker Steven Arthur Pinker (born September 18, 1954) is a Canadian-American cognitive psychology, cognitive psychologist, psycholinguistics, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psycholo ...

—"The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine" * 1998-99 (Princeton):

Judith Jarvis Thomson Judith Jarvis Thomson (October 4, 1929November 20, 2020) was an American philosopher who studied and worked on ethics and metaphysics. Her work ranges across a variety of fields, but she is most known for her work regarding the thought experimen ...

—"Goodness and Advice" * 1998-99 (Oxford):

Sidney Verba Sidney Verba (May 26, 1932 – March 4, 2019) was an American political scientist, librarian and library administrator. His academic interests were mainly American and comparative politics. He was the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at ...

—"Representative Democracy and Democratic Citizens: Philosophical and Empirical Understandings" * 1998-99 (UC Davis): Richard White—"The Problem with Purity" * 1999-2000 (Stanford):

—"Ecological Collapses of Pre-industrial Societies" * 1999-2000 (Oxford):

Geoffrey Hill Sir Geoffrey William Hill, Royal_Society_of_Literature#Fellowship, FRSL (18 June 1932 – 30 June 2016) was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston Uni ...

—"Rhetorics of Value" * 1999-2000 (Princeton):

Michael Ignatieff Michael Grant Ignatieff ( ; born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian author, academic and former politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party and leader of the Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a historian, Ignatieff has ...

—"I. Human Rights as Politics" and "II. Human Rights as Idolatry" * 1999-2000 (Cambridge):

Jonathan Lear Jonathan Lear is an American philosopher and psychoanalyst. He is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and served as the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegiu ...

—"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 Charles Welles Rosen (May 5, 1927December 9, 2012) was an American pianist and writer on music. He is remembered for his career as a concert pianist, for his recordings, and for his many writings, notable among them the book '' The Classical St ...

—"Tradition without Convention: The Impossible Nineteenth-Century Project" * 1999-2000 (Michigan):

Helen Vendler Helen Vendler (née Hennessy; April 30, 1933 – April 23, 2024) was an American academic, writer and literary critic. She was a professor of English language and history at Boston University, Cornell, Harvard, and other universities. Her aca ...

—"Poetry and the Mediation of Value: Whitman on Lincoln" * 1999-2000 (Yale):

Marina Warner Dame Marina Sarah Warner (born 9 November 1946) is an English historian, mythographer, art critic, novelist and short story writer. She is known for her many non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth. She has written for many publication ...

—"Spirit Visions" * 2000-01 (Cambridge) K. Anthony Appiah—"The State and the Shaping of Identity" * 2001 (Michigan):

Michael Fried Michael Martin Fried (born April 12, 1939 in New York City) is a modernist art critic and art historian. He studied at Princeton University and Harvard University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford. He is the J.R. Herbert Boone ...

—"Roger Fry's Formalism" * 2000-01 (Michigan):

Partha Dasgupta Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta (born 17 November 1942) is an Indian-British economist who is Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. Personal life H ...

* 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 Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. He was the first United States Poet Laureate to serve three terms. Recognized worldwide, Pinsky's work has earned numerous accolades. Pinsky ...

—"American Culture and the Voice of Poetry" * 2000–01 (Berkeley):

Joseph Raz Joseph Raz (; ; born Joseph Zaltsman; 21 March 19392 May 2022) was an Israeli legal, moral and political philosopher. He was an advocate of legal positivism and is known for his conception of perfectionist liberalism. Raz spent most of his ca ...

—''The Practice of Value'' * 2000-01 (Harvard):

Simon Schama Sir Simon Michael Schama ( ; born 13 February 1945) is an English historian and television presenter. He specialises in art history, Dutch history, Jewish history, and French history. He is a professor of history and art history at Columbia Uni ...

* 2001 (Stanford):

Dorothy Allison Dorothy Earlene Allison (April 11, 1949 – November 6, 2024) was an American writer whose writing focused on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism, and lesbianism. She was a self-identified femme lesbian. Allison won a number o ...

—"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 and Ground Level" * 2002 (Harvard):

Lorraine Daston Lorraine Jenifer Daston (born June 9, 1951) is an American historian of science. She is director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the U ...

—"I. The Morality of Natural Orders" and "II. Nature's Customs vs. Nature's Laws" * 2002 (UC Berkeley):

Derek Parfit Derek Antony Parfit (; 11 December 1942 – 2 January 2017) was a British philosopher who specialised in personal identity, rationality, and ethics. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the lat ...

—"What We Could Rationally Will" * 2002 (Yale):

Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie ( ; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern wor ...

—"Step Across This Line" * 2002 (Oxford): Laurence H. Tribe—"The Constitution in Crisis" * 2003 (Harvard):

Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biology, evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author. He is an Oxford fellow, emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Simonyi Professor for the Publ ...

—"I. The Science of Religion" and "II. The Religion of Science" * 2003 (Princeton):

Frans de Waal Franciscus Bernardus Maria de Waal (29 October 1948 – 14 March 2024) was a Dutch-American primatologist and ethologist. He was the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior in the Department of Psychology at Emory University in ...

—"Morality and the Social Instincts" * 2003 (Princeton):

Jonathan Glover Jonathan Glover (; born 1941) is a British philosopher known for his books and studies on ethics. He currently teaches ethics at King's College London. Glover is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution in ...

—"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 Mary Therese Winifred Robinson (; ; born 21 May 1944) is an Irish politician who served as the president of Ireland from December 1990 to September 1997. She was the country's first female president. Robinson had previously served as a senato ...

—"I. Human Rights and Ethical Globalization" and "II. The Challenge of Human Rights Protection in Africa" * 2003 (Yale):

Garry Wills Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934) is an American author, journalist, political philosopher, and historian, specializing in American history, politics, and religion, especially the history of the Catholic Church. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Gener ...

—"Henry Adams: The Historian as a Novelist" * 2004 (Berkeley):

Seyla Benhabib Seyla Benhabib (; born September 9, 1950) is a Turkish-born American philosopher. Benhabib is a senior research scholar and adjunct professor of law at Columbia Law School. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the Columbia University Depa ...

—"Reclaiming Universalism: Negotiating Republican Self-Determinism and Cosmopolitan Norms" * 2004 (Harvard):

Stephen Breyer Stephen Gerald Breyer ( ; born August 15, 1938) is an American lawyer and retired jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1994 until his retirement in 2022. He was nominated by President Bill Clinton, and r ...

—"Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution" * 2004 (Stanford):

Harry Frankfurt Harry Gordon Frankfurt (May 29, 1929 – July 16, 2023) was an American philosopher. He was a professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught from 1990 until 2002. Frankfurt also taught at Yale University, Rockefeller U ...

—"I. Taking Ourselves Seriously" and "II. Getting it Right" * 2004 (Michigan):

—"Fellow Creatures: Kantian Ethics and Our Duties to Animals" * 2005 (Cambridge):

Carl Bildt Nils Daniel Carl Bildt (born 15 July 1949) is a Swedish politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994. He led the Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999, appearing as its lead candidate in four general elections, b ...

—"Peace After War: Our Experience" * 2005 (University of Utah)

Paul Farmer Paul Edward Farmer (October 26, 1959 – February 21, 2022) was an American medical anthropology, medical anthropologist and physician. Farmer held an MD and PhD from Harvard University, where he was a Harvard University Professor, University ...

—"Never Again? Reflections on Human Values and Human Rights" * 2005 (UC Berkeley): Axel Honneth—"Reification: A Recognition-Theoretical View" * 2005 (Stanford):

Avishai Margalit Avishai Margalit (; born 1939) is an Israeli professor emeritus in philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2006 to 2011, he served as the George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Early life and ...

—"I. Indecent Compromise" and "II. Decent Peace" * 2005 (Yale):

Ruth Reichl Ruth Reichl ( ; born 1948) is an American chef, food writer and editor. In addition to two decades as a food critic, mainly spent at the ''Los Angeles Times'' and ''The New York Times'', Reichl has also written cookbooks, memoirs and a novel, and ...

—"Why Food Matters" * 2005 (Michigan):

Marshall Sahlins Marshall David Sahlins ( ; December 27, 1930April 5, 2021) was an American cultural anthropologist best known for his ethnographic work in the Pacific and for his contributions to anthropological theory. He was the Charles F. Grey Distinguishe ...

—"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 David Brion Davis (February 16, 1927 – April 14, 2019) was an American intellectual and cultural historian, and a leading authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, ...

—"Exiles, Exodus, and Promised Lands" * 2006 (UC Berkeley):

Allan Gibbard Allan Fletcher Gibbard (born 1942) is an American philosopher who is the Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Gibbard has made major contributions to contemporary e ...

—"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 Brian Skyrms (born 1938) is an American philosopher, Distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and Economics at the University of California, Irvine, and a professor of philosophy at Stanford University. He has worked on problem ...

—"Evolution and the Social Contract" * 2007 (Utah):

Bill Viola William John Viola Jr. ( , ; January 25, 1951 – July 12, 2024) was an American video artist whose artistic expression depended upon electronic, sound, and image technology in new media. His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human ...

—"Presence and Absence" * 2007 (Princeton): Susan Wolf—"Meaning in Life and Why It Matters" * 2008 (Utah):

Howard Gardner Howard Earl Gardner (born July 11, 1943) is an American developmental psychologist and the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University. He was a founding member of Harvard Project Zero in 1967 ...

—"What is Good Work? Achieving Good Work in Turbulent Times" * 2008 (Princeton):

Marc Hauser Marc D. Hauser (born October 25, 1959) is an American evolutionary biologist and a researcher in primate behavior, animal cognition and human behavior and neuroscience. Hauser was a professor of psychology at Harvard University from 1998 to 2 ...

—"The Seeds of Humanity" * 2008 (Cambridge):

Lisa Jardine Lisa Anne Jardine (née Bronowski; 12 April 1944 – 25 October 2015) was a British historian of the early modern period. From 1990 to 2011, she was Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies and director of the Centre for Editing Lives and L ...

—"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 Annabel M. Patterson (born August 9, 1936) is the Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University. Born in England, Patterson emigrated to Canada in 1957. There she enrolled at the University of Toronto, where her B.A. work received the ...

—"Pandors's Boxes" * 2008 (Stanford):

Michael Tomasello Michael Tomasello (born January 18, 1950) is an American developmental and comparative psychologist, as well as a linguist. He is professor of psychology at Duke University. Earning many prizes and awards from the end of the 1990s onward, he is ...

—"Origins of Human Cooperation" * 2009 (Yale University):

John Adams John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was a Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before Presidency of John Adams, his presidency, he was a leader of ...

—"Doctor Atomic and His Gadget" * 2009 (University of Utah):

Isabel Allende Isabel Angélica Allende Llona (; born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the magical realism genre, is known for novels such as '' The House of the Spirits'' (''La casa de los espír ...

—"In the Hearts of Women" * 2009 (Cambridge): Sir Christopher Frayling—"Art and Religion in the Modern West: Some Perspectives" * 2009 (Harvard):

—"To Become Human Does Not Come That Easily" * 2009 (UC Berkeley):

Jeremy Waldron Jeremy Waldron (; born 13 October 1953) is a New Zealand legal philosopher. He holds a University Professorship at the New York University School of Law, is affiliated with the New York University Department of Philosophy, and was formerly the ...

—"Dignity, Rank and Rights" * 2009 (Stanford):

Roberto Mangabeira Unger Roberto Mangabeira Unger (; ; born 24 March 1947) is a Brazilian philosopher and politician. His work is in the tradition of Western philosophy and classical social theory, and is developed across fields in legal theory, philosophy and religion, ...

-"The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future" * 2010 (Princeton University):

Bruce Ackerman Bruce Arnold Ackerman (born August 19, 1943) is an American legal scholar who serves as a Sterling Professor at Yale Law School. In 2010, he was named by ''Foreign Policy'' magazine to its list of top global thinkers. Ackerman was also identified ...

—"The Decline and Fall of the American Republic" * 2010 (UC Berkeley):

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (; born in 1946) is a Sudanese-born Islamic scholar who lives in the United States and teaches at Emory University. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, associated professor ...

—"Transcending Imperialism: Human Values and Global Citizenship" * 2010 (Stanford): Mark Danner—"Torture and the Forever War" * 2010 (Utah):

Spike Lee Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author. His work has continually explored race relations, issues within the black community, the role of media in contemporary ...

—"America through My Lens: The Evolving Nature of Race and Class in the Films of Spike Lee" * 2010 (Michigan):

Susan Neiman Susan Neiman (; born March 27, 1955) is an American moral philosopher, cultural commentator and essayist. She has written extensively on the juncture between Enlightenment moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics, both for scholarly audiences ...

—"Victims and Heroes" * 2010 (Princeton):

Robert Putnam Robert David Putnam (born January 9, 1941) is an American political scientist specializing in comparative politics. He is the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. ...

—"American Grace" * 2010 (Oxford):

Ahmed Rashid Ahmed Rashid (Urdu:; born 1948 in Rawalpindi) is a Pakistani journalist and best-selling foreign policy author of several books about Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia. Life and career Rashid was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He attende ...

—"Afghanistan and Pakistan: Past Mistakes, Future Directions?" * 2010 (Michigan):

Martin Seligman Martin Elias Peter Seligman (; born August 12, 1942) is an American psychologist, educator, and author of self-help books. Seligman is a strong promoter within the scientific community of his theories of well-being and positive psychology. His t ...

—"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 Esther Duflo, FBA (; born 25 October 1972) is a French-American economist currently serving as the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2019, she w ...

—"Human Values and the Design of the Fight against Poverty" * 2011-12 (Cambridge):

Ernst Fehr Ernst Fehr (born 21 June 1956 in Hard, Austria) is an Austrian-Swiss behavioral economist and neuroeconomist and a Professor of Microeconomics and Experimental Economic Research, as well as the vice chairman of the Department of Economics at the ...

—"The Psychology and Economics of Authority" * 2011-12 (Princeton):

Stephen Greenblatt Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is an American literary historian and author. He has served as the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University since 2000. Greenblatt is the general editor of ''The Nort ...

—"Shakespeare and the Shape of a Life: The Uses of Life Stories" * 2011-12 (Yale):

—"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 Elinor Claire "Lin" Ostrom (née Awan; August 7, 1933 – June 12, 2012) was an American Political science, political scientist and Political economy, political economist whose work was associated with New institutional economics, New Institution ...

—"I. Frameworks" and "II. Analyzing One-Hundred-Year-Old Irrigation Puzzles" * 2011 (Harvard):

James Scott James Scott may refer to: Entertainment * James Scott (composer) (1885–1938), African-American ragtime composer * James Scott (director) (born 1941), British filmmaker * James Scott (actor) (born 1979), British television actor * James Scott (Sh ...

—"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):

Diane Coyle Dame Diane Coyle (born 12 February 1961) is a British economist. Since March 2018, she has been the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, co-directing the Bennett Institute. Coyle's early career as an economist wa ...

—"The Public Responsibility of the Economist" * 2012-13 (Oxford):

—"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 Claude Lanzmann (; 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker, best known for the Holocaust documentary film ''Shoah'' (1985), which consists of nine and a half hours of oral testimony from Holocaust survivors, without historical f ...

—"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 Craig Jackson Calhoun (born 1952) is an American sociologist and social theorist known for his work in critical social theory, public sociology, and the study of social change. His scholarship has focused on how social movements, democracy, nati ...

—"The Problematic Public: Revisiting Dewey, Arendt, and Habermas" * 2013-14 (Oxford):

Shami Chakrabarti Sharmishta Chakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti (born 16 June 1969) is a British politician, barrister, and human rights activist. A member of the Labour Party, she served as the director of Liberty, a major advocacy group which promotes civil l ...

—"Human Rights as Human Values" * 2013-14 (Utah):

Neil deGrasse Tyson Neil deGrasse Tyson ( or ; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysics, astrophysicist, author, and science communication, science communicator. Tyson studied at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Columbia Univ ...

—"Science as a Way of Knowing" * 2013-14 (Yale):

Paul Gilroy Paul Gilroy (born 16 February 1956) is an English sociologist and cultural studies scholar who is the founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at University College London (UCL). Gilroy is the 2019 ...

—"The Black Atlantic and the Re-enchantment of Humanism" * 2013-14 (Yale):

Bruno Latour Bruno Latour (; ; 22 June 1947 – 9 October 2022) was a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist.Wheeler, Will. ''Bruno Latour: Documenting Human and Nonhuman Associations'' Critical Theory for Library and Information Science. Librari ...

—"How Better to Register the Agency of Things" * 2013-14 (Stanford):

Nicholas Lemann Nicholas Berthelot Lemann is an American writer and academic, and is the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism and Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He ...

—"The Transaction Society: Origins and Consequences" * 2013-14 (Michigan):

Walter Mischel Walter Mischel (; February 22, 1930 – September 12, 2018) was an Austrian-born American psychologist specializing in personality theory and social psychology. He was the Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters in the Department ...

—"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 (Oxford):

Peter Singer Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secu ...

—"From Moral Neutrality to Effective Altruism: The Changing Scope and Significance of Moral Philosophy" * 2013-14 (Utah): Andrew Solomon—"Love, Acceptance, Celebration: How Parents Make Their Children" * 2013-14 (Harvard): Archbishop

Rowan Williams Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth (born 14 June 1950) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet, who served as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012. Previously the Bishop of Monmouth and Archbishop of W ...

–"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 Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and an inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight chi ...

—"Human Values in Age of Change" * 2014-15 (Yale):

Dipesh Chakrabarty Dipesh Chakrabarty (born 1948, in Kolkata, India) is an Indian historian and leading scholar of postcolonial theory and subaltern studies. He is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in history at the University of Chicago, ...

—"The Human Condition of the Anthropocene" * 2014-15 (Cambridge):

Peter Galison Peter Louis Galison (born May 17, 1955) is an American historian and philosopher of science. He is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in history of science and technology, history of science and physics at Harvard University. Biography G ...

—"Science, Secrecy and the Private Self" * 2014-15 (Michigan):

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( ; Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until Death and state funeral of Ruth Bader ...

—"A Conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg" * 2014-15 (Harvard):

Carlo Ginzburg Carlo Ginzburg (; born 15 April 1939) is an Italian historian and a proponent of the field of microhistory. He is best known for ''Il formaggio e i vermi'' (1976, English title: '' The Cheese and the Worms''), which examined the beliefs of an I ...

—"Casuistry, For and Against: Pascal's Provinciales and Their Aftermath" * 2014-15 (UC Berkeley):

Philip Pettit Philip Noel Pettit (born 1945) is an Irish philosopher and political theorist. He is the Laurance Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and also Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Aust ...

—"I. From Language to Commitment" and "II. From Commitment to Responsibility" * 2015-16 (Stanford): Andrew Bacevich—"The American Military Encounters Islam" * 2015-16 (Michigan):

Abhijit Banerjee Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (; born 21 February 1961) is an Indian American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is co-founder and co-director of the ...

—""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 Judith Pamela Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American feminist philosopher and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, queer theory, and literary theory. In ...

—"Interpreting Non-Violence" * 2015-16 (Berkeley):

Didier Fassin Didier Fassin (born in 1955) is a French anthropologist and sociologist. He is a professor at the Collège de France on the chair “Moral Questions and Social Issues in Contemporary Societies” and the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Sci ...

—"The Will to Punish" * 2015-16 (Clare Hall):

Derek Gregory Derek Gregory (born 1 March 1951) is a British academic and world-renowned geographer who is currently Peter Wall Distinguished Professor and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He formerly held positions ...

—"Reach for the Sky: Aerial Violence and the Everywhere War" * 2015-16 (Utah):

Siddhartha Mukherjee Siddhartha Mukherjee ( Bengali: সিদ্ধার্থ মুখার্জী; born 21 July 1970) is an Indian-American physician, biologist, and author. He is best known for his 2010 book, '' The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of ...

—""The Gene: An Intimate History"" * 2015-16 (Oxford):

Shirley Williams Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby (''née'' Catlin; 27 July 1930 – 12 April 2021) was a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Party (UK), Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), she served in ...

—""The Value of Europe and European Values"" * 2016 (Princeton):

Naomi Oreskes Naomi Oreskes (; born November 25, 1958) is an American historian of science. She became Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University in 2013, after 15 years as Professor of H ...

- 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" * 2017 (Harvard):

Bryan Stevenson Bryan Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, and law professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Based in Montgomery, Alabam ...

—"Social Justice Action: How We Change the World" * 2017-18 (Berkeley):

Michael Warner Michael David Warner (born 1958) is an American literary critic, social theorist, and Seymour H. Knox Professor of English Literature and American Studies at Yale University. He also writes for '' Artforum'', ''The Nation'', '' The Advocate'', an ...

–"Environmental Care and the Infrastructure of Indifference" * 2018 (Harvard): Dorothy E. Roberts–"The Old Biosocial and the Legacy of Unethical Science" and "The New Biosocial and The Future of Ethical Science" * 2019-20 (Michigan): Charles W. Mills—"Theorizing Racial Justice" * 2019 (Harvard): Masha Gessen—"How We Think About Migration" and "Some Ideas for Talking About Migration" * 2021-22 (Princeton):

Elizabeth Kolbert Elizabeth Kolbert (born July 6, 1961) is an American journalist, author, and visiting fellow at Williams College. She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning book '' The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History'', and as an observer and com ...

—"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"

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