Past Tanner Lectures

Year	Speakers	lecture titles
2023	Tommie Shelby	I. “How Racial Stereotypes Wrong”
		II. "Resisting Racial Stereotypes"
2023	Seth Lazar	I. "Governing the Algorithmic City"
		II. "Communicative Justice and the Political Philosophy of Attention"
2022	Cécile Fabre	I. "Valuing Humankind Heritage"
		II. "Justice and Humankind’s Heritage"
2022	Richard Wrangham	I. The Evolution of Societal Patriarchy: Human Groupishness
		II. The Origins of Societal Patriarchy and its Moral Consequences
2019	Anne Case	I. "Deaths of Despair"
2019	Angus Deaton	II. "Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism"
2018	Samantha Power	I. "Resisters in Dark Times"
		II. "Diplomacy after Darkness"
2017	Richard Kraut	I. "The Richness of Human Experience"
		II. "Virtue and Experience"
2015	Andrew Bacevich	I. "America's War for the Greater Middle East: Origins and Conduct"
		II. "America's War for the Greater Middle East: Consequences"
2014	Danielle Allen	I. "Education and Equality: Two Concepts of Education"
		II. "Education and Equality: Participatory Readiness"
2014	Nicholas Lemann	I. "The Transaction Society: The Turn Against Institutions"
		II. "What Transactions Can't Do"
2012	William Bowen	I. "The Productivity Problem in Higher Education"
		II. "Prospects for an Online Learning Fix"
2012	John Cooper	I. "Ancient Philosophies as Ways of Life: Socrates"
		II. "Platonist Philosophie as a Way of Life: Plotinus"
2011	Elinor Ostrom	I. "The Challenge of Sustainability: Frameworks"
		II. "Analyzing 100-Year-Old Irrigation Puzzles"
2010	Mark Danner	I. "Imposing the State of Exception: Constitutional Dictatorship, Torture and Us"
		II. "Naturalizing the State of Exception: Terror, Fear and the War Without End"
2009	Roberto Unger	I. "The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future"
2008	Michael Tomasello	I. "Ontogenetic Origins of Human Altruism"
		II. "Phylogenetic Origins of Human Cooperation"
2007	Glenn Loury	I. "Racial Stigma, Mass Incarceration and American Values: Ghettos, Prisons, and Racial Backlash"
		II. "Social Identity and the Ethics of Punishment"
2006	David Brion Davis	I. "Exiles, Exodus and Promised Lands"
2005	Avishai Margalit	I. "Indecent Compromise"
		II. "Decent Peace"
2004	Harry Frankfurt	I. "Taking Ourselves Seriously"
		II. "Getting it Right"
2003	Mary Robinson	I. "Human Rights and Ethical Globalization"
		II. "The Challenge of Human Rights Protection in Africa"
2002	Paul Krugman	I. "Intractable Slumps"
		II. "Currency Crisis"
2001	Dorothy Allison	I. "Mean Stories and Stubborn Girls"
		II. "What It Means to Be Free"
2000	Jared Diamond	I. "Modern Lessons from Ecological Collapses of Ancient Civilizations"
		II. "When do Green Values Pay Off for Big Businesses?"
1999	Randall Kennedy	I. "Who Can Say 'Nigger'? … and Other Related Questions"
1998	Arthur Kleinman	I. "The Danger of Social Experience: Suffering in Local and Global Perspectives"
		II. "The Moral, the Political, and the Medical: Ethnographic and Clinical Approaches to Human Engagement"
1997	Barbara Herman	I. "Moral Literacy: Responsibility and Moral Competence"
		II. "Can Virtue Be Taught? The Problem of New Moral Facts"
1996	Nancy Fraser	I. "Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: From Redistribution to Recognition"
		II. "Toward an Integrated Conception of Justice"
1995	Amy Gutmann	I. "Responding to Racial Injustice: What's Wrong with Color Blindness?"
		II. "What's Right about Race Consciousness?"
1994	Thomas E. Hill, Jr.	I. "Respect for Humanity: Basic Respect and Cultural Diversity"
		II. "Must Respect Be Earned?"
1993	Colin Renfrew	I. "Archaeology, Language and Genetics: The Origins of Diversity"
		II. "Who were the Greek? A Problem of Ethnicity"
1992	Charles Taylor	I. "Modernity and the Public Sphere"
		II. "Dialogical Agency"
1991	Gerald Cohen	I. "Incentives and the Interpersonal Test"
		II. "Incentives and the Difference Principle"
1990	János Kornai	I. "The Experience of the East European Experiment"
		II. "Illusions and Fallacies: The Political, Sociological and Ethical Aspects"
1989	Stephen Gould	I. "Unpredictability in the History of Life"
		II. "The Quest for Human Nature: Fortuitous Side Consequences dnd Contingent History"
1988	Ronald Dworkin	I. "Foundations of Liberal Equality"
1987	Gisela Stiker	I. "Greek Ethics and Moral Theory"
		II. "Happiness as Tranquility"
1986	Stanley Cavell	I. "The Uncanniness of the Ordinary"
		II. "Skepticism, Melodrama, and the Extraordinary: The Unknown Woman in "Gaslight"
1985	Michael Slote	I. "Moderation, Rationality and Virtue"
1984	Leonard Meyer	I. "Music and Ideology in the Nineteenth Century"
1983	David Gauthier	I. "The Incomplete Egoist: From Rational Choice to Moral Theory"
1982	Alan Stone	I. "Psychiatry and Morality"
1981	Charles Fried	I. "Is Liberty Possible?"
1979	Michel Foucault	I. "Omnes et Singulatim: Towards a Criticism of 'Political Reason'"
1979	Amartya Sen	I. "Equality of What?"
		II. "The Case for a Consequentialist, Non-Utilitarian Theory of Rights"
1977	Thomas Nagel "	I. "Equality"
1977	Joel Feinberg	I. "Voluntary Euthanasia and the Inalienable Right to Life"