Tanner Lectures

Name	Affiliation	Date	Title	Commentaries
Emma Rothschild	Centre for History and Economics, King's College, Cambridge	2005-6	The Inner Life of Empires	Dipesh Chakrabarty (History, University of Chicago), Kathleen Wilson (History, SUNY, Stony Brook), Susan James (Philosophy, University of London), Fania Oz-Salzberger (History and Law, Haifa University)
Frans de Waal	Emory University	2003-04	The Two Terrible Toms, or Homo Homini Lupus On Anthropodenial, or When a Kiss is not a Kiss	Philip Kitcher (Philosophy, Columbia University) Christine Korsgaard (Philosophy, Harvard) Richard Wrangham (Anthropolgy, Harvard) Robert Wright (http://www.nonzero.org)
Jonathan Glover	King's College, London	2002-03	Towards Humanism in Psychiatry: Interpretation and Identity	Peter Brooks (Yale) Jonathan Lear (University of Chicago) Jennifer Radden (University of Massachussetts, Boston) Antonio Damasio (University of Iowa)
Timothy J. Clark	University of California, Berkeley	2001-02	Poussin's Mad Pursuit Bruegel in the Land of Cockaigne	Svetlana Alpers, Elizabeth Cropper, David Freedberg, Richard Wollheim
Robert Pinsky	Boston University	2000-01	American Culture and the Voice of Poetry	A.S. Byatt John Hollander (Yale University) Marianna Torgovnick (Duke University) Jonathan Galassi
Michael Ignatieff	Harvard University	1999-00	Human Rights as Politics Human Rights as Idolatry	K. Anthony Appiah, David Hollinger, Diane Orentlicher, Thomas Laqueur
Judith Jarvis Thomson	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1998-99	Goodness and Moral Requirement	Philip Fisher, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Martha Nussbaum, Jerome Schneewind
J.M. Coetzee		1997-98	The Philosophers and the Animals The Poets and the Animals	Wendy Doniger, Marjorie Garber, Peter Singer, Barbara Smuts
Robert Solow	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1996-97	Guess Who Likes Workfare? Guess Who Pays for Workfare?	Gertrude Himmelfarb (Graduate School of CUNY, Emeritus), Anthony Lewis (New York Times), Glenn Loury (Boston University), John Roemer (University of California, Davis)
Harold Bloom	Yale University	1995-96	Shakespeare and the Value of Personality Shakespeare and the Value of Love	Robert Brustein (American Repertory Theatre), Stephen Greenblatt (University of California at Berkeley), Stanley Cavell (Harvard University), Lisa Jardine (University of London)
Antonin Scalia	U.S. Supreme Court	1994-95	Common-Law Courts in a Civil-Law System: The Role of U.S. Federal Courts in Interpreting the Constitution and Laws	Ronald Dworkin (University College, Oxford), Mary Ann Glendon (Harvard Law School), Laurence Tribe (Harvard University), Gordon Wood (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
Alasdair MacIntyre	University of Notre Dame	1993-94	Truthfulness, Lies, and Moral Philosopher: What Can We Learn From Mill?; What Can We Learn from Kant?	Jorge Garcia (Rutgers University), Christine Korsgaard (Harvard University), Onora O'Neill (Cambridge University), Quentin Skinner (Cambridge University)
Stanley Hoffman	Harvard University	1992-93	The Nation, Nationalism, and Beyond: The Case of France and Europe	Anthony Appiah (Harvard University), Antoine Compagnon (Columbia University), Fritz Stern (Columbia University), Susan Strange (European Institute, Florence)
Robert Nozick	Harvard University	1991-92	Decisions of Principle, Principles of Decision	Clifford Geertz (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), Gilbert H. Harman (Princeton University), Susan L. Hurley (Oxford University), Amos Tversky (Stanford University)

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