{"product_id":"9781607812487","title":"The Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Volume 32","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, was established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Lectureships are awarded to outstanding scholars or leaders in broadly defined fields of human values and transcend ethnic, national, religious, or ideological distinctions. Volume 32 features lectures given during the academic year 2011-2012 at the University of Michigan; Princeton University; Stanford University; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Utah; and Yale University. This volume includes the following lectures:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Broome\u003c\/b\u003e, “The Public and Private Morality of Climate Change”\u003cbr\u003eJohn Broome is the Whites Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Corpus Christi College in Oxford. He has written six books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn M. Cooper\u003c\/b\u003e, “Ancient Philosophies as Ways of Life”\u003cbr\u003eJohn Cooper is the Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His books include \u003ci\u003ePursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePanentheism: The Other God of the Philosophers\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Greenblatt\u003c\/b\u003e, “Shakespeare and the End of Life History”\u003cbr\u003eStephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of several books, including the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Swerve: How the World Became Modern \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWill in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Jardine\u003c\/b\u003e, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: C. P. Snow and J. Bronowski” and “Science and Government: C. P. Snow and the Corridors of Power”\u003cbr\u003eLisa Jardine is a professor of Renaissance studies at University College London, where she is the director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research in the Humanities and the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters. She has published more than fifty scholarly articles and seventeen books, including \u003ci\u003eGoing Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Scheffler\u003c\/b\u003e, “The Afterlife”\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Scheffler is University Professor and a professor of philosophy and law at New York University. He has published four books in the areas of moral and political philosophy, including \u003ci\u003eEquality and Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbraham Verghese\u003c\/b\u003e, “Two Souls Intertwined”\u003cbr\u003eAbraham Verghese is a professor of medicine and senior associate chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford University. He has published widely across disciplines, including \u003ci\u003eMy Own Country: A Doctor’s Story \u003c\/i\u003eand the novel \u003ci\u003eCutting for Stone\u003c\/i\u003e. He is perhaps best known for his deep interest in bedside medicine and work in the medical humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Utah Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47047410188528,"sku":"9781607812487","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781607812487_p0.jpg?v=1763837950","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781607812487","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}