The University Center for Human Values Series

The University Center for Human Values Series²⁰

Stephen Macedo, Series Editor

These books, based on the prestigious Tanner Lectures given each year at 91桃色 University by leading thinkers across the humanities and social sciences, explore a wide range of topics and their relation to human values.

Active and Passive Citizens: A Defense of Majoritarian Democracy Richard Tuck
Edited by Stephen Macedo
A powerful case for why majority rule鈥攏ot representation鈥攊s the defining feature of democratic politics
The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power under the Constitution Michael W. McConnell
Vital perspectives for the divided Trump era on what the Constitution's framers intended when they defined the extent鈥攁nd limits鈥攐f presidential power
Why Trust Science? Naomi Oreskes
Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthy
A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species Robert Boyd
How our ability to learn from each other has been the essential ingredient to our remarkable success as a species
Why Trust Science? Naomi Oreskes
Edited by Stephen Macedo
Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthy
Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It) Elizabeth Anderson
Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments鈥攁nd why we can鈥檛 see it
A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law - New Edition Antonin Scalia
Edited by Amy Gutmann
We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases...
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve Ian Morris
Edited by Stephen Macedo
The best-selling author of Why the West Rules鈥攆or Now examines the evolution and future of human values
The Lives of Animals J. M. Coetzee
Edited by Amy Gutmann
The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of...
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved Frans de Waal
Edited by Stephen Macedo and Josiah Ober
Can virtuous behavior be explained by nature, and not by human rational choice? "It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the...
Meaning in Life and Why It Matters Susan Wolf
A fresh reflection on what makes life meaningful
Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict Michael W. Doyle
Edited by Stephen Macedo
Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it wait until an attack is in progress? Is the Bush Doctrine of aggressive preventive action a justified and legal recourse against threats posed by...
The Limits of Constitutional Democracy Edited by Jeffrey K. Tulis and Stephen Macedo
Constitutional democracy is at once a flourishing idea filled with optimism and promise--and an enterprise fraught with limitations. Uncovering the reasons for this ambivalence, this book looks at the difficulties of constitutional...
Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry Robert Pinsky
The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on...
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry Michael Ignatieff
Edited by Amy Gutmann
Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted...
Goodness and Advice Judith Jarvis Thomson
Edited by Amy Gutmann
How should we live? What do we owe to other people? In Goodness and Advice, the eminent philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions. In doing so, she makes major advances in...
Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions Edited by Robert I. Rotberg and Dennis F. Thompson
The truth commission is an increasingly common fixture of newly democratic states with repressive or strife-ridden pasts. From South Africa to Haiti, truth commissions are at work with varying degrees of support and success. To many...
Work and Welfare Robert M. Solow
Edited by Amy Gutmann
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today's most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquence, wit, and rigor, Solow condemns the...
Freedom of Association Edited by Amy Gutmann
Americans are joiners. They are members of churches, fraternal and sororal orders, sports leagues, community centers, parent-teacher associations, professional associations, residential associations, literary societies, national and...
Multiculturalism: Expanded Paperback Edition Charles Taylor
Edited by Amy Gutmann
A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition," this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy...