Appointment as a Tanner Lecturer is a recognition of uncommon capabilities and outstanding scholarly or leadership achievement in the field of human values. The six lectures contained in this volume were presented during the academic year 1990-91, and include discussion of feminism and pragmatism; environmental challenges; reading and writing; trust; citizenship and justice in the lives and thoughts of 19th-century workers; and incentives, inequality, and community. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.