Zoë Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, published her paper "Deliberation and Moral Motivation" in Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 17 (Oxford University Press, 2022).

From the publisher: “Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field.”

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Zoë Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, will be one of the two keynote speakers at this year's Austin Graduate Ethics and Normativity Talks (AGENT) conference hosted by the University of Texas at Austin’s Philosophy Department on November 11 and 12.

The conference highlights work from graduate students related to ethics, normativity, and value. For more information on the conference see their posting here: https://philevents.org/event/...

Zoë Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, will present at the Arché Institute's "Epistemology: Current Themes" series on November 17th. 

The Epistemology: Current Themes group is one of six at Arché, a philosophical research centre at the University of St Andrews. For more information on the Arché institute...

Trystan Goetze, Postdoctoral Fellow of Embedded EthiCS, organized the panel “Teaching Ethical and Humanistic Thinking in Computer Science” at the Canadian Philosophical Association 2022 Congress. The panel included eight presentations with representation from Embedded EthiCS @ Harvard, Dalhousie University, the University of King’s College, the University of Toronto, American University, Queen’s University, and the tech and consulting industries.

Trystan Goetze, Postdoctoral Fellow of Embedded EthiCS, published and presented a peer-reviewed paper on vicarious responsibility and autonomous systems in the Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’22).

The paper, “Mind the Gap: Autonomous Systems, the Responsibility Gap, and Moral Entanglement,” is available online here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3531146....

Trystan Goetze and William Cochran, both Postdoctoral Fellows in Embedded EthiCS, presented their and Jenna Donohue’s work “Creating a Classroom Community with Unfamiliar Students and Limited Time” at the American Association of Philosophy Teachers’ International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy at Otterbein University (July 27-31).

Their session was one marked as highlighting the conference’s theme of (Re)Newing Communities. The Association describes this theme as: “Meeting head-on the...

Trystan Goetze, Postdoctoral Fellow of Embedded EthiCS, and coauthor Charlie Crerar published the chapter “Hermeneutical Justice for Extremists?” in The Philosophy of Fanaticism: Epistemic, Affective, and Political Dimensions (Routledge, 2022).

From the Abstract:

“When we encounter extremist rhetoric, we often find it dumbfounding, incredible, or straightforwardly unintelligible. For this reason, it can be tempting to dismiss or ignore it, at least...

Jenna Donohue, Postdoctoral Fellow in Embedded EthiCS, attended an NSF-funded Workshop on Inclusive and Intersectional Research and Analysis in Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University (August 25-26). She collaborated with researchers from other institutions and disciplines to create a case study for intersectionality in computer science education. See similar case studies (and soon the one she contributed to!) at genderedinnovations.stanford.edu.

Jenna Donohue, Postdoctoral Fellow in Embedded EthiCS, gave a paper, “Click-Gap, Paternalism, and Tech Giants’ Relationships with their Users" at Dartmouth University for a workshop on Information Technology Ethics (August 8 - 10). At the workshop, she collaborated with philosophers, social scientists, and industry representatives as they thought together about tech ethics and the relationship between industry and academia.

For more information on the Dartmouth Workshop on Ethics and Information Technology and its related course, please see this news article:...

Jenna Donohue, Postdoctoral Fellow in Embedded EthiCS, is participating in the panel “To Cure, to Assist, or Even to Enhance? Emergent Neurotechnologies and Disability Justice” at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities annual conference (October 26 – 29). She will be presenting some thinking on who stakeholders are and how their interests should be respected when new neurotechnologies are developed, particularly those that have the...

Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, will take part in the opening conversation with Syed Babar Ali at a “Qawwali Celebration of South Asia: 75 Years of Azadi.” The concert, hosted by The Mittal Institute at Harvard University, celebrates...

An upcoming publication from Oxford University Press honors the work of Christine M. Korsgaard, Arthur Kingsley Porter Research Professor of Philosophy.

Normativity and Agency: Themes from the Philosophy of Christine M. Korsgaard edited by Tamar Schapiro, Kyla Ebels-Duggan, and Sharon Street, engages with topics central to Korsgaard's work including the foundations of morality, the nature of the self, integrity and value, moral responsibility, obligations to non-human animals, and the relations...

Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite, Harvard Staff Writer, interviewed Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, about his new memoir Home in the World. Professor Sen discusses his decision to write a memoir, religion, politics, and more.

Read “The story behind Amartya Sen’s memoir”...

Three Philosophy concentrators have been awarded the Hoopes Prize for the 2021-2022 academic year. Funded by the estate of Thomas T. Hoopes (Class of 1921), the Hoopes prize is awarded annually to undergraduates “on the basis of outstanding scholarly work or research... recognizing, promoting, honoring, and rewarding excellence in the work of undergraduates and their capabilities and skills in any subject, projects of research in science or the humanities, or in specific written work of the students under the instruction or supervision of the Faculty.”

The...

Graduate student Megan Entwistle won the prize for best submission at the Francophone Society for Analytic Philosophy (SoPHa)'s Workshop for Young Researchers held at the University of Geneva from May 30-June 2, 2022. Her paper and talk titled “The Epistemological Challenge for Simulationism,” won out of 15 sessions on this year’s topic of Mental States and their Epistemic Roles.

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