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Gina Schouten

Professor Gina Schouten to Deliver the 2023 Mala & Solomon Kamm Lecture in Ethics

October 11, 2023
Professor Gina Schouten will deliver the 2023 Mala & Solomon Kamm Lecture in Ethics on the topic of “Culture and Injustice”. Professor Schouten’s lecture, scheduled for October 26th, will "advance a reorientation in liberal theorizing about justice, one that deflates longstanding and ongoing debates about the subject matter of justice by showing that liberal justice issues illuminating guidance with respect to culture even if it retains its focus on political institutions”. More information and registration (in-person and online) is available... Read more about Professor Gina Schouten to Deliver the 2023 Mala & Solomon Kamm Lecture in Ethics
Tommie Shelby

Tommie Shelby Awarded Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship

August 9, 2023

Professor Shelby has been named a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for the current academic year. The annual awards honor faculty members for their distinguished accomplishments in the fields of literature, history or art, and for their notable publications. Professor Shelby receives this prize fellowship in recognition of his outstanding contributions to his field, including the 2022 publication of The Idea of Prison Abolition...

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Jeff McDonough

Jeffrey McDonough awarded Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship

July 19, 2023

Professor McDonough has been named a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for the academic year. These prize fellowships are given annually to a select few faculty colleagues in recognition of their achievements and scholarly eminence in the fields of “literature, history or art, as such terms may be liberally interpreted...”. The award reflects Professor McDonough’s outstanding contributions to his field, including the 2022 publication of A Miracle Creed: The Principle of Optimality in Leibniz’s Physics and Philosophy. 

See a full list of the 2023 Walter Channing Cabot Fellows...

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W. Hugh Woodin Elected to National Academy of Sciences

W. Hugh Woodin Elected to National Academy of Sciences

May 15, 2023

 

W. Hugh Woodin, Professor of Philosophy and of Mathematics, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The Academy elects members in recognition of their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.”

Congratulations, Professor Woodin!

For more information on the National Academy of Sciences, please see their website here: https://www.nasonline.org/

 

Mariana Noe

Mariana Noé appointed Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop Postdoctoral Fellow

May 1, 2023

Dr. Mariana Beatriz Noé will join the department as the 2023-2024 Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Noé completed her Ph.D. in Classical Studies at Columbia University and her Licentiate degree in Philosophy (summa cum laude) at the University of Buenos Aires. Dr. Noé will be joining the department from Columbia University, where she is currently the Early Career Fellow in the Discipline of Philosophy.

Susanna Siegel named 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Philosophy

Susanna Siegel named 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in Philosophy

April 6, 2023

Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, was named one of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation's 2023 Fellows. The fellowship is awarded to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts."

Congratulations, Professor Siegel! 

Learn more about the Guggenheim Fellowship here: https://www.gf.org/

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Trystan Goetze presents at Computer Science Education Technical Symposium

Trystan Goetze presents at Computer Science Education Technical Symposium

March 15, 2023

Trystan Goetze, Postdoctoral Fellow in Embedded EthiCS, attended the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education (ACM SIGCSE) Technical Symposium, where they presented a paper on different approaches to teaching ethics in computing programmes (the paper is published in the proceedings). They also helped deliver a workshop on teaching...

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Trystan Goetze presents at Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Society Conference

January 27, 2023

Trystan Goetze, Postdoctoral Fellow in Embedded EthiCS, presented a paper titled “AI Art is Theft” at the Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Society workshop at Stanford University on January 27. This workshop sought to “…bring together philosophers addressing important normative questions about the ongoing impact of artificial intelligence and related applications of digital technologies on society.”

Learn more about the workshop here: https://philevents.org/event/show/105429

Trystan Goetze and William Cochran present at Stanford Embedded Ethics Conference

Trystan Goetze and William Cochran present at Stanford Embedded Ethics Conference

February 28, 2023

Trystan Goetze and William Cochran, both Postdoctoral Fellows, delivered a teaching demo of an Embedded EthiCS module at the Stanford Embedded Ethics Conference: Strategies for Teaching Responsible Computing Within the Computer Science Curriculum on February 28.

Learn more about the conference in this article: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/teaching-responsible-computer-science  

A recording of the entire conference is available; the teaching demo starts at 4:55:50 and runs to 5:25...

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