Eric Beerbohm, professor of government and an affiliate in the Department of Philosophy, has been named senior adviser for civil discourse. In this new role, Beerbohm is planning a series of initiatives designed to advance constructive discourse on campus. To learn more please see Professor Beerbohm's interview in the Harvard Gazette. Read more about Eric Beerbohm Named Senior Advisor for Civil Discourse
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
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...
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...
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/
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, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, and Kristie Dotson, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor at University of Michigan, were awarded the 2023 Lebowitz Prize by the American Philosophical Association and the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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."
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...
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.”
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.