Zoë Johnson King, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, will give a colloquium lecture at Stanford University on April 7th. In the talk, titled “Reluctant Heroes,” Professor Johnson King will use essential workers at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic as a case study to discuss the ethics of praise.

For more information, see Stanford’s event page here: https://philosophy.stanford.edu/events/colloquium-zoe-johnson-king-harvard

Jeff Behrends, Senior Research Scholar and Associate Senior Lecturer on Philosophy, gave one of the keynote lectures at the 2023 Gateway Graduate Conference at the University of Missouri – St. Louis on April 1. Professor Behrends’ talk was titled “Reason, Reasons, and Instrumental Transmission,” and spoke to the conference's topics of metaethics, metaepistemology, and metanormativity.

Zoe Jenkin (Harvard PhD 2020) gave the keynote on March 31.

For more information on the conference, please see their website here:...

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 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...