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Ned Hall named Harvard College Professor

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On Tuesday, May 7th, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay announced that Professor Edward J. ("Ned') Hall, Norman E. Vuilleumier Professor of Philosophy, would join four other Harvard faculty members as Harvard College Professors...

Q&A with Senior Thesis Writer: Jonathan Slifkin

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What is the subject of your thesis? I am writing my thesis on a topic in the history of legal philosophy. To put it as briefly as possible, I am offering a new interpretation of the debate between two of the most influential legal philosophers of the 20th...

Siegel publishes The Rationality of Perception

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Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy Susanna Siegel has published a new book, The Rationality of Perception, with Oxford University Press. The Rationality of Perception makes an important contribution to our understanding of the human mind and...

Embedded EthiCS in the Gazette

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An article on Harvard’s Embedded EthiCS program has been published in the Harvard Gazette. The program, which was founded by Professor Barbara Grosz (Natural Science) and Professor Alison Simmons (Philosophy) and is co-directed by Simmons and Jeffrey...

Ned Hall Receives 2020 Alpha-Iota Prize

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The undergraduate Marshals of the Iota and Alpha chapters of Phi Beta Kappa selected Professor Ned Hall as a recipient of the 2020 Alpha-Iota Prize for Excellence in Teaching. The award came with the following citation (abstracted from student nominations...

MLK and Civil Rights: Countering the Conventional Narrative

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Professor Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy, and Brandon Terry, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, have co-edited a new book on Martin Luther King, Jr. that...

Q&A with Senior Thesis Writer: Quincy Cason

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What is the subject of your thesis? My thesis is about plagiarism, ownership, and copyrights in music. It overlaps between epistemology and ethics. How did you decide on this topic? I'm a joint concentrator with music as my primary field, and I struggled...