Title: Working WIth and For Animals: Getting the Theoretical Framework Right

Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and...

Title: Skewed or Rescued?  The Emerging Theory of Algorithmic Fairness

Description: Intelligent systems, much like humans, have the ability to see and respond to the world around them. Using data in new ways to make more accurate predictions or enabling new services, these machines offer the hope of overcoming the limitations of our own decision-making. However, with this they bring questions about how we make decisions, the influence of bias in decision making and how experts can ensure that key values – such as fairness – are built into artificially...

John Rawls was the most influential political philosopher of the twentieth century: modern political philosophy would be unthinkable without him. This conference will bring together a range of distinguished participants, in the conviction that their diverse perspectives will enhance and illuminate one another in looking both at Rawls’ own thought and the problems of political theory that continue to face his successors. There is nowhere more appropriate than Harvard, where Rawls worked and taught for so long, to host such an important event.

This conference is...