New Supplemental Report to the Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience

May 12, 2020

Pandemic Resilience: Getting it Done
A New Supplemental Report offers Localized Guidance for Safe
Economic Re-opening in the Wake of COVID-19 Closures

Bipartisan authors of the “Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience” offer concrete, localized recommendations for testing, tracing and supported isolation, based on differing levels of disease prevalence, so that communities across the US can re-open and stay...

Almost Over: A New Book by Frances Kamm

May 11, 2020

Frances Kamm's new book, Almost Over: Aging, Dying, Dead, is now available from Oxford University Press.

In Almost Over, F. M. Kamm presents a wide-ranging philosophical discussion of the moral, legal, and medical...

David S. Jones Named Harvard College Professor

May 7, 2020

Faculty Committee member David S. Jones, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, was awarded one of five Harvard College Professors by Dean Claudine Gay. Launched in 1997 through a gift from John and Frances Loeb, the Harvard College Professorships are five-year appointments that include support for research or...

Liz Fouksman on the Moral Economy of Work

May 7, 2020

Former Berggruen Fellow, Liz Fouksman, has a new article in Economy and Society, titled "The Moral Economy of Work: Demanding Jobs and Deserving Money in South Africa." You can read the full paper here. Read more about Liz Fouksman on the Moral Economy of Work

Maryam Kouckaki Named Best 40 Under 40 Professor by Poets & Quants

April 29, 2020

Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management‘s Maryam Kouchaki has been named one of this year’s Best 40...

Mary L. Gray on Human-centered Tech and Contact Tracing in COVID-19

April 23, 2020

Mary L. Gray has a new article in The Hill article on the human labor behind contact tracing, coauthored with Dr. Margaret Bourdeaux and Barbara Grosz. The article, "How human-centered tech can beat COVID-19 through contact tracing," focuses on the need to build the essential part of... Read more about Mary L. Gray on Human-centered Tech and Contact Tracing in COVID-19

Rachel Achs and Myisha Cherry on the Philosophy of Anger

April 23, 2020

Rachel Achs and Myisha Cherry, both former fellows, are in a Boston Review forum on The Philosophy of Anger. You can read both of their forum responses https://bostonreview.net/forum/agnes-callard-philosophy-anger. Read more about Rachel Achs and Myisha Cherry on the Philosophy of Anger

Announcing our Fellows for 2020-21!

April 22, 2020

In the midst of these difficult times, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics is grateful to be able to announce our new cohorts of Fellows-in-Residence, Graduate Fellows, and Ethics Pedagogy Fellows for 2020-21. They are an exciting and diverse group and we are delighted to have them join our community.

Fellows-in-Residence

Sigal Ben-Porath earned her doctorate in political philosophy from Tel-Aviv University in 2000, after which she received two presidential fellowships and joined Princeton University's Center for Human...

Nation’s First Bipartisan Operational Roadmap for Mobilizing and Reopening the Economy

April 20, 2020

New Report from Bipartisan Experts in Economics, Public Health, Technology and Ethics Lays Out Operational Roadmap for Mobilizing and Reopening the U.S. Economy

Report recommends a massive scale-up in testing,
contact tracing and supported isolation (TTSI)

(APRIL 20, 2020) -- Today, a bipartisan group of experts in economics, public health, technology and ethics from across the country released the nation’s first comprehensive...

Jamie Martin on Historical Analogies for Confronting the Coronavirus Crisis

April 16, 2020

Former Visiting Fellow, Jamie Martin, has an op-ed in the New York Times about how we should think through an internationalist approach to the coronavirus crisis and what historical analogies are useful for dealing with global shortages at a moment of rising international tensions.

You can read his op-ed, "...