2009-2010

Derek Bok

Derek Bok

300th Anniversary University Research Professor; President Emeritus, Harvard University

Derek Bok is the 300th Anniversary University Research Professor, University President Emeritus, and Faculty Chair of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. He has been a lawyer and Professor of Law, Dean of the Law School, and President of Harvard University.... Read more about Derek Bok

Dan W. Brock

Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Medical Ethics, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School
Former Director, Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School
Former Director, Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health

Professor Dan Brock (1937-2020) was a Faculty Fellow in Ethics in 1991-1992 and was a Faculty Associate of the Ethics...

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Norman Daniels

Norman Daniels

Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Population Ethics and Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Prior to his arrival at Harvard, Professor Daniels was Goldthwaite Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Tufts University and Professor of Medical Ethics at Tufts Medical School. His research encompasses issues of distributive justice and health policy, philosophy of science, ethics, political and social philosophy, and medical ethics.... Read more about Norman Daniels

Lachlan Forrow

Lachlan Forrow

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of Ethics and Palliative Care Programs at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Dr. Lachlan Forrow is Senior Fellow at the HMS Center for Bioethics, President Emeritus of The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, and Chair of the Advisory Council of the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University. ... Read more about Lachlan Forrow

Charles Fried

Charles Fried

Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Professor Charles Fried (1935-2024) was a Faculty Associate of the Ethics Center since 1990. Read our tribute to Professor Fried here.

Educated at Princeton, Oxford and Columbia Law School, Charles Fried, the Beneficial Professor of Law, has been teaching at Harvard Law School since 1961, where he was the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence. He was Solicitor General of the United States from 1985-89, and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts from1995-99.... Read more about Charles Fried

Marc D. Hauser

Harvard College Professor; Professor of Psychology, Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, and Human Evolutionary Biology; Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Education and Program in Neurosciences; co-director, Mind, Brain and Behavior Interfaculty Program

Marc Hauser's research sits at the interface between evolutionary biology and cognitive neuroscience, and is aimed at understanding how the minds of human and nonhuman animals evolved. By studying nonhuman animals in both the wild and in captivity, as well as human infants and adults, Hauser's work has unlocked some of the mysteries of language evolution, conceptual representation, social cooperation, communication, and morality.... Read more about Marc D. Hauser

Stanley Hoffmann

Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor

1928 - 2015

Former Chairman of the Center for European Studies (1969-94), Professor Hoffmann was the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor. At Harvard, he taught French intellectual and political history, American foreign policy, post-World War Two European history, the sociology of war, international politics, ethics and world affairs, modern political ideologies, and the development of the modern state.... Read more about Stanley Hoffmann