Ethics

1999 Nov 05

Seminar with Professor Wolf Lepenies

10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

Harvard Faculty Club

Speaker: Wolf Lepenies, Rektor of the German Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin
Moderator: Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, Harvard University
Commentator: Stanley Hoffmann, Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France; Chairman, Center for European Studies; Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Harvard University

2002 Oct 24

The Prisoner's Dilemma: Solved

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, KSG

Speaker: Elizabeth S. Anderson, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Michigan

Summary by Patrick Shin, Graduate Fellow in Ethics, 2002-2003

In her October lecture entitled "The Prisoner's Dilemma: Solved,"

2001 Nov 07

Lecture I: Constitutionalism

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Lowell Lecture Hall, Kirkland & Oxford Streets

Speaker: Kathleen M. Sullivan, Dean and Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Stanley Morrison Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

1998 Dec 10

Discrimination on the Basis of Appearance

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Austin North, Harvard Law School

Speaker: Robert Post, Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley

Jointly sponsored: Law School Program on the Legal Profession

Free and open to the public

2000 Apr 06

The Priority of Dignity

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, KSG

Speaker: Meir Dan-Cohen, Milo Reese Robbins Chair in Legal Ethics, University of California Berkeley School of Law

2002 Nov 07

Lecture II: Nature's Customs Versus Nature's Laws

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Lowell Lecture Hall, Kirkland Street

Speaker: Lorraine Daston, Honorary Professor, Humboldt University and Friday Director, Max Planck Institute of the History of Science

Free and open to the public
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1993 Nov 04

Duties of Well Being

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Wiener Auditorium, Kennedy School of Government

Speaker: Joseph Raz, Professor of Philosophy, Balliol College, Oxford University

2001 Nov 09

Seminar: War, Peace and Civil Liberties

10:00am

Location: 

Conference Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street

Speaker: Kathleen M. Sullivan, Dean and Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Stanley Morrison Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Arthur I. Applbaum, Professor of Ethics and Public Policy, Harvard University
Commentator: Nancy Rosenblum, Professor of Government, Harvard University

2003 Dec 11

Liberty, Paternalism, and Welfare

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, KSG

Speaker: Cass Sunstein, Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, Law School and Department of Political Science, University of Chicago

Summary by Ian MacMullen, Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellow in Ethics

Professor Sunstein began a lecture rich in examples with two designed to illustrate the form and appeal of liberal paternalism. Employers in America have tried two strategies intended to increase...

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2001 Feb 08

Lecture II: The Future

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

Lowell Lecture Hall, corner of Kirkland & Oxford Streets

Speaker: Simon Schama, University Professor, Columbia University

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