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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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2004 Apr 29
The Just War Ethic: Its Role in a Changing Strategic Context
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, Kennedy School of Government
Speaker: J. Bryan Hehir, President, Catholic Charities USA and Distinguished Professor of Ethics and International Affairs, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Summary by Kyla Ebels Duggan, Edmund J. Safra Fellow in Ethics

Father Bryan Hehir began his lecture by announcing three ambitious purposes: to examine the development and content of the just war theory, to assess its implications in our current context, especially with respect to the conflict in...
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2003 Nov 20
Lecture II: The Religion of Science
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Lowell Lecture Hall, Kirkland & Oxford Streets
Speaker: Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science,Oxford University
Summary by Kyla Ebels Duggan, Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellow in Ethics

Opening his second Tanner lecture, Professor Richard Dawkins invoked his late friend and colleague, Carl Sagan. He voiced Sagan's claim that religious thought fails to recognize the grandeur of the universe that science exposes, and that as a result religious believers worship a "small god." With this thought as a backdrop, Dawkins turned to...
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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

2001 Nov 08

Lecture II: American Identity

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

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 Nov 19
Lecture I: The Science of Religion
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Speaker: Richard Dawkins, Charles Simonyi Chair of Public Understanding of Science, Oxford University
Summary by Ian MacMullen, Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellow in Ethics

With Harvard's Lowell Lecture Hall full to overflowing, Professor Richard Dawkins opened the first of two Tanner Lectures by observing that the widespread prevalence of religion is a puzzle for Darwinians. Religious behavior, viewed from the perspective of evolutionary theory, appears wasteful, a case of "Baroque uselessness." Many precious...
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2002 Oct 03
Stem Cell Research: Ethics and Advocacy
4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, KSG
Speaker: Rebecca Dresser, Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law
Co-sponsored with the Division of Medical Ethics, HMS.

Summary by Sara B. Olack, Graduate Fellow in Ethics 2002-2003

Human embryonic stem cell research has fueled an intense degree of public attention and controversy in recent years. In Stem Cell Research: Ethics and Advocacy, Rebecca Dresser argues that stem cell research raises a complex array of ethical questions, questions too often...
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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,"

2002 Nov 18

The Ethics of Human Cloning

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, KSG

Speaker: Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University

Free and open to the public
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