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- Thursday, February 18, 2010
- "Reflections on the Evolution of Morality"
- Christine Korsgaard / Harvard University
- McCormick 101, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
- James A. Moffett ’29 Lectures
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Christine Korsgaard is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, where she has taught since 1991. Her main research interests include moral philosophy and its history, practical reason, agency, personal identity, and the ethical relations between humans and animals. Professor Korsgaard has authored four books, including The Sources of Normativity (Cambridge 1996), an expanded version of her 1992 Tanner Lectures, Creating the Kingdom of Ends (Cambridge 1996), The Constitution of Agency (Oxford University Press 2008), and Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity (Oxford University Press 2009), and was an editor of Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John Rawls (Cambridge 1997).
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- Thursday, February 25, 2010
- "Reality Checks: History Confronts Moral and Political Philosophy"
- Bowl 2, Robertson Hall, 4:00pm - 6:30pm
- Other Ethics & Public Affairs Events
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- Wednesday, March 3, 2010
- "Climate change: how bad is the chance of catastrophe?"
- John Broome / Oxford University
- Bowl 2, Robertson Hall, 4:30pm-6:00pm
- Ira W. DeCamp Bioethics Seminars
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- Thursday, March 4, 2010
- Jean Cohen / Columbia University
- 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
- Ethics & Public Affairs Seminars & Workshops
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- Thursday, March 11, 2010
- A Few Words on Mill, Walzer, and Nonintervention
- Michael Doyle / Columbia School of Law
- 301 Marx Hall, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
- Ethics & Public Affairs Seminars & Workshops
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Michael W. Doyle is the Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science at Columbia University. His current research focuses on international law and international relations. His major publications include Ways of War and Peace (W.W. Norton); Empires (Cornell University Press); Making War and Building Peace (Princeton Press); and Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict (Princeton Press, 2008). He served as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan where his responsibilities included strategic planning (the “Millennium Development Goals”), outreach to the international corporate sector (the “Global Compact’) and relations with Washington. He is currently an individual member and the chair of the UN Democracy Fund, elected by the members and appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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