Tag: Philosophy
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Thinking about having baby? Even during climate crisis?
Scholar says increasing numbers of young adults are weighing what is best for planet, children
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A case for the ‘beautiful, troubling’ complexity of art
Philosopher Quinn White sees a big flaw in common response to creative work
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If loving you is wrong – let’s explore the ethics
Assistant Professor Quinn White studies the ethics of love and relationships.
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Which hand has the treat? Preschoolers get that, but more options confound.
Researchers uncover pattern in developmental psychology of 3-year-olds: a struggle to weigh competing options.
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Bringing 17th-century Enlightenment tradition to Memorial Hall
The Harvard Undergraduate Salon for the Sciences and Humanities aims to revive the “age of conversation,” particularly about bridges between the two topics.
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The story behind Amartya Sen’s memoir
Nobel laureate, Harvard professor Amartya Sen talks about the challenges he faced writing his new memoir, “Home in the World.”
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Ideas captured in chalk on slate
They offer windows into the problems, questions, theories, arguments on students’ minds this semester.
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5 faculty members named Harvard College Professors
Five faculty members join the ranks of Harvard College Professors.
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Creating community in the virtual classroom
As students prepare for an academic year that will be entirely virtual, many Harvard faculty members have redesigned their courses.
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Explain your thesis in 3 minutes
A contest has College seniors who spent months researching and writing their theses distill those hours of work and hundreds of pages of analysis into a 3-minute pitch.
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Feeling renewed connection to family and neighbors
Gabrielle Donaldson ’23 describes how things are going now that she’s back home in Raleigh, N.C., during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Keeping ethics alive during the pandemic
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics has launched the COVID-19 Rapid Response Impact Initiative, a series of white papers from some 40 thinkers on issues of justice, values, and civil liberties designed to inform policymakers during the crisis.
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African and African American Studies at 50
Influential, groundbreaking African and African American Studies Department at Harvard turns 50.
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‘There they are, on our dinner plates’
Harvard philosophy professor’s book asks humans to rethink their relationships with animals.
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Lies we can’t live without
NYU philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah will draw from his new book, “The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity,” when he visits Harvard Medical School to deliver the 2018 George W. Gay Lecture.
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Data analysis could be key to success
New course brings data to a different audience as its importance continues to grow in different directions.
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Remembering — and rereading — Stanley Cavell
Harvard philosopher Stanley Cavell, who died in June at age 91, was remembered by former students and colleagues as an extraordinary writer and teacher.
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China’s philosophical dilemma
A forum at Tsai Auditorium marked the publication of “Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy.”
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Seizing his chance to grow
Harvard’s Financial Aid Initiative has helped Michael Wingate make the most of his education.
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Three chords and some Kierkegaard
A profile of College student and pop-rocker Brynn Elliott, whose scholarship in philosophy informs her songwriting.
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A too-short life, examined
D.T. Max, author of a new biography of David Foster Wallace, sat down with professor and critic James Wood to discuss the writer’s legacy and his brief time at Harvard, a catalyst for the breakdown and recovery that inspired much of Wallace’s masterpiece, “Infinite Jest.”
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Six fresh books worth perusing
Among these recent titles by Harvard writers, there’s something for everyone.
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Circumstances that color our perception
Dozens of Harvard faculty and students gathered at Emerson Hall on Feb. 23 to ponder the nature of perception with Ned Block, the Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science at New York University (NYU) and one of the country’s leading thinkers on consciousness. Block’s lecture, “How Empirical Facts about Attention Transform Traditional Philosophical…