We Are Called to Be a Movement

November 14, 5-7 p.m., Stanford Memorial Church “We Are Called to Be a Movement” Commentator: Dorian Warren, Community Change November 15, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., at the Center for Inter-Religious Community, Learning and Experiences (CIRCLE) Common Room Discussion Seminar Commentators: Pamela S. Karlan, Stanford University and Melvin L. Rogers, Brown University

Origins of Human Cooperation

Michael Tomasello is codirector of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. He is also codirector of the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center. His research interests focus on processes of social cognition, social learning, and communication/ language in human children and great apes. Tomasello’s published books include First Verbs (1992), Primate Cognition (1997), […]

Modernity and the Rise of the Public Sphere

CHARLES TAYLOR, currently a Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Department of Philosophy at McGill University and Professeur Titulaire at the Université de Montréal, was educated at McGill and at Oxford University, where he received a Ph.D.

Greek Ethics and Moral Theory

GISELA STRIKER is a professor of philosophy at Columbia University, New York City. She was born and educated in Germany, where she received her doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 1969. Until 1986 she taught philosophy at Göttingen. She also held visiting appointments at the universities of Stanford, Princeton, and Harvard.

Psychiatry and Morality

ALAN A. STONE was educated at Harvard University and Yale Medical School. He trained in psychiatry at McLean Hospital and in psychoanalysis at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. He has been a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty since 1961 and of the Harvard Law School faculty since 1968.

Moderation, Rationality, and Virtue

MICHAEL SLOTE is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park. Until recently he was Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was also a Fellow. Professor Slote took his A.B. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University and has also taught at Columbia University, […]

Equality of What?

AMARTYA SEN is Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford University. He is also a Fellow of All Souls College and Andrew D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University. Professor Sen was born in India and studied at Calcutta and at Cambridge.

I. Human Rights and Ethical Globalization II. The Challenge of Human Rights Protection in Africa

MARY ROBINSON was the first woman president of Ireland (1990– 1997), and has more recently served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997–2002). She was educated at the University of Dublin (Trinity College), King’s Inns Dublin, and the Harvard Law School. She was for many years a member of the Trinity College […]

Lecture I. Frameworks Lecture II. Analyzing One-HundredYear-Old Irrigation Puzzles

Elinor Ostrom is a Distinguished Professor, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, and Senior Research Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington; and Founding Director, Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University.

Music and Ideology in the Nineteenth Century

LEONARD B. MEYER (b. 1918) majored in philosophy as an undergraduate, first at Bard College and then at Columbia University. After World War II, he returned to Columbia, taking a master’s degree in composition. His Ph.D. was earned at the University of Chicago in the Committee on the History of Culture.