Fall 2010

• Philosophy Chairman Greg Fried has published a new book, Because it is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror (Norton, 2010). The book was co-authored by Charles Fried of Harvard Law School.
  Read an excerpt
  NPR interview
  New York Review of Books review 
• Nir Eisikovits, Ethics and Public Policy Program Director, has just published a book titled Sympathizing with the Enemy: Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, Negotiation (Brill and Republic of Letters, 2010). The book was the subject of a special symposium in the Review of International Affairs. Read the symposium here. 
• In the Spring of 2011, Professor Eisikovits will be co-teaching a course with English Department Professor Fred Marchant called The Shield of Achilles: War and Peace, from Troy to Sarajevo. The course brings a philosopher (Eisikovits) and a poet (Marchant) together to take a look at some of the literary and philosophical classics on war.\

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•  We are working on creating a new joint degree program with Suffolk Law School. Prospective students should soon be able to register for our unique JD/MS in Ethics and Public Policy. Check back for updates!
• In the Spring of 2010, Program Director Nir Eisikovits and Board Member David Gebler will be co-teaching a course in Business Ethics. The Course will take up the question of wrongdoing by decent business leaders. Readings will include
  Classics from the history of ethics as well as contemporary case studies.
• Our very own Professor Evgenia Cherkasova has just published a book titled Dostoevsky and Kant: Dialogues on Ethics
• Please join us in welcoming our newest board member. Professor Ruth Fagen, Ph.D., M.P.H., is the Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins and Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. Dr. Faden is a member of the Institute of Medicine and a Fellow of the Hastings Center and the American Psychological Association.  She chaired the President's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. Her current research focuses on questions of social justice in health policy and global health. She also works on ethical challenges in biomedical science and in women’s health.