Sarah Lustbader is a Senior Legal Counsel at the Fair Punishment Project. She joined FPP after working as a Senior Program Associate at the Vera Institute of Justice and as a criminal defense attorney at The Bronx Defenders…
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Philosophers of science and social scientists have argued that diverse perspectives, methods, and background assumptions are critical to the progress of science. One way to achieve such diversity is to ensure that a scientific community is made up of individuals from diverse personal backgrounds…
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States heavily restrict immigration. Are these immigration restrictions morally acceptable? This paper will give an argument against immigration restrictions…
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Mainstream recognition of mixed-race identity, which proponents of black solidarity have sometimes feared and resisted, poses no serious threat to the stability of Black American social identity. ..
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The 2018 Women of Color in the Academy Conference will be held Friday, April 27, 2018 at Northeastern University in a facility that allows for 200 participants. Keynote speakers are Zulma Toro, President of Central Connecticut State University, Melissa Nobles, the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and Professor…
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Northeastern University School of Law presents Many Paths to Privacy (Exploring Privacy Across Fields). Philosophy and Religion member, Professor Candice Delams will be one of the speakers at this event…
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Come join the department and have some pizza and conversation about this upcoming Fall 2018 courses or to just have some pizza and hang out! 🍕😊 When: Friday, March 23, 2018. 12-1pm Where: Philosophy and Religion Fish Bowl (Holmes Hall 377) Why: Pizza and Conversation..why not come join? Hope to see you all there!
The view of business ethics that Christopher McMahon calls the “implicit morality of the market” and Joseph Heath calls the “market failures approach” has received a lot of recent attention. In this paper I ask a simple question: does this view have any implications for the real world?..
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Come join Hanna Gunn while she discusses “Epistemic Communities, Agency, and Online Discourse.” Abstract: We’re in a bit of a double-bind with the Internet. From high to low risk queries, it’s a dominant source of knowledge for most of us. At the same time, we recognize that there are many risks and trade-offs with looking…
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Seminar on Graham Oddie’s paper, “What Accuracy Could Not Be” ..
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