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Harvard’s first inter-school center, the Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, celebrated its 20th anniversary this weekend, and its graduates, benefactors, and current members turned out in force to eat, drink, and—of course—debate. A keynote address on Friday by Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen, a former fellow at the center, and two panels on ethics drew prominent guests and speakers alike, including former Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine, Harvard Corporation member Nannerl O. Keohane, and University President Derek C. Bok, who was a driving force behind the center?...
Twenty years after Interim President Derek C. Bok named the first director of the Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard, he had that choice to make again. Bok tapped Frederick Schauer, the Stanton professor of the First Amendment at the Kennedy School, to be the new leader of the center yesterday. Schauer will replace the center’s current director and founder, Dennis F. Thompson, who is stepping down after 20 years at the helm. “Twenty years seems like a natural time to leave. Also, both symbolically and practically, it worked to have...
...University, and said he will devote that time to various “writing projects” with an emphasis on exploring democratic theory. Founded in 1986, the program—formerly the Center for Ethics and the Professions—was renamed in 2004 the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, in recognition of a “significant gift,” according to Thompson. The primary mission of the Center is to “help increase the expertise of faculty who are teaching ethics courses at professional school level, and to encourage younger scholars...
...confident that these students not only will learn more about the ethical topics they are investigating, but also will produce work that will help the rest of us better understand the issues,” Dennis F. Thompson, director of the Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, said in a statement. —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu...
...Bernard M. Septimus, Jacob E. Safra Professor of Jewish History and Sephardic Civilization...