Past Events

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The Ethics Sandbox: Feedback Loops: Actions & Consequences
May 4, 2026
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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT
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Dennis F. Thompson Seminar Room, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics
In Person
How might games help us teach ethics? Join our Pedagogy Team for a hands-on, three-part series exploring how game design principles can create deeply engaging educational activities. Come to one or all of the sessions. Each session features a "learn-by...

Innovating Civil Discourse: An Instructional Design Hackathon
May 1, 2026
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9:00AM - 6:00PM EDT
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Dennis F. Thompson Seminar Room, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics
In Person
The hackathon invites undergraduates, graduate students and young scholars from Boston area colleges and universities to design a lesson plan or game that helps students engage with difficult, contested, or uncomfortable conversations. Lesson plans should...

Human Relationships in an Artificial World
April 27, 2026
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4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT
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Thompson Room, Barker Center
In Person
Join us for a panel discussion exploring the impact of generative artificial intelligence on human relationships. The intellectual framing of this panel begins from a long-standing insight in philosophical and social thought: that human identity and moral...

The Ethics Sandbox: Immersion in Games
April 13, 2026
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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT
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Dennis F. Thompson Seminar Room, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics
In Person
How might games help us teach ethics? Join our Pedagogy Team for a hands-on, three-part series exploring how game design principles can create deeply engaging educational activities. Come to one or all of the sessions. Each session features a "learn-by...

The Ethics Sandbox: Cooperative & Team Games
March 30, 2026
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5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT
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Dennis F. Thompson Seminar Room, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics
In Person
How might games help us teach ethics? Join our Pedagogy Team for a hands-on, three-part series exploring how game design principles can create deeply engaging educational activities. Come to one or all of the sessions. Each session features a "learn-by...

What is the Price of Freedom for Workers?
March 26, 2026
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4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT
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Thompson Room, Barker Center
In Person
About the Lecture: Philosophical discussions of market failure typically focus on three canonical causes: externalities, information asymmetries, and insufficient competitiveness. These three causes are important in part because of their generality, since...

RESCHEDULED: The Weaponization of Self-Defense Claims
March 23, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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Dennis F. Thompson Seminar Room, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics
In Person
Note that this event was originally scheduled for February 23 and has been POSTPONED to March 23 due to inclement weather. Join us for this Ethics Exchange featuring author Caroline Light, Senior Lecturer and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at...

Setting Priorities in Allocating Health Resources

March 3, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EST
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Dennis F. Thompson Seminar Room, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics
Hybrid
Join us for this special hybrid Ethics Exchange event with Ole F. Norheim , Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Ethics and Population Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with an introduction by Becca Brendel, Director of The Center for...

Faith, Commitment, and Belief
February 5, 2026
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4:30PM - 6:00PM EST
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Thompson Room, Barker Center
In Person
About the lecture: This talk concerns the role of faith in what you do and what you believe. Professor Buchak argues that having faith in a claim means taking risks on that claim without further evidence, and remaining committed to taking those risks even...

The Ethics Sandbox: Deliberation & Democracy Simulation
December 2, 2025
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6:00PM - 7:00PM EST
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Smith Campus Center, Isaacson Room
In Person
Join us for an end-of-semester celebration! We'll order a special meal and run one simulation related to themes and processes in democracy. Most of our time will be focused on celebrating your wins and learnings this semester! The Ethics Sandbox Series...

The Ethics Exchange: Grade Inflation and the State of Teaching in the College
November 19, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EST
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1414 Massachusetts Avenue
In Person
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. We are sorry for any inconvenience. Amanda Claybaugh, Dean of Undergraduate Education, recently announced a new era of “academic refocusing” and stricter grading standards in an email that...