Scholars in science and technology studies (STS) have recently been called upon to advise governments on the design of procedures for…
Think of the revolutions in the Middle East as Act One in a Five Act play that may not conclude for a generation or more. Nearly a year…
Book abstract: From Harvard University, one of the world’s preeminent institutions of liberal education, comes a collection of essays…
Seminal thinkers of the nineteenth century – Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud – all…
Legal texts have been with us since the dawn of human history. Beginning in 1953, life too became textual. The discovery of the structure…
Chairwoman Myrick, Ranking Minority Member Thompson, distinguished members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify today. I…
Iris Marion Young died in August 2006, at the age of only 57. Responsibility for Justice further develops some themes that have been…
Sequencing the human genome provided a powerful new way to represent human identity, and the moral implications of that re-representation…
Increasing political and economic interconnectedness draws much philosophical attention to the question of the conditions under which such…