Department of Philosophy

September 27, 2024

Esha Senchaudhuri is the Assistant Director of the Mandel Center for the Humanities.  Her talk is titled,

"Algorithms and Democratic Deliberation: A Social Contract Approach."

Esha received her PhD in philosophy at the London School of Economics and Law Diploma focused on economic regulation from the University of London, and was an early career policy fellow in Humanities, Arts & American Institutions at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

November 22, 2024

P. Quinn White is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. Prof. White writes,

“My research focuses on the ethics of love and relationships, which, I argue, is pretty much all of ethics. I have projects in honesty and discretion, partiality, consent, paying it forward, and forgiveness, as well as more applied projects on deception in the social science research and the politics of technology and privacy. I also have interests in love and the special permissions and obligations it can bring. And, perhaps more strangely, I explore the idea that love of all, agape, can serve as a (even the) central ideal of practical reasoning.”

March 7, 2025

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March 14, 2025

Rafeeq Hasan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Amherst College whose research focuses on the social and political dimensions of freedom. Prof. Hasan writes,

"The fundamental question that drives my scholarship is the question of what it means to be free. Many people think that freedom is fundamentally about me—i.e., they understand freedom as a quality of my choices and my life. I take the alternative view that freedom is about us. In other words, freedom requires just social and political arrangements and so can only be achieved by citizens acting together. In contexts ranging from Kant’s theory of property to contemporary debates about gentrification, my scholarship elaborates and defends the relevance of this vision of freedom for contemporary political philosophy and the broader world."