Equality, evil, progress and tradition were some of the big concepts Stanford faculty, including philosophy Professor Debra Satz, examined in Dangerous Ideas, a new humanities course.
Stanford doctoral candidate Blake Francis hopes to create a framework that governments could use to evaluate their climate change policies and consider when it’s morally justified for them to emit greenhouse gases.
A memorial service will be held Oct. 8 for Professor Emeritus Solomon Feferman, one of the leading mathematical logicians of the 20th century. He died July 26 at his Stanford home at the age of 87.
Stanford President John Hennessy said that planning for what Stanford University would be like for students and scholars 50 to 100 years in the future was fundamental to his leadership.
In an event sponsored by the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, faculty from Stanford’s business school, law school, and philosophy department say such courses equip students with the tools to engage with ethical problems.
