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Center for Ethics The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Harvard University CENTER FOR ETHICS ANNUAL REPORT 2005–2006 THE EDMONDREPORT J. SAFRA OF THEFOUNDATION ACTING DIRECTOR CENTER FOR ETHICS Harvard University University Faculty Committee Frank Michelman (Law) Edmond J. Safra Foundation Arthur I. Applbaum Mark H. Moore (Government-KSG) Center for Ethics (Government-KSG) Lynn Sharp Paine (Business) Taubman Building Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. (Business) Thomas R. Piper (Business) 79 John F. Kennedy Street Martha Minow (Law) Mathias Risse (Government-KSG) Cambridge, MA 02138 Michael J. Sandel (Government) Marc J. Roberts (Public Health) Tel.: 617-495-1336 Thomas M. Scanlon (Philosophy) Fax: 617-496-6104 Walter M. Robinson (Medicine) E-mail: [email protected] Dennis F. Thompson (Chair) Nancy Rosenblum (Government) Website: www.ethics.harvard.edu Robert D. Truog (Medicine) James Sabin (Medicine) Elaine Scarry (English) Dennis F. Thompson Faculty Associates Frederick Schauer Director Derek Bok (Interim President) (Government-KSG) Arthur I. Applbaum Allan M. Brandt Amartya Sen (Economics and Director of Graduate Fellowships (History of Science) Philosophy) Troyen Brennan (Medicine) Tommie Shelby (Philosophy and Staff Dan W. Brock (Medicine) African-American Studies) Jean McVeigh Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (Business) Carol Steiker (Law) Administrative Director Norman Daniels (Public Health) Lloyd Weinreb (Law) Shelly Coulter Leon Eisenberg (Medicine) Daniel Wikler (Public Health) Financial Consultant Catherine Z. Elgin (Education) David B. Wilkins (Law) Stephanie Dant Einer R. Elhauge (Law) Assistant to the Director Richard H. Fallon, Jr. (Law) Advisory Council Lachlan Forrow (Medicine) Eugene P. Beard Magdalena Halford Charles Fried (Law) Bradley Bloom Staff and Research Assistant Howard E. Gardner (Education) Nonnie Steer Burnes Erica Jaffe Marc Hauser (Psychology) Michael A. Cooper Assistant to Professor Applbaum J. Bryan Hehir (Divinity) Robert W. Decherd Kimberly Tseko Stanley Hoffmann (Government) Robert D. Joffe Publications and Frances Kamm (Philosophy and Lily Safra Special Events Coordinator Government-KSG) Jeffrey Sagansky Andrew L. Kaufman (Law) Christine M. Korsgaard (Philosophy) Lisa Lehmann (Medicine) Jane Mansbridge (Government-KSG) TABLE OF CONTENTS Report of the Director Faculty Fellows 7 The New Faculty Fellows 9 The Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellows 10 Joint Seminars 12 Public Lectures 13 Future Plans 14 Ethics in the Schools Arts and Sciences 15 Business 17 Design 18 Divinity 19 Education 21 Kennedy School of Government 23 Law 24 Medicine 26 Ethics and Health 29 Public Health 31 2005 – 2006 Appendices I – IV Reports of the Faculty Fellows and Senior Scholars 36 Faculty Fellows Seminar Syllabus 46 Reports of the Graduate Fellows and Senior Scholar 52 Graduate Fellows Seminar Syllabus 58 2006 – 2007 Appendices V – VIII Faculty Fellows and Senior Scholars 64 The Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellows 68 Lester Kissel Grants in Practical Ethics 70 Public Lectures 72 Annual Report | 1 | 2005-2006 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR Report of the Director Dennis F. Thompson THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS HAVE TAKEN THE MOST WIDELY might expect, such interruptions, however invigorating, USED TEST OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT—the Defining Issues did not expedite the process. At least one member of the Test. More than 250 studies based on its results have been seminar failed to finish the test in time. published. Teachers in several hundred colleges and univer- Nevertheless, when the independently graded results sities have administered the test at least once. But until this arrived several weeks later, the average score of the seminar, year the faculty and fellows of the Ethics Center had not I am proud to report, was well above the average of the taken it. Many of us have been skeptical of its methodology. 10,553 people who have taken the test over the years, Besides, there is this, only slightly suppressed, thought: we including not only the PhDs but also the 7th graders. teach ethics—we don’t have to take ethics tests. And then (A secret ballot on a proposal to there is the fear of humiliation: disclose individual scores failed what if we did worse than our stu- to secure unanimous consent. dents? Even so, this year’s Faculty That prevents me from revealing Fellows, more courageous than my own score to those of you who their predecessors or perhaps just may be eager to offer congratula- more foolhardy, agreed to expose tions.) As we were complimenting themselves to the risks of this ourselves on our collective per- ethical examination. Despite our formance, we learned that the staff reservations about the test, we rec- had also taken the test, and that ognized the importance of trying their average score was higher than to find systematic ways to assess that of the seminar participants. the results of ethics teaching. Mrs. Lily Safra meets with Dennis Thompson Moreover, the highest individual during her most recent visit to the Center Developed at the University of score of all was received by one Minnesota and loosely based on the Lawrence Kohlberg of the staff. Although some might conclude that the staff five-stage model of moral development, the test presents instead of the fellows should be teaching ethics, I prefer several short hypothetical scenarios, each involving a moral to interpret these results as demonstrating the discerning dilemma, and asks respondents to identify (from a list) the judgment of the Director in selecting such ethically com- considerations they think relevant for resolving the dilem- petent staff. One final note (which may or may not be a ma and then to rate the considerations according to their relevant consideration): the staff member who received the relative importance. The more your answers show you are highest score is also a nationally recognized poker champion. thinking at higher stages of moral development (for exam- If our contributions to ethics testing, whether as givers or ple, deciding on general principles rather than relying on takers, have been modest, our contributions to ethics edu- authority), the higher your grade. Our testing process did cation, in both teaching and research, continue to be sub- not proceed without protest. Some of the test takers kept stantial. In addition to the regular seminars for the fellows interrupting with objections to the questions. “I know what and the lecture series (chronicled below), our fellows and answer they want, but they are wrong—so should I give faculty remain dedicated to promoting rigorous thinking the right answer or the answer they think is right?” As you Annual Report | 3 | 2005-2006 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR announced, one of our Faculty Fellows reached out to the grant recipient working on the Indian organ market and put him in touch with one of the leading experts on the subject who lives in the region. The fledgling Program in Ethics and Health, based in the Medical area, took full flight in this its second year with its first group of postdoctoral fellows and a successful search for its first new assistant professor, who arrives next year. The core faculty of the Program, which is formally part of the Ethics Center, are all former Fellows of the Center (with the exception of Allan Brandt, who is a long-time Faculty Associate of the Center). Many of the faculty are actively involved in the Division of Medical Ethics in the Medical School, which under Dan Brock is overseeing a Amartya Sen and Mathias Risse finalize details on the confer- ence on Equality and the New Global Order new ethics course for all MD students. The Program is working closely with the faculty in the Law School’s new about ethical issues across the University and beyond. They Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology have been especially successful this year in creating new and Bioethics. (More information about the Program in forms of collaboration with other programs and institutions. Ethics and Health and the Petrie-Flom Center is presented below in the reports from the schools of Law, Medicine For the first time, the Center offered grants directly to and Public Health.) undergraduates in the College. (Earlier, under the program supported by the American Express Foundation, we award- The remarkable three-day conference on “Equality and the ed grants to faculty members who developed 45 courses in New Global Order” in May was another successful collabo- the College to address ethical issues in some 16 different ration—principally with Amartya Sen’s Project on Justice, departments.) The new program involves a competition Welfare and Economics, but also involving the Program in for what we call the Lester Kissel Grants in Practical Ethics (named for one of our major benefactors). It is intended to encourage students to think and write seriously about ethical issues in activities they study or encounter during their summer break. Uncertain about what kind of propos- als we might receive in this new venture, we were pleased, and somewhat surprised, with the quality and originality of the applications. As a result, we awarded more grants than we had originally intended. Six Kissel grantees are spend- ing this summer working on projects ranging from a study of India’s market in human organs to an analysis of the role of luck in legal responsibility. Three of the students are carrying out their projects abroad. (A list of the grantees and description of their projects can be found in Appendix VII.) The program also occasioned the first of what we hope will become a frequent interaction between under- Faculty Fellow Elizabeth Ashford provided commentary for the graduates and our fellows. As soon as the Kissel grants were conference on Equality and the New Global Order The Edmond J. Safra Foundation | 4 | Center for Ethics REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR FACULTY FELLOWS SEMINAR GRADUATE FELLOWS SEMINAR Annual Report | 5 | 2005-2006 REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR Ethics and Health, the Weatherhead Center for Inter- cially appropriate participants national Affairs and others.
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