New FSI Program on Global Justice

New to FSI, the Program on Global Justice aims to bring normative ideas from moral and political philosophy into discussions about human rights, global governance, and access to basic goods, and at the same time to ensure that normative discussions of these issues are informed by the best current social-scientific and policy thinking. The program is directed byJoshua Cohen, professor of political science, philosophy, and law who has just moved from MIT to Stanfor d. The program has three visitors this academic year: Adam Hosein and Helena De Bres, both PhD students in philosophy from MIT writing dissertations on issues related to global justice, and Laurence Simon, professor and director, Sustainable International Development Programs and associate dean for Academic Planning at Brandeis' Heller School (winter and spring quarters). The Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop on Global Justice, coordinated with the Humanities Center, meets every other Friday, 1:15-3 p.m., in Encina Hall 008.