Session 2, Round Table: The Interpretive View of Ethics
Harry Frankfurt, Princeton University, Chair Georgia
Warnke, University of California Susan
Neiman, Einstein Forum, Commentator
Jonathan
Israel, Professor, School of Historical Studies. In the 1660s
and onward, the Radical Enlightenment pushed for full freedom of
thought, religious freedom, and personal liberty together with
democracy and the principle of equality. In this...
Eric Maskin,
Albert O. Hirschman Professor, School of Social Science. Eric
Maskin shared the
2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his work in
Mechanism Design Theory. This is the study of how, given an
economic or social goal, we can design a...
Alan B. Krueger,
Leon Levy Foundation Member (2007-08) in the School of Social
Science. Some economists view unemployment as a minor concern,
while others argue that it is a serious malady. This Leon Levy
Lecture presents new evidence on the lot of...
Peter Sarnak,
Professor, School of Mathematics. Through the works of Fermat,
Gauss, and Lagrange, we understand which positive integers can be
represented as sums of two, three, or four squares. Hilbert's 11th
problem, from 1900, extends this...
