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Presidential Symposium on Ethics and Higher Education Thursday,
November 10, 2005 Speakers |
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Dennis F. Thompson
is the founding director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center
for Ethics at Harvard University and Alfred North Whitehead Professor of
Political Philosophy, holding appointments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
and in the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Among his books are Restoring
Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business and Healthcare; Just
Elections: Creating a Fair Electoral Process in the United States;
Democracy & Disagreement, coauthored with Amy Gutmann; Political
Ethics and Public Office; and Ethics in Congress: From Individual
to Institutional Corruption. His articles on the ethics of business,
law, medicine, and education have appeared in journals in those fields.
He has served as Associate Provost and Senior Adviser to the President of
the University. He has also been a consultant to the Joint Ethics Committee
of the South African Parliament, the American Medical Association, the United
States Senate Select Committee on Ethics, the United States Office of Personnel
Management, and the Department of Health and Human Services. He received
his BA in philosophy summa cum laude from the College of William and Mary;
took first-class honors in philosophy, politics, and economics at Balliol
College, Oxford; and received a PhD in political science from Harvard. |
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