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OUR QUANTUM FUTURE: SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH FOR ETHICS, POLICY, AND STANDARD

Institute members co-author a whitepaper articulating the value proposition for a Quantum Policy and Ethics Center to assemble...

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Andrew Light Joins the Biden-Harris Administration

Andrew Light, the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy's Director, has been appointed by the Biden-Harris administration to lead...

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Read Andrew Light’s interview on the Future of US-India climate cooperation

Professor and IPPP Director Andrew Light led all US-India cooperation on climate change in the second half of the Obama administration,...

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Institute Fellow David Morrow Quoted in VOA

In his capacity as research director for the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, David shares his thoughts on solar radiation...

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Bolton is just plain wrong on the International Criminal Court

Dr. Shannon Fyfe tells us why in The Hill. .

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Welcoming our newest faculty fellow

The Institute is proud to announce that Dr. Shannon Fyfe is joining us as a Faculty Fellow and as a new Assistant Professor in the...

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What the Fatal Uber Crash Doesn’t Tell Us About Self-Driving Cars

Jesse Kirkpatrick and Ryan Jenkins discuss in Slate how the tragic crash in Arizona might impact the future of self-driving cars. On...

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Peterson receives Greenwall Faculty Scholars Award

Andrew Peterson, Assistant Professor in the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, was named a Faculty Scholar Award by Greenwall...

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There's Nowhere to Hide in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

In a Wilson Center Policy report, Sarah W. Denton, IPPP research fellow and research assistant at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Science and...

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Neuroethics Students Receive OSCAR Undergraduate Scholarly Research Project Award

The Philosophy Department is pleased to announce that two undergraduate students have been awarded OSCAR Undergraduate Scholarly Research...

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Mason Students Present at the International Neuroethics Society

Six student-faculty collaborative projects were presented last week at the annual meeting of the International Neuroethics Society (INS),...

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Neuroethics Student Selected as Congressional Research Intern

The Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy and Department of Philosophy are pleased to announce that Joe DeFranco (class of 2019) has...

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Do bystanders have an obligation to intervene in times of peril?

Jesse Kirkpatrick comments on Washington Times story on the "bystander rule" and how law and morality sometimes diverge.

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Sagoff's proposal among NIH's "well-written applications that demonstrate excellent grantsmanship"

Mark Sagoff's proposal, Ecological Concepts of Human Identity in Microbiome and Metagenomic Research, has been listed on the NIH's...

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Andrew Light wins first Alain Locke Award for Public Philosophy

The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy has awarded Andrew Light, GMU University Professor and Director of the Institute...

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Are military drone operators at risk for moral injury?

Jesse Kirkpatrick argues that they are in Slate's Future Tense.

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Is President Barack Obama’s health care law compatible with free-market capitalism?

Erik Agner addresses this question in Politico op-ed, Health care policy libertarians go for. “Obamacare” seeks to achieve universal...

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