The Office of Engagement Initiatives (OEI) recently awarded Engaged Curriculum Grants to 19 teams of Cornell faculty and community partners that are developing community-engaged learning courses, majors and minors across the university. Included is a new MINOR in Moral Psychology, tapping professors from the Sage School of Philosophy. Click here to read more.
In a recent op-ed in the Washington Post, Kate Manne, Associate Professor of Philosophy from the Sage School at Cornell, analyzes President Trump’s attitude toward covid-19.
“On Monday evening, having just been discharged from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he spent three days recovering from covid-19, President Trump stood on the White House balcony and removed his mask,” Manne writes in the piece. “He looked to be having difficulty breathing. “Don’t be afraid of Covid,” he had tweeted earlier that afternoon. 'Don’t let it dominate your life.'
A total of 20 faculty members from eight colleges, including Philosophy Professors Shaun Nichols and John Doris, have been named Engaged Faculty Fellows, committed to advancing community-engaged learning and scholarship at Cornell and within their academic disciplines.
As a woman running for vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris will inevitably face attacks on her attitude, ethics, and even the tone of her voice, writes Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy, in an op-ed in The Atlantic. Voters must undergo the process of trying to hold her accountable without being unfair.
— Kate A. Manne, Associate Professor
“In the wake of the #MeToo campaign, we must ask ourselves the question: ‘How have we contributed to the silence surrounding sexual assault and harassment?’ And, often, the answer is that we only believe the victims we want to: and, conversely, we only heed the evidence against those men we’re not invested in believing in.”
