2008 Mid-Atlantic Regional Ethics Bowl
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
November 15 , 2008
Combining the excitement and fun of a competitive tournament with a valuable educational experience for undergraduate students in a day-long event, the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl is widely recognized by educators and received the American Philosophical Association & Philosophy Documentation Center's 2006 prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs. The format, rules, and procedures of the competition all have been developed to model widely acknowledged best methods of reasoning in practical and professional ethics.
In the Mid-Atlantic Regional Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, a moderator poses questions to teams of three to five students. Questions may concern ethical problems on wide ranging topics, such as the classroom (e.g. cheating or plagiarism), personal relationships (e.g. dating or friendship), professional ethics (e.g. engineering, law, medicine), or social and political ethics (e.g. free speech, gun control, etc.). Each team receives a set of ethical issues in advance of the competition, and questions posed to teams at the competition are taken from that set. A panel of judges evaluates answers; rating criteria are intelligibility, focus on ethically relevant considerations, avoidance of ethical irrelevance, and deliberative thoughtfulness.
The information provided above is taken from the National Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl website. More information on the competition, including past cases addressed in the Ethics Bowl can be found by clicking HERE.
To view a printable copy of the 2008 Mid-Atlantic Regional event schedule, click HERE.
Sponsored with the Whaley Family Foundation, the Carolina Women's Center, the American Indian Center, the Department of Philosophy and Campus Y. This event is free and open to spectators. Location: Murphey Hall, 8:30 am.
Cases for the 2008 Regional Competitions: HERE
1st Place: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2nd Place: West Virginia University
3rd Place: University of Miami
4th Place: Clemson University
5th Place: University of North Carolina at Charlotte
(These schools advance to the National Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Competition in Cincinnati on March 5, 2009)
Additional Competing Schools
Campbell University
Lynchburgh College
North Carolina State University
Shenandoah University
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
University of Richmond
University of South Carolina at Aiken
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