Good Sport: What just about everyone gets wrong about sport, ethics, and performance-enhancing drugs Abstract: We know that athletes use drugs to enhance their performance. We know that in almost all sports using performance-enhancing drugs is forbidden. Why do athletes … Read more
Green Bioethics: Sustainability in Health Care Abstract: The industrialized world produces an enormous amount of carbon dioxide, which contributes to climate change and climate-change related health hazards. Health care is part of this carbon footprint, yet remains overlooked in discussions … Read more
How Patriarchy in the Form of Bro Culture Harms Women AND Men. Abstract: This talk will explore what Tom means by the expression ‘bro-culture’ and how patriarchy is the overarching social and political structure that guides bro culture. From there, … Read more
Workshop on Kant's Practical Philosophy On October 19, 2019, the philosophy department will be hosting a workshop on topics in Kant's practical philosophy. Karl Ameriks (emeritus, Notre Dame), Anne-Margaret Baxley (Washington St. Louis), Stephen Engstrom (Pittsburgh) and Markus Kohl (UNC) … Read more
Integrity Amid Adversity Competitive pressures, unrealistic workloads, efficiency mandates, pressing deadlines, and bureaucratic red tape can all turn well-meaning workplaces into environments where integrity suffers. This session, created in honor of Global Ethics Day and the 2019 theme of Ethics … Read more
"What's Wrong with Slurs?" Robin Jeshion is a professor at the University of Southern California who does research in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and lately, on social philosophy. She has been the recipient of a Burkhardt Fellowship … Read more
"The Failure of Retributive Justice" The belief that people convicted of crimes deserve punishment is commonplace. Yet the punitive conception of individual responsibility commonly associated with retributive justice exaggerates the moral meaning of criminal guilt, normalizes excessive punishment, and distracts … Read more
Race, Pain Management, and Epistemic Credibility Yolonda Wilson (Howard University) is a 2019-2020 fellow at the National Humanities Center and a 2019-2020 Encore Public Voices Fellow. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel … Read more
"A Plea for Translational Ethics" Philosophical ethics, like philosophy as a whole, is sometimes caricatured as an overly abstract and theoretical enterprise. In fact it has always cared about “the real world”; but its modes and methodologies of engaging with … Read more
