Waide Center for Applied Ethics Seminar Series

Waide Center for Applied Ethics Seminar Series

Wednesdays 4:00-5:30 p.m.

(Virtual talks via Zoom: https://Fairfield.zoom.us/j/92504423276)

• September 25: Elizabeth Anderson (Max Share Professor of Public Philosophy, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor, and Arthur F. Thurmau Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan) Title: "The Work Ethic and the Post-Work Ethic"

• October 23: Jeffrey Moriarty (Executive Director of the Hoffman Center for Business Ethics, Bentley University) Title: "When is Nepotism Justified?"

• November 20: Richard T. De George (University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, of Russian and East European Studies, and of Business Administration, and Co-Director of the International Center for Ethics in Business at the University of Kansas) Title: "Is Capitalism Morally Defensible?"

• December 4: Marion Hourdequin (Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College & President of the International Society for Environmental Ethics) Title: "Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Risk"

• February 12: J. Baird Callicott (University Research Professor and Regents Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas (retired)) Title: "Environmental Ethics in the Anthropocene"

• March 5: Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby (Professor of Ethics and Associate Director for the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine) Title: "Good Ethics and Bad Choices: The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics"

• March 26: Luciano Floridi (Director of the Digital Ethics Center at Yale University and Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Bologna) Title: "AI and the Future of Content"

• April 9: Stephen Gardiner (Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment & Director of the Program on Ethics at the University of Washington, Seattle) Title: TBA