Waide Center for Applied Ethics Seminar Series - Spring 2025 Schedule

Waide Center for Applied Ethics Seminar Series

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

(Zoom link (for all events): https://fairfield.zoom.us/j/95197924493)

The Waide Center for Applied Ethics Seminar Series is a forum for building community and advancing research in Applied Ethics. It encourages jargon-free and supportive discussions that will be accessible to participants with serious interest in applied ethics and who come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds. Invited speakers in the series present a work-in-progress or recently published paper on topics relevant to applied ethics. At least half of each meeting is devoted to Q&A and general discussion. Please contact the Director of the Waide Center for Applied Ethics, Gregg D. Caruso (gcaruso@fairfield.edu), for more information.

Spring 2025

·      February 12: J. Baird Callicott (University Research Professor and Regents Professor of Philosophy, University of North Texas (Retired)) Title: “Environmental Ethics in the Anthropocene” (Register here: https://events.fairfield.edu/event/environmental-ethics-in-the-anthropocene-waide-center-for-applied-ethics-virtual-seminar-series)

·      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” (Register here: https://events.fairfield.edu/event/good-ethics-and-bad-choices-the-relevance-of-behavioral-economics-for-medical-ethics-waide-center-for-applied-ethics-virtual-seminar-series)

·      March 26: Luciano Floridi (Director of the Digital Ethics Center at Yale University & Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Bologna) Title: “AI and the Future of Content” (Register here: https://events.fairfield.edu/event/ai-and-the-future-of-content-the-waide-center-for-applied-ethics-virtual-seminar-series)

·      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: “Generationally Parochial Geoengineering” (Register here: https://events.fairfield.edu/event/generationally-parochial-geoengineering-the-waide-center-for-applied-ethics-virtual-seminar-series)

You can register for the seminars here: https://events.fairfield.edu/group/waide_center_for_applied_ethics