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Ethics and Public Affairs Lectures

Center for Ethics and Public Affairs Lectures are free and open to the public.

Past Ethics and Public Affairs Lectures

2013

2012

2011

  • Michael Moore
    “Ethics in Extremis: Targeted Killings and the Morality of Hard Choices”
  • Loren Lomasky
    “What Do We Owe the World’s Poor?”
  • Norman Daniels
    “Is There a Right to Health or Health Care, and What Does It Entail?”
  • Barbara Herman
    “Being Helped and Being Grateful: Puzzles about Imperfect Duties and the Ethics of Possession”

2010

  • Gregory Clark
    “Was there ever a Ruling Class?: 800 Years of Social Mobility in England, and its Implications for Modern Social Policy”
  • Nina Silber
    “Why Gender Matters for the Civil War”
  • Charles Butterworth
    “Alfarabi’s Goal: Political Philosophy, not Political Theology”

2009

  • Campbell Grey
    “Urban Poverty, Charity and Conversion in Late Antique Asia Minor”
  • Robert Hanna
    “Living with Contradictions: The Logic of Kantian Moral Principles in a Nonideal World”

2008

2007

  • Simone Bateman
    “Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Scientific Inquiry and Ethical Controversy”
  • Samuel R. Freeman
    “Constructivism, Facts, and Moral Justification”
  • W. Kip Viscusi
    “What’s a Life Worth?”
  • Sharon Lloyd
    The Moral Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: An Investigation
  • Malachi Hacohen
    The Rise and Fall of the Central European Jewish Intelligentsia, 1781-1968: Jacob and Esau and the Dilemmas of the European Nation State
  • James E. Young
    Memory at Ground Zero: A Juror’s Report on the World Trade Center Memorial

2006

2005

2004

2002

  • Ann E. Tenbrunsel
    “The Organization Made Me Do It: Situational Influences on Unethical Behavior”
  • Thomas Fisher
    “Architecture’s Paradox of Value: Buildings, Ethics, and the Ecology of Wealth”
  • Gary Pavela
    “Can Ethics Be Taught?”