Lectures
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Past Lectures
Robert Hanna
“Living with Contradictions: The Logic of Kantian Moral Principles in a Nonideal World”
Barry Eichengreen
“Perspectives on the Global Financial Crisis: What is at Stake and Where Do We Go From Here?”
Laurence J. Kotlikoff
“On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language”
Eric Van Young
“Was Mexico’s Greatest 19th-Century Conservative a Trimmer?: Lucas Alamán and the Law”
James Blair
“Emotional Outcomes, Moral Decision Making and Psychopathy”
Steven Kuhn
“Morality, Social Pressure, and Advocacy Games”
Jeffry Frieden
Will Global Capitalism Fall Again?
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
Dennis Thompson
Can the University Teach Ethics?
Kenneth Schaffner
Genes, Behavior, and Ethics: Current Issues
Craig N. Murphy
“A Better Way? The Marshall Plan and the UN Development Model After 9/11”
Robert Solomon
“Existentialism, Spirituality, Sentimentality”
James S. Taylor
“Autonomy, Paternalism and Organ Sales”
Randall McGowen
“Understanding the Gallows in Eighteenth Century London”
Joshua D. Margolis
“Necessary Evils: The Problem of Dirty Hands Made Real”
Michael Freeden
“The Many Faces of Liberalism”
Thomas Sheehan
“Heidegger, Ethics, and Politics.”
Michael Ignatieff
“The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror”
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?”