John Skorupski
University of Saint Andrews, Scotland
October 27th, 2006, 4:00 to 5:30 pm
Ellis Hall 113
John Skorupski studied philosophy and economics at Cambridge University. After lecturing at the University of Glasgow he moved to the Chair of Philosophy at Sheffield University in 1984, and to the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Saint Andrews in 1990. His interests at the moment…
Janusz Starzyk
October 20th, 2006, 1:00 to 2:00 pm
Porter 108
This seminar put on by HEIDi, Ohio University’s Human-Environment-Interaction Dynamics initiative.
HEIDi is an Ohio University work group providing a mechanism for researchers from psychology, mathematics, electrical engineering, computer science, and philosophy to collaborate on the study of the func…
Robert Bateman
Soldiers have been recording their thoughts and fears in personal journals for hundreds of years. Weblogs add a new twist, however, because not everyone who reads them is necessarily a “good guy.” Finding the line, that balance between the impetus of the volunteer soldier from an open society and the need to prevent the enemy from learning about our ta…
Nancy Sherman
Georgetown University
January 19th, 2006, 8:00 to 9:00 pm
Bentley 140
Public Lecture
Dr. Sherman, the author of Stoic Warriors, explores the moral challenges military men and women face in their lives and their implicit turn to Stoicism for guidance. Having served as a Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy, she offers an inside look as an outsider…
Nancy Sherman
Georgetown University
January 20th, 2006, 4:00 to 5:00 pm
Ellis 113
Philosophy colloquium
Nancy Sherman is University Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown Law School. In 1997-1999, she served as the inaugural holder of the Distinguished Chair in Ethics at the United States Naval Academy. She is the autho…
March 29th, 2006, 8:00 to 9:30 pm
Bentley 140
Firms working in multiple cultures must deal not just with conflicting laws and customs, but often with conflicting moral and ethical systems as well. Is a company ever justified in making ethical compromises in one area in order to do good in another? Are there times when it would be unethical not to compromise?
Discussing the ethical c…
Wendy Parker, Science Studies Program, University of California at San Diego
March 31st, 2006, 4:00 to 5:30 pm
Ellis 024
Climate change is often portrayed as an issue that hinges on difficult scientific and technical questions. Its ethical dimensions, by contrast, rarely take center stage. In this talk, I will first review some of the complex ethical questions related to climat…
Keynote presentations:
2006 April 7th, 11:00 am to April 8th, 6:30 pm
Athens, Ohio
In April 2006 the Ohio University Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics and the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism will host Blogging and Online Journalism: New Media, New Challenges, New E…
Elizabeth Willott, Arizona State University
May 10th, 2006, 8:00 to 9:30 pm
Bentley 140
All of us know about overconsumption. We all do it in some form or another. But that suggests overconsumption is more than one problem. By analyzing the varieties of overconsumption and their causes, we (this work was done jointly with David Schmidtz) aim to make the concept clearer and so incr…
Elliot Ratzman,
OU ‘92, Student Senate President 90-92.
Elliot Ratzman, OU Student Senate President 90-92, has studied at Harvard Divinity School, Hebrew University, and Princeton. He will receive his doctorate from Princeton’s Religion Department in the subfield of religion, ethics, and politics. He has taught at Vassar College, Temple University and will begin at…