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The Good, the Bad, and the Profitable: The Complex Interaction Between Morality and the Marketplace

Paul Hurley
Claremont McKenna College
January 11th, 2007, 4:00 to 5:30 pm
Bentley 140

paul_hurley_aIt is a common view that in the marketplace nice people finish last, greed is good, and those who don’t stand out in the single-minded pursuit of profits are invariably stood upon. But economists from Adam Smith to Nobel Prize winners such as Kenneth Arrow and Amartya Sen have argued that mar…

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What Lurks Beneath the Integrity Objection

Paul Hurley
Claremont McKenna College
January 12th, 2007, 4:00 to 5:00 pm
Ellis 113

paul_hurley_bEvery moral theory alienates agents from pursuit of their plans and projects. It might then be thought that alienation arguments against consequentialism, such as those put forward by Bernard Williams, are at most claims that consequentialism suffers from a common problem for many theories to a…

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Business Ethics in a Global World: China, India, and Beyond

2007 March 8th, 8:00 am to March 10th, 9:00 pm
Markkula Center, Santa Clara, California

The Ohio University Institute for Applied and Professional Ethics is offering grants for travel, per diem, and housing to Santa Clara University’s “Business Ethics in a Global World” in March 2007.

Details on the conference are available at: http://www.scu.edu/ethics…

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Ohio University Lectures in Ethics: Samuel Freeman

Samuel Freeman
University of Pennsylvania
May 3rd, 2007, 8:00 to 9:30 pm
Bentley Hall, 140

“Democracy and the Contractarian Justification of Judicial Review”

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Ethics Colloquium: Samuel Freeman

Samuel Freeman
University of Pennsylvania
May 4th, 2007, 4:00 to 5:00 pm
Ellis Hall, Room 113

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