The London Financial Times has picked up an interview with KIE Senior Fellow Ruth Grant discussing the reception of her recent book Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives and the ways in which her arguments on the use of incentives have been adapted by professionals in various fields. The original interview can be read in its entirety on the CFA Institute website.
Walter Sinnott Armstrong’s free online class on reason and logic, offered through Coursera, a California-based company that’s partnered with a dozen universities worldwide to offer higher education to the masses, is Duke’s most popular course. “Think Again: How to Reason and Argue,” co-taught by UNC-Chapel Hill philosophy professor Ram Neta, reaches farther than Sinnott-Armstrong thought possible. “I never imagined that I would have so many students in my entire career,” he said. “It would take hundreds of years to reach that number of students in a normal classroom.”
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Update 10/19/2012: Enrollment for Sinnott-Armstrong’s Coursera course now over 100,000
MADlab, a new vertically-integrated research community, opens this fall on the first floor of the West Duke Building. Anchored by the work of Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Institute Senior Fellow Philip Costanzo, Chauncey Stillman Professor in Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, and Institute Senior Fellow Stephen Vaisey, the space will house classes as well as meeting spaces and workstations for students. The new area, nicknamed the MADLab, is being renovated now and will be ready at the end of September.
Integrity in Undergraduate Life at Duke University: A Report on the 2011 Survey follows up on surveys conducted in 1995, 2000 and 2005 and includes new questions on nonacademic subjects. Duke Student Government held its first ever faculty-student town hall meeting on April 4th to discuss its findings, covered by the Duke Chronicle. The Duke Chronicle also ran an article and editorial on the report, and Duke Today ran a piece on the report.
KIE senior fellow Ruth Grant discusses how incentives affect good behavior and whether rewarding someone for being good devalues acts of goodness, the topic of her latest book, Strings Attached: The Ethics of Incentives, on WUNC’s The State of Things on 3/28. Listen or download audio from WUNC.