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Monday Seminar: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Sep. 16

katherine — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 11:10:34 +0000

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Chauncey Stillman Professor in Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, will be speaking on Sep. 16 as part of the Monday Seminar Series from 12:00-1:30 p.m. in room 101, West Duke Building.

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is a faculty leader of KIE’s Moral Attitudes and Decision-Making program area. He has served as the co-director of the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project and co-investigator at the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. He has worked on ethics (theoretical, applied, and empirical), philosophy of law, epistemology, philosophy of religion, and informal logic. Sinnott-Armstrong is the author of Morality Without God? and Moral Skepticisms and editor of Moral Psychology, volumes I-III. His articles have appeared in a variety of philosophical, scientific, and popular journals and collections. He has received fellowships from the Harvard Program in Ethics and the Professions, the Princeton Center for Human Values, the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University, and the Sage Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Sinnott-Armstrong earned his bachelor’s degree from Amherst College and his doctorate from Yale University. His current work is on moral psychology and brain science as well as the uses of neuroscience in legal systems.

Julian Savulescu, Oct. 25

katherine — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:53:49 +0000

Moral Attitudes and Decision-Making at KIE has invited Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, to speak on campus. Savulescu’s areas of research include the ethics of genetics, research ethics, new forms of reproduction, and end of life decision-making.

Friday, October 25
3:30-5:30 pm
202 West Duke Building

Kenan Distinguished Lecture: Michael Ignatieff, Apr. 18

mischa — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:51:56 +0000

The Ethics of Globalization and the Globalization of Ethics

The annual Kenan Distinguished Lecture for 2013 features Canadian scholar, author and former politician Michael Ignatieff. He will be speaking on the globalization of ethics that has accompanied the globalization of commerce and communications. What ethical values do human beings share across all our differences of race, religion, ethnicity, national identity, and material wealth?

Ignatieff served in the Parliament of Canada and was Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. He currently holds joint appointments at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. His books include The Needs of Strangers (1984), Scar Tissue (1992),Blood and Belonging (1993), The Warriors Honour (1997), Isaiah Berlin (1998), The Rights Revolution (2000), Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (2001), and The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004).

Thursday, April 18
Fleishman Commons, Sanford School of Public Policy Building
5:30 – 6:45 p.m. (Reception to follow)

Free parking will be available in the Sanford Lot behind the Sanford Building.

This event has additional support from the Center for Canadian Studies at Duke.