In conjunction with a talk at the University of Texas Southwestern’s Ethics Ground Rounds program, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong was interviewed on public radio station KERA’s “Think” program regarding an expansion of the designations for states of living, particularly in regards to the ethics of organ procurement for donation.
DukeImmerse: Uprooted/Rerouted is both immersive and intense–super intense. We welcome students from any and all backgrounds who want to commit to a semester long investigation of displacement. No prior experience is necessary–only the strong willingness to jump right in. Think of Uprooted/Rerouted as Focus on steroids: a semester-long, research-based, student-faculty collaboration on a single theme–forced migration–plus a weekly dinner meeting and a four-week mid-semester field trip to Nepal or Egypt with international travel funded by Duke (watch a video of students in the 2012 program performing monologues of refugee experiences).
We guarantee you’ll never work so hard or have so much fun. Toward that end, we ask each applicant to briefly answer 3 questions. Applications are due October 19 at noon and decisions will be made on October 30; we may conduct interviews with finalists.
In the immediate aftermath of the first presidential debate, KIE Advisory Board member William Galston’s Huffington Post piece discusses candidate Mitt Romney’s strategy in changing the trajectory of his campaign through public perception.
As the Jacob L. Martin Fellow in the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser, KIE Senior Fellow Laurence Helfer has accepted a role advising government attorneys on international issues and regulatory trends concerning sexual orientation and human rights. The Duke School of Law has published a feature describing Helfer’s comments to high court judges of the U.S. and Europe at a United Nations event in Geneva, Switzerland last March.
What should individual integrity look like in a culture that has become infatuated with group work? In the wake of the Harvard cheating scandal, Noah Pickus and Suzanne Shanahan weigh in with findings from KIE’s academic integrity report in a Chronicle for Higher Education op-ed.
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.
Luke Bretherton spoke on both the usefulness and polemic nature of religious-based moral arguments in public discourse during his interview with Rev. Welton Gaddy on the weekly radio show State of Belief.
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.”
Read more on Duke Today.
Update 10/19/2012: Enrollment for Sinnott-Armstrong’s Coursera course now over 100,000
Shana Starobin, a Ph.D. student in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Graduate Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, attended a White House event in early August and will participate in a Congressional briefing on September 20th. Starobin’s graduate research focuses on food insecurity; she also serves as a board member for Ample Harvest.org. Read more about Starobin’s work on the Nicholas School of the Environment website and in a Duke Chronicle Q&A.
Senior Fellow Barak Richman is fighting against the system by which the Conservative movement places rabbis, calling it a “professional cartel” that controls the job market illegally. His work and the reactions of other parties is featured in this New York Times article.