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Intentionally or not, everyone “does” ethics, oftentimes extraordinarily well.
All you have to do is wonder or argue about how to act, what lives to emulate or honor, or which obligations to embrace or ideals to pursue. Begun in 2010 in celebration of the Institute’s 15th anniversary, this series aims to engage faculty and students from across Duke’s campus in examining their research through the lens of ethics.
Patrick Smith
Often when one thinks about bioethics, they assume the medical application of bioethics – big q...
Charles Thompson
Often absent from the fiery national debate around immigration is our reliance on immigrant labor...
ADRIANE LENTZ-SMITH
Is writing history an ethical enterprise? When writing about places and people in history, ethica...
Malachi Hacohen
Why and how are religious and historical narratives relevant to modern challenges? History provid...
CHARLES PIOT
What is ‘ethical development’ in today’s globalized world? Ethical development entails push...
VALERIE ASHBY
How does diversity play a role in higher education? Thinking outside our comfort zones is critica...
ALMA BLOUNT
How do we meet students’ eagerness for ethical leadership? First I ask students, “What is the...
JAMES COLEMAN
What is the role of athletics in higher education?In many ways, it seems that we are living in th...
THOMAS DEFRANTZ
What can we learn about ourselves and our world through dance?Dance movement has many definitions...
SARA KATSANIS
How can DNA be a tool for human rights?Human rights injustices afflict many populations in the wo...
GARY BENNETT
How can we provide solutions for patients battling obesity that don’t ask them to reject who th...
ANITA LAYTON
How can math be used to keep us healthy and safe?We have all sorts of data at our fingertips – ...
LAURENCE HELFER
How can we design legal institutions to resolve international problems?Many of today’s most pre...
AARTHI VADDE
How can literary innovation help us make sense of a globalized world?More than ever, our everyday...
STEPHEN VAISEY
How do you measure morality?One of the reasons people have difficulty explaining their moral worl...
LUKE BRETHERTON
How do we build a common life in places characterized by deep religious and cultural diversity?Bu...
MICHAELINE CRICHLOW
Who should have a right to the “commons” in a post-colonial world?Access to social, natural a...
BETHANY HORSTMANN
Can we balance obligations to prosecute human traffickers and at the same time protect those who ...
RECALIBRATING RISK
What makes for an ethical policy response to a crisis?When a crisis such as an oil spill, a finan...
SHANA STAROBIN
What should we eat?Everyone eats. Some more than others. About 870 million people worldwide are c...
CHAD LIU
Who counts as a refugee?In 1948, my then-fourteen-year-old grandfather, two great-uncles, and gre...
DORIANE LAMBELET COLEMAN
Should healthy minor children be used as organ donors for their ill siblings?This question, popul...
Ruth Grant
Why don’t incentives always work?Incentives—offers made to motivate particular actions—seem...
Kieran Healy
Should there be a market in human organs?In the early 1970s, organ donation was an experimental t...
William Darity, Jr.
How might social policies change as more Americans identify themselves as “multiracial”?Are m...
Michael Valdez Moses
Can novels and films make us better people?The study of philosophy, history, the classics, and mo...
Wayne Norman
Does competition bring out the worst in us?One of my favorite New Yorker cartoons show...
Victoria Szabo
What happens when we blur the line between what is virtual and what is real, and what are the dan...
David Wong
There have been examples throughout history of “bad” people becoming “good,” such as with...
Erika Weinthal
After a regional conflict, the management of natural resources is often in disarray. How can conf...
Leela Prasad
How do people decide what is the right thing to do in any given situation?To answer this question...
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
If a brain tumor leads a father to molest his daughter (an actual case), can he be held morally o...
