Waide Center for Applied Ethics Seminar Series: Spring Schedule

Waide Center for Applied Ethics Seminar Series

Wednesdays 4:00-5:30 p.m.

(Virtual talks via Zoom)

The Waide Center for Applied Ethics Seminar Series is a forum for building community and advancing research in Applied Ethics. It encourages jargon-free and supportive discussions that will be accessible to participants with serious interest in applied ethics and who come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds. Invited speakers in the series present a work-in-progress or recently published paper on topics relevant to applied ethics. At least half of each meeting is devoted to Q&A and general discussion. Please contact the Director of the Waide Center for Applied Ethics, Gregg D. Caruso (gcaruso@fairfield.edu), for more information.

Spring 2025

·     February 12: J. Baird Callicott (University Research Professor and Regents Professor of Philosophy, University of North Texas (Retired)) Title: “Environmental Ethics in the Anthropocene”

·    March 5: Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby (Professor of Ethics and Associate Director for the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine) Title: “Good Ethics and Bad Choices: The Relevance of Behavioral Economics for Medical Ethics”

·    March 26: Luciano Floridi (Director of the Digital Ethics Center at Yale University & Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Bologna) Title: “AI and the Future of Content” 

·    April 9: Stephen Gardiner (Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment & Director of the Program on Ethics at the University of Washington, Seattle) Title: “Generationally Parochial Geoengineering?”

You can register for the seminars here: https://events.fairfield.edu/group/waide_center_for_applied_ethics