Current Events & Programs
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October 2009
Please visit the beta version of the new Ethics Education Library, a database of articles, case studies, syllabi, and best practices in teaching professional and research ethics. This database is part of a joint project with the Center for Ethics, Engineering and Society at the National Academy of Engineering and the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology to develop a series of web resource for Principal Investigators (PIs) and university administrators looking to incorporate an ethics component in National Science Foundation grant proposals
August 2009
CSEP has been awarded a NSF Grant to develop a new graduate course for science, engineering and philosophy of science graduate students to engage in joint research and address ethical issues as they naturally arise in research. Principal Investigator Dr. Vivian Weil will work with colleagues from universities in the Chicago area to design a course to prepare students for joint research across disciplinary boundaries and to enable students to identify and fruitfully address ethical issues arising in the natural course of their research. For students in each area, the course provides fresh perspectives from the other two areas and practice in addressing ethical issues that they identify in the course of their research.
Call for Papers
10th International Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum
Hosted by Towson University
at the Baltimore Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel
Baltimore, Maryland
November 14-16, 2008
The Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum (SEAC) picks conference themes to encourage faculty from the relevant areas to submit papers, panels, or other standard forms of presentation, but submissions may speak to any issue regarding ethics across the curriculum. Questions about possible submissions should be sent to the directors.
Conference Theme: The Ethics of the Family
What is a family? What are "family values"? Is marriage a civil contract or something more? Should persons of the same sex be allowed to marry or raise children? Is there a natural right to have children? Is there a right to have as many children as one chooses? What is child abuse? Should we license parents? What are the rights and responsibilities of children (if any)? Is adultery always wrong? Is voluntary no-fault divorce always justified? How do family relationships differ between cultures or across times? These and other questions prompt The Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum to invite paper submissions from scholars and practitioners in Philosophy, Family Studies, Public Policy & Law, Sociology, Psychology, Social Work, History, and other related fields dealing with ethical issues connected to the definition of a family, the rights and responsibilities of parents and children, the ethical and/or legal relationship between the family and the state, intergenerational justice, gay marriage, adultery, divorce, family violence, etc.
Submissions (either papers or abstracts) should be formatted for blind review and sent by September 1st, 2008 to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Society, Donna Werner, DWerner@stlcc.edu or by hard copy to Dr. Donna Werner, Philosophy Department (HE 103), St. Louis Community College, Meramec, 11333 Big Bend Boulevard, St. Louis MO 63122-5799. Phone: 314.984.7934.
We will make decisions about papers as soon as we can after they arrive. So the sooner you submit your abstract or paper or panel suggestion, the sooner you will hear from us regarding its suitability for the conference.
The Society publishes Teaching Ethics, and papers for conferences may be considered for publication either in that journal or in a possible anthology on the ethics of family life.
