Events
Congratulations
Congratulations to the UNF Ethics Bowl
Team, which went 2-1 at the National Ethics Bowl Competition this past Thursday (February 28, 2013),
earning a ranking of 14th in the nation! SWOOP!
Pre-Law Lecture
Dr. Jeremy Waldron,
March 28, 2013, 7pm, Building 58W-Student Union Room TBA
“Dignity, Offense, Hate Speech”
For more information, Please contact Andrew Buchwalter, abuchwal@unf.edu
5th Annual A. David Kline Symposium in Public Philosophy
Municipal Ethics (March 29-30, 2013)
Dr. Donald C. Menzel, President of Ethics Management
International
“The Ethics of Public Officials: Strong, Bent, Broken?”
This paper explores the ethicality of public officials,
elected and appointed, in the United States with particular interest in probing
for reasons, motivations, and circumstances that have led some to stray from
and others to stay on the ethical pathway. The reader should note that this
paper works with material on corruption and ethics, two subjects seldom joined
in the literature. Corruption can be defined as the (mis)use of one’s public
office for personal gain typically in the form of bribes, extortion, kickbacks,
awards and favors to friends. Corrupt behavior is generally illegal behavior as
set forth in laws and regulations. Ethics may be defined as values and
principles that guide right and wrong behavior (Menzel 2012). Another way of
saying this is that corruption and ethics, while defined differently, are two
sides of a common coin—behavior.
Dr. Curtis Ventriss, Rubenstein
School of Environment and Natural Resources
“The Ethics of decision-making and Civic Engagement:
Challenges and Prospects.”
The paper addresses the issue of fostering civic
stewardship that achieves the goals of social equity and participation in the
delivery of public services, while, at the same time, attempting to reconcile
these noble goals with the realities of hierarchy, specialization, and
professionalism.
For more information, Please contact Mitch Haney, mhaney@unf.edu
5th Annual John C. Maraldo Lecture in Comparative Philosophy
April 4, 2013 7pm.
Building 15 Room 1303
Dr. Roger T. Ames
“Confucian Role Ethics: A Challenge to the Ideology of
Individualism”
In the introduction of Chinese philosophy and culture into the Western academy,
we have tended to theorize and conceptualize this antique tradition by appeal
to familiar categories. Confucian role ethics is an attempt to articulate a sui
generis moral philosophy that allows this tradition to have its own voice. This
holistic philosophy is grounded in the primacy of relationality, and is a
challenge to a foundational liberal individualism that has defined persons as
discrete, autonomous, rational, free, and often self-interested agents.
Confucian role ethics begins from a relationally constituted conception of
person, takes family roles and relations as the entry point for developing
moral competence, invokes moral imagination and the growth in relations that it
can inspire as the substance of human morality, and entails a human-centered,
a-theistic religiousness that stands in sharp contrast to the Abrahamic
religions.
2nd Annual Southeastern Epistemology Conference
2013 Conference Schedule - TBA
6th Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference
TBA
Alissa
Hurwitz Swota, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Florida Blue Center for Ethics at UNF, organizes the Fifth Annual Pediatric Bioethics
Conference in Jacksonville. The conference is sponsored by Wolfson
Children's Hospital in partnership with the University of North Florida
and the Florida Bioethics Network.
Overview
This conference will include sessions on
topics such as Pain Management as Moral Obligation, Legal and Ethical
Challenges in Child Protection, Receiving Difficult News: Family
Perspectives, and Assent and Consent: The Role of the Child in
Decision-Making.
Why You Should Attend
Ethics committees, practitioners and
public policy experts are faced with difficult ethical challenges that
can benefit from education and opportunities to discuss those challenges
with other professionals. This conference will provide an opportunity
to engage peers from across the region and learn what others are doing
to cope with the ethical issues arising from pediatric medicine.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for physicians,
nurses, social workers, clergy, psychologists, health administrators,
occupational therapists, speech therapists, pediatric mental health
workers, pediatric specialists, medical students, nursing students,
ethicists, philosophers, and others with an interest or a need for
continuing education in the special area of pediatric bioethics.
For more information, please contact Dr. Alissa Hurwitz Swota.
2012 Conference Brochure
17th Annual Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference
TBA
6th Annual A. David Kline Symposium in Public Philosophy
TBA
For more information, Please contact Mitch Haney, mhaney@unf.edu
6th Annual John C. Maraldo Lecture in Comparative Philosophy
TBA
The Florida Student Philosophy Blog managed by Dr. Jonathan Matheson with the help of the UNF Philosophy Student Club is progressing well. The UNF Philosophy Club itself is taking the necessary steps towards establishing itself as an important source both of students’ community life and of their professional development.
