February 12, 2014 | Rose Hill Campus O’Hare Special Collections Room, Walsh Library | 12:30 p.m. Can we identify “natural” states of affairs at all, especially in light of the … Continue Reading Humans in Nature: The World as we Find it and the World as we Create It (2014)
January 21 | 6 p.m. | Corrigan Conference Center, Lincoln Center Campus In light of last year’s tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, vigorous communities of both pro-and anti-gun advocates have … Continue Reading The Future of Commonsense Gun Regulation: Where do we go from Here? (2014)
November 13, 2013 | Rose Hill Campus Fordham post-doctoral Fellow Dr. Joshua Schapiro (Theology) presented on his work at the most recent Ethics Colloquium on Wednesday, November 13th. Dr. Schapiro … Continue Reading Cultivating Moral Persons: Buddhist Ethics in Conversation (2013)
October 2, 2013 | Rose Hill Campus In spring 2013, a study on the status of gender and sexual minority students at Fordham revealed that many such students experience fear, … Continue Reading Bringing LGBT Content into the Fordham Classroom (2013)
April 23, 2013 | Lincoln Center Campus Over the past 30 years, the United States has become the world’s leader in incarceration with 2.2 million people currently in the nation’s … Continue Reading Jailing for Dollars: The Moral Costs of Privatizing Justice (2013)
March 25, 2013 | Lincoln Center Campus Half of those living with HIV in the U.S. will be over 50 by 2015. Addressing the behavioral health needs of this population … Continue Reading Aging Well with HIV: Challenges and Opportunities (2013)
February 7, 2013 | Rose Hill Campus On February 7th, the Ethics and Society program organized an exciting panel of outside professionals and Ethics and Society graduates engaged in or … Continue Reading Careers in Ethics: A Panel of Professionals and Ethics & Society Graduates (2013)
November 7, 2012 | Rose Hill Campus Our second Ethics Colloquium Series of the semester featured Dr. Saul Cornell, one of the nation’s leading authorities on early American constitutional thought and … Continue Reading The American Gun Debate: Trust, Violence, and the Eclipse (2012)
October 17, 2012 | Rose Hill Campus Our first Ethics Colloquium Series of the semester was led by Professor Robert Hurley (GBA), who discussed his new book “The Decision to Trust: How … Continue Reading The Decision to Trust (2012)
April 24, 2012 | Lincoln Center Campus Current national debates have focused on the growing political influence of money and mass media in the electoral arena and its implications for … Continue Reading Money, Media, and the Battle for Democracy’s Soul (2012)
March 29, 2012 | Rose Hill Campus In October 2011, the Vatican released a 41-page document, “Towards Reforming the International Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of Global Public … Continue Reading Catholic Idealism vs. Economic Realism (2012)
March 21, 2012 | Rose Hill Campus Members of Fordham’s Faculty offered brief perspectives on issues raised by the recent hate speech incidents and in response to Father McShane’s call … Continue Reading Cura Personalis: Faculty Voices Against Hate Speech on Campus (2012)
November 16, 2011 | Rose Hill Campus This faculty ethics seminar was led by Professor Gerard Vong (philosophy) and the response was delivered by Robert Brent (economics). If we can … Continue Reading Valuing Health: Benefit Disparities and Global Development Aid in Population Philosophy (2011)
October 12, 2011 | Rose Hill Campus Presented by Nicholas Tampio (Political Science) and Adam Fried (Center for Ethics Education). Talk Description: America is currently embroiled in wars in Iraq … Continue Reading What do we Owe Veterans? Moral and Clinical Perspectives (2011)
April 12, 2011 | Lincoln Center Campus A decade has passed since the September 11th terrorist attacks. Meanwhile, debate over methods of preventing future harms while preserving our moral integrity … Continue Reading Moral Outrage and Moral Repair: Reflection on 9/11 and its Afterlife (2011)
April 6, 2011 | Lincoln Center Campus This documentary and discussion focused on moral reconciliation, forgiveness, and repair related to acts of evil and wrong-doing, such as 9/11 and other … Continue Reading Moral Reconciliation, Forgiveness, and Repair: Film Viewing and Discussion (2011)