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Hugh LaFollette
Cole Chair in Ethics
University of South Florida St. Petersburg [pics]
140 7th Ave. S., DAV 225
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
hughlafollette@tampabay.rr.com
(727) 553-4830 (phone/voice mail)
(727) 553-4526 (fax)



Programs

Former Programs

2007-08
  Laurence Hougate, Professor of Philosophy (retired), California Polytechnic Institute.
Topics
: Adultery
When and where:  11 am, Thursday October 11; Room TBA
                      AND
Topics
: Children's Rights
When and where:  6 pm, Thursday, October 11, Room TBA
   
  Alan Carter, Chair in Moral Philosophy, University of Glasgow (Scotland), will be the Cole Scholar in Residence, Nov. 3-9.  He will give guest lectures to a number of classes (details to follow), and a public lecture.  Carter assumed the Chair at Glasgow, having previously taught at the University of Colorado, the University of London, and the University of Dublin.  He is author of numerous books, and is currently co-editor of the Journal of Applied Philosophy.
Topic:    various classes (details TBA)
                       AND
Topic:    "Humanity, Animals, and Nature"  (public lecture)
When and where:
Friday, November 9.  Room and time TBA
   
  Andras Miklas.  Post-doctoral fellow on Ethics and Health, Harvard University.  Previously a postdoc at the University of Florence.  Graduate of Central European University (Budapest).
Topics:  Spring, specifics TBA
When and where:  TBA
   

 

 


Research
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Books
The Practice of Ethics. Blackwell, 2007.
Brute Science: The Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation (with N. Shanks). Routledge 1997 (Philosophical Issues in Science series).
Personal Relationships: Love, Identity, and Morality. Blackwell 1996.
Translation:
2000: Turkish. (2nd ed, trans. Femma Lekesizalin). Ayrinti Press.
1997: Turkish. (trans. Femma Lekesizalin). Ayrinti Press.
Chapters Reprinted:
1999: "Morality and Personal Relationships." | pdf | In S. Luper and C. Brown (eds), The Moral Life (2nd ed). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Books Edited
Ethics in Practice: An Anthology (3rd edition), Blackwell, 2007.
Earlier editions:
  2nd edition: 2002
1st edition: 1997
Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics . Oxford, 2003. 
Reprinted:
2005: My Library (electronic)
  2003: EBSCO (electronic)
Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory. Blackwell, 2001.
Translation:
2004: Chinese. China Renmin University Press
Reprinted:
2002: NetLibrary (electronic)
World Hunger and Morality  (with W. Aiken). Prentice-Hall, 1996.
Person to Person (with G. Graham). Temple University Press, 1989.
Whose Child? (with W. Aiken). Rowman & Allenheld, 1980.
World Hunger and Moral Obligation (with W. Aiken). Prentice-Hall, 1977.

Book Series Edited
Blackwell Ethics in Practice Series. Books will begin to appear in 2008.

Journal Articles (long)
  "Private Conscience, Public Acts," (with E. LaFollette).  Journal of Medical Ethics, 2007.
  “Living on a Slippery Slope.” The Journal of Ethics, 2005, 475-99.
  "Collateral Consequences of Punishment: Civil Penalties Accompanying Formal Punishment." Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2005, 241-61.
"Controlling Guns." | pdf | Criminal Justice Ethics. 2001.
"Gun Control."  | pdf | Ethics, 2000, 263-81.
Reprinted:
    2008: Ethics in Practice (3rd ed.). H. LaFollette (ed.) Blackwell.
    2004: Moral Philosophy for Modern Life. Anthony Falikowski (ed.). Pearson, Canada.
2003: Morality and Public Policy. T. Kasachkoff and S. Cahn. Prentice-Hall.
2003: Ethics in Practice (2nd ed) H. LaFollette (ed.). Blackwell.
2000: Papers of the Center for the Study of Ethics and Society. Joseph Ellin (ed.). University of Western Michigan.
"The Origin of Speciesism."  | pdf | (with N. Shanks) Philosophy, 1996, 41-61.
"Util-izing Animals." | pdf | (with N. Shanks) Journal of Applied Philosophy, 1995, 13-25.
"Two Models of Models in Biomedical Research." | pdf | (with N. Shanks) Philosophical Quarterly, 1995, 141-60.
"Animal Experimentation: The Legacy of Claude Bernard." | pdf | (with N. Shanks) International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1994, 195-210.
"Chaos Theory: Analogical Reasoning in Biomedical Research." (with N. Shanks) Idealistic Studies, 1994, 241-254.
"Belief and the Basis of Humor." | pdf | (with N. Shanks) American Philosophical Quarterly,1993, 329-39.
    Translated in:
  2004: Spanish. Discusiones Filosóficas (Columbian journal).
"The Intact Systems Argument: Problems with the Standard Defense of Animal Experimentation." (with N. Shanks) Southern Journal of Philosophy, 1993, 323-33.
"Animal Models in Biomedical Research: Some Epistemological Worries." (with N. Shanks) Public Affairs Quarterly, 1993, 113-130.
"The Truth in Ethical Relativism." | pdf | Journal of Social Philosophy, 1991, 146-54.
"Freedom of Religion and Children." | pdf | Public Affairs Quarterly, 1989, 75-87.
Reprinted:
1996: Children's Rights Re-visioned. R. Ladd (ed.). Wadsworth.
"Seeking Justice." (with M. Braswell) The American Journal of Criminal Justice, Spring 1988, 135-46.
"Honesty and Intimacy." | pdf | (with G. Graham) Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, March 1986, 3-18.
Reprinted:
2000: Philosophie und Sex. P. Balzer & K. Rippe (eds). Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag.
1993: Gender Basics. A. Minas (ed.). Wadsworth.
1987: Person to Person. In G. Graham and H. LaFollette (eds). Temple University Press.
"Moral Kinds & Natural Kinds." (with G. Graham) Journal of Value Inquiry, 1982, 85-100.
"Plantinga on the Free Will Defense." International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Spring, 1980, 123-32.
  Reprinted:
  2004: The Impossibility of God. M. Martin and R. Monnier (eds). (Prometheus Books).
"Licensing Parents." | pdf | Philosophy and Public Affairs, Winter, 1980, 182-97.
Reprinted:
    2008: Environmental Ethics (5th ed). L. Pojman and P. Pojman (eds.). Wadsworth.
    2005: What’s Wrong: Applied Ethicists and Their Critics. D. Boonin and G. Oddie (eds). Oxford University Press
    2005: Morality and Moral Controversies (7th ed). J. Arthur (ed.) Prentice-Hall.
    2005: Environmental Ethics (4th ed). L. Pojman (ed.). Wadsworth.
    2004: Reflective Moral Reasoning., S. Dimock and C. Tucker. Thomson Nelson.
    2004: Critically Thinking about Medical Ethics. R. Card (ed.). Prentice-Hall.
    2004: Should Parents be Licensed?  P. Tittle (ed.). Prometheus.
2003: The Moral Life (2nd).  L. Pojman (ed.). Oxford University Press.
2002: Morality and Moral Controversies (6th ed). J. Arthur. Prentice-Hall.
2001: Environmental Ethics (3rd ed). L. Pojman (ed.). Wadsworth.
2000: Family, State, and Law. M. Freeman (ed.). Ashgate Publishing.
2000: Power Web Philosophy. G. Pence (ed.). McGraw-Hill.
1999: Cases and Materials on Family Law (4th ed). J. Areen (ed.). Foundation Press.
1999: Family Values. L. Houlgate (ed.). Wadsworth.
1999: The Moral Life. L. Pojman (ed.). Oxford University Press.
1998: The Moral Life (2nd ed). C. Brown and S. Luper (eds). Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.
1998: Morality and Moral Controversies (5th ed) J. Arthur (ed.). Prentice-Hall.
1998: Environmental Ethics (2nd ed). L. Pojman (ed.). Wadsworth.
1996: Morality and Moral Controversies (4th ed). J. Arthur (ed.). Prentice-Hall.
1994: Environmental Ethics. L. Pojman (ed.). Wadsworth.
1993: Morality and Moral Controversies (3rd ed). J. Arthur (ed.). Prentice-Hall.
1992: Cases and Materials on Family Law (3rd ed). J. Areen (ed.). Foundation Press.
1992: The Moral Life. C. Brown and S. Luper-Foy (eds). Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.
1989: Moral Choices. J. Grcic (ed.). West Publishing.
    1986: Asking the Right Questions (2nd ed). M.N. Browne and S. Keeley. Prentice-Hall.
    1986: Morality and Moral Controversies (2nd ed). J. Arthur (ed.). Prentice-Hall.
1985: Occasions for Philosophy (2nd ed). J. Edwards (ed.). Prentice-Hall.
1985: Cases and Materials on Family Law (2nd ed). J. Areen (ed.). Foundation Press.

Essays in Books
"World Hunger." | pdf |  In C. Wellman & R. Frey (eds). Blackwell Companion to Applied Ethics. Blackwell, 2003, 238-53.
"Pragmatic Ethics." | pdf | In my Blackwell Guide of Ethical Theory. Blackwell, 1999, 400-19.
    Translation:
    2004: Chinese: China Renmin University Press
    Reprinted:
    2002: NetLibrary
"Circumscribed Autonomy: Children, Care, and Custody." In J. Bartkowiack and U. Narayan(eds), Having and Raising Children. Penn State Press, 1998, 137-52.
"Suffer the Little Children: Responsibility and Hunger." | pdf | (with L. May) In W. Aiken and H. LaFollette (eds), World Hunger and Morality. Prentice-Hall, 1995, 70-84.
Reprinted:
    2006: Contemporary Moral Issues (3rd ed). L. Hinman (ed.). Prentice-Hall.
2001: Life Sciences Ethics, Gary Comstrock (ed). Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press.
2000: Contemporary Moral Issues (2nd ed). L. Hinman (ed.), Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich.
"Two Forms of Paternalism." In A. Peczenik and M. Karlsson (eds), Law, Justice, Rights, and the State. Franz Steiner Verlag, 1995, 188-94.
"Mandatory Drug Testing." | pdf | In S. Luper-Foy and C. Brown (eds), Drugs, Morality, and the Law.  Garland Press, 1994, 283-99.
"Real Men" | pdf | . In L. May and R. Strikwerda (eds), Rethinking Masculinity. Rowman and  Littlefield, 1992, 59-74.
Reprinted:
1996: Rethinking Masculinity (2nd ed). L. May and R. Strikwerda (eds).Rowman and Littlefield.
"Personal Relationships." In Singer (ed.), Companion to Ethics. Blackwell, 1990, 327-32.
Reprinted:
2001: Ourselves and Others. Jehanne Anabtawi (ed.) Seven Bridges Press.
Translated:
    2006: Romanian. Polirom.
    2005: Serbian. Izdavacka Knjizarnica Zorana Stojanovica.
    2005: Korean. Chulhak-Kwa-Hyunsil.
    2003: Chinee translation, The Commercial Press, Beijing.
2001: Turkish. Yapi Yayinlari.
1998: Polish. Wydawnictwo Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw.
1995: Spanish. Compendio de Ética. Publishing Alliance, Madrid.
"Animal Rights and Human Wrongs." | pdf | In N. Dower (ed.), Ethics and the Environment. Gower Press, 1989, 79-90.
"The Truth in Psychological Egoism." [pdf] | In J. Feinberg (ed.), Reason and Responsibility (7th  ed). Wadsworth, 1988, 500-7.
"Applied Philosophy Misapplied." In N. Rescher, et. al. (eds), The Applied Turn in Contemporary Philosophy. Bowling Green University Press, 1983, 88-96.
"Why Libertarianism Is Mistaken." | pdf | In J. Arthur and W. Shaw (eds), Justice & Economic Distribution. Prentice-Hall, 1979, 194-206.
Reprinted:
1996: Business Ethics and Business as Usual. S. Harwood (ed.). Jones and Bartlett.

Short Articles, Commentaries, Bibliographic & Review Essays
Foreword to 2nd Turkish Translation of Personal Relationships. Ayrinti Press, 2000.
"Reply to Critics." Metascience, July 1998.
"Theorizing about Ethics." In my Ethics in Practice: An Anthology. Blackwell, 1997
"Claude Bernard." (with N. Shanks) Encyclopedia of Animal Rights. Greenwood, 1997.
"Bio-Cartesianism." (with N. Shanks) Encyclopedia of Animal Rights. Greenwood, 1997.
"Utilitarian Assessment of Animal Experimentation." (with N. Shanks) Encyclopedia of Animal Rights. Greenwood Press, 1997.
"Evolution  and Animal Experimentation." (with N. Shanks) Encyclopedia of Animal Rights. Greenwood Press, 1997.
"Krogh Principle." (with N. Shanks) Encyclopedia of Animal Rights. Greenwood, 1997.
"Animal Modeling in Psycho-pharmacological Contexts." (with N. Shanks) Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1993, 653-4.
"Making Moral Children." (review essay) Behaviorism, 1987.
"Re-establishing a Relationship." Newsletter of the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships, 1986.
"Reply to Frisch." Philosophy and Public Affairs, Spring 1982, 181-3.
Bibliographic essay on children's rights. APA's Newsletter on Law and Philosophy, 1981.

Book Reviews
  The Moral and Legal Status of Children. D. Archard and C. Maclead (eds). In  Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2004.
Making Babies. M. Warnock. In Philosophical Quarterly, 2003.
World Poverty and Human Rights, T. Pogge. In Ethics, 2003.
Reconstituting Social Criticism, I. MacKenzie and S. O'Neill (eds). In Ethics, 2002.
What We Owe to Each Other. T.M. Scanlon. In Philosophical Quarterly, 2000.
Darwinian Dominion. L. Petrovonich In Metacience, 2000.
Animals and Their Moral Standing. S. Clark. In Metacience, 1998.
Autonomy & Intervention. J. Kultgen. In Philosophical Quarterly, 1998.
The Patient in the Family. H. & J. Lindemann Nelson. In Bioethics, 1997.
Words That Bind. J. Arthur. In International Studies in Philosophy, 1997.
Relationship Morality. J. Kellenberger. In Ethics, 1997.
Morality, Utilitarianism, & Rights. R. Brandt. In Philosophical Quarterly, 1994.
Motivating Political Morality. R. Goodin. In Philosophical Quarterly, 1994.
Human Relationships. P. Gilbert. In Ethics, 1993.
Applied Philosophy. P. Singer (ed.). In Teaching Philosophy, 1989.
Love and Human Separateness. I. Dilman. In Philosophical Books, 1989.
The Ivory Tower. A. Kenney. In Modern Schoolman, 1989.
The Status of Morality. T. Carson. In Modern Schoolman, 1986.
Aristotle's Theory of Moral Insight. T. Engberg-Pedersen. In Modern Schoolman, 1986.
Moral Problems. J. Narveson. In Teaching Philosophy, 1985.
Rights. T. Benditt. In Teaching Philosophy, 1983.
The Child and the State. L. Houlgate. In The Philosophical Review, 1982.
The Politics of Self-Sufficiency. M. Allaby and P. Bunyard. In Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 1982.
Child Maltreatment in the US. S. Nagi. In The National Forum, 1977.

Papers Presented
  “Licensing Parents Revisited” (keynote). Bearing and Having Children conference. Cape Town, May 2008.
  “The Morality of Wishing” (keynote). British Society for Applied Philosophy. Birmingham, June, 2007.
  "The Use of Cases in Teaching Ethics."  Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, March 2006.
  “Conscientious Objection for Pharmacists” (w/ Eva LaFollette).  Florida Philosophical Society, Nov. 2006; North American Society for Social Philosophy, New York, December 2005; Carleton University, Ottawa, November 2005.
  "Living on a Slippery Slope." James Madison University, Oct., 2004; Conference in Honor of James Rachels, Sept. 2004; Binghamton U. April 2002; Central European U. (Budapest) March 2002; Georgia State University and University of Georgia, Oct. 2000; University of Western Michigan, Oct. 1998.
  "Trust and Distrust." Association for Practical and Professional Ethics. Feb. 2004.
  "Collateral Consequences of Punishment: Hidden Sanctions, Visible Effects," Iowa State University, April 2004; Purdue University, Feb. 2004; Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Feb. 2004; North American Society for Social Philosophy, Dec. 2003.
"Gun Control." Emory & Henry College, March 2001; American Philosophical Association, Dec. 2000; Georgia State University, Oct. 2000, Guilford College, April 2000; and University of Western Michigan, Oct. 1998.
"World Hunger." North American Society for Social Philosophy, Dec. 2000.
"The Moral Costs of Animal Experimentation." Iowa State University, April 2004; Binghamton University, April 2002; University of Georgia Oct. 2000; Purdue University, May 1999; and University of Rhode Island, Oct. 1997.
"A Defense of Affirmative Action." University of Rhode Island, Oct. 1997.
"Getting into the Moral Habit." University of Zurich, May 1997.
"Jealousy." University of Zurich, May 1997.
"Evolutionary Examination of Animal Experimentation." Balliol College, Oxford, and University of Reading, Jan 1997; Culture and Animals Conference, Raleigh, NC,  October 1996.
"Ethical Theory and Practice, Together Again." North American Society for Social Philosophy, April 1997, and Universities of: Stirling, Sheffield, Leeds, Glasgow, St. Andrews, and Keele, Oct 1996 - Jan 1997.
"Children and Autonomy." Political Studies Association (of the UK). Ulster and University of Northern Iowa, April 1997.
"The Origin of Speciesism." (with N. Shanks) Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals, NY 1995.
"The Freedom to Be Free: Children's Right to Choose with Whom They Should Live." Society for  Philosophy and Public Affairs, New York, 1995.
"Species, Speciesism, and Animal Research." (with N. Shanks) Tennessee Phil. Association, 1993.
"Two Kinds of Paternalism." Sixteenth World Congress, International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 1993.
"Humor: A Conceptual Analysis." (with N. Shanks) University of St. Andrews,  May 1993; and Tennessee Philosophical Association, Fall 1992.
"Practical Ethics." symposium paper, Tennessee Philosophical Association, 1992.
"Animal Models." (with N. Shanks) Tennessee Philosophical Association, 1991.
"The Doctrine of Double Effect." symposium paper, Tennessee Philosophical Association 1990.
"Equity in Relationships." 4th International Conference on Personal Relationships, 1988.
"Freedom of Religion & Children." Scottish Jurisprudence Discussion Group, May 1987.
"Animal Rights and Human Wrongs." Guilford College, April 2000; University of Aberdeen,  March 1986.
"On not Tolerating the Intolerable." Moral Aspects of Nuclear Deterrence Conference, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 1985.
"Honesty and Intimacy." 2nd International Conference on Personal Relationships, 1984.
"The Truth in Ethical Relativism." Tennessee Philosophical Association, 1983.
"Applied Philosophy Misapplied." Bowling Green Conference on the Applied Turn in Contemporary Philosophy, 1983.
"The Revival of Virtue." (discussion of After Virtue, with commentary by A. MacIntyre). Tennessee Philosophical Association, 1982.
"The Truth in Psychological Egoism." Tennessee Philosophical Association, 1981.
Humanist participant, "Ethical Issues in Agribusiness" conference, U. Delaware, 1981.
"Paternalism and Paternalism." St. Mary's College, 1981.
"Licensing Parents"  Georgia State University, Nov. 2000; Emory & Henry College, 1983; Loyola University symposium, "Justice for the Child," 1979.
"Moral Kinds and Natural Kinds." Southern Society of Philosophy & Psychology, 1978.
"Is There a Right to Food?" Keynote address at a conference on world hunger, Tennessee  Committee for the Humanities, 1978.
"God, Freedom, and Evil." Tennessee Philosophical Association, 1975.

Grants and Awards
Norwegian Research Council grant to teach intensive graduate course, "World Hunger and Morality," (August 2001)
Visiting Research Scholar, University of Stirling (1996-97)
Tennent Caledonian Fellow, University of St. Andrews (1986-87)
NEH Summer Seminar: Joel Feinberg, "The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law" (1984)
NEH Summer Seminar: Richard Rorty, "Epistemological and Moral Relativism" (1979)

Professional Service
Editorial board of the Journal of Applied Philosophy. 2002-.
Editorial board for the Association of Practical and Professional Ethics' OUP book series 2004-.
Editorial board of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2006
Special Advisor, NSF grant to the American Philosophical Association, “ "Building Capability in Philosophical Approaches to Ethics and Science and Technology" 2004-. Organized a symposium for the grant at the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, 2004.
Reviewer for Journals: Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Behavior and Philosophy, Dialogue, Ethics, Journal of Philosophical Research, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Mind, Political Philosophy, Social Theory and Practice; Publishers: Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Edinburgh University Press, Oxford University Press, McGraw-Hill, Macmillan, Prentice-Hall, Routledge, and Wadsworth.
External reviewer for numerous grant proposals, applications for promotion and tenure.
Produced and hosted a weekly 30-minute interview show (“Ideas & Issues”) on the local National Public Radio affiliate (WETS-FM). 1995-2004 [www.stpt.usf.edu/hhl/i&i.htm].
Member of the APA's ad hoc Committee on Prizes, 2002.
  Organized a symposium on Collateral Consequences of Punishment. Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, 2004; North American Society for Social Philosophy, 2003.
  Organized a symposium for the International Society for Environmental Ethics. May 2000.
Organized and chaired symposium on the work of Joel Feinberg, Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association (Berkeley 1999).
Organized and chaired symposium on Teaching Philosophy for the APA (Chicago 1998)
President of APA Central Division's Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy.
Organized and chaired symposium on Ethical Theory. North American Society for Social Philosophy, Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association (Boston, 1997).
Organized and chaired symposium on Theory and Practice. North American Society for Social Philosophy, Central Division of the APA (Pittsburgh, 1997).
Organized & chaired symposium, International Conference on Personal Relationships (BC 1988).
Program chairman, American Society for Value Inquiry (Boston 1981).
Program Committee: Intermountain Philosophical Society (Johnson City1980-81)
President, Tennessee Philosophical Association, 1979-80.

Other work experience
Reporter for The Tennessean, May 1970 - September 1972.  Covered city government (legislative and  administrative) of Nashville.
Consultant to the Nashville Planning Commission, 1973. Helped develop a comprehensive plan for government services.
  Tennessee manager for News Election Service, 1972. Organized a system to collect election  results  for ABC, CBS, NBC, AP, and UPI.
 


 

   

Former Programs and Speakers

2004-05
Bryan Norton, School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech.
Topic: "Defining Biodiversity: Do We Know What We Are Trying to Save?"
When and where:
7:00 p.m. October 11 (Davis 130)
 
George P. Fletcher, Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia Law School
Topic: "Crises of Respect in International Affairs"
When and where:
7:00 p.m.  January 13  (CAC Core)
 
Tom Beauchamp, Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown.
Topic:  "The Future of Physician-Assisted Suicide."
When and where
: 7:00 p.m. January 26 (CAC Core)
                             AND
Topic:
"The limited vision of the Belmont Report"
When and where:
  10:00 a.m. January 27 (DAV 130)
 
Sumner Twiss, Distinguished Professor of Human Rights, Ethics, and Religion, Florida State University
Topic: "Humanities and Atrocities"
When and where:
7:00 p.m. March 9 (DAV 130)
                   AND
Topic:
"Theology, Tolerance, and Two Declarations of Human Rights: An Interrogative Comparison."  Looking at the role religious conceptions have played -- and should played -- in establishing international human rights policies.
When and Where:
10:30 a.m. March 10 (WMS)
 
  Hugh LaFollette.
What:  Workshop on Ethical Theory for USFSP Faculty
When and where
: April 12-13 3-5 p.m.
   
2005-06
Randall Curren, Professor of Philosophy and Educational Leadership, University of Rochester.
When and Where: 4:00 p.m., September 22 (Room: DAV 130)
Topic:  "Elite Sports v. Academic Integrity"
                AND
Topic:
"Abandoned in a Wasteland: Katrina, Anarchy, and America's Poor"
When and where:
11:00 a.m., September 23 (Room: DAV 130)
 
Frederick Ferré, Associate Fellow of Philosophy, Dickinson College; Research Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, The University of Georgia.
Topic:  "Ecological Ethics in the Age of Globalism"
When and Where: 4:00 p.m. November 21 (Room: TBA)
 
David Archard, Director, Institute of Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Lancaster (UK)
Cole Scholar in Residence
Topics:  "Regulating Artificial Reproduction." 
When and Where
: 2:30 - 4:00.  January 27.  Davis 130.
He will also be teaching several classes (topics: Informed consent, privacy, gossip, and corporate responsibility) and having informal meetings with faculty.  For more information, email me.
   
2006-07

Larry May, Professor of Philosophy at Washington University (St. Louis), will be the Cole Scholar in Residence, October 11-13.  May is the author and editor of numerous books and scholarly articles.  His 2004 book, Crimes against Humanity : A Normative Account  is the first of a trilogy with Cambridge University Press.  The North American Society for Social Philosophy gave it their award for the best book in social philosophy that year.  The second book (War Crimes and Just Wars), which will appear this fall, won the American Philosophical Association’s prize for best book on the philosophy of war and peace.

His main presentation on “Humanitarian Intervention” will come from the third book in the trilogy.  This presentation will be at 11:00 am Friday, October 13 in Davis 130.

Following is the schedule of his presentations at USF St. Petersburg.  All lectures are open to the campus community.  The final lecture is also open to the St. Petersburg community.

Wednesday
            9:30-10:30 am "Mass Rape As A Crime Against Humanity"  DAV 228
            6-7 pm  "Responsibility For Racist Violence" DAV 219
            7:30 - 8:30 pm  "Responsibilities of Journalists During War "  FCT 107
Thursday
            2:30-3:30 pm  "Collective And Corporate Responsibility" PNM 102
            6:00-7:00 pm  "Group Violence" DAV 105

Friday
            11 am "Humanitarian Intervention" DAV 130

  Journalists and War

Nine presenters and roundtable discussions. Presenters include: Martin Bell, Norman Solomon, Corey Flintoff, Bryan Whitman, Barbara Crossette, Albert Pierce, Judith Lichtenberg, Philip Seib, and Joel Rosenthal.  Co-sponsored by the Cole Chair in Ethics, the Poynter Institute, the Department of Journalism, and the Poynter Jamison Chair in Media Ethics and Public Policy.   Steidinger Auditorium. Full information here.
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