Upcoming Programs for Spring 2008

 

Civility in the Political Arena

Wednesday Marh 19, 7:30 p.m., Bernhard Center 105-107

Panel Moderator: Gordon Bolar, Development Director, WMUK

 

Ethics and Science: Some Lessons from Bioethics

Thursday March 27, 5:00 p.m., Fetzer Center

Adrienne Asch, Ph.D., Director, Center for Ethics, Yeshiva University

 

Science, Ethics, and Politics: Are They Compatible?

Wednesday April 2, 7:00 p.m., Bernhard Center 210

Panel Moderator: Shirley Bach, Ph.D., Associate Director, Center for the Study of Ethics in Society, WMU

Panelists: Paul Pancella, Ph.D., Professor of Physics and Chair of the Physics Department, WMU

Stephen Malcolm, D.Phil., Professor of Chemical Ecology, Biological Sciences Department, WMU
Bill Krasean, newspaper reporter who covered science, health and Environment for the Kalamazoo Gazette for 20 years

Previous Spring 2008 Programs

 

Religion, Activism, and Politics: From MLK to Now

4 p.m. January 18, Bernhard Center 210

Moderator: Joshua Upson, Philosophy, WMU

Panelists: David Charlton, Comparative Religion, WMU

Ryan Pflum, Philosophy, WMU
Jeremy Green, Philosophy, WMU

 

Title TBA

7:30 p.m. January 30, Putney Auditorium, Fetzer Center

John Dunn, Ph.D., President, WMU

 

The Moral Justification for Journalism

4 p.m. February 7, location TBA

Sandra L. Borden, Ph.D., Communication, WMU

 

Torture and Ticking Time-Bombs:

Empirical Research on Moral Judgments

7:30 p.m. February 13, Bernhard Center 105-107

Fritz Allhoff, Ph.D., Philosophy, WMU