Welcome

The Mansfield Ethics and Public Affairs Program at the University of Montana-Missoula focuses on the relationship of values to institutions and public affairs. Its courses, seminars, lectures, and conferences examine the role that ethical values can and should play in public life, the moral quandaries faced by those who govern, including both the philosophical and practical dimensions of political ethics, and the issues of leadership and character in public service.

WINTER-SPRING 2013 EVENTS

Philosophy Forum: "The Last Walk: Ethical Issues in End of Life Care for Companion Animals"

Dr. Jessica Pierce, Bioethicist; and Casie Dunleavy, MA candidate in Philosophy, UM

Monday, April 22, 3:10 pm - 4:30 pm

The Pope Room, School of Law

UM's Philosophy Forum

Lecture: "Final Gifts: Caring for Our Animal Companions at the End of Life"

Dr. Jessica Pierce, Bioethicist

Monday, April 22, 7:30 pm - 9 pm

Gallagher Business Building, UM

Philosophy Forum: "Restoration and History in a Changing World: A Case Study in Ethics for the Anthropocene"

Dr. Marion Hourdequin, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Colorado College

Monday, February 25, 3:10 pm - 4:30 pm

The Pope Room, School of Law

UM's Philosophy Forum

Panel Discussion: "Indigenous People, Future Generations, & Climate Engineering"

Dr. Marion Hourdequin, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Colorado College; Dr. Kyle Powys Whyte, Assistant Philosophy of Philosophy, Michigan State University; and Dr. Christopher Preston (Moderator), Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Montana. 

Monday, February 25, 7:30 pm

123 Gallagher Business Building

Brown Bag Lecture: "Justice Forward: Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change Adaptation in North America"

Dr. Kyle Powys Whyte, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State University

Tuesday, February 26, 12:10 - 1 pm

UC Room 326

A Mansfield Center’s Brown Bag Series Event

 Brown Bag Lecture: "Moral Man and Immoral Society Revisited"

Laure Drake, Director of External Scholarships and Advising, Davidson Honors College

Tuesday, March 13, 12:10 - 1 pm

Mansfield Center Conference Room

A Mansfield Center’s Brown Bag Series Event

2013 Mansfield Conference: The Future of Health Care in America: Balancing Individual Rights with Social Responsibility

March 19-21, 2013 

More information on the 2013 Mansfield Conference

Full schedule

Brown Bag Lecture: "Rural Livelihood Strategies and Subsistence Food Production in Belize: Enhancing Small Farmer Food System Resiliency as a mode to Sustainable Risk Management and Participatory Development"

Siobhan Lozada, Project Coordinator, Mansfield Ethics and Public Affairs Program

Wednesday, March 27, 12:10 - 1 pm

Mansfield Center Conference Room

A Mansfield Center’s Brown Bag Series Event

The Ethics of Geoengineering: news 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS: 

Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management, edited by Christopher Preston, July, 2012.

Special Section on the Ethics of Geoengineering in Ethics, Policy & Environment, edited and introduced by Dane Scott and featuring "Beyond the End of Nature: SRM and Two tales of Artificity for the Anthropocene" by Christopher Preston, 2012.

"Geoengineering and Environmental Ethics" by Dane Scott for the Nature Education Project, 2012.

"Re-Thinking the Unthinkable: Environmental Ethics and the Presumptive Argument Against Geoengineering" by Christopher Preston in Environmental Values, 2011.

OTHER NEWS:

Visit the Ethics of Geoengineering Online Resource Center for collected papers, videos, conferences, etc. pertaining to geoengineering ethics.