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The Mansfield Ethics and Public Affairs Program at the University of Montana-Missoula (formerly the Center for Ethics) 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, moral quandaries faced by those who govern, philosophical and practical dimensions of political ethics, and issues of leadership and character in public service.

FALL 2012 EVENTS

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Group Webinar: "Research Ethics Beyond Respect, Beneficience, and Justice"

Dr. Elisa Hurley, Education Director at Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R)

Wednesday, September 12, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Todd Building, Room 203

Sponsored by UM's Institutional Review Board (IRB)

More information downloadable (via .pdf) here.

This event is free, but please pre-register by emailing irb@umontana.edu.

Philosophy Forum: "A Defense of the Moral Status of Artifacts?"

Dr. Ron Sandler, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Northeastern University

Monday, September 17, 3:10 pm - 4:30 pm

The Pope Room, School of Law

Lecture: "Climate Change and the Ethics of Species Preservation"

Dr. Ron Sandler, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Northeastern University

Tuesday, September 18, 12:00 pm - 1:10 pm

UC Theatre

Lecture: “Second (Third & Fourth) Thoughts on Geoengineering: Governance & Ethics in Climate Engineering Research”

Dr. Jane Long, Associate Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Dr. Nancy Tuana, Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University

Tuesday, October 30, 12:00 pm - 1:10 pm

UC Theatre

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.

Debating Science: news

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Debating Science: Deliberation, Values, and the Common Good, edited by Dane Scott and Blake Francis, 2011.

Debating Science

UM's Debating Science Program results on climate change and ethical deliberation published and selected for the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

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