Adrian College Institute for Ethics

03/10/2021

Tonight at 7pm Thomas May, PhD, will be discussing ethical issues surrounding vaccines. His presentation will examine the phenomenon of vaccine hesitancy, and its roots in concerns about vaccine safety. Particular attention will be paid to the reasoning underlying vaccine safety concerns, what can and cannot be inferred from existing evidence concerning vaccine safety, and the importance of transparency and trust for pandemic response efforts.

Professor May is the Floyd and Judy Rogers Endowed Professor at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University, and Research Investigator at the Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology. He has published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Science, American Journal of Public Health, American Journal of Bioethics, The Hastings Center Report, and elsewhere.

His presentation will be through Zoom. Contact Professor Spence for details.

03/18/2020

How Can We Help One Another During the Coronavirus Outbreak?

As we take care of ourselves and families, it is also worth thinking about how we can help others.

In a time of anxiety and social distancing, what can we do to look out for one another?

02/26/2020

Please join us today in Knight Hall for this special event.

11/18/2019

With a new year comes a new Ethics Bowl team! Went to Oakland University this weekend for the Great Lakes Regional competition.

07/16/2019

Kids have constant discussions about what's fair and right. Ethics education can help make youths have a framework for deepening one's understanding of the issues and developing empathy for other perspectives.

06/13/2019

Another successful AC grad

Born and raised in North Branch, Michigan, Amanda House grew up a small-town girl with big world aspirations. After losing her mother to cancer quite young, she dove head first into her studies and hobbies. She took eight dance cl...

04/24/2019

Next week Dana Dowd will be heading to Dallas, Texas to attend IMPACT 2019 The Ultimate Ethics & Compliance Benchmarking Event. The Keybnote speaker will be Brian Benczkowski, Asst. Attorney Gemeral for the Criminal Division of the Dept of Justice.

The conference will also feature speakers from Harvard Business School, Southwest Airlines, Dell, Lockheed Martin, BP, Boeing, and Eli Lilly. The focus will be on identifying and mitigating ethics and compliance risks, establishing and maintaining an ethical culture within organizations, and incentivizing leaders to act with integrity.

Dana was awarded the 2019 ECI Ethics Academy Student Scholarship, and as a result her travel and conference expenses will be fully covered by the sponsoring organization.

For more information about the conference, check here. https://www.ethics.org/conferences/impact-2019-ecis-annual-conference/

If you are a student at Adrian College interested in similar opportunities to explore issues in professional and applied ethics, contact Professor Spence.

Ethics & Compliance Initiative Annual Conference IMPACT 2019 - 4/30/19 - 5/2/19 Dallas, TX The Ultimate Ethics & Compliance Benchmarking Event Get a Day Pass

04/04/2019

Adrian College and Siena Heights University have again partnered to organize and host the Great Lakes Philosophy Conference at Siena Heights University. Undergraduates, graduate students, and professional philosophers will be discussing research on the topic Ethics: Today and Tomorrow, and presentations are free and open to the public.

The keynote speaker this year is Robert Audi, of University of Notre Dame. Some of Professor Audi's publications include Means, Ends, and Persons: The Meaning and Psychological Dimensions of Kant’s Humanity Formula (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Moral Perception (Princeton University Press, 2013)
Practical Reasoning and Ethical Decision (Routledge 2006)

More information about the conference including a schedule and abstracts can be found at the conference website.

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01/29/2019

ENGLISH ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE STATE OF NATURE

We are pleased to announce that the Ethics Institute will be hosting a special students only discussion forum on Saturday April 13. Students from around the region will discuss questions concerning human nature, morality, and political authority in the philosophies of Hobbes, Locke, and Bishop Butler. Interested students should contact Professor Spence.

The forum will be sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies.

01/14/2019

Congratulations to the Adrian College Ethics Bowl team! They came in fifth place in the regional competition this fall, and will be competing in national competition in Baltimore in March! Well done!

01/08/2019

Chris Momany's new book, "For Each and All: The Moral Witness of Asa Mahan" is now available and receiving the attention it deserves. In it he discusses the life and teachings of Adrian College's first president, Asa Mahan.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. --(BUSINESS WIRE) “For Each and All: The Moral Witness of Asa Mahan,” by Christopher P. Momany is a new book from the Publishing Office of the General ...