- Ethics at Noon is the Ethics in Society Program's weekly brownbag seminar. Our class is open to the public and meets Fridays from 12-1pm in Room 112 of Building 110 on the Main Quad. Each week, we invite a faculty or staff member from around the university to speak on the ethical issues at play in their work. Contact Albert Pak (aypak@stanford.edu) with questions.
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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Response #8 David Magnus
Hope you’re all enjoying Thanksgiving break! Organ donation is ripe with normative dilemmas. As you only need one kidney, is there any kind of moral obligation to voluntarily donate one of your kidneys? I recommend this article in The New Yorker, … Continue reading
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Response #7
Hope you all enjoyed Prof. Meskell’s talk. Feel free to comment on whichever normative questions moved you; I was most interested in the clash she set up between human interests and the pursuit of environmental protection. Her argument, as I … Continue reading
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Response #6 Scott Sagan
Hope you all enjoyed yesterday’s talk. Prof. Sagan’s research seemed to show that there is not a “nuclear taboo” — people’s approval of the use of nuclear weapons seems to vary quite considerably depending on the efficacy of the strike. … Continue reading
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