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Ethics of Food panel draws a crowd!
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On Monday, November 20, 2017, a lively interdisciplinary panel, featuring Tammara Soma (Food Systems Lab), Matthew Feinberg (Rotman School of Management), and Stephen Scharper (School of the Environment & Anthropology) discussed food choices, production, consumption, and disposal, highlighting the complexity of the issues … Continue reading
Listen Up: The New Open Questions Ethics Podcast Asks “What Sports Should We Watch?”
Given all the harms players experience, is it ethical to watch football? What makes baseball so conducive to philosophical reflection?
Check out the new episode from Open Questions: An Ethics Podcast @UofTEthics hosted by Jeremy Davis & Eric Mathison, available on SoundCloud, Stitcher, and iTunes.
We’re Hiring! Apply to Join Team C4E as Centre Administrator!
C4E is hiring. Apply now to join Team C4E as Centre Administrator. Deadline Nov 20. For more info & to apply: https://goo.gl/DEV3nz
New from OPEN QUESTIONS: AN ETHICS PODCAST: “Can Helping Strangers Make Up For Past Injustices?”
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Who owes reparations, and what do they owe?
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C4E’s Conference on The Ethics of Apology Featured in UofT FAS News!
Ethics of AI in Context @C4E Makes the (UofT) News
From U of T News:
Markus Dubber’s first brush with artificial intelligence, or AI, occurred in an unlikely place: a performance of his daughter’s choir. The director of the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics bumped into Ajay Agrawal, another proud parent who also happens to be a professor at U of T’s Rotman School of Management and the founder of U of T’s Creative Destruction Lab – a seed stage accelerator that specializes in scaling startups that employ AI technologies. Read more.
Guy Kahane, Runaway Trolleys or Distant Strangers?
Lucia Zedner, Policing Civility in Public Space: Civil Orders and Uncivil Practices
Ethics of AI in Context: Sunit Das, AI in Medicine: Hopes? Nightmares?
Underrated Philosophers? Alternative Careers?: New from Open Questions Podcast @C4E
Check out the new episode from Open Questions: An Ethics Podcast @UofTEthics hosted by Jeremy Davis & Eric Mathison, available on SoundCloud, Stitcher, and iTunes.
This week we hear from some of the philosophers we spoke to in previous episodes. They answer some general questions, like what they would be doing if they didn’t go into philosophy and which philosophers they think are underrated. Open Questions is a production of the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto. The music is written and performed by Markku Wainman.
Get the answers from Open Questions: An Ethics Podcast @UofTEthics hosted by Jeremy Davis & Eric Mathison, available on SoundCloud, Stitcher, and iTunes.
“Should I Order the Fish?” Another New Podcast from Open Questions @C4E
Check out the new episode from Open Questions: An Ethics Podcast @UofTEthics hosted by Jeremy Davis & Eric Mathison, available on SoundCloud, Stitcher, and iTunes.
We give and ask for advice all the time. But what makes advice good? What responsibility do we have in giving advice?
Get the answers from Open Questions: An Ethics Podcast @UofTEthics hosted by Jeremy Davis & Eric Mathison, available on SoundCloud, Stitcher, and iTunes.