Our economic life raises a number of important ethical questions: What commodities should (and should not) be exchanged in the market? What is the relationship between a thing’s price and its value? Is voluntary exchange always just? What are the moral obligations of producers and consumers? What, if anything, is owed to those who lose out in market competition? Are corporations moral agents? How does the operation of the market impact behavior and character, and is this a good or bad thing? The purpose of this year’s theme is to examine these and other issues relating to “Markets and Morals.”
The Roger Mudd Center for Ethics
The Roger Mudd Center for Ethics advances dialogue, teaching, and research about issues of public and professional ethics across all three of the University's schools - the College, the Williams School, and the School of Law.
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Mudd Center News
Friday, September 23, 2016
Peter Singer is Keynote Speaker for 2016-2017 Markets and Morals Series at W&L
Peter Singer, the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and a Laureate Professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne, is the keynote speaker for the 2016–17 Markets and Morals series, sponsored by the Roger Mudd Center for Ethics at W&L
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Professor Susan James to Lecture on Freedom and Nature as Part of W&L's Ethics of Citizenship Series
Susan James, professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College in London, will give a lecture at Washington and Lee University on April 7 at 5 p.m. in Huntley Hall 221.
Monday, March 28, 2016
Intellectual Historian Quentin Skinner to Speak at W&L on April 4 and April 6
Quentin Skinner, the Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary University of London and an intellectual historian, will give two lectures at Washington and Lee University on April 4 and April 6. W&L's Mudd Center is sponsoring both talks.
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Mudd Conference: The Ethics of Environmental Valuation
Hillel House Multipurpose Room (101), 9:00 AM |
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