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The LHU Ethics Center

     

Purpose of the Center

  • To encourage dialogue concerning ethical issues among faculty, staff, and students
  • To promote dialogue among members of the university and the community at large
  • To provide opportunities for education via consultations, workshops, speakers, and conferences
  • To provide resources that will serve to foster a greater understanding of ethics in everyday life
  • To foster a greater understanding of ethics in the professions

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Past Events

  "Integrity in Retail Business"

Guest speaker,  Mr. Troy Nittinger

  Buyer and Development Manager for Bummer       Hosting Solutions. 

November 8, 2011

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  "Good Hair"   film and discussion with the co-sponsorship of Office of Human and Cultural Diversity &    Institute for International Studies

 October 18, 2011

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  April 19, 2011

Dr. Henrik Madsen

"A Talk about Food and Philosophy"


April 20, 2011

Celebration of Scholarship

Essay Contest Presentation

Topic: Ethics and the Arts

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Film: "The Rapture"

March 16, 2011 5:30 p.m.

Greenberg Auditorium

(Co-sponsored by the Philosophy Department)

Discussant: Dr. Daniel Shaw

 

Please contact Dr. Joan Whitman Hoff, jhoff@lhup.edu (484-2642) for more information.

 

Recent Events


"Up in the Air": a film with discussion to follow, led by Dr. Karen Kline, Dr. Heather Erb, and Dr. Joan Whitman Hoff

Tuesday 9/28/10, 6 p.m. Hall of Flags

"Gone Baby Gone": a film and discussion to follow, led by Dr. Daniel Shaw

Tuesday, 10/26/10, 6 p.m. Hall of Flags

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Visit the sites whose links appear below for more information on ethics and ethical issues............

 

Ethics Links

Bioethics

Business Ethics Education

Communication

Ethics across the Curriculum

Ethics and Education

Ethics and Fiction Writing

Ethics Resource Center

International Ethics

Sports

 

Upcoming Events


The Philosophy Program

 &

 Ethics Center

  Undergraduate Essay Competion

    Topic for 2012

  Ethics and Education

   Guidelines

Authors must be undergraduate students of Lock Haven University.

 Essays must be the author's own original work and must be typed (double-spaced) using a twelve point font. Any legitimate style of documentation can be used.

The title page must include the author's name and contact information.

Essays must be at least 2500 words and no longer than 3000 words.

 Essays must be submitted in hard copy as well as on a disk. Both copies of the essay must be delivered to the Ethics Center or the Philosophy Program, Raub Hall #303, by 12 noon on March 19, 2012.

 Papers will be judged on both form and content. Primary consideration will be given to the logic and persuasiveness of the arguments presented in the essay.

 Winners will be notified by April 1, 2012 and will be expected to present their papers at the LHU Day of Scholarship activities, April 2012.

  Prizes

First Prize : $150 S econd Prize : $100 Third Prize : $50

Please contact Dr. Joan Whitman Hoff, jhoff@lhup.edu (484-2642) for more information.

 

  The Philosophy Program & Ethics Center Congratulates

  Rebeccah Leiby

 winner of the

      The Fifth Annual Undergraduate

             Student Essay Competition

 on

  Ethics and the Arts

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  Past Topics

The Ethics of Pre-emptive War

Ethical Issues concerning Death and Dying

Ethics and the Environment

Ethics and the Criminal Justice System