The Ethics Center at LHUP

THE ETHICS CENTER

Purpose

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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Call for Papers

The LHU Philosophy Program & Ethics Center

Announce

The Second Annual Undergraduate Student Essay Competition

Ethical Issues of Life and Death

Topics include, but are not limited to, such issues as:

Abortion

Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide

Suicide

Terrorism

Capital Punishment

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 p.m. (noon) on March 1, 2008.

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 2, 2008 and will be expected to present their papers at the LHU Day of Scholarship activities, April 23, 2008.

Prizes

First Prize: $150 Second Prize: $100 Third Prize: $50

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

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Past Events

Fall 2006

Public Lecture

"Respect for the Game: The Role of Sports in Moral Education"

Dr. Robert M. Timko

Professor of Philosophy and Chair

Mansfield University

November 28, 2006

Ethics, Service and Health Care

A Conference Sponsored By

The Ethics Center at Lock Haven University

And

The Clearfield Campus

April 7, 2006

LHU Clearfield Campus

8:30 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 9:15 Opening Remarks (2^nd floor lounge) Ms. Dawn Datt, Interim Executive Director, Clearfield Campus

Dr. Joan Whitman Hoff

Professor of Philosophy

Director, the Ethics Center

9:15 – 9:45 Dr. Joan Whitman Hoff Director of the LHU Ethics Center “The Moral Dimension of Being a Professional”

9:45 – 10:45 Dr. Helen Bibleheimer Professor of Nursing, Mansfield University of PA “Caring: Real Ethical Dilemmas of Today's Nurse”

10:45 – 11:45 Dr. Robert Shabanowitz Geisinger MedicalCenter “Duty to Care”

Noon – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 Dr. Rodney Finalle, M.D., FAAP (2^nd floor lounge) The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia “The Global Impact of Poverty on Children’s Healthcare”

Please contact Dr. Joan Whitman Hoff (570-893-2642) jhoff@lhup.edu for more information.

October 19 - 21, 2005

Visiting Scholar

Dr. Krishna Mallick

Professor of Philosophy & Director of the Peace Institute

Salem State University

"The Chipko (Enviromental) Movement in India"

October 20, 2005

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"Women in the Chipko Movement"

October 21, 2005

(Co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Program)

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October 11 - 14, 2005

Visiting Scholar

Dr. Rita C. Manning

Professor of Philosophy

San Jose State University

"Human Rights and the Global Economy"

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October 12, 2005

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"Justice and Katrina"

October 13, 2005

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"Care and Consent"

October 14, 2005

Clearfield Campus

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"Legal and Ethical Issues in End of Life Care"

Matthew J. Parker, Esq.

The Elder Law Firm of Marshall & Associates

April 7, 2005

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"Terrorism and Just War Theory

Dr. Scott Lowe

Professor of Philosophy, Bloomsburg University of PA

October 27, 2004

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Working Ethics: A Challenge for the New Century"

Mr. Paul Fantasky

Senior Community Banking Manager, Sovereign Bank

April 23, 2004

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"Ethics and the New Reproductive Frontier, Shootout at the 'Is That OK?' Corral"

Dr. Robert Shabanowitz

Laboratory Director at the ART/Andrology Laboratories, Geisinger Medical Center

March 29, 2004

file:///W:/Ethics and the New Reproductive Frontier Shootout at the Is That OK Corral.ppt

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"Physician Assisted Suicide"

Dr. Joel Berberich

Chairman of Anesthesiology, Geisinger Health System

February 18, 2004

file:///W:/Physician Assisted Death 2-18-03.ppt

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Links

Bioethics

http://www.bioethics.net

http://www.asbh.org

http://www.cbhd.org

http://www.bioethics.ca

http://www.utoronto.ca/jcb/ethicsmatters

Ethics and Education

http://www.scu.edu/character/CBL-Home.cfm

http://www.ethicsineducation.com

http://www.charactercounts.org

http://www.uvsc.edu/ethics/curriculum/education

Business Ethics Education

http://www.nysscpa.org/cpajournal/2005/605/essentials/p66.htm

http://www.ibe.org.uk

Communication

http://www.spj.org/ethics.asp

UPCOMING EVENTS

Fall 2008

Ethics across Cultures Lecture Series

featuring

Ms. Asra Nomani

TBA

Journalist & Georgetown University Visiting Scholar

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SPRING 2008

Ethics across the Curriculum

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Kevin Fandl, Esq.

George Mason University

"Ethics and World Trade"

Monday

April 14, 2008

4 p.m.

Hamblin Hall of Flags

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Dr. Michael Brannigan

Pfaff Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Philosophy

The College of Saint Rose

"Ethics across Cultures"

Monday

April 21, 2008

7:00 p.m.

PUB #2

Meet and Greet Dr. Brannigan at 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday

1:30 p.m.

Founders Hall

Clearfield Campus

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Fall 2007

October 17, 2007

Bob Heisse

"The push for open records in PA: the ethical concerns, and the benefits for journalists and citizens"

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Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion

Environmental Issues

Co-sponsored by the following Departments:

English, Philosophy, Biology, Geology, Recreation

Thursday

October 18, 2007

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Philosophy Club

presentation by

Dr. Tom Young

"Ecosabotage"

10/18/07

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Spring 2007

Congratulations to our Essay Contest Winners!!!!

"The Ethics of Pre-emptive War"

1st prize: Mr. John Varner

2nd prize: Mr. Shawn Pickering

Scholarship Day

Presentations by Mr. Varner and Mr. Pickering

April 25, 2007

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Ethics across the Curriculum Poster Presentation

April 25, 3007

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Scholar in Residence

March 1-2, 2007

Dr. Wade Robison

Hale Applied Ethics Chair

Professor of Philosophy

Rochester Institute of Technology

Founder of the of the

Society for Ethics across the Curriculum

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Public Lecture

. “Professional Ethics and Nanotechnology”

All professional decisions have consequences, and so when a professional is considering alternative solutions to a problem, one variable concerns the various consequences. Nanotechnology presents special difficulties in this regard in part because material at the nano-level does not act in predictable ways and in part because nano-particles are small enough to penetrate the membranes of cells. These features of nano-particles make ethical decision-making in nanotechnology of particular concern. We shall examine these problems in some detail, but solving them is quite another matter given the enormous benefits nanotechnology offers.

Thursday

March 1, 2007

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"Ethics Across The Curriculum"

Faculty Workshop

with

Dr. Wade Robison

March 1, 2007

“A Game-plan for Introducing Ethics Across the Curriculum”

Neither practitioners within a discipline nor philosophers are the best positioned to introduce ethics within a discipline. The practitioners are trained to think like engineers, say, or historians, or accountants. We will succeed in teaching them to the extent that they graduate as engineers, historians, or accountants. Success means squeezing out other ways of thinking about their discipline. So they are not well-positioned even to see ethical issues within their discipline. Philosophers, however well-trained some may be in ethics, lack the background in the various disciplines that allows them to understand how ethical issues they may see within those disciplines can affect the practitioners and what they have been taught to do. So their remarks about a discipline will lack traction for its practitioners.

Given that dilemma, what is the best way to proceed to introduce ethics into the various disciplines? The only way to proceed that has had any success at all is for philosophers trained in ethics to provide help for those within the various disciplines with uncovering ethical issues that are internal to the discipline. Philosophers need to know enough about a discipline to engage in helpful discussions with its practitioners, and practitioners in the various disciplines need to be open to seeing that their very training into a form of thinking may blind them to seeing some kinds of moral problems. Ethics across the disciplines must be a joint enterprise, with willing and open partners, if it is to succeed.

Thursday

March 1, 2007

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Lunch Discussion

Dr. Wade Robison

"Nanobiotechnology and Health Concerns."

Clearfield Campus

March 2, 2007

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For More Information

Contact

Joan Whitman Hoff, Ph.D.