Professor John Cooper delivers the second of two lectures in the Tanner Lecture Series. This second lecture focuses on some of the philosophies of Plontinus and how they apply to life today. (January 26, 2012)

Platonist Philosophy as a Way of Life: Plontinus

John Cooper gives the first of two lectures in the Tanner Lecture Series. This first lecture focuses on some of the ancient philosophies of Aristotle and how they apply to life today. (January 25, 2012)

Ancient Philosophies as a Way of Life: Socrates

Eric Posner, Professor of Law University of Chicago, Colonel Steven Kleinman, Senior Intelligence Officer U.S. Air Force, and Mark Danner discuss Danner's April 14th talk about the 'state of exception.' (April 15, 2010)

Imposing the State of Exception: Constitutional Dictatorship, Torture, and Us (Discussion)

Mark Danner discusses the use of torture and interrogation techniques at the Abu Ghraib prison by the United States government.  Professor Danner touches upon the ethical and human value dilemmas that have occurred in recent years. (April 14, 2010)

Imposing the State of Exception: Constitutional Dictatorship, Torture, and Us (Lecture)

Elaine Scarry of Harvard University and Stephen Holmes of New York University discuss the ethical and human values associated with how the United States of America has approached terrorism, interrogation, and torture. (April 16, 2010)

Naturalizing the State of Exception: Terror, Fear and the War Without End (Discussion)

Mark Danner discusses the impact that the attacks of September 11, 2001 had on civil liberties and legal rights within the United States, particularly a "state of exception" that imposed "soft martial law" on citizens of the United States. (April 15, 2010)

Naturalizing the State of Exception: Terror, Fear and the War Without End (Lecture)

Elinor Ostrom, Professor of Political Science at Indiana University and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, discusses her work studying the cooperative regulation of public or common goods. (April 8, 2010)

Understanding Social Ecological Systems

Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University Director of the Earth Institute, discusses the need to find paths to sustainability in three parts: financial, institutional and instilling human values that will make sustainable development feasible. (February 18, 2010)

Designing a Path to Sustainable Development

David Schmitdz, Professor of Philosophy, joint Professor of Economics and founding director of Arizona's Freedom Center, speaks about what children need from an educational system. (October 18, 2008)

Hierarchies of Need

Paul Weithman, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, uses a philosophical perspective to talk about the necessity of education and equality. Rob Reich then responds to Paul's arguments. (October 18, 2008)

Education and Equality

Center for Ethics in Society

Eric Hanushek, the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses the gap of achievement levels between white and black students, the reasons for it and what can be done to solve this problem of American society. (October 18, 2008)

Harming the Best: How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap

Daniel Weinstock, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montreal, uses the health-care system debate to draw parallels to the justice debate of the education system. Susanna Loeb provides a response to Mr. Weinstock. (October 18, 2008)

Can We Learn Anything About Justice in Education From Thinking About Justice in Health-Care?

Caroline Hoxby, Professor of Economics at Stanford and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute, speaks about what needs to be done to effectively redistribute education among the poor. She goes on to talk in detail about charter schools. (October 17, 2008)

Charter Schools Closing the Achievement Gap: Results from New York City and Chicago

Jennifer Hochschild, Professor at Harvard University, speaks about the accessibility and achievement of immigrants in educational systems around the world.  (October 17, 2008)

Immigration Regimes, Schooling Regimes, and Educational Outcomes: What Is Fairest to Immigrants and Native-born Residents

John Hennessy, President of Stanford University, speaks about just admission and need-based financial aid programs. Michael McPherson, President of the Spencer Foundation, goes on to elaborate on these issues faced by leading (October 17, 2008)

Ethical Issues in Higher Education

Lesley Jacobs, Professor of Law &amp; Society and Director of the York Centre for Public Policy &amp; Law at York University in Toronto, speaks about stakes fairness in educational policy and necessity for educational adequacy and equal opportunity. (October 17, 2009)

Stakes Fairness, Educational Adequacy and Equal Opportunities in Education

Despite large samples, genome wide association studies can only detect 2-3% of the genetic component of height, which is known to be close to 90% from twin studies.  What does that mean? (September 8, 2008)

Gloomy Prospect Wins

A leading proponent of an institutional approach to political ethics, Dennis Thompson discusses campaign ethics in the midst of one of the most contentious presidential elections in recent history. (May 8, 2008)

Campaign Ethics

In Animal Liberation, a book sometimes credited with starting the modern animal rights movement, Peter Singer argued that "all animals are equal."  The claim is often misunderstood, and sometimes used to caricature the animal movement. (April 23, 2008)

All Animals Are Equal - But in What Sense of Equality?

This panel examines a host of ethical and social concerns generated by the evolving culture of social networking, particularly by internet users' habits and web 2.0 sites' practices. (February 14, 2008)

The Ethics of Social Networking

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