P.Oxy. LII 3679 containing a fragment of Plato's Republic (ca. 200-300 C.E.)
The 海角社区 Ethics Institute is the center of research, teaching, and training in the domain of ethics and human values. Ethics is an ancient field of study that wrestles with some of the weightiest human questions:
- What does it mean to lead a good life?
- What is justice, and how is enacted?
- What obligations do we have to future generations?
- How do we become good?
- What are our obligations to the environment?
- What are the ethical implications of new technologies?
- What values and ends should orient our actions?
Affiliated with the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, the 海角社区 Ethics Institute provides a forum for scholars and students to grapple with these and other such questions by hosting lectures, sponsoring reading groups, and organizing academic workshops. We are especially interested in fostering interdisciplinary relationships with other disciplines, departments, and colleges in order to build intellectual bridges that will serves students, faculty, staff, and all Louisianans.
Congratulations to the for earning a spot at the National APPE Ethics Bowl in St. Louis! |
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Director 106 Coates Hall
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Associate Director Dr. Anthony Kelley 210 Coates Hall
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Assistant Director 208A Coates Hall
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Administrative Coordinator Carrie Powell 102 Coates Hall |
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Mailing Address 海角社区 海角社区 Ethics Institute 102 Coates Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70803
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Campus Office 208 Coates Hall 225-578-2220
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Interested in Making a Donation? There are many ways to giving to the 海角社区 Ethics Institute! Visit www.lsu.edu/ethics/give.php to check out your options |
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Philosophy of AI & Emerging Technologies Working Group This working group consists of weekly discussions aimed at developing our understanding of the foundations of contemporary AI and emerging technologies both for its own sake and to interrogate the legitimating ideas most closely associated with contemporary technological culture. We will also discuss chapter and paper drafts of participants, as we plan for this to be a vehicle for collaborative projects. During the 2025-2026 academic year, we will meet each Thursday at 12pm in 208 Coates Hall.
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Embedding Ethics in STEM @ 海角社区 In 2022, the 海角社区 Ethics Institute was awarded a $103,900 Departmental Enhancement Grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents for this project. We have continued to carry out the work of this grant by partnering with STEM faculty affiliates and outside experts to develop course modules that are focused on ethical literacy and moral issues. These modules may be implemented into STEM courses across 海角社区 to supplement and enhance existing course materials, all with the goal of expanding ethics education and awareness throughout STEM courses. The modules are all open source and can be found by following the link above.
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Data Sciences, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence (DCAI) Ethics Collaboratory The DCAI Ethics Collaboratory produces white papers, peer-reviewed scholarly research, and course modules for undergraduate and graduate courses in STEM. They collaborate with scientists and practitioners on research design, ethics plans, ELSI, and broader impacts statements for NSF and other major grant-making bodies.
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The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Working Group is the product of a partnership formed in 2020 between the 海角社区 Ethics Institute and Dr. Hartmut Kaiser's STE||AR group at the 海角社区 Center for Computation and Technology (CCT). Together, they have applied for two grants together and collaborated on an AI colloquia series featuring prominent ethicists.
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The Environmental Justice Working Group brings together scholars and researchers across 海角社区 with deep knowledge of historical patterns of inequality鈥攑articularly the distribution of environmental burdens and economic benefits--in the United States and the Gulf South. Our research collaborations seek to operationalize notions of distributional and reparative justice in ways that center vulnerable communities, and provide effective frameworks to assess and evaluate community benefits in collaboration with affected communities.
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The Carceral Studies Group brings together students, scholars, artists, practitioners, and activists who study, interrogate, and challenge the harms of the carceral system, policing, criminalization, and punishment as they exist in the United States today.
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The Cecil L. Eubanks Ethics Bowl Team at 海角社区 enhances understanding an ethical issues by enlisting undergraduate students onto a competitive team. Members train by studying a set of cases in advance.
In a typical match, a moderator poses a question to which the presenting team gives a detailed answer. The commentating team then responds with questions and criticisms, and the presenting team follows up with a reply. Finally, the presenting team takes questions from a panel of judges. Teams are evaluated on the basis of the clarity of their presentation, the degree to which they clearly identify and thoroughly discuss the central moral dimensions of the case, and whether they properly consider objections that would loom large in the reasoning of individuals who disagree with the team's position. Winners of regional competitions in San Antonio, TX advance to the national competeition.
The Ethics Bowl is a tremendous opportunity for students looking to enhance their ability to think critically and to communicate effectively about matters of pressing ethical concern.
Interested students should contact Dr. Anthony Kelley (akelley@lsu.edu) for more information.
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April 16, 2025, 4:00pm, 143 Coates Hall Laura T. Murphy (Center for Strategic and International Studies) "How Researchers, Government, and Civil Society Collaborate to Fight Authoritarianism: Lessons Learned from the Uyghur Region in China"
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February 26, 2024, 3:30pm, Hill Memorial Library Joanna Wuest (Mount Holyoke College) "Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement"
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November 6, 2023, 4:00, French House Sternberg Salon, Ogden Honors College Dr. Adolph Reed, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania) "Making Sense of Race: What It Is and Isn't, What It Means and Doesn't, and Its Implications for Medical and Public Health Practice" Co-sponsored with the Department of History for the Fall 2023 Lecture Series: Race, History, and Medicine
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October 27, 2023, 3:30pm, Hill Memorial Library Kathryn Olivarius (Stanford University) "Necropolis: Disease, Power and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom" Co-sponsored with the Department of History for the Fall 2023 Lecture Series: Race, History, and Medicine
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October 23, 2023, 3:30pm, Hill Memorial Library Kevin McQueeney (Loyola Unviersity) "A City Without Care: 300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities, and Health Care Activism in New Orleans" Co-sponsored with the Department of History for the Fall 2023 Lecture Series: Race, History, and Medicine
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December 1, 2021, 3:00pm, Zoom Dr. Alex Hanna (Ethical AI Team at Google and University of California, Berkeley) "Beyond Bias: Algorithmic Unfairness, Infrastructure, and Genealogies of Data"
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May 26, 2020, 12:00-2:00pm, Zoom AI Ethics/Algorithmic Justice Panel Discussion
"The Ethical Algorithm"
"New paradigms of Justice: How We Can Respond to the Information Crisis"
"Algorithmic Bias and Responsibility: Who, When, To Whom?" |
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Andrea Gallo (The Advocate): Ethics & Crisis Management in Louisiana: Summary Louisiana Department of Health: State Hospital Crisis Standards of Care |
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Hastings Center: Hastings Center: STAT News: Johns Hopkins: : The JCE has compiled a set of articles on Catastrophic Care. They are open for public access. On the front page of the website is a box entitled "JCE Special Publication." At the bottom of the box there is a link to access the document. New England Journal of Medicine: Scott Hershovitz (New York Times): |
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MIT: New York Times: Paul Franks (The Conversation): Bernardo Kliksberg (BBVA): |
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Laura Marris (New York Times): Sean Illing (Vox): Sean Illing (Vox): Allain de Botton (New York Times): TIME Magazine: Orhan Pamuk (New York Times): Michiko Kakutani (New York Times): Robert Zaretsky (TLS): |
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海角社区 Library has compiled an annotated bibliography of interesting and useful books on ethics, at the following site: |