Ethics and professional practice in a world of fluid values
Speaker: Professor John Buckeridge (RMIT, Melbourne)
Date: Tuesday, 7 August, 2007
Time: 10.00-11.00 am (followed by in interactive discussion session 11.00-12.00 pm)
Location: Griffith Duncan Theatre, University of Newcastle
ABSTRACT: This seminar will use case studies in engineering and science wherein varying values have led to conflict. In these situations, both sides perceive that they hold the “high moral ground’. The presentation will explore how these issues may be resolved, using three key moral constructs: virtue ethics, utilitarianism and deontology. Participants will consider whether there is more than one ethical way in which a moral conundrum can be resolved. They will be challenged to make difficult decisions, and to defend their conclusions.
THE PRESENTER: John St James Stewart BUCKERIDGE, PhD, FAustIMM, CP(Env), FIEAust, FGS (Lond.) is Professor of Natural Resources Engineering and Head of the School of Civil, Environmental & Chemical Engineering at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. John is President of the International Union of Biological Sciences, (and chairs the IUBS Bioethics Committee), he is also President of the International Society of Zoological Sciences, a member of the Victoria Biotechnology Ethics Advisory Committee, a Councillor of the Royal Society of Victoria and has acted as consultant on environmental ethics to UNESCO’s COMEST (World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology). In 2004 he was appointed honorarprofessor at Wismar University, Germany, in recognition of his work in engineering ethics.
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Sam - if you are attending, would it be possible for you to blog the seminar?
I'll do what I can.
Wow, I didn't even know about this until seeing this post today. You would think there would be posters of this around the engineering faculty or an email sent out. Since I'm studying both engineering and philosophy, I'll be there too.
It certainly looks interesting, and in my mind, is probably the type of content that would have made a subject like PHIL3910 relevant and useful.
Might even record the event as well, if my dinky little mp3 player can pick-up well enough.
Thanks Evan, I'll see you there. Maybe someone in charge will have had the mp3 idea as well - this would be great if we could have an officially sanctioned version available for students.
Well Evan and myself were both in attendance - I'll post something more substantial on what was said and what I thought in the next few days.
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