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Upcoming Events:

Ethics Institute Speaker, Roy Lee

Time: Starts at 12pm

Location: Renaissance Park 4th floor common room

Title: Aristotle on Why No One is Above the Law

Abstract: Rule of law prevents rulers from abusing their power. But since the law commands universally, Aristotle thinks that individuals are needed to judge exceptional particular cases where the law is silent. Still, Aristotle gives several reasons why the law, and not an individual, should be the ultimate ruler. Scholars often take Aristotle’s focus on ethical virtue to mean that practical philosophy is not codifiable into general rules. But if I am right about Aristotle, at least in politics, expertise is codifiable.

About the Speaker: Roy Lee is assistant professor of Philosophy at Creighton University

Ethics Institute Speaker, Lukas J. Meier

Time: Starts at 12pm

Location: Renaissance Park 4th floor common room

Title: Neuralink – a Threat to Democracy?

Abstract: Earlier this year, Elon Musk’s company Neuralink implanted its novel brain-computer interface in a human for the very first time. Brain-computer interfaces are devices that can both read and modify brain activity with growing accuracy. Could this unprecedented window to the human mind threaten people’s autonomy and, by extension, the political system altogether? Drawing on the latest clinical data, I will try to answer this question by ethically assessing the new technology.

About the Speaker: Lukas J. Meier is a junior research fellow at the University of Cambridge.

Tech & AI Ethics Research Social

Sept. 24th, 12:00pm – 1:30pm, Dodge Hall 050

Interested in using your STEM degree for social good? Or are you a humanities student who wants to learn more about efforts to promote socially-responsible technology? Come hear from faculty working at the intersection of technology and ethics!
Come to the Tech & AI Ethics Research Social to hear a series of brief talks from faculty across Northeastern working on issues of fairness, transparency, accessibility, law, justice, and more. Discover research opportunities centered around ethical computing and connect with other students and faculty. Students from any and all academic backgrounds are encouraged to attend! Stick around after for free lunch.
We’ll have talks from Prof. Saiph Savage (Khoury), Prof. Nabeel Gillani (CAMD), Prof. Christo Wilson (Khoury), Dr. Cansu Canca (Institute for Experiential AI), Prof. Michael Ann DeVito (Khoury), Prof. Sina Fazelpour (CSSH), and Prof. Katie Creel (CSSH).
Please RSVP here.

Ethics Institute Speaker, Eliza Wells

Time: Starts at 12pm

Location: Renaissance Park 4th floor common room

Title: The Normative Character of Social Roles

Abstract: “What should I do?” Often, our answers reference our social roles as teachers, citizens, parents, etc. On the standard view, agents only have genuine normative reasons to comply with role norms when doing so is explained by independent moral principles. I disagree. I argue that the way role norms function within social practices generate reasons to comply. This delivers a striking upshot: while others maintain that moral considerations can cancel roles’ normative force, I suggest that we have reasons to comply even with norms that result in moral conflicts.

About the Speaker: Eliza Wells is an assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Manitoba.

PPE Speaker, Lisa McLeod and Patricia Williams

Time: 11:45pm-1:15pm

Location: Cabral Center

Title: Book Event

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Ethics Institute Speaker, Itzel Garcia

Time: Starts at 12pm

Location: Renaissance Park 4th floor common room

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About the Speaker: Itzel Garcia is a assistant professor in Philosophy at Cal Poly Pomona.

Ethics Institute Speaker, Ron Sandler

Time: Starts at 12pm

Location: Renaissance Park 4th floor common room

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About the Speaker: Ron Sandler is a professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University.