Jeremy Iggers , Director of the Twin Cities Media Alliance, former writer for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and author of Good News, Bad News: Journalism Ethics and the Public Interest, will be this year's Annual Business Ethics Lecturer. His lecture is titled "The Increasing Irrelevance of Journalism Ethics," and will take place on Thursday, April 17th, at 7:30pm in Wiecking Auditorium.
Daniel Dennett, a philosopher and cognitive scientist who teaches at Tufts University and is Director of the Tufts Center for Cognitive Studies, will be visiting MSU April 3-4, for a Thursday evening presentation and a round table discussion the following morning. Thusday, April 3, 7:30pm, CSU Ballroom: "Religion as a Natural Phenomenon." Friday, April 4, 9:00am, CSU 253-4-5: "Evolution and Evitability, Free Will and Responsibility"
Gary Iseminger from Carleton College will give a colloquium on experiential theories of aesthetic value (TBA).
"Politics, Pluralism, and Religion" Conference
April 13-14, 2007
Ethicist Peter Singer, one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people on the planet, presented the annual Business Ethics Lecture in March, 2006. A native of Australia, Singer balances two part-time faculty positions on opposite sides of the globe. He is Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne. He has written or co-authored more than 40 books, including his recent One World: The Ethics of Globalization, published by Yale University Press, focusing on international ethics. He is perhaps best known for his book Animal Liberation, widely regarded as the ethical foundation of the animal liberation movement.
Singer is one of 16 most influential scientists and thinkers credited last year by Time as having changed the world's ideas about logic, language, learning, mathematics and economics. He has appeared on dozens of network television programs throughout the world, including "60 Minutes."
Singer's visit is sponsored by the Philosophy Department and co-sponsored by the Colleges of Allied Health & Nursing, Arts & Humanities, Business, and Science, Engineering & Technology, Social and Behavioral Sciences, as well as Student Development and the Impact Team. Community co-sponsors include the Mankato Unitarian Fellowship and St. John's Episcopal Church, with financial support from the Minnesota Humanities Commission and Minnesota State Mankato alumni.
PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, & ECONOMICS (PPE)
Minnesota State University, Mankato’s new bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE). This unique combination of disciplines allows you to focus on the dynamic relationships between the economic, political and legal systems of our society. The PPE major will prepare you for a career in law, business, public policy, journalism, civil service or international affairs.
PHIL 450/550: Environmental Philosophy
This course focuses on the idea of wilderness and includes a one week wilderness paddling trip in the Boundary Waters & Quetico Wilderness area on the border between Minnesota & Canada. This wilderness area is a vast system of lakes, unparalleled in beauty and abundant wildlife (bald eagles, moose, deer, bear, wolves, etc.), and perhaps the very best canoe country in the world.
