Events

Transnational commercial surrogacy brings together India’s colonial history and its economic development through outsourcing and globalization with instrumentalized notions of the reproductive body. Addressing the intertwined historical relationships and contemporary disparities in medical and legal protections to bear upon reections on recent innovations in articial uterine environments, this talk suggests that the metaphors we use […]

Please join us for an informational session on the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminars on Thursday, January 8th from noon to 1:00 PM where we can address questions, think about budgets, and possible collaborations. Sawyer Seminar information: http://www.mellon.org/programs/higher-education-and-scholarship-humanities/fellowships/sawyer-seminars/

Do professional ethicists behave any morally better than do non-ethicists of similar social background? If not, do they at least show greater consistency between their normative attitudes and their outward behavior? Despite a long philosophical tradition associating philosophical reflection with improved moral behavior, these questions have never been empirically examined. I describe four possible models […]