ethics Archive
Fordham University Center for Ethics Education Director Dr. Celia B. Fisher On Thursday, April 30th, Fordham University Center for Ethics Education Dr. Celia B. Fisher was interviewed by ABC 7 Eyewitness News on the ethics of the right to biological …
Each episode of AMC’s Breaking Bad spinoff/prequel Better Call Saul features the main character involved in some sort of murky legal and ethical situations. After noticing that other podcasts and blogs that discuss the show had not yet adequately …
By William W. Bauser, Member of the Board of Stop Organ Trafficking Now The “Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism” has been a representation of a consensus that was established to govern organ transplantation. The …
As I wrote in a blog post several weeks ago, there are about 25,000 people held in solitary confinement in supermax prison units called SHUs—security housing units—and another 80,000 inmates housed in isolation cells in regular prisons and jails. Many …
Players of the ”L’Etoile de Guinee” football team poses with a sign reading ”Stop to the ebola epidemic” prior to a football tournament gathering youth from Guinea near the Koumassi sports center in Abidjan on August 10, 2014. West Africa …
By: Michelle Broaddus, Ph.D. A new study using Facebook data to study “emotional contagion,” and the ensuing backlash of its publication offers the opportunity to examine several ethical principles in research. One of the pillars of ethically conducted research …
FCRH Deans Lenis and Parmach and Fordham students in attendance at the April 28th conference At a recent interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education, a distinguished panel comprised of university presidents, academics, and the Under …
A person will not choose less behavior potential over more. Peter G. OssorioNemo me impune lacessit. The Order of the ThistleThe Degradation Ceremonies of everyday life don’t look like ceremonies. Instead, they look like how we go about treating people …
"A person's behavior goes right, if it doesn't go wrong in one of the ways it can go wrong." Peter Ossorio, Place, 1998. Behavior going right requires no explanation. Successful behavior is ordinary. Empathy is ordinary in the same …
Personhood Beyond the Human: A Paradigm Case Formulation of Persons Below is a draft of the paper I expect to present at the Yale conference: Personhood Beyond the Human, Saturday, December 7, 2013 in New Haven. Also note the lawsuit filed …