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2004-2005 Workshops

Ethics in the Professions

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The need for reflection about ethical issues is nowhere more necessary than in the "professions" and about the "professions." On the one hand, there is a widespread perception that ethics classes have been "ghettoized" in professional schools. On the other, there is evidence to suggest that graduates from professional schools have little idea about ethical issues they might face in their professional lives beyond a crude appreciation of their profession's code of conduct, combined with a mixture of ethical relativism and moral intuition. The purpose of this workshop is threefold: to advance understanding and prepare students for the ethical challenges that they will face in their future careers, to expose graduate students to the different ethical vocabularies and paradigms used by professionals from other fields, and to engage students with leading faculty who are at the frontiers of their respective disciplines.