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Climate change, ethics focus of Sept. 13 talk 10:55 a.m., Sept. 5, 2006--A public talk and panel discussion featuring Stephen Gardiner of the University of Washington, who studies ethics, environmental ethics and political philosophy, will be held from 3-5 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 13, in Room 010 of the Trabant University Center. Gardiner, associate professor of philosophy at Washington, will speak from 3-4 p.m. on, “A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics and the Problem of Moral Corruption.” He received a bachelor's degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Hertford College at the University of Oxford, a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a doctorate from Cornell University. A one-half hour panel discussion will follow, with panelists Thomas Powers, assistant professor of philosophy at UD and the Delaware Biotechnology Institute; the Rev. Bruce Gillette, pastor of Limestone Presbyterian Church in Wilmington and Vilmos Misangyi, UD assistant professor of business administration. At 4:30, the speaker and panel will take questions from the audience. “Science reveals the causes and effects of global warming, but there are important ethical questions on which science cannot guide us,” Willett Kempton, associate professor of marine policy in UD's College of Marine and Earth Studies, said. “Professor Gardiner is one of the nation's leading scholars on the ethical challenges of global warming. He and our diverse panel will raise profound questions, and hopefully help guide us in addressing solutions.” The presentation is sponsored by the Delaware Interdisciplinary Ethics Program in cooperation with the College of Marine and Earth Studies. For details, contact Jackie Bijanski in the College of Marine and Earth Studies at (302) 831-2733 or via e-mail at [jackie@udel.edu]. |
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