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The study of ethics is not about telling you what the rules are. Ethics is an exploration of questions about the nature of right and wrong. It’s about developing a thoughtful framework to help you decide what you should do when the answers aren’t clear. The Prindle Institute for Ethics is one of the largest collegiate ethics institutes in the country and is dedicated to encouraging and fostering the study of ethics - in all its facets.
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Character. Attitude. Morals. Perspective.
Find out more about Express C.A.M.P., our philosophy-centered camp experience designed to equip Putnam County kids with the tools they need for ethical dialogue.
We examine key ethical issues behind current events and culture.
PRINDLE POST
OCT 23, 2018On Ethically Addressing Climate Change Deniers
How do we ethically address viewpoints that are dissimilar from our own, especially views that might spark intense debate? Staff Writer Hira Ahmad talks science and rhetoric in her article.
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EXAMINING ETHICS
OCT 31, 201833: Identity Matters: Standpoint Epistemology with Briana Toole
How do we obtain knowledge? Is it a purely objective, abstract process that has nothing to do with identity? Or does who we are, and where we sit on the social spectrum matter when it comes to how we form beliefs? On today’s show, we’re talking to Briana Toole, a philosopher who defends an idea known as standpoint epistemology. It’s the view that your identity has the power to help influence the kinds of knowledge you have access to.
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OCT 31, 2018Ambitious Moral Perceptualism and Moral Knowledge from the Armchair
Opening the series on featured philosophers, this defense of moral knowledge by scholar Preston Werner discusses the “Ambitious Perceptualist view and its objections.
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