Professional Ethics

Should you serve only sustainable food at your restaurant? Should you fire employees to keep costs down and please stakeholders? If you design your own fashion line, how do you make sure the people making your clothes are treated fairly? With classes like Ethical Analysis, Ethics, and Legal, Medical, Environmental or Business Ethics, you'll gain the tools ethically lead others. 

Sit in on our Food & Philosophy Ethic Series, a recurring event designed to stimulate intellectual conversations about current topics. Past discussions have centered around topics such as Decisional Capacity and the Adolescent: Reconsidering the Doctrine of the Mature Minor, Genetically Engineering Our Children and Drug Peddlers & Politicians: Why Al Capone is Morally Superior to Al Gore.

The Department of Philosophy hosts Film Screenings welcome to all students. Watch a film and engage in thoughtful discussion afterward about issues presented in the film. Students have previously screened and discussed "Made in Dagenham," "The Cantinera" and "Which Way Home."

Faculty, staff, and students discuss their diverse and distinct perspectives on important and relevant issues. A brief reading is selected for discussion during lunch. Past discussion topics have included Jan Hoffman's article, "What Your Therapist Thinks About You," a New York Times article looking at the therapist’s view of the patient;  “Small Change, Why the revolution will not be tweeted,” written by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker;  and “The Disruption Machine, What the gospel of innovation gets wrong,” written by Jill Lepore for The New Yorker.