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UNIVERSITY NEWS - JANUARY 2004
CALENDAR INFORMATION CATEGORY: Lecture EVENT: " You Must Remember This/We'll Always Have Paris," presented by Peter A. French, Lincoln Chair in Ethics at Arizona State University
WHEN:
Tuesday, January 27, 3:30 p.m
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COST:
Free
DESCRIPTION:
A central question of moral philosophy
is whether or not our judgments about moral responsibility
regarding events or the actions of persons are appropriate.
In this talk, Professor French focuses on public memory and
the responsibility for the actions of generations in our
past. Peter A. French is the Lincoln Chair in Ethics and the
Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona
State University. Dr. French has a national reputation in
ethical and legal theory, applied ethics and in collective
and corporate responsibility. He is the author of seventeen
books including Cowboy Metaphysics: Ethics and Death in
Westerns, Corporate Ethics, Responsibility Matters,
Corporations in the Moral Community, The Spectrum of
Responsibility, Collective and Corporate Responsibility,
Ethics in Government, and The Scope of Morality.
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