Ethics

Related Faculty

Michael Blake
Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy, and Governance
Paul Franco
Associate Teaching Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Stephen Gardiner
Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment/Director, Program on Ethics
Shawn Tinghao Wang
Assistant Professor

Latest News

UW Neuroethics team members win numerous awards at 2019 International Neuroethics Society meeting (November 19, 2019)
New book, Nature and Justice, from Professor Emeritus David Keyt (July 19, 2017)
Laura Specker Sullivan Publishes Article on Medical Maternalism (March 29, 2016)
Is It Moral for Microsoft To Hire More Skilled Foreign Workers? (August 3, 2015)
Winners of Rader Awards for Innovative Summer Philosophy Projects Announced (April 14, 2015)

Related Research

Marshall, Colin and Mehl, Kayla. 2024. “Schopenhauer's Five-Dimensional Normative Ethics.” In The Schopenhauerian Mind, David Bather Woods and Timothy Stoll (eds.). New York: Routledge Press, 213-27.
Ryazanov, Arseny A., Shawn Tinghao Wang, Dana Kay Nelkin, Craig R. M. McKenzie, and Samuel C. Rickless. "Beyond Killing One to Save Five: Sensitivity to Ratio and Probability in Moral Judgment." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 108 (2023): 104499.
Stephen M. Gardiner and Arthur R. Obst, Dialogues on Climate Justice (Routledge, 2023)
Wang, Shawn Tinghao. "Response-Dependence in Moral Responsibility: A Granularity Challenge." American Philosophical Quarterly 59, no. 3 (2022): 273-285.
Wang, Shawn Tinghao. "Shame and the Scope of Moral Accountability." The Philosophical Quarterly 71, no. 3 (2021): 544-564.
Mendoza, José Jorge. "Decolonizing Immigration Justice" in Latin American Immigration Ethics, edited by Amy Reed-Sandoval and Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda, 44-70. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2021.
Stephen Gardiner, Catriona McKinnon and Augustin Fragniere, eds. The Ethics of "Geoengineering" the Global Climate: Justice, Legitimacy and Governance (Routledge, 2020)
Stephen M. Gardiner. 2019. ‘Motivating a Global Constitutional Convention for Future Generations’, Environmental Ethics 41, 199-220.
Emmerman, Karen S. "Moral Arguments Against Zoos." In Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics, edited by Robert Fischer, 381-93. New York: Routledge, 2019.
Emmerman, Karen S. "What's Love Got to do With It? An Ecofeminist Approach to Inter-Animal and Intra-Cultural Conflicts of Interest." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 22, no. 1 (2019): 77-91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-019-09978-6.

Ethics

Michael Blake

Paul Franco

Stephen Gardiner

Shawn Tinghao Wang