Recent News
Join us for Peter Singer's book reading and conversation on April 10th at 7 pm at the Varsity Theater 4329 University Way NE, Seattle, WA
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
Peter Singer's books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of Animal Liberation. Now he directs our attention to a new movement in which his own ideas have played a crucial role: effective altruism. Effective... Read more
Department of Philosophy Faculty Meeting Tuesday, March 10, 2015
3:30 p.m. Savery Hall, room 408
Agenda:
1. Chair's Updates
A&S Chairs Meeting News
A&S website redesign
Appointments for full-time lecturers
UAW negotiations
Merit Pay
Central Office Charges
Search Requests
Simpson Center Mellon Grant
New Staff Hire
Events
Colloquia
Peter Singer Book Talk - April 10, 7:00 p.m., Varsity Theater
Fictions Conference - April 17-18
Rainer Forst - Katz Lecturer - April 28-May... Read more
Congratulations to Professors Carole Lee and Elena Erosheva, Statistics and Social Work for first prize in the NIH peer review challenge: most creative idea for detection of bias in peer review. They proposed that there is scientific data to suggest that converting heterogeneous qualities into a single metric can be influenced by bias. The prize winning researchers suggested that such a commensuration bias might occur in peer reviews when reviewers factor their overall impact scores. To test... Read more
Professor Lynn Hankinson Nelson is featured in the Provost series Leading Change in Public Higher Education: Innovators Among Us: Using Technology to Engage Students. Lynn was a Teaching with Technology Fellow in Summer 2013 and created a hybrid online course and used the Active Learning Classrooms in the Odegaard Library, pictured below. Read More at:... Read more
WHEN Friday, Jan. 30, 2015, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
CAMPUS LOCATION Savery Hall (SAV)
CAMPUS ROOM SAV 260
EVENT SPONSORS Program on Values in Society
Department of Philosophy
University of Washington
This lecture is generously sponsored by the Benjamin Rabinowitz Endowment in Medical Ethics.
DESCRIPTION
"Sufficiency, equality and two-tiered health care systems"
Carina Fourie
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ethics Research Institute
Department of Philosophy
University of Zurich
WHEN Friday, Jan. 23, 2015, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
CAMPUS LOCATION Savery Hall (SAV)
CAMPUS ROOM SAV 260
EVENT SPONSORS Program on Values in Society
Department of Philosophy
University of Washington
This lecture is generously sponsored by the Benjamin Rabinowitz Endowment in Medical Ethics.
DESCRIPTION
"Rights in Bodies, Rights in Things"
Sean Aas
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Clinical Bioethics
National Institutes of Health
Radio broadcast KUOW: Michael Blake on "partyism" and how we can overcome discrimination based on political views.
http://kuow.org/post/it-ever-ok-discriminate-based-political-beliefs
WHEN Friday, Nov. 21, 2014, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
CAMPUS LOCATION Savery Hall (SAV)
CAMPUS ROOM SAV 260
EVENT SPONSORS Department of Philosophy
Program on Values in Society
University of Washington
DESCRIPTION
"Is there anything to be said for expressive theories of equality?"
Adam Hosein
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Colorado, Boulder
WHEN Friday, Oct. 24, 2014, 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
CAMPUS LOCATION Savery Hall (SAV)
CAMPUS ROOM Savery 408
EVENT SPONSORS Program on Values in Society and Department of Philosophy
University of Washington
DESCRIPTION
"Do It Yourself Neural Stimulation"