Professional Ethical Decision-Making Made Possible
No matter what career you pursue, at some point you’ll have to make difficult ethical decisions.
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?
Be ready to lead — and make a difference in the global community — with a minor in 职业道德. You’ll take classes like Ethical Analysis, 道德与公共政策, and Legal, Medical, 环境或商业道德. Develop the reasoning skills you’ll need to navigate an increasingly complicated world with a lot of gray areas. Graduate prepared to confront challenging issues and work through them in a thoughtful, fair way.
The 职业道德 minor is part of the 哲学系.
课堂之外
Food & 哲学伦理系列
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
- Drug Peddlers & Politicians: Why Al Capone is Morally Superior to Al Gore
欲了解更多信息，请联系: Dr. Mark J. Cherry, 512-448-8536]
Film Screenings
Watch a film and engage in thoughtful discussion afterward about issues presented in the film.
过去的电影包括:
- Made in Dagenham
- The Cantinera
- Which Way Home
欲了解更多信息，请联系: Jennifer Mata, 512-428-1280
聚变讨论组
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的文章， 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
- “The Disruption Machine, What the gospel of innovation gets wrong,” written by Jill Lepore for The New Yorker
Meet the Faculty
Research Interests
- 伦理学和生命伦理学
- 社会和政治哲学
- 企业社会责任
- 包容的民主价值观
- 法律研究中的自治
- Applied ethics
Published Work
The faculty in the Philosophy department at St. Edward's University have collectively authored more than 20 books and several dozen articles for professional publications and research journals. These include work for The Annals of Bioethics, the book series Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, and more.
Why They Teach
"I teach because I believe it is important for students to have an intellectual “tool kit” that will help them succeed in their lives beyond college." —Stephen C. Dilley, PhD
“我的教学方法, 像许多哲学家一样, is about asking individuals what an author means and how and why they agree or disagree with the author’s arguments." —Jack Musselman博士
"I hope that through my courses I’m able to show my students what is possible in the world of knowledge and learning." —William J. Zanardi, Ph